Wed, 23 December 2015
Speaking in Tech #191 - The BIG BIG 2016 Predictions Show Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. What’s the future hold for Hadoop, Apple TV, Netflix, HP, NetApp, Cisco, Trump, on-prem data centre’s, “bio-life streams” and “automation of the planet”? We break it all down this week in our annual predictions podcast. Brad O'Neill of SurveyMonkey returns with special guest Asim Zaheer, Chief Marketing Officer for HDS. The details... (1:00) Not the wisdom you are looking for
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Tue, 15 December 2015
Speaking in Tech #190 - Switch Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed, Sarah and Greg are all together to discuss SolidFire, Virtustream, VMware and “Personal conduct matters”. Special guest this week is Mark Thiele, Executive Vice President, Switch. The details... (1:30) Worthless predictions coming soon |
Tue, 8 December 2015
Speaking in Tech #189 - Spike Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Brian Gracely steps in to join Sarah and Greg to talk Pure Storage, hacking ISIS, hair dryers and even more Dell EMC. Our special guest this week is Chad Sakac, President for Global Systems Engineering for EMC with support from Fred “Spike” Nix. The details... (1:00) Brian Gracely does his best Ed |
Tue, 1 December 2015
Speaking in Tech #188 - Dropping Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah returns to join Eddie and Greg to talk SDI, LSD, and the FBI. The details… (1:00) Sarah returns, Amy stalks |
Tue, 24 November 2015
Speaking in Tech #187 - Dell'd Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Amy Lewis joins Eddie and Greg to talk Dell/EMC, storage stocks and bad certificates. Our special guest this week is Chuck Hollis, SVP at Oracle. The details... (1:00) Amy stalks the show
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Mon, 16 November 2015
Speaking in Tech #186 - Cloud RAID Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie and Greg talk Netflix, net neutrality, Anonymous, Open Source and more. Our special guest this week is Justin Warren of PivotNine. The details: (1:00) Eddie in Indy |
Tue, 10 November 2015
Speaking in Tech #185 - Snapped Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, everyone is back to talk about Cisco, over-priced watches, Snapchat porn and more. Our special guest this week is Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla). Here are the details: (1:00) Eddie, the Forbidden City, travel snobs and the Open Stack Summit |
Tue, 3 November 2015
Speaking in Tech #184 - Troyer Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Eddie is wandering around Germany while Sarah and Greg talk about Australia, Oracle, Microsoft's limited storage and Twitter hearts. Our special guest this week is John Troyer of Tech Reckoning. Here are the details: (1:00) Back from down under
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Tue, 27 October 2015
Speaking in Tech #183 - Pubcast Down Under Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Greg is live in Gold Coast Australia with an all star panel to talk more about Dell, data retention, cloud washing and Virtuestream. Our special guests are Sam Johnston, CTO, CSC ANZ; Ben Di Qual, Azure Global Blackbelt, Microsoft; Matthew Zwolenski, CTO, EMC Australia & NZ; Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor, The Register; Andrew Birmingham, Publisher, Which50 and Andrew McGee, HDS ANZ CTO. Here are the details… (1:00) Pubcast Down Under |
Tue, 20 October 2015
Speaking in Tech #182 - Live from Dell World 2015! This week Greg is flying across the globe and Ed goes absent so Sarah is joined by special guest co-hosts Julia Weatherby and Amy Lewis with special guest from Down Under, Justin Warren of PivotNine to discuss IBM, nerd fights, outsourcing and changes at Dell. Here are the details: (1:00) Who is Eddie? |
Wed, 14 October 2015
Speaking in Tech #181 - Boom! Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full house to talk about Dell and EMC but there was also news from AWS re:Invent, Safe Harbor and Apple. Our special guest this week are Stu Miniman, Sr. Analyst at Wikibon and Brian Gracely, Wikibon contributor. The details: (1:00) Ed goes Blue while Sarah gets gamed |
Tue, 6 October 2015
Speaking in Tech #180 - Heathers Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out but Amy Lewis sits in with Greg and Ed to discuss AWS, Big Data, VMware and cloud app protection. Here are the details… (1:00) Trade: Amy sits in for Sarah |
Tue, 29 September 2015
