Wed, 7 March 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) with special guest Alistair Croll (@acroll).
This week we discuss...
- Ed and Gina head to SXSW
- Bitnorth Conference
- Dropbox and Box all over the media
- Double billing on consumer cloud storage
- Google privacy policy changes
- Big Data and privacy
- Three postures for computing
Direct download: NT22.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 1:41am EDT
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Tue, 28 February 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) and Nekkid Tech virgin, Sarah Vela (@orchid8).
This week we discuss...
- AT&T wants to make app makers pay for subscribers' data use
- Large majorty of Verizon customers don't use LTE
- Eddies driving habits
- Dell isn't a PC company anymore?
- Dell and Open Stack
- Defining "cloud" and defining "open"
- SXSW 2012
Direct download: NT21.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 1:24am EDT
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Mon, 20 February 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our special guest this week is Steve Kaplan, Vice President Data Center Virtualization Practice at Presidio (@ROIdude)
This week we discuss...
- Fred Nix takes a spill
- VMware Partner Exchange recap
- Possible VMware licensing changes
- VMware's push to the cloud
- VMware vs. Amazon
- VMware social media presence is growing
- Symantec suing Veeam and Acronis
- System integrators moving to software architecture
Direct download: NT20.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 11:59pm EDT
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Tue, 14 February 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) and Christina Weil (@c_weil).
This week we discuss...
- Christina's corporate apartment in New Orleans
- Cloud Connect conference, customers and expectations
- Crystal the Unicorn
- Cost of hosting with Amazon or in house
- Cloud bandwidth costs and constraints
- Big data failures
- Christina's Mardi Gras outfit
- Whitney
Direct download: NT19.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 11:10pm EDT
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Tue, 7 February 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with special guest, Jim McNiel, CEO of FalconStor Software (@jimmcniel).
This week we discuss...
- Technology, vision and adoption of clouds
- The role of the cloud in backup and disaster recovery
- Backup software lock-in
- Tape is not a backup solution
- Challenges of VMware's ecosystem for data protection
- Replication efficiency
- Toppling the backup industry
- The "Blusestone" revolution
- Convergence of backup
Direct download: NT18.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 4:13am EDT
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Mon, 30 January 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edsai), our guests this week are Mark Twomey (@storagezilla), Greg Schulz from StorageIO (@StorageIO) and special guest, the recently unemployed Marc Farley (@3ParFarley)
This week we discuss...
- Farley / Knieriemen reunion
- Farley makes a job change
- New twitter handles for Farley
- When does Dell buy Farley's new company?
- Amazon announces a cloud storage gateway
- Clouds in the enterprise
- Appliance standards for cloud vs. Storage standards for cloud
- Cloud management architectures and shared responsibilities
Direct download: NT17.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 11:29pm EDT
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Tue, 24 January 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with our guests... Chris Harney, Founder of the New England VMUG (@csharney), Taya Wyss from The Enterprise Strategy Group (@TayaWyss) and Erin Banks, vSpecialist with EMC (@banksek).
This week we discuss...
- Recap of New England VMUG, the largest VMUG in the world with over 1,000 attendees live at Gillette Stadium
- Big topic among end-users: VDI / Virtual Desktop
- EMC's hands-on labs testing VAAI plugins
- The challenges and opportunities for women in tech
- How the New England VMUG has grown
- Taya's upcoming appearance on US television show "Say Yes to the Dress"
- Superbowl flashback with Duran Duran's Simon LeBon
- VMware Labs and demos in the cloud
Direct download: NT16.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 10:22pm EDT
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Tue, 17 January 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch, our guests this week are Mark Twomey (aka 'StorageZilla') and Christina Weil.
This week we discuss...
- Ed and Greg figure out data plans in Europe
- Thai Massage Parlors in Soho
- Spotify vs. Pandora
- Fat Boy Slim's subliminal Apple Server message
- Diane Greene gets appointed to Google's board of directors
- Installing Kindle Fire Android ROMs
- Amazon becomes the crack dealer of cloud
- Another Silicon Valley web site covering startups
- Proliferation of storage startups
Direct download: NT15.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 2:12am EDT
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Tue, 10 January 2012
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch, we are live this week from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub in London during the Dell Storage Forum
- We kick off StorageBeers with Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub
- Dell Storage Forum announcements with Darren "Darth" Thomas, Dell Storage VP & GM and Phil Soran, President, Dell Compellent
- The path to Object Storage
- VMware integration
- Competition
- Acquisition challenges
- Andy Hardy, Managing Director, Dell Compellent International and Liem Nguyen, Director- Global Communications and Social Media, Dell Storage
- Andy's Party - First event in Europe
- Liem and Andy clebrating an Anniversary
- Chellenges in Europe
- Wrapping up with Gina Minks and Ed Saipetch
Direct download: NT14.mp3
Category: Technology
-- posted at: 9:23pm EDT
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