Wed, 17 February 2021
On this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) mull over cat-like lawyers on Zoom; possible trouble at Nominet; acquisitions and innovations at Hyundai; Sunway's exascale supercomputer; Veeam's great set of figures; VMware's new security guide for vSphere; President Biden's bid to end a chip shortage; and more! 00:00 Dogs, schools and lockdowns 03:45 May it please the cat 09:01 U ok, .uk? 12:56 Change or die thinks Hyundai 16:51 Sunway has too many flops 20:08 2020-21: 22% for Veeam 21:54 Tool up with a TPM says VMware 26:45 When the chips are down, Biden steps up 33:45 HashiTalks and other stuff next week @speakingintech
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Wed, 17 February 2021
In this episode, Peter and Melissa go back in time and cover the tech news from the week before the US Presidential Inauguration.
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Thu, 10 December 2020
In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) are joined by Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Weka (weka.io). The trio talk about James Corden's star turn at a Salesforce bash; AWS's entry into the rent-a-Mac market; Google Street View opening up to self-submitted photos; payments app PhonePe snagging a $700m investment; some new fashion choices for Christmas (all in a good cause); Weka's parallel file system; and more! 00:00 (Not so) lockdown 01:45 Introducing Ken 03:36 James Corden: Salesforce guru 07:07 Wanna cloudy Mac? That'll be nine grand 12:13 New to Google Street View: you 18:09 PhonePe's had worse weeks 20:43 Windows: software or knitwear? 23:44 What's Weka? 41:20 Next week's treats @speakingintech
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Wed, 25 November 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest, Ron Rock (@rrockrr) with @Microshareio . Together, they discuss Dell's multi-million dollar laptop error, Virtual Veteranarians, the LAPD's facial recognition blunder and more. 00:00 - Welcome Ron! 03:30 - Dell's millionaire mint 05:15 - VMWare gets original 09:15 - Virtual Vets 12:30 - LAPD gets naughty with your face 16:30 - Microshare IOT & data ownership 18:30 - Needs-based business model adaptation 24:00 - Clean = Safe 30:00 - Blending old and new to change the world 36:00 - Social Mapping Score
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Mon, 16 November 2020
On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) talk about some proposed redundances at IBM; HP Inc sunsetting 'free ink for life'; new limits on storage in Google Photos; robots changing hard drives in Alibaba's data centres; China's president reportedly blocking a tech IPO; WeChat's owner Tencent reporting a bumper set of figures; PayPal getting further into the cryptocurrency game; the rise of the Parler social media platform; and more! 00:00 Lockdown is back (did it ever really go away?) 02:49 Some IBMers may be facing a blue Christmas 08:11 HP Inc sinks the free ink 12:39 Photos in Google are about to lose their gloss 22:54 We. Are. The. Robots. 25:50 China's president no-gos an IPO 30:03 Tencent's making a lot more than ten cents 31:57 PayPal goes crypto 35:59 Step into my Parler 42:41 Birthdays and conferences @speakingintech
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Tue, 20 October 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about British Airway’s fine restructuring, QQAAZZ arrests, Tesla’s autopilot bug, Datto’s IPO, Oracle’s play to keep your database forever and more. 00:00 – The Tooth is Out There 04:00 – BA carrying a lighter load in fines 09:00 – Money Laundering as a Service goes down 12:00 – “Making it look like an accident” as a Service 16:30 – Datto looks to IPO 20:00 – Oracle is your obessive ex, but for your Databases 27:00 – What’s next?
