Speaking in Tech #124 - LIVE from VMworld! 

This week's episode is live from VMworld with guest co-host Vaughn Stewart, Chief Technology Evangelist of Pure Storage with guests David Siles, VP of Channels and Alliances with Data Gravity and Chad Sakac, Sr. Vice President of Global Systems Engineering at EMC.

NOTE: Due to audio problems from a source who will be called out, dragged and beaten on next week's episode, Chad and David's audio levels are low. Our sincere apologies.

This week we discuss…

• Introductions (1:00)
• VMworld keynote discussion (3:55)
• EVO:Rail gets armed and loaded (6:40)
• Hyper-convergence, explained (10:00)
• VMware's OpenStack distribution (19:00)
• vCheese gets dumped for "vCloud Air" (20:10)
• DataGravity launches "data-aware storage" (23:10)
• VMworld takeaways (29:10)

Speaking in Tech #123 - Jeramiah

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is still out on vacation while Eddie and Greg mix it up and speculate with Jeramiah Dooley, Cloud Architect at at SolidFire.

This week we discuss...

• Dumping Facebook Messenger (1:00)
• Career tap dance (2:15)
• Flashing SolidFire (5:45)
• Versus Vaughn (7:40)
• Ed slogs it out (8:35)
• HDS snaps up Sepaton (16:00)
• Mastering "PR Speak" (19:27)
• Cisco trims the troops (22:04)
• The tech companies doing well (25:30)
• The Thirsty Bear (28:20) 
• Marvin speculation (31:43)

Speaking in Tech #122 - Chat heads

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is out on vacation while Eddie returns to mop up the week's tech news.

This week we discuss...

• Eddie and the beach (1:00)
• Splitting Facebook (2:00)
• Annoying Chat heads (4:10)
• Swarm and splitting babies (6:00)
• G+ and anonymous names (15:00)
• Zuck threatened employees with beheadings (15:51)
• More bad customer service stories (20:03)
• Viv: A new Siri with artificial intelligence (25:20)
• Apple guessing (29:47)
• Apple: easy, simple and elegant getting old (32:15)

Speaking in Tech #121 - Return of Farley

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed has gone missing while Greg and Sarah are joined by Marc Farley of Quaddra Software and long lost podcast host.

This week we discuss...

• Episcopalian wedding (1:00)
• Return of Farley (1:45)
• Farley startup history (6:20)
• Leaving Microsoft (8:05)
• Drought-tolerant lawns (9:15)
• Stealthy Quaddra Software (11:50)
• How to do startups (15:55)
• Inside Microsoft (20:15)
• The Nokia bomb (26:10)
• Productivity with Surface tablets (27:20)
• StorSimple inside Microsoft (31:55)
• Azure and Google vs AWS: Amazon behind on Enterprise (34:47)
• Cloud Butt (38:45)
• Checklist for Quaddra (40:40)