Speaking in Tech #179 - Live from Spiceworld Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed and Sarah are in Austin for Spiceworks annual convention, Spiceworld where they discuss China, Citrix, selfie deaths while digging deep into Spiceworks culture with special guest Scott Able, former CEO, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Spiceworks. Here are the details… (1:00) Ed and Sarah spice it up |
Tue, 22 September 2015
Speaking in Tech #178 - Bad Actors Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full cast as we cover new AWS outage, probes cars and bad executives. The details: (1:00) Sarah’s big game show moment |
Tue, 15 September 2015
Speaking in Tech #177 - Kaia Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out while Ed and Greg cover Cisco's plans for cloud taxes, Oracle taxes and HP axes. Our special guests this week are Garrett Rysko and Luke Pendergrass to talk about their Kickstarter campaign, Kaia (http://kaia.life). Here are the details… (1:00) Keeping up with Eddie (1:44) Screwing with airline reservations (6:00) Vanity email addresses (6:57) Chicago gets sued over cloud tax (8:57) Oracle squeezes for the cloud (14:23) HP cutting thousands of positions (16:30) More crazy rumours (17:58) FLASHBACK: Digital Equipment Corp., 1984 (19:28) Kickstarting with Kaia (23:12) Air quality… as a Service (26:40) Delivering on Kickstarter (27:54) Air quality API’s (33:27) The world of anti-counterfeiting (38:30) The Kaia Kickstarter party (40:40) Lessons learned |
Tue, 8 September 2015
Speaking in Tech #176 - Rumor Mill Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we are recovering from VMworld but that doesn't mean the news from VMware ended there. In this episode we cover Cisco's plans for VMware, EMC rumors and Google's new logo. Here are the details: (1:00) Mopping up after VMworld (4:30) Photon… Containers, Containers, take a shot, Containers (5:15) v0dgeball highlights (7:10) Ed plays with collaboration tools (11:20) Chambers still has his fingers on Cisco (14:40) VMware discovers Cisco has shares (17:45) More EMC rumors (22:50) Google kills their logo (32:35) Fantasy Football (American nerd ball) (38:35) Podcasting downunder in October |
Tue, 1 September 2015
Speaking in Tech #175 - Live from The Last VMworld Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we cover Cisco, Apple and, of course, VMworld. Our special guests this week are Chris Wahl from Rubric and Lauren Malhoit from Cisco. Here are the details… (1:00) Live from the last VMworld (3:30) Introducing Chris Wahl from Rubrik (5:18) Tim Cook crashes Cisco party (9:15) VMware announces Photon, again (12:30) Changes ahead for EMC and VMware (16:10) Talking EVO (22:15) “2D Chris Wahl” and his new book (25:00) Cloud Bunnies at v0dgeball (27:42) Eye rolls at VMworld (30:32) Sarah’s social media school (35:48) Lauren Mahouit crashes the podcast |
Tue, 25 August 2015
Speaking in Tech #174 - Zilla
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we cover Intel, more Ashley Madison fallout, Hangouts, IPO’s and more. Our special guest this week is Mark Twomey (aka Storagezilla). Here are the details… (1:00) Eddie line dances (4:15) VMworld prep (4:50) Tech Reckoning (6:09) Intel chips in on Mirantis (9:30) Ashley Madison, by the numbers (14:11) Google Hangouts get a face lift (18:36) FLASHBACK: Radio Shack 8-track tape player (19:06) Storagezilla returns (20:15) Looking back at Windows 95… and Minesweeper (22:41) Searching Ashley Madison (24:32) Intel plays defense (30:15) Tech IPO’s get more challenges (36:23) Big moves at VMware (41:05) Renaming the Borg (44:23) No big surprises at VMworld |
Wed, 19 August 2015
Speaking in Tech #173 - Exposed Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full cast as we cover new gadgets, Android messaging, tough work and exposed cheaters. Here are the details: (1:50) Eddie checks in from LinuxCon: soda, sweets & sessions (7:00) Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet smackdown (12:14) LG G4 smack down (14:02) The 3 most important mobile phone features (15:10) Google is killing instant messaging on Android (19:20) Apple manages expectations (23:00) The Amazon torture chamber (30:55) Martiz steps away as CEO of Pivotal (33:50) The BIG bet (36:33) Ashley Madison exposed (40:20) Celebrity Exposure Pool |
Tue, 11 August 2015
Speaking in Tech #172 - Big Exit Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's Ed and Greg talking about big moves for Google, EMC and VMware and a bad move for Nutanix. Our special guest this week is Brad O'Neill, co-founder of TechValidate fresh from being acquired by Survey Monkey just last week to talk about his plans and lessons learned.