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Tue, 6 October 2020
On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about the US Senate subpoena of Twitter's, Facebook's and Google's CEOs; Facebook banning ads that delegitimise election outcomes; Snapchat's role in voter participation; Google's mental health concerns with photo filters on Pixel phones; GCHQ discovering a 'nationally significant' vulnerability in Huawei equipment; how the NHS in England is promoting their contact tracing app with Deloitte and Salesforce also trying to get in on the act; whether deleting WhatsApp counts as destroying evidence; Cazoo's new mega-valuation; Google turning off FTP in Chrome; and more! 00:00 The tooth hurts 02:10 School days, snow days 05:25 Are your communications decent? 10:27 Is your election legit? Facebook thinks so 15:24 Snapchat rocks the vote 18:56 Google bans photo filters on the Pixel - or do they? 23:37 Another bad news day for Huawei 28:01 The NHS emails... well, kinda everyone 33:46 Deloitte and Salesforce are selling - are you buying? 35:48 Beat the rap with WhatsApp 40:10 Caz000,000,000 43:52 FTP: Forget That Protocol 46:56 What's in store next week @speakingintech
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Tue, 22 September 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Dr. Matthias Farwick, CEO and Co-founder of Txture and Thomas Trojer, CTO and Co-founder of Txture. Together, they talk about Tik Tok’s fate, Snowflake’s IPO, Uber backs out of China a bit, Alicloud’s next move, Txture (https://txture.io/en) and more! 00:00 – Life in the Clouds 04:20 – Trump reviews TikTok bid 09:30 – IPSnow 13:00 – Uber’s latest sale 15:50 – Yet another new Cloud Operating System 21:30 – Belarus drying out 25:30 – Ransomware death 31:00 – Lex takes on real English 34:30 – Massive cloud migrations with Txture
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Tue, 8 September 2020
In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Apple, privacy and bag searches; Facebook's new approach to political ads as well as their AR glasses and impressive results for Watch; Microsoft tackling deepfakes; Samsung's new $2,000 folding phone; Qualcomm's new power-efficient processor; Intel's rebrand; and more! 00:00 Bank holidays and back to school 03:33 Apple's got your back... or do they 10:21 Apple's got your bag... or do they 13:19 Facebook gets political 19:27 Glasses that help you to hear 23:06 Facebook Watch has lots of watchers 26:39 Microsoft takes on the deepfakers 28:54 Samsung wants the folding stuff for its folding stuff 32:32 Qualcomm lets your laptop live 35:21 Intel gets jazzy 37:37 What next week brings
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Wed, 2 September 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss the latest on the Tik Tok acquisition, Twitter's new approach to copy/paste, Amazon's new offerings and more! 00:00 – Yep, Everything still sucks 02:00 – Tiking time bomb 17:00 – Twitter shuts down the twits 21:00 – Netapp pulls the rip cord on legacy 23:00 – Expanding web based security signal, Fastly 26:00 – Google gets anti-trusted 31:00 – Amazon’s “fresh” grocery store idea 34:30 – A Halo, but with horns and hooks
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Mon, 10 August 2020
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok; Donald Trump's efforts to ban it in the US; TikTok opening a data centre in Ireland; the end of Google Play Music (Pete: sob!); a great set of results for Western Digital; Uber's acquisition of UK-based firm Autocab; GDPR transgressors in the UK getting their fines reduced; penetration testers getting arrested for doing a penetration test; and more! 00:00 Zeppelins, conferences and and camping 03:42 TikTok has an admirer 05:41 Trump's Chinese takeaway 10:24 The Emerald Isle has a new tech guest 13:03 Google Play Music's last stand 17:56 Hard drives, hard cash 20:50 Uber catches an Autocab 23:46 GDPR fines? ICOh-no 27:34 Pen testers caught in a court led to court 32:28 Next week's treats @speakingintech
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Wed, 22 July 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to cover the new Twitter scam, TikTok's lobbying effort, the CIA's new bag, ARM's overreach and more. 00:00 – Travel 05:00 – The latest hoax on Twitter 11:30 – TikTok gets into politics 21:00 – CIA gets more hax 29:00 – Apple fights with the Irish 33:30 - ARM’s customers jacked 37:00 – Dude claims some things hard for women 45:00 – Amazon’s work from home plans
