Speaking in Tech #95 - Cloud Envy

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah takes an extra week our special guest is Ben Kepes, well known technology evangelist, investor, commentator and business adviser. 

• Sarah and Eddie banter (0:55)
• Microsoft CEO (3:45)
• Is a Microsoft breakup inevitable? (8:40)
• VMware pushes competition out of Partner Exchange (9:40)
• Implications for Pivotal partnerships (15:55)
• Cisco and VMware bump heads on SDN (18:45)
• Duracell gets into cloud (23:20)
• Transporter Sync testing (29:30)
• AWS and IBM Cloud envy (37:40)

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)

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

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)

Speaking in Tech #90 - Year-end Spectacular

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is flyin the coop while Greg and Sarah wrap up the year spectacularly with our very special guests, Brad O'Neill, CEO of TechValidate and Geoff Barrall, CEO and co-founder of Drobo.

This week we discuss...

• Don Basile gets fired from Violin memory
• Geoff's dramatic return to Drobo
• Barrall: Days of enterprise NAS are numbered
• Top tech stories of 2013
• Edward Snowden / NSA scandal
• Dell goes private
• Microsoft restructuring
• Recap of 2013 predictions
• BIG 2014 Predictions

Speaking in Tech #89 - LIVE from Dell World

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg disappears as Sarah and Eddie podcast from DellWorld with special guests Justin Warren, Managing Director at PivotNine and George Reese - Executive Director, Cloud Management at Dell.

• DellWorld recap
• Cloud in a box with Eucalyptus
• AWS API's
• Cloud branding
• Dell consolidation
• Elon Musk, boxes and defying logic
• Cost leader vs value leader
• Cloud consumption: agility not cost

Speaking in Tech #88 - Sensors

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the whole gang is together and laments the lighter side of tech.

• High tech bras, big data and emotional over-eating
• Apple iBeacon in Apple stores
• Police intercepting mobile data
• Bangkok protests... and George Clooney supports Ukrainians 
• Remembering Mandela
• The cheerleader saves Ukraine
• Google bus protests
• Googling Chef
• Dell geeks out and Michael makes it rain
• Fast food overseas

Speaking in Tech #87 - Eat My Pie

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed is out on business while Sarah returns with special guest Amy Lewis of Cisco.

This week we discuss...

• Thanksgiving recovery
• Amazon Drones won't fly
• Boomerang drones down under
• LG Nexus 5 review: Pure Google
• Twitter app fail and the wisdom of crowds
• Apple snags Topsy
• Siri vs Google Now
• Amy's photo bloat 
• Plane talking
• The Elan Gale farce
• Paleo flyers
• The "Influence Diet"

Speaking in Tech #86 - AWS vs Private Cloud

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out enjoying Thanksgiving while Ed and Greg cook up a podcast with special guest, Brian Gracely, Sr.Director, Global Solutions Marketing at EMC and co-host of The Cloudcast.net.

This week we discuss...

• Gracely as politician and back at EMC
• Savvis buys Tier3
• Eddie's Chromebook review
• Chromebook apps
• AWS RE:invent conference recap
• Amazon and the desktop
• AWS vs. Private cloud 
• Donut Run fundraiser

Speaking in Tech #85 - Open Source Smack

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the whole gang is together with special guest Joseph B. George, Director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions at Dell

• Sarah's word of mouth
• Jumping from HP to Dell
• Greg gets called out
• OpenStack collaboration
• Openstack and Crowbar
• Monetizing open software development
• Enterprise adoption of open source software
• OpenStack's true competition
• -Dell's acquisition of Enstratius