(2:02) Google's alphabet soup (3:45) Shuffling the EMC and VMware deck chairs (8:49) Nutanix tanks performance tests (15:00) FLASHBACK: RCA personal TV from 1956 (16:00) Special guest Brad O'Neill of TechValidate and now part of Survey Monkey (18:37) The acquisition prediction that wasn't (20:45) How the TechValidate acquisition came together (22:45) Survey Monkey in the enterprise (25:00) The challenges of boot strapping a tech startup (29:00) The reality of the valley VC bubble (32:30) What's next |
Tue, 4 August 2015
Speaking in Tech #171 - Thumbed Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, it's a full boat with Ed, Sarah and Greg talking about EMC decisions, fewer internet TV options and a Canadian hitchhiker. Our special guest this week is Rob Peglar from Micron.
This week we discuss...
(2:07) Spinning VMware (9:10) Consequences for VMworld (13:52) Matchstick burns down (15:12) Dumping Sling TV (19:11) hitchBOT decapitated, Canada outraged (22:37) FLASHBACK: 1954 Univac commercial (23:12) Catching up with Rob Peglar from Micron (27:30) Flashy Micron storage (33:50) Going Hyperscale (40:44) Rob's home labs (42:40) Intrest in Micron
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Tue, 28 July 2015
Speaking in Tech #170 - Whipped Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed, Sarah and Greg review how Google's going cloud native, Cisco shuts down Whiptail and dress codes at HP. Our special guest this week is Matt Brender from Basho to discuss OSCON and developer culture in the enterprise. This week we discuss...
(1:00) OSCON recap (4:15) Digging into Open Source with SAP, Citrix and StubHub (11:40) Private cloud smack down (14:36) Google announces Cloud Native Computing Foundation, WTF? (21:35) Whiptail gets whipped (27:20) Don't look cheap at HP (34:12) FLASHBACK: You too can learn to code! (36:00) Introducing Matt Brender of Basho (41:00) Bitchy resting face (43:45) The next generation of tech shows (48:32) Austin bound for Riak
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Tue, 21 July 2015
Speaking in Tech #169 - Ludicrous Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed is back from Thailand while Sarah is out for tea. Ed and Greg discuss Thailand, OSCON, Kubernetes and OpenStack. Our special guest this week is Fred Nix from EMC. This week we discuss... (1:00) Ed returns from Thailand (4:00) Live from OSCON (4:35) HDS gear for Kubernetes (9:05) Google jumps into OpenStack (15:00) Tesla goes ludicrous (17:40) FLASHBACK: GE clocks from 1955 (18:45) Special guest: Fred Nix from EMC (21:45) Digging around OSCON (23:40) VMworld plans (26:10) Big personnel moves in the industry |
Wed, 15 July 2015
Speaking in Tech #168 - True Blue Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed is flying back from Thailand while Sarah and Greg dish on Micron, Adobe Flash and Reddit. Our special guest this week is Jesse Proudman, CTO and co-founder of Blue Box, now an IBM company. (1:00) Fancy planes (2:45) Micron attracts Chinese interest (6:45) Security expert: Please kill Adobe Flash, now (9:56) The big private cloud debate (11:38) Reddit train wreck plods on (19:08) Flashback: IBM voice recognition, 1986 (20:25) Introducing Jesse Proudman, CTO and co-founder of Blue Box (21:38) Fastest acquisition in IBM history (27:40) Private cloud backlash (29:54) Leveraging IBM (31:00) The future for OpenStack |
Tue, 7 July 2015
Speaking in Tech #167 - Rocket Man Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed is in Thailand while Sarah and Greg talk cloud taxes, hackers, hitching a ride with Google and deep space. Our special guest this week is Jason Crusan, Director of Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA. (1:00) Sarah bounces back from vacation (3:00) Chicago taxes the cloud (8:05) The hacker gets hacked (12:50) Google testing ride sharing app (18:00) FLASHBACK: 1966 Tang (19:00) Introducing Jason Crusan, Director of Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA (22:55) The BIG missions NASA is planning (24:10) Playing with fire in space (30:22) Heading to Mars (32:14) Tapping the moon (34:00) Open Innovation and TCIP in space (36:40) Lessons for the enterprise from NASA (38:40) Risk management when things go bad (40:22) International relations in space (44:11) Reality in space movies |
Tue, 30 June 2015