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Fri, 10 July 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about Dell’s potential VMware spinoff, Facebook’s plans to ditch Oculus Go, Segway ending production, Amazon’s new dev offering and more. 00:00 – Happy Treason Day 03:00 – Dell taking VMware for a spin 10:00 – Facebook yeets “affordable” VR 14:20 – Segway going away 18:15 – Using bots to fight the endless cancellation hold 23:00 – China’s independent GPS 25:30 – Hate to code? Amazon has honey for you 28:00 – Digital Transformation finds your used car
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Tue, 16 June 2020
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about YouTube’s $100m to support Black contributors and users; Google’s countersuit against Sonos; Facebook’s misstep on Workplace; Twitter’s takedown of accounts supporting the Chinese government; Microsoft, IBM and Amazon on facial recognition technology; Kahoot’s success; an investigation into Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy; and more! 00:00 Seattle vs England 03:09 YouTube gets generous 08:17 Google vs Sonos: like The War of the Roses except no Danny DeVito 12:59 Facebook Workplace won’t be unionising anytime soon 16:53 How many Twitter accounts does China need anyway 20:57 Facial freedom? 25:59 Kahoot’s a unicorn 29:27 UK to Facebook: Giphy might be iffy 33:20 Conferences and customers
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Wed, 3 June 2020
This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Amazon hiring, Google's pending search changes, a few lawsuits, Apple's latest acquisition and more. 00:00 – Restrictions and Resumptions 04:00 – Amazon FT hiring boom 06:30 – Google quietly judges your search for UX 12:00 – Google faces a suit from Arizona 15:00 – Apple messes with the wrong accountant 17:00 – Apple acquires more ML for Siri 22:30 – 6Eating your WiFi 26:00 – Autonomous drug delivery kicks off 30:00 – Birthday!
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Tue, 26 May 2020
This week, Melissa (@soltiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss retrocomputing; Google and Apple’s COVID-19 contact tracing system; opposition to the UK’s own equivalent; Amazon entering the hot food delivery market in India; Intel’s acquisition of Killer Networking; Microsoft’s acquisition of Softomotive; the resurgence of the drive-in movie; Samsung’s new military phone; Facebook’s war on fake profiles; Netflix giving lapsed users their money back; and more! 00:00 Lockdowning, Zooming and Teamsing 01:55 Peter goes retro 04:13 Melissa’s many pursuits 05:38 Google and Apple have your number 09:55 GCHQ: what can you do? 14:48 Bezos’s fashion fail 18:20 Couchbase ain’t nuthin’ but a G thang 22:30 Intel’s got a Killer 26:44 Microsoft gets robotic 28:23 Forget your IMAX, drive-in movies are back 29:43 Samsung’s strategy is Tactical 32:15 Facebook fixes fakes – fact? 33:55 Nix Netflix? Keep your cash @speakingintech
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Mon, 27 April 2020
On this week's @SPEAKINGinTECH, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) discuss the new version of Zoom; Telegram's MAU milestone; a buoyant set of figures for Citrix; another nail in Adobe Flash's coffin; good news for Intel; an alleged hacking attempt by Vietnam on China; a new home for IBM Watson; a look back at a funny news story from 2012; and more! 00:00 What we did last week (surprise, surprise)... 03:26 Zoom versions up - is it a good thing? 06:57 Telegram just not being WhatsApp seems to work 10:58 Citrix: thin client, fat wallet 16:26 Adobe Flash gets dumped by LibreOffice 18:41 Intel just can't stop selling those chips 21:44 Vietnam has a pop at China, allegedly 26:20 Watson says goodbye to Baker Street 29:05 When 'non-commercial use' is as commercial as you can get 30:48 What we're doing next week (surprise, surprise)...
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Tue, 24 March 2020
The week's tech news stories are dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, although Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) do manage to find some other stories out there too. The pair talk about Everlywell's new coronavirus test that you can do at home; Elon Musk's offer to make ventilators; Microsoft's success with Teams; NASA's misstep on cloud egress charges; IBM mainframe and Chinese server sales on the up; ransomware crooks not targetting healthcare; the iPad Pro getting tooled up much like a Surface Pro; and more! 00:00 If it hadn't already got real, it just did 07:02 Everlywell lets you do it at home 10:02 Elon vents... in a good way 13:37 Microsoft's a Teams player 21:12 NASA realises that what goes up must come down 24:13 Life is great - if you're IBM or a Chinese server maker 27:18 Ransomware loves healthcare 30:23 Battle of the Pros 34:17 What we're doing next week (no surprises...)
