Speaking in Tech

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Chris Fricke, Sr. IT Administrator - Clackamas County, Oregon (@sysgeekguy), Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America's for Joyent (@edsai) and Gina Minks, Storage Evangelist at Dell (@gminks).

In this week’s episode we discuss…

  • Open letter to Jeff Bezos... and the backlash
  • Review of the Kindle Fire
  • Who controls your user experience and who cares
  • Video quality on the Kindle Fire
  • Amazon Prime and Amazon content
  • Is there room for more players in the Android ecosystem?
  • Beaujolais Nouveau Day
  • Cloud Expo
  • Cloud start-ups look the same
  • Dell Storage Forum, UK in January
  • Nutanix, Tintri and Nimble arrays
Direct download: NT9.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 1:29am EDT

Nekkid Tech Episode 8 - "The Fab Four"

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Devang Panchigar (@StorageNerve). Chris Evans (@ChrisMEvans) and Nigel Poulton (@NigelPoulton).

In this week’s episode we discuss…

  • The Fab Four Reunion
  • Nigel explains how he stole Infosmack
  • HDS Influencer Summit
  • Is the disk drive shortage really going to have an impact on the enterprise?
  • Adobe Flash leaves the mobile market
  • Watching porn on an iPad
  • Amazon Kindle Fire shipping this week
  • Speed of change in the mobile industry
  • Prospects for Apple TV
  • Steve Jobs cracks the code
  • BestBuy closing down in the UK
Direct download: NT8.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 9:20pm EDT

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guest this week is Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America's for Joyent (@edsai) 

In this week’s episode we discuss…

  • Race and Silicon Valley
  • Flooding in Thailand impact hard drive prices
  • Ed goes deep on Thailand
  • Cafinated beef jerky
  • Red Bull in the data center
  • Popularity of VMware Users Groups
  • Facebook's Open Compute Summit and OpenStack movements
  • Ubuntu to dive into the tablet market
  • Demise of RIM
  • Eddie's Halloween
Direct download: NT7a.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 11:33pm EDT

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