Speaking in Tech #166 - Chad Contained Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is on vacation while Eddie and Greg slack it off on Sheryl Sandberg, API copyrights and containers. Our special guest this week is Chad Sakac, President, Global Systems Engineering at EMC. This week we discuss... (1:00) Ed's getting hitched (3:05) Slacking with Slack (8:42) Sheryl Sandberg's words of wisdom (12:35) Supremes decline to rule on API copyrights (17:10) FLASHBACK: Intel Pentium I (18:20) Special guest Chad Sakac (24:23) DockerCon, containers and buzzwords (27:53) Containers vs Virtual Machines (31:05) Containers vs PaaS (36:25) Flocker fans (39:00) Facts on refactoring apps (42:10) Building object stores (51:00) VMworld plans
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Tue, 23 June 2015
Speaking in Tech #165 - Packet Passionate Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, the crew talk about the Open Container Project, Google get censored and Taylor Swift. Our special guest this week is Jim Mcniel, former VC and CMO of NetScout. Here are the details: (1:00) Eddie goes duck boating (4:55) Open Container Project is not a drinking game (9:00) Container acquisition game (9:20) BlueBox Jesse buys a pad (12:30) Google gagged on Wikileaks (22:12) Taylor Swift takes a bite out of Apple (28:24) FLASHBACK: Tecmo Bowl (30:10) Introducing Jim Mcniel, former VC and CMO of NetScout (32:08) NetScout suing Gartner over Magic Quadrant (36:10) Big acquisitions for NetScout (43:35) Invisible girlfriend (44:20) "Connected World" movie with Werner Herzog (49:50) Guardians of the Connected World |
Tue, 16 June 2015
Speaking in Tech #164 - Hacked Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is out while Ed and Greg talk about the LastPass hack, OpenStack training certifications and Facebook privacy concerns in the EU. Our special guest this week is Ashley McNamara, Developer Advocate at Rackspace. Here are the details: (1:00) Ed cleans it up (2:37) Cisco Live recap, Aerosmith and the Royal Machines (5:48) Private clouds are not dead (7:45) LastPass Hack means a new password jack (12:53) Red Hat: OpenStack training certifications eclipse Linux (18:00) Belgians go after Facebook privacy (21:50) FLASHBACK: How to use a rotary phone (22:58) Guest Ashley McNamara, Developer Advocate at Rackspace (25:05) The tech conference circuit (30:00) Boutique vs Enterprise developers (30:45) Rackspace acquisitions (34:10) Rumor: Microsoft eyeballs Docker |
Tue, 9 June 2015
Speaking in Tech #163 - Hans Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg is at Cisco Live while Sarah and Ed drive the podcast this week. This week they review the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, the Apple Watch, Software-defined noise, Cisco and more. Special guest is Hans De Leenheer from TrendMiner. This week we discuss... (1:30) WWDC: Where's the code? (6:14) Ed's Apple Watch review (9:15) Software-defined storage gets roughed up (15:35) Cisco secures the internet of everything (21:55) Ebola scares reality (28:40) Flashback: RCA Movie discs from the 80's (29:10) Special guest Hans De Leenheer from TrendMiner (33:50) Difference in Belgium and U.S. startups (40:45) Belgium barbecue |
Tue, 2 June 2015
Speaking in Tech #162 - Changes Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed, Greg and Sarah get together to pick smart watches, debate clouds, review some big changes in IT and finally we get to Sarah's performance review at Dell with her boss. Here are the details:
(1:20) The next smart watches: ASUS ZenWatch and Apple Watch (3:35) Idiotic Private vs Public Cloud fight (10:00) EMC snags Virtustream (15:28) Executive shake up at NetApp and Cisco (19:30) Cisco loses a Warrior (21:04) Re/code sells out to Vox (26:57) Flashback: CDi commercial with Phil Hartman (27:27) Introducing Jim Hahn, Dell (29:27) Sarah's performance review (34:40) Inside the Dell transition (42:50) Rebooting the Dell machine
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Tue, 26 May 2015
Speaking in Tech #161 - Brillo Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed, Greg and Sarah get together to digest Google's IoT operating system, creepy teddy bears and security extortion. Here are the details: (1:15) Ed rants on Kansas City, cloud and the Internet of Things (4:45) OpenStack Summit reflections (11:50) Google's new Brillo OS for the Internet of Things (14:00) Brillo should be open sourced for success (18:18) Google patents creepy teddy bear (21:55) Security extortion (25:55) Managing and communicating security risks (30:00) Hitting the road |
Tue, 19 May 2015
Speaking in Tech #160 - OpenStacked
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed and Greg are in Vancouver, BC for the OpenStack Summit with Amy Lewis filling in for Sarah. This week we talk about the Apple TV, hacked planes, barista DJ's, OpenStack and containers. Our special guest this week is Mark Twomey, better know as "Storagezilla". This week we discuss...