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Tue, 10 March 2020
This week, Peter and Melissa get together to talk about Waymo's latest funding round, Atrium's shut down, Let's Encrypt's bug fix, Honeywell's quantum computing play, SETI's pause on new data and more! 00:00 – Peter has nearly caught them all 05:00 – Conferences got it 08:00 – Waymo is too busy getting paid 13:30 – Atrium kicks it 19:25 – Let’s Encrypt catches a bug 22:00 – Honeywell’s new cure-all 27:30 – SETI calling in
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Fri, 21 February 2020
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Jerry Vasquez of Liquid Web (@LiquidWeb). The trio talk Mac vs Windows on malware; Google removing the ToTok messaging app from its Play store; Russia banning Tutanota secure email; what's happening with enterprise SSD and HDD sales; the latest on Xerox's attempted acquisition of HP Inc; and more! 00:00 AWOL in Seattle 02:02 Jerry joins in 03:20 Mac beats Windows... on malware 07:14 ToTok gets the chop 09:45 Tutanota is no Russian doll 13:01 SSDs are sooo last quarter 16:56 Xerox gets grubby with HP Inc 22:12 Jerry talks Liquid Web 35:15 What next week brings
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Wed, 8 January 2020
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Tara Kelly (@TKtechnow), CEO and Founder of Splice Software (@SPLICESoftware). The trio talk about Google's tax woes, Amazon's initiatives to help homeless people in Seattle - as well as the startup scene in that city, Sonos's controversial new trade-in process, using AI for breast cancer diagnosis, LibreOffice's first decade, how Splice Software can help customers and more! 00:00 Christmas, waxworks and Star Wars 02:24 Introducing Tara... and a bit more Star Wars 03:39 Google's Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich are off the menu 08:15 Gimme shelter, Amazon 12:47 Seattle's stupendous startups 16:45 Sonos says 'brick me' 27:11 AI is best for breast 33:40 LibreOffice chalks up ten years 36:23 Tara talks Splice Software 48:24 Next week's plans
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Tue, 24 December 2019
In the second of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Please note this is a live event recoring and audio quality will be affected by that. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:10 Innovative apps for NASA and others with Charlie Regis (@CharlieRegis), Co-Founder, Styliff Tech (@stylifftech / https://styliff.com) 00:06:19 Wearable technology to prevent industrial injuries with Matthew Hart, Founder, Soter Analytics (@SoterAnalytics / https://www.soteranalytics.com) 00:15:57 Software development for cloud computing, mobile apps, IoT and BLE with Grzegorz Kapusta (@gkapusta), CEO and Piotr Herstowski, Business Development Lead, Polidea (@polidea / https://www.polidea.com) 00:22:33 Data labelling for AI with Lars Wulfken (@wulfskin), VP Product, Canotic (@canoticai / https://canotic.com) 00:33:01 Hyperlocal video streaming with Christian Walther, Director Product, Joyn (@JoynDeutschland / https://www.joyn.de) 00:36:51 Automated cloud security with Manuela Ticudean, Co-Founder, Cyscale (@cyscale / https://www.cyscale.com) 00:42:14 Financial wellbeing with Alexander Brouwer (@alexanderbrwr), Founder and CEO and Veronica Fresneau (@verofresneau), Head of Marketing and Communications, Vive (@Vive_App / https://www.viveapp.com) 00:49:18 Winners of Startup Battlefield announced!
