Speaking in Tech

Speaking in Tech #94 - Janice

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the whole gang is together bantering about anything and everything.

This week we discuss...

  • Tweeting Grammys (1:27)
  • Sarah as Janice (5:15)
  • Cloudy influencers (9:15)
  • Rick rolling (11:00)
  • IBM dumps servers (11:45)
  • VMware nabs AirWatch and Chris Wolf (17:00)
  • vCheese - vCHS (23:00)
  • Cisco whips it out (25:15)
  • What's going on with VDI? (32:00)
Direct download: SiT94.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 8:10pm EDT

Speaking in Tech #93 - The Professor

Speaking in Tech #93 - The Professor

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is out so it's just Ed and Greg with special guest Chad Sakac, Sr. Vice President for Global Presales Technical Resources at EMC.

  • Live from FurCon
  • Chad's world gets large
  • Playing with vLabs
  • EMC rap videos
  • Punching clouds, literally
  • The world other than AWS
  • Letting workloads dictate cloud decisions
  • AWS not interested in the enterprise?
  • Owning your IT
  • Flash storage armageddon
  • Start-up mechanics
  • Amazon's a bubble
  • Ed reviews The Pebble
Direct download: SiT93.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 1:37am EDT

Speaking in Tech #92 - Father Mark

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah takes an extra week of vacation while Eddie and Greg chum it up with Mark Twomey of EMC, better known as Storagezilla.

This week we discuss...

  • Sarah's holiday dump (1:00)
  • Airline luggage lottery (4:20)
  • Google grabs Nest, search is not enough (9:40)
  • Selling out and scaling out (15:35)
  • Google retail stores (18:00)
  • Why Google acquired Nest (21:42)
  • RSA/NSA scandal spills over to RSA Conference (25:55)
  • NSA impact on U.S. companies (30:25)
  • Public vs Private Cloud - which is better? (38:25)
  • Father Mark preaches cloud acquisition (46:20)
  • Is AWS really growing at the expense of traditional IT? (49:20)
Direct download: SiT92.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 11:32pm EDT

Speaking in Tech #91 - Polar Vortex

Speaking in Tech #91 - Polar Vortex

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah takes an extra week of vacation while Eddie and Greg chum it up with Mark Twomey of EMC, better known as Storagezilla.

This week we discuss...

  • Catching up from the holidays
  • Zilla's holiday book reviews 
  • Netflix content lagging
  • The future of 4K video
  • VMware snags Citrix desktop talent
  • Nimbus Data employee dump
  • Market for flashy startups
  • Blackberry loses tech luminary Alicia Keys
  • Snapchat is heating up
  • Director Michael Bay crash and burns at CES

Direct download: SiT91.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:06pm EDT

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