Speaking in Tech #84 - Crash Landing

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

This week we discuss:

• Eddie, Greg and Sarah catch up
• Sarah's confession
• iPad Air Review
• Blockbuster bites the dust
• Sarah prefers Redbox
• Eddie's trophy case
• Netflix pimping caching boxes
• Tablets on takeoff
• Eddie's emergency landing
• Snapchatting a crash landing
• Microsoft CEO speculation
• Amazon beta testing Sunday delivery
• "Word of Mouth" marketing and Jim Beam

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is out while Ed and Greg break news of Cisco's new "spin-in" Insieme with Cisco's Amy Lewis of Cisco and Joe Onisick of Ensieme.

This week we discuss...

• Cisco officially launches Ensieme
• Software Defined Networking, but not SDN
• Cisco vs VMware
• Going against the software-defined grain
• Application-centric networking for mid-size and enterprise companies
• Infrastructure vs Application teams deploying networks
• Open API's and OpenSource integration for integration
• Cisco "spin-ns"
• Industry drama and tap dancing around ENC
• Driving down costs
• Leveraging OpenStack, Open vSwitch and OpenDaylight

Speaking in Tech #82 - IT Lemmings

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is wining and dining while Sarah and Greg hold court with Mark Twomey of EMC, better known as Storagezilla.

This week we discuss...

• Oracle's Uncle Larry needs a team
• The Amazon Bubble
• AWS tech trap
• Data classification and public clouds
• False clouds and IT lemmings
• LinkedIn taps your email, security heads explode
• Big Data and LinkedIn
• EMC sues former employee 
• Prsopects for flash startups
• Halloween costumes and chocolate tasting

Speaking in Tech #81 - The Czar

Eddie is flying solo this week while Greg does real work and Sarah is under the weather. This week our special guest is Val Bercovici, Big Data & Cloud Czar at NetApp.

• Playing with Chromecast
• Life without Vaughn
• Transformation of IT trends
• Hyperscale cloud architectures
• Big Data and teenage sex
• 2014, the year of Big Data
• The promise of OpenStack
• IaaS vs PaaS
• Microsoft Hyper-V chipping away at VMware
• Microsoft tablets, getting it right by version 3
• Innovation after brand
• Monetizing OpenStack

Speaking in Tech #80 - Breaking up is hard to do

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is partying in Barcelona while Greg and Sarah hold the ship steady.

In this epsiode, we discuss:

• Catching up with Sarah
• Eddie in Barcelona for VMworld
• Public drinking and party barns
• VMware buys Desktone, huh?
• XaaS is here to stay
• Oracle hates Open Source
• Creating value from Open Source
• Hurd cheats again
• Breaking up Microsoft
• Picking a phone... and an intern

Speaking in Tech #79 - Open Doorway

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is celebrating her birthday leaving Ed and Greg to fend for themselves. Fortunately Amy Lewis of Cisco steps in to keep the show steady. 

In this epsiode, we discuss:

• Sarah & Greg's Birthday
• VMworld Barcelona... and pickpocketing
• Eddie and the IT Dinosaurs
• Shiney balls and legacy IT
• AMD gets into the Verizon Cloud
• OpenDoorway and THMF architectures
• Greg's next smartphone
• Samsung bloatware on Android updates
• Things you can't do on a tablet
• Podcast problems
• Cisco, SAP and Google playing with Blackberry bits
• Amy on Google Glass
• "Geek Whisperers" and "Engineers Unplugged"

Speaking in Tech #78 - Chad 2.0

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.

• Flashback to "the bet"
• Chad's RIM shot
• EMC's over-the-top announcemnt 
• Tech in the movies
• Punching down, punching up
• The meat on EMC's announcements
• Opex vs Capex, consumption models
• McAfee launches new security device
• Chad dishes startup advice

Speaking in Tech #77 - Blackburried

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's the three amigos and loads of smack talk.

This week we discuss:

• Eddie in recovery
• Stewart Vaughn update, Pure poaching
• Blackberry buys jet, sells the company
• BBM app gets pulled
• Cool kids wants iPhone Gold
• Nirvanix closes up shop, cloud vultures circle
• Cloudy abstractions and gravity
• Dude, I got a cloud
• Crackdown on bogus yogurt reviews
• RSA's backdoor algorithm
• LinkedIn getting sued
• Social condoms
• Eddie and Sarah gets endorsed

Speaking in Tech #75 - Live from CloudBeat

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg and Sarah are slacking off while Eddie is flying solo at CloudBeat in San Francisco, CA. Our special guests are Justin Pirie, Cloud Strategist at Mimecast, Dave McCrory, SVP of DSP (Platform) Engineering at Warner Music Group and Ben Kepes, well known technology evangelist, investor, commentator and business adviser.

This week we discuss:

• Dave's Fedora
• Not just talking cloud, doing cloud
• More AWS API whining
• Ugly babies
• Judging clouds
• On prem, off prem consistency and vCHS
• Portability is over-rated
• Service distinction
• Jevons paradox in IT
• The cloud keys: Compliance, management and security

Speaking in Tech #74 - More from VMworld

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, the whole gang is together again in San Francisco at VMworld with special guests Stephen Spellicy, Senior Director, Product Management, Enterprise Data Protection at HP and Bryan Beal, Director, Cloud and Service Provider Strategy at Brocade.

This week we discuss:

More from VMworld

• VMworld party recap
• Nicera and OpenDaylight SDN
• HP pushing backup to the cloud
• Evolution of Software Defined Networking
• Stack orchestration beyond SDN
• Backup as opex
• Enterprises running low value workloads in AWS
• Redefining cloud
• Paper-defined
• Rubber Unicorns