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Wed, 18 December 2019
In the first of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Due to the nature of live recordings, this recording will have background noise. 00:00:00 This might be a very short podcast… 00:01:16 A brain/computer interface with Daniëlle Tump, Software Developer and Product Manager, MindAffect (@mindaffect_bci / https://www.mindaffect.nl) 00:08:41 Social media for entrepreneurial minded students with Ronan Liedmeier, Co-founder, Studentup inc (@studentupinc / https://studentup.com) 00:17:03 ‘Doubling the performance of display ads’ with Mahesh Murthy (@maheshmurthy), Founder, Rad Ad (@raddotad / https://www.rad.ad) 00:25:39 Extended reality for videogaming with Alberto Saldaña (@ASaldaNave), CEO and Edu Saldaña (@EduS_N), Exec Creative Director, Sons of a Bit (@SonsofaBit_Ent / https://sonsofabit.com) 00:32:37 Girls shaping the future with tech with Dora Palfi (@dorapalfi), Co-founder and CEO, imagiLabs (@imagilabs / https://imagilabs.typeform.com/to/lJRbFM) 00:36:06 ‘The world's most secure messenger’ with Paul Jung, CEO, Seal Communication (@sealmessenger) 00:39:16 K-Dance for K-Pop with Manhyung Han (@Manhyung), CEO and Founder, Kinetic Lab 00:43:34 Powering the smart home revolution with Vladimir Cillik, Chief Business Development Officer, Domotron (@DomotronHome / https://domotron.com) 00:47:21 ‘Instant ROI’ platform for e-commerce with Maciej Serafin, CMO, edrone (@edrone_me / https://edrone.me)
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Tue, 10 December 2019
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss a record breaking Cyber Monday, the latest on Xerox's attempted takover of HP, leadership changes at Google, AWS's moves into Quantum computing, KPMG getting into Microsoft 365, US Department of Homeland Security increasing the reach of their facial recognition technology, Sprint's cybersecurity woes and more! 00:00 Peter has a job... finally 02:12 Christmas shopping tales 03:30 Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday 12:29 HP slaps Xerox 15:58 Google finally moves out of the garage 21:57 AWS is on a quantum journey 25:33 KPMG goes all in on Microsoft 365 28:07 DHS saves face 34:13 Sprint gets a bucketload of problems 38:01 Japan comes to Melissa 40:06 Peter goes to Berlin
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Tue, 19 November 2019
This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Mirantis taking on Docker Enterprise, Google getting into banking, Political attacks going cyber, politicians endorsing the opposition, Instagram’s new no-like test and more. 00:00 – Husky 02:00 – Kubernetes, more than 3 times fast 06:00 – Docker pulls an enterprise tea party 10:00 – Google Checking 15:00 – Labor keeps plugging through cyber attack 17:15 – Fake AI Friends 20:00 – Insta-nope
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Mon, 11 November 2019
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Rick Fox, VP of Agency Associations and Networks at Vertafore (@Vertafore). Together they talk insurance tech, Xerox’s potential acquisition of HP, Uber Eats running Ads while Uber ignores jaywalking as a thing, Ring’s vulnerability and more. 00:00 – Aston Villa disappoints the kids 04:30 – The minnow swallowing the bass 10:30 – Ads: It’s what’s for dinner 16:10 - Uberbad design 22:50 – Autonomous minions 28:30 – Ring shares your wifi password with the neighbors 33:30 – Gov’ment Cookies 36:30 – What is Insurance Tech anyway? 44:00 – AI: your new actuary 47:30 – Social Media based insurance rates?
