Speaking in Tech #86 - AWS vs Private Cloud

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out enjoying Thanksgiving while Ed and Greg cook up a podcast with special guest, Brian Gracely, Sr.Director, Global Solutions Marketing at EMC and co-host of The Cloudcast.net.

This week we discuss...

• Gracely as politician and back at EMC
• Savvis buys Tier3
• Eddie's Chromebook review
• Chromebook apps
• AWS RE:invent conference recap
• Amazon and the desktop
• AWS vs. Private cloud 
• Donut Run fundraiser

Speaking in Tech #85 - Open Source Smack

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the whole gang is together with special guest Joseph B. George, Director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions at Dell

• Sarah's word of mouth
• Jumping from HP to Dell
• Greg gets called out
• OpenStack collaboration
• Openstack and Crowbar
• Monetizing open software development
• Enterprise adoption of open source software
• OpenStack's true competition
• -Dell's acquisition of Enstratius

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