[UPDATED] Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg is live at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with special guests Jeff Greenwald, HDS Marketing and SME for Communications, Media and Entertainment and Shane Archiquette HDS CTO for Communications, Media and Entertainment.

This week we discuss...

• Telecommunications and Analytics at Mobile World Congress (0:45)
• New mobile platform challenges (5:45)
• Technical ramifications of Net Neutrality (8:10)
• Data consumption-based pricing and transparency (10:20)
• Analytics is the solution, not the question (12:30)
• Shifting landscape of competitors (13:50)
• Telecoms dramatic shift to infrastructure provisioning (17:00)
• Wearable technology and connected devices driving network complexity (18:10)
• Tension between mobile technology developers and network providers (21:10)
• Personal mobile devices (24:45)
• Blackberry and Ford partnership (25:50)

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg is live at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with special guests Jeff Greenwald, HDS Marketing and SME for Communications, Media and Entertainment and Shane Archiquette HDS CTO for Communications, Media and Entertainment.

This week we discuss...

• Telecommunications and Analytics at Mobile World Congress (0:45)
• New mobile platform challenges (5:45)
• Technical ramifications of Net Neutrality (8:10)
• Data consumption-based pricing and transparency (10:20)
• Analytics is the solution, not the question (12:30)
• Shifting landscape of competitors (13:50)
• Telecoms dramatic shift to infrastructure provisioning (17:00)
• Wearable technology and connected devices driving network complexity (18:10)
• Tension between mobile technology developers and network providers (21:10)
• Personal mobile devices (24:45)
• Blackberry and Ford partnership (25:50)

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, everyone is here to get the scoop on Data Gravity with special guest David Siles, Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Data Gravity.

This week we discuss...

• Eddie in Vegas (0:52)
• Romantic Helicopters (4:05)
• Catching up with David Siles (5:05)
• Data Gravity in stealth (7:50)
• Partner push and shiny swag (10:10)
• Apple bar (13:28)
• Understanding enterprise data (16:30)
• VMware PEX controversy (17:35)
• VMware and Google partner on Chromebooks … but why? (23:10)
• Teasing vSAN's (26:35)
• VMware leaping ahead in VDI (29:50)
• VDI is not sexy (33:45)
• Rich, thick and full of it (37:20)
• MtGox's frozen bits (41:41)

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is in Vegas so it's Greg and Sarah with our special guest Joe Onisick, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco

• Eddie in Vegas (0:45)
• Olympics banter (2:15)
• Sarah explains how figure skating is a sport (4:45)
• Cisco ACI update (10:30)
• VMware drama (13:50)
• Bucking the software defined trend (17:00)
• NetFlix ISP speed ratings (20:30)
• Flappy Bird falls down (28:55)
• Lean back controversy (34:20)
• Travel advisories (41:00)

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 #91 - Polar Vortex

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...

• Catching up from the holidays
• Zilla's holiday book reviews 
• Netflix content lagging
• The future of 4K video
• VMware snags Citrix desktop talent
• Nimbus Data employee dump
• Market for flashy startups
• Blackberry loses tech luminary Alicia Keys
• Snapchat is heating up
• Director Michael Bay crash and burns at CES

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