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Mon, 4 November 2019
This week, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) is joined by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher), editor-at-large at TechCrunch (@TechCrunch). The pair discuss the Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract, WhatsApp suing NSO, a new Slack competitor, Twitter dumping paid-for political ads, the unintended consequences of Facebook allowing politicians to lie and of course the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event. 00:00 Intros 02:02 Microsoft's the JEDI master 07:02 NSOh-no 11:26 Slack overload? Take a Quill pill 15:44 Twitter won't take your money... if you're a politician 21:00 Zuck is hoist with his own petard 26:09 Ich bin ein Berliner! TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: https://smlb.in/2PFjF9U @speakingintech
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Thu, 17 October 2019
This week, Melissa and Peter discuss Libra's troubles, seeing through walls with Wi-Fi, Apple's u-turn over Hong Kong, Dyson's ditching of its electric car, Nobel prizes for batteries and more! 00:00 - Colds, conferences and certifications 08:10 - PayPal's a Libra leaver 12:03 - BoE's a Libra legislator 16:55 - Walls have eyes 20:55 - App tha Police 26:20 - Dyson pulls the plug on its electric car 30:29 - Prizes all round 33:12 - What next week holds
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Wed, 25 September 2019
This week Peter and Melissa sync up to discuss Ransomware in New Bedford, Uber Layoffs, McDonald’s new AI related acquisition, Robot grocery store use cases, loot box legislation and more! 00:00 – Slinging Rockets 05:00 – Riding out the Hack 09:15 – Uber takes a dump 13:15 – The robot army comes for your kids 21:00 – Robo-finders 24:45 – Lucky Dips
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Tue, 10 September 2019
This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss facial recognition in court, YouTube targeting kids, VMware's latest moves, Microsoft's acquisition of Movere, the latest AWS outage, falling server sales, a $14,000 gaming chair and more! 00:00 HashiConf is a-comin' to your town 02:27 All your face are belong to us 08:54 YouTube gets fined $170m... by a COPPA 15:43 VMware gets into Carbon Black and Kubernetes 19:13 You say 'Moov-eer' and I say 'Moov-air-eh' 23:00 AWS gives its services the day off for Labor Day 24:10 Servers are sooo last quarter 27:03 Who gets the electric chair? 29:58 What's on next week @speakingintech
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Tue, 20 August 2019
This week Peter and Melissa discuss Microsoft's new Skype and Cortana policy, VMware's potential acquisition, another major security breech, Politicians killing facial recognition and more. 00:00 - Changes 02:15 - Human overlords for AI 09:15 - Your biometrics - pwned 17:00 - Politician profiling 21:15 - The snake eats itself 28:00 - These clicks are jacked!
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Wed, 14 August 2019
This week Peter and Melissa discuss Lyft's stock volatility, Instagram's latest scandal, VMware's cloud announcement, patents for AI and more! 00:00 - Trying new things 05:00 - Lyft off... and on 07:30 - Spygram 13:35 - VMwhere? 21:55 - The new humungous app load 25:50 - AI invents <your mom> 31:20 - Bye Felicia... er… MSDN 34:00 - Slack takes out some slack
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Thu, 4 April 2019
This week, Josh and Peter discuss GMail's anniversary, VMWare's latest vulnerability, Apple's announcements. Lyft's IPO and Mark Zuckerberg's government call to action. 00:00 - It's April, and we are the only fools 02:35 - GMail gets a learner's permit 07:05 - VMWare's vulnerable 10:20 - Apple's a-YAWN-ments 19:10 - Death by $10 cuts 21:40 - Heavy Lyfting 25:00 - Zuckerberg: The next 2-face 33:05 - Brexin
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Wed, 6 March 2019
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Tesla’s change in sales strategy, the Dragon Launch, a new solar farm concept in China, Lyft’s IPOs, a Brexit update, and RSA conf’s diversity struggles. 00:00 – Wifi Messssss(h) 06:00 – Tesla’s moving out 14:20 – Launching Dummies 17:20 – Space Pandas 22:40 – IP-Uh-oh time to pay rent 27:20 – Someone’s getting rich 32:51 – Melissa’s worst nightmare, LIVE 45:00 – Josh’s dream
