Speaking in Tech #100 Special Episode

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week is our 100th episode which was broadcast through video on Google+ Hangouts. Our special guests this week are John Troyer from VMware, Amy Lewis from Cisco, Chris Evans from Architecting.IT, Mark Twomey (aka Storagezilla) from EMC and Vaughn Stewart from Pure Storage.

This week we discuss… 

• Introductions (0:45)
• The worst episode of SiT (5:25)
• The worst host of SiT (10:55)
• VMware busy with announcements: VSANs and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) (12:23)
• VMware noise around VDI (18:39)
• Challenges for Microsoft (22:50)
• Chris Evans rumor alert: Project Mystic – EMC & VMware Do Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (27:15)
• Snowden live at SXSW: Encryption and oversight are key to privacy (29:30)
• Lena Dunham vs Edward Snowden at SXSW (36:12)
• Privacy and control of data in the cloud (39:50)
• Austin cracks down on Uber during SXSW (41:00)
• Uber is criminal and serial killers on Craigslist (47:20)
• Future guest requests (50:50)