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

This week we discuss…

• Greg, Sarah and Chad catch up… drinking maple syrup and Caesar's (0:45)
• Chad's travel tips (5:20)
• Software-defined everything (8:38)
• OpenStack adoption spikes (11:23)
• Debunking the myth of Open Source (13:50)
• Flash fight (17:36)
• Hyper-convergence breakdown (19:22)
• FREAK OUT: Is VMware getting into hardware? (24:35)
• Mysterious hardware appliances on commodity hardware (29:25)
• Cramming a megalaunch (34:10)
• Italians cracking on Canadiens (39:00)
• Too many OpenStack distributions? (41:25)

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is off but Eddie and Greg get caught up with the latest tech news.

This week we discus:

• Whining about travel (0:45)
• The silent treatment on a plane (4:25)
• Dell now OEM'ing Nutanix (10:10)
• FusionIO gets snagged up (15:35)
• Cisco grabs Tail-F (18:17)
• Nest building developer program, acquires Dropcam (20:20)
• Trying to explain the cloud to normal people (27:30)
• Lost in Hong kong (29:30)

Speaking in Tech #114 - Tech Trends Asia

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Eddie and Sarah take the week off while Greg is in Singapore with special guests Adrian De Luca, Asia Pacific Chief Technology Officer for HDS and Michael "Heff" Heffernan Infrastructure Specialist for Emerging Technologies at HDS.

This week we discuss…

• Enterprise tech trends in Asia (2:20)
• Open Source and real costs (4:50)
• Cloud Operating Systems (8:00)
• In Asia, mobile driving app development (11:50)
• The road to hybrid cloud (14:55)
• "Burst in" clouds (17:00)
• Public cloud governance and cost management (19:50)
• Cloud data, e-Discovery and privacy laws (24:00)
• Diverse mobile data access (28:00)
• Bringing solutions to market (29:45)

Speaking in Tech #113 - LIVE from Cloud Foundry Summit

This week Greg and Sarah are off in parts unknown while Eddie hosts the podcast this week. Our special guests this week are Jesse Proudman, CTO and Founder of Bluebox, Caroline McCrory, Sr. Director at GigaOM and Dave McCrory, CTO at Basho.

This week we discuss...

• Nutanix bro culture (1:10)
• Update from Cloud Foundry Summit (8:00)
• Bluebox: private cloud as a service (9:45)
• CF vs Openstack (11:00)
• Dave Mcrory's Data Gravity (12:30)
• PaaS and IaaS adoption and governance (17:50)
• The hidden cost of public cloud governance (23:15)
• Cloud ecosystem and partnerships matter (30:10)
• Cloud Foundry beyond service providers (34:30)
• Cloud porn (40:00)
• Dave McCrory's mission at Basho (42:00)

Speaking in Tech #112 - LIVE from HDS Summit

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we are live at the Hitachi Data Systems Influencer Summit in Colorado Springs, Colorado with special guests Michael Hay, VP and Chief Engineer at Hitachi Data Systems, Chris Evans of Architeting.IT, Nigel Poulton of Pluralsight and Enrico Signoretti of Juku.IT.

This week we discuss…

• Catching up with the old gang (0:45)
• The lack of enterprise API adoption (8:45)
• Network programing skill shortage (11:23)
• Need for Development Environments (13:00)
• IT as a service (16:57)
• Bridging the API ignorance gap (20:00)
• Hoody-wearing programers and the generational transition (21:10)
• Python for kids (24:55)
• Lessons learned (27:21)
• Apple releases 4,000 API's (29:23)

Speaking in Tech #111 - More Geek Bling

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, the whole crew is together again to wreck more tech.

This week we discuss...

• Catching up and housekeeping (:30)
• Moving markets (2:25)
• Red Hat and vendor lock-in (5:42)
• Roll-your-own OpenStack (17:55)
• Cisco is going to crush VMware… but not really (20:55)
• Chambers changing his tune (22:37)
• VCE rumors, hot or not? (25:30)
• Smart Watches: Pebble vs Sony Smart Watch 2 (30:40)
• Geek bling (34:00)

Speaking in Tech #110 – LIVE from Cisco Live!

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week is a special episode live from Cisco Live in San Francisco and Greg is joined by Peder Ulander, Vice President of Marketing for Cisco Collaboration, and Joe Onisick, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco.

This week we discuss:

• Teasers and updates on Cisco ACI (1:50)
• Big TelePresence launch for Cisco Collaboration (2:49)
• Cisco in the pocket (5:40)
• Traction for ACI in the enterprise (6:30)
• Go to market strategies for open source (9:15)
• State of Open Source technologies (11:15)
• Cisco and Google collaboration (12:15)
• The Cisco culture of innovation (15:10)
• Cloud development and Cloud Foundry (20:50)
• The battle for PaaS and the cloud fabric (23:40)
• A billion on the cloud (27:50)
• Could Cisco buy Red Hat? (35:00)
• Is Cisco done with EMC and VCE? (36:50)

Speaking in Tech #109 - LIVE from the OpenStack Summit 2014

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week is a special episode live from The OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. Greg hosted a panel discussion titled "Ask the Experts: Storage Considerations for OpenStack" with co-moderator Ken Hui from Rackspace with panelists Brian Gracely from EMC, Manju Ramanathpura from Hitachi Data Systems, John Griffith from SolidFire and PTL for the OpenStack Cinder project, Neil Levine from Inktank/Red Hat and Val Bercovici from NetApp.

This week we discuss:

• Red Hat's acquisition of Inktank and the future of Ceph (2:45)
• The state of storage in OpenStack (4:30)
• OpenStack and the commoditization of storage (5:20)
• Value of hardware in OpenStack (7:20)
• General purpose hardware and avoiding vendor lock-in (14:30)
• Exposing features in OpenStack (19:35)
• Challenges for storage in OpenStack (22:45)
• Standards and vendor lock-in (31:05)

Speaking in Tech OpenStack Summit Special - Day 2

This is a special episode featuring a 10 minute review of highlights from Day 2 of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. Greg Knieriemen is joined by Ken Hui, Technology Evangelist from Rackspace and Amy Lewis from Cisco as well as Engineers Unplugged and The Geek Whisperers Podcast.

Speaking in Tech OpenStack Summit Special - Day 1

This is a special episode featuring a 10 minute review of highlights from Day 1 of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. Greg Knieriemen is joined by Ken Hui, Technology Evangelist from Rackspace and Manju Ramanathpura, CTO for Inteligent Platforms at Hitachi Data Systems.