Speaking in Tech #50 - Geoff Barrall

Speaking in Tech #50 - Geoff Barrall

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, the whole gang is together for the first time in over a month.

First, some banter...

• Sarah is back and after SXSW, contemplates branding social media “experts”... literally
• Ed is still employed and plans on speaking at CloudConnect
• Speaking in Tech announces the first big party for VMworld
• StorageBeers in London on April 17

Our very special guest this week is Geoff Barrall, CEO of Connected Data and Chairman of Gridstore

• Geoff traces his startup pedigree
• Connected Data and the “Transporter”
• Leveraging Kickstarter to launch a product
• Learning from Dropbox
• Reliable file sharing, backup and data repository
• Lessons from product design, branding and manufacturing
• Google inspired Gridstore
• True storage clustering