(1:14) Yoko returns (2:02) OpenStack social update from Eddie (4:00) SolidFire rockets (8:12) Flipping the OpenStack demo (10:50) Apple dumped Apple TV (14:23) FBI says hacker controlled plane (17:58) Baristas become DJ's (22:20) Special guest Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla) (25:10) Open Stack and the Private Cloud (28:15) "Control of Data" drives private cloud adoption (32:25) The Year of Containers (37:25) Amy's "Pop Up Tech Talks" |
Wed, 13 May 2015
Speaking in Tech #159 - Solid State Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we talk Cloud Foundry, the problems with Solid State storage, Microsoft investing in undersea cable. Our special guest this week is Val Bercovici, Cloud Czar at NetApp.
(1:15) Ed checks in from Cloud Foundry Summit (6:00) Head butting a cloud guru (9:06) Flight attendants hate your gadgets (12:40) Don't forget to reboot your 787 (13:45) SSD's can lose data without power (15:17) Microsoft plants underwater cables, outspending AWS (20:29) Flashback: Vintage Timex Watch commercial (23:00) Introducing Val Bercovici, NetApp Cloud Czar (23:50) SSD power issues and data corruption problems (28:00) Solid state isn't solid (33:36) The post-SSD world (37:24) "The state of NAND flash is not healthy" (38:41) Catching up with NetApp |
Tue, 5 May 2015
Speaking in Tech #158 - Tribes Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we tackle the challenge of group think and tribes as well as Periscope winning the fight, Chambers stepping down as CEO and the potential for an EMC - HP mega merger. This week we discuss...
(1:30) Back from Vegas (3:30) Dell plus 4 (4:00) Big losses in tech this week: Jeff Omstead and David Goldberg (9:00) 5 brainwashing tips… and the danger of tribes (18:00) Twitter steals the big Mayweather fight (22:30) Doubts about Twitter persist (26:40) Chambers steps down as Cisco CEO (29:00) HP and EMC mega-merger inevitable (32:49) Carly running for President on tech cred (34:55) What tech leader would make a good President?
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Wed, 29 April 2015
Speaking in Tech #156 - More Clouds of Caroline Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Greg has escaped to another tech conference while Sarah and Ed are left to defend themselves to talk about AWS and Microsoft earnings, Comcast dumps big merger and ServiceMesh gets in hot water. This week we discuss... (1:10) Vegas Selfies and morehome automation (3:15) AWS and Microsoft nail earnings (8:50) Comcast bails on the merger with TWC (14:07) Service-mooshed (19:36) Flashback: 1980s Sears electronics ad (20:06) Introducing Caroline McCrory of Cloudsoft (21:10) The inside scoop of GigaOm's demise (29:40) Jumping into Cloudsoft (33:05) The challenge for application-centric clouds (36:35) AWS vs Microsoft (44:10) AMPing up applicationing management platforms
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Tue, 21 April 2015
Speaking in Tech #156 - Hyperconverged Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we consider a world where Google owns Tesla, hackers on a plane, GE's new tech and innovation television show and finally we tussle on hyperconvergence with special guest, Chuck Hollis, Chief Strategist for VMware Storage. This week we discuss... (1:15) Eddie's Wink home automation hub bricks (7:05) Report: Tesla almost sold to Google to avoid bankruptcy in 2013 (13:00) Hacker gets knocked off a plane for teasing tweets (18:30) GE planning tech TV show with Ron Howard (22:24) Flashback: Leonard Nimoy pimps pagers (22:55) Introducing Chuck Hollis - Chief Strategist, VMware Storage (25:14) Hyperconverged head banging: VMware vs Nutanix (33:00) Hyperconverged market dynamic today (36:40) EMC World and VMworld teasers |
Tue, 14 April 2015
Speaking in Tech #155 - Greg's Review Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we review the Apple Watch, Amazon's machine learning and Nutanix tries to tckle VMware. Our special guest this week is Mary Ann Gallo from Hitachi Data Systems.
