Insights from a Vendor Insider with Ian Smith

Screaming in the Cloud

It turns out, you don’t need to step outside to observe the clouds. On this episode, we’re joined by Chronosphere Field CTO Ian Smith. He and Corey delve into the innovative solutions Chronosphere offers, share insights from Ian’s experience in the industry, and discuss the future of cloud-native technologies. Whether you're a seasoned cloud professional or new to the field, this conversation with Ian Smith is packed with valuable perspectives and actionable takeaways.

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(0:42) Chronosphere sponsor read

(1:53) The role of Chief of Staff at Chronosphere

(2:45) Getting recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

(4:42) Talking about the buying process

(8:26) The importance of observability

(10:18) Guiding customers as a vendor

(12:19) Chronosphere sponsor read

(12:46) What should you do as an observability buyer

(16:01) Helping orgs understand observability

(19:56) Avoiding toxicly positive endorsements

(24:15) Being transparent as a vendor

(27:43) The myth of "winner take all"

(30:02) Short term fixes vs. long term solutions

(33:54) Where you can find more from Ian and Chronosphere

About Ian Smith
Ian Smith is Field CTO at Chronosphere where he works across sales, marketing, engineering and product to deliver better insights and outcomes to observability teams supporting high-scale cloud-native environments. Previously, he worked with observability teams across the software industry in pre-sales roles at New Relic, Wavefront, PagerDuty and Lightstep.

Links

• Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/?utm_source=duckbill-group&utm_medium=podcast
• Ian’s Twitter: https://x.com/datasmithing
• Ian’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismith314159/

Sponsor

Chronosphere: https://chronosphere.io/?utm_source=duckbill-group&utm_medium=podcast