Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are... trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America's for Joyent (@edsai), Louis Gray, Product Marketing Manager, Google+ at Google (@LouisGray), Brad O'Neil, CEO of TechValidate (@bradoneill) and John Troyer, Online evangelist at VMware (@JTroyer).

In this week’s episode we discuss…

• Catching up with Brad O'Neil, Louis Gray and John Troyer
• Dinner with Brad

Top stories of the year

• Steve Jobs death
• The BYOD (Bring your own device) era is here
• Changes and drama at HP
• RIM's decline
• Emergence of Cloud Foundry
• Fatigue word of the Year: "Big Data"
• Breakup of AT&T - T-Mobile merger
• Security issues
• HDS buys BlueArc

2012 Industry Predictions from Brad O'Neil

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America's for Joyent (@edsai) and J Metz, Product Manager, FCoE at Cisco (@jMichelMetz).

In this week’s episode we discuss…Palms Out

• VMware releases View for the Kindle Fire
• Gartner Data Center Summit... and Gartner still sucks
• J Metz bumps heads with Brocade on FCoE
• Where's the Cisco Cius?
• Eddie gets his 1K status
• Donut bombs, airport security and groping
• Protecting liberties... and passport numbers

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Greg Schulz of StorageIO (@storageio) and Gina Minks, Storage Evangelist at Dell (@gminks).

In this week’s episode we discuss…

• More Infosmack mashup mess
• Dell Storage Forum
• Words with Alec
• Greg Schulz new book "Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking"
• The building blocks of tomorrow's IT department
• How the role of the IT administrator is changing
• The process of writing a tech book
• Pitching an audiobook and e-book
• Being technically bilingual
• Big New England VMUG coming up in January

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with special co-host, Infosmack's Nigel Poultan. Our special guest this week is David Scott, HP Senior Vice President and General Manager.

In this week’s episode we discuss…

• David Scott grades himself on HP - 3Par acquisition
• Changes since Meg Whitman came on board
• Innovation within HP
• Backup deduplication
• Cloud System Matrix and HP's cross division approach to cloud
• Open virtualized environments
• Competition with Cisco and building true heterogeneous environments
• Peer reltionships among competitors
• What drives David Scott nuts

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guest this week is Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America's for Joyent (@edsai) 

In this week’s episode we discuss…

• Race and Silicon Valley
• Flooding in Thailand impact hard drive prices
• Ed goes deep on Thailand
• Cafinated beef jerky
• Red Bull in the data center
• Popularity of VMware Users Groups
• Facebook's Open Compute Summit and OpenStack movements
• Ubuntu to dive into the tablet market
• Demise of RIM
• Eddie's Halloween

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Christofer Hoff, Sr. Director and Security Architect at Juniper Networks (@Beaker) and Martin Glassborow, Broadcast Storage Manager at Sky (@Storagebod).

In this week’s episode we discuss…

• Catching up with Martin about Sky’s infrastructure and applications
• “Toxic IT” 
• Hoff - the Scariest man on Twitter”
• Oracle Open World
• Steve Jobs legacy 
• Hoff’s blog post - "Flying cars & Why The Hypervisor Is A Ride-On Lawn Mower"
• Context: “Virtual Machines Are Part Of the Problem, Not the Solution…”
• Curse of the Operating System
• Virtualization on the chipset
• IT as a service and creating business value
• “10 Big Questions with Christofer Hoff