This week we discuss... (1:10) Ed delivers a mic and picks up a Drobo (4:15) Daredevil Netflix binge (5:25) Apple watch lands and the reviews are mixed (13:20) Android watches may be coming to iPhones (14;20) Google Now could be an Apple killer (16:25) Amazon launches Machine Learning As A Service (18:10) Foo fighting: VMware vs Nutanix (23:10) Flashback: 1983 Seiko Sport Tech Watch Commercial (24:15) Special guest, Mary Ann Gallo, HDS VP of Global Communications (25:25) What the hell does Greg do? (27:50) Greg's performance review (34:15) HDS Connect 2015 |
Tue, 7 April 2015
Speaking in Tech #154 - vStewed Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we jump into Pay Pal and OpenStack, Nebula, Jay-Z's Tidal and Pure IPO speculation. Our special guest this week is Vaughn Stewart from Pure Storage. This week we discuss...
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Mon, 30 March 2015
Speaking in Tech #153 - Blue Box Jesse Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we scratch the surface of the Ellen Pao lawsuit, the tech world reaction to Indiana's new law, Amazon's unlimited storage and Pay Pal jumping on OpenStack. This week's guest is Blue Box Founder and CTO, Jesse Proudman. This week we discuss... (0:45) Bouncing back from vacation (0:45) (1:50) Any lessons learned from Pao loses lawsuit? (4:12) Tech backlash against Indiana grows (9:00) AWS launches unlimited storage for sync-n-share (15:05) Flashback: Money 98 Commercial (15:55) Special guest Jesse Proudman, CTO and Founder of Blue Box (17:50) Booming Blue Box (19:10) Private cloud haters (23:23) Cloud infinity (24:45) OpenStack's dirty little secret? (27:15) Docker love (30:00) Implication for PayPal's reported switch to OpenStack (33:55) Context for cloud spending (35:40) Jesse's take on Top Gear
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Tue, 24 March 2015
Speaking in Tech #152 - 3 Year Anniversary Show Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we are celebrating our 3rd anniversary with some of our favorite guests including Mark Twomey (aka "Storagezilla") from EMC, Amy Lewis from SolidFire and Geek Whisperers and Marc Farley from Quaddra Software. This week we discuss... (0:45) Diving into the 3rd year of the podcast (3:30) Yoko Lewis brake cutting (4:30) Recapping the worst moments of the podcast (13:40) Ray Lane and the Kleiner Perkins lawsuit (16:50) VC money boom (25:05) Enterprise storage eats itself (27:03) NetApp's Mr. FlashRay goes to Pure (34:20) The Ginger Mafia (38:00) Tense politics (42:00) Team Cloud Bunny (47:00) Podcast praise |
Tue, 17 March 2015
Speaking in Tech #151 - Kayaking Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we jump into Facebook's posting rules, Google's "Nearline" storage, Blackberry tablets and Gold Apple watches. Our special guest this week is tech guru Stephen Foskett from Tech Field Day. This week we discuss... (0:50) Ed's backup crashes (3:30) El Reg's sister pub "The Platform" launches (5:20) Kicking GigaOM some more (6:52) Facebook: no nipples and butts (9:25) The gray area of online rules (13:50) Google's "Nearline" storage (19:55) Blackberry busts out a tablet (24:05) Flashback: AOL commercial from 1995 (26:05) Introducing tech guru Stephen Foskett (28:15) Fireballed with Apple Gold Watch (30:48) Stephen's Grail Watch (35:45) Tech Field Day (41:30) Qumulo comes out of stealth (45:45) Legacy vendor transitions
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Wed, 11 March 2015
Speaking in Tech #150 - Popping Bubbles Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we dig into the Apple Watch, the death of GigaOm and Microsoft kills backup software. This week’s special guest is Marc Farley of Quaddra Software. This week we discuss...
(1:00) - Yet another flying story (5:50) - Apple announces the Apple Watch… again (7:00) - Foskett Fireballed (8:10) - Apple TV and HBO (9:30) - Gold watch bling (11:20) - Celebrity watch appeal (13:00) - The "App-centric" watch (15:02) - The death of GigaOm (21:00) - The tech graveyard: Backup is dead (25:17) - Flashback: 80’s Motorola mobile phone commercial (26:17) - Special guest, Marc Farley of Quaddra Software (28:06) - Farley killed backup (30:40) - Quaddra Software hits the funding trail (36:00) - Funding infrastructure startups (42:19) - Tech bubble and size of the IPO market (44:45) - Background on Quaddra (46:00) - Another Farley podcast
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Tue, 3 March 2015
Speaking in Tech #149 – Performance Review Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we dig into HP's acquisition of Aruba, Tinder pricing for elders and the prospects for Google+. This week’s special guest is Jared Wray, Chief Technology Officer for CenturyLink Cloud. This week we discuss… (1:00) The middle seat dilemma (2:05) Big Aussie invite (5:20) HP snags Aruba for 3 bills (8:22) Tinder Plus surge ricing (11:30) Sarah's online dating profile (15:30) Is Google+ breaking up? (22:10) Sony Walkman commercial (24:10) Jared Wray, CTO for CenturyLink Cloud (26:00) The Tier 3 acquisition (30:55) Ed's performance review (35:30) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Ed |
Tue, 24 February 2015
Speaking in Tech #148 - Magic Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the three amigos jump on HP, Exploding Kittens and Magic. This week's special guest is Bryan Beal, VP, Global Alliances at Brocade. This week we discuss...
(1:00) Crying baby backlash (1:55) Shakeup at HP Hellion (7:17) Exploding Kittens makes it rain (10:44) Magic explodes overnight (15:30) Glitter bombs (17:37) Tech Classic: The IBM Selectric (19:35) Special guest Bryan Beal - VP, Brocade (21:16) Making Mensa (24:17) Mobile wallet patents (27:50) Defending patent trolls (33:50) Brocade ramping up for Mobile World Congress (37:35) Online privacy… for a price
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Tue, 17 February 2015
Speaking in Tech #147 - 99 Problems but Private Clouds ain't one Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the crew tackles Private Cloud deniers, Amazon's drone problem and bit rot. This week's special guest is Jody Tyrus, Sr. Technical Architect, Security at E. & J. Gallo Winery.
0:30 The return of Ed 2:00 Banter: Explaining time difference 6:55 99 Problems but Private Clouds ain't one 14:25 FAA sets drone rules, Amazon is pissed off 20:20 Wiping bit rot 25:00 Apple Lisa - There Are Two Kinds of People (1983) 26:35 Jody Tyrus, Sr. Technical Architect, Security at E. & J. Gallo Winery 30:14 The biggest security risk today 38:45 Change of security philosophy 43:14 No such thing as 100% secure
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Tue, 10 February 2015
Speaking in Tech #146 - Coté Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed is replaced by Amy Lewis and joins Sarah and Greg to talk about Sling, the death of enterprise computing and Apple's Swift programming language. Our special guest this week is Michael Coté of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. This week we discuss:
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Tue, 3 February 2015
Speaking in Tech #145 - Drive Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's just Sarah and Greg talk about Uber and Google stepping on each other's toes, robots learning to cook and more broadband internet access across the US. Our special guest this week is Brian Gracely, Sr.Director, Cloud and Developer Enablement at EMC to chew on the challenges of Open Source in the enterprise. This week we discuss...
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Wed, 28 January 2015
Speaking in Tech #144 - Feeling Blue Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the crew tackles Big Blue, free Windows and the police chasing Waze with special guest Scott Hanson from Cisco. This week we discuss...
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Wed, 21 January 2015
Speaking in Tech #143 - Solid Delp Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the team is back beating up Google, David Cameron and bad passwords. Special guest Aaron Delp from SolidFire comes off of his podcast suspension to join the crew this week. This week we discuss...
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Wed, 14 January 2015
Speaking in Tech #142 - Fired Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the crew chews on the Fire Phone, the Box IPO and the awful Silicon Valley. Our special guest this week is Nick Weaver, Director of Intel SDI Labs at Intel. This week we discuss...
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Wed, 7 January 2015
Speaking in Tech #141 - Whacked Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. The whole crew is together again with special guest Mark Twomey (aka Storagezilla) on the first episode of the New Year. This week we discuss...
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