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Mon, 4 February 2019
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Brynne Kennedy, @BrynneSpeak, Founder and CEO of Topia. Together, they discuss Facebook’s latest challenge, Foxconn’s withdrawal from Wisconsin, supply chain challenges, Oracle’s latest suit, another data breach and more! 00:00 - Loser’s dinner w/ Chelsea 03:30 - Rooting: for the kids 07:30 – Protect Ya Neck (next time) 10:17 - What I (don’t) got 14:13 - Suing in the name of 17:30 - Widespread Nervousness 20:30 - Road Trippin All Star 26:00 - Wishlist 31:00 - 20th Century Digital Boy 39:00 – Time to Regulate
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Mon, 7 January 2019
This week, Josh, Peter and Melissa get together to discuss parrots that order dinner for themselves, Tesla's new board members, the top 10 venture rounds of 2018, Old prediction stats, new predictions and more! 00:00 - Sacrifical Lambs 07:00 - Pinky and the Brain + Alexa 09:27 - Musk v Ellison Celebrity Death Match 11:00 - Epic FUNding 22:00 - Fitness as a Service 24:00 - Last year's prediction winners and losers 37:00 - This year's gems
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Sun, 23 December 2018
The second and final part of Peter Smallbone's (@petersmallbone) LIVE interviews from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 00:00 – How to find like-minded gamer friends w/ John Uke of GameTree (@gametreeapp / 🎮🌲.WS) 08:04 – A new way to check for code vulnerabilities with Joe Noll (@noljoh) of AppGuard (App-Guard.io) 14:46 – Smart navigation for visually impaired people with Gustavo Madico (@elgus) of Aiserve Technologies (@AiServe_tech / aiserve.co) 22:33 – A new BlockChain-based bank account with Robert Harrison (@RobertMark1984) of Bitwala (@Bitwala / bitwala.com) 30:28 – How ground transportation companies can compete with Uber with Victor Ngo of QUp World Inc (@QUpworld / QUpworld.com) 40:37 – How online can help with shopping offline with Galina Charni of VeryClothe (@VeryClothe / veryclothe.com) 45:59 – Startup Battlefield winner announced!
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Mon, 17 December 2018
In the first of a special two-part LIVE episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 0:00:00 – In da club with Max Hatzold (@MaxHatzold) of Field Buzz (@field_buzz / field.buzz) 0:02:19 – Using BlockChain to get paid faster with Ryan Fife (@ryanpaulfyfe) of WorkChain.io (@workchain_io / workchain.io) 0:10:33 – The new in-game advertising revolution with Ben Fenster (@BenFenster) of Anzu (@Anzu_io / anzu.io) 0:20:39 – The smart way to match medical professionals with jobs with Catrinel Hagriveta (@CatrinelHag) of MEDIJobs Romania (@MEDIjobsRO / www.medijobs.ro) 0:28:34 – AI and people working together in harmony with Sebastian Denef (@denefs) of OWN.space (@ownHQ / own.space) 0:35:04 – A new way to hire freelancers using better tech with Rafael Platas of HYP3R (@wearehyp3r / www.hyp3r.io) 0:39:36 – How to try on a ring without the ring with Artem Soundelzon (@Paasweb) of Inova Diamonds (@InovaDiamonds / inova.diamonds)
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Wed, 21 November 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Google's new leadership, a new Blackberry acquisition, Microsoft's VDI acquisition, Alexa's court order and more! 00:00 - New Phone Fails 09:00 - GOragle 17:00 - Blackberry's Billions 22:00 - Year of VDI 27:00 - Murder Testimony aaS
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Wed, 7 November 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa discuss Twitter's ineffective character bump, the new iPhone/IOS security bypass, Waymo's new driverless testing, Amazon's HQ2 update, SF's Airbnb-related lawsuits and VMWare's intended acquisition of Heptio. 00:00 - Sleep Class 06:15 - Not for Goldfish 09:45 - iSpy a Security Flaw 13:50 - WAY Mo Unmanned Vehicles 17:19 - HQ 2x2 22:10 - SF is Taking Your Bedroom Profits 25:05 - You get a Kubernetes & YOU get a Kubernetes 31:29 - PLEASE Hire Peter! 34:00 - Little League is Hard on Your Knees
Direct download: 318.mp3
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Wed, 31 October 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Robbie McKinstry (@bravenewprince), Research Engineer at HashiCorp. Together they discuss IBM’s plans to buy RedHat, NASA using remote reboots to fix hardware issues on the Hubble telescope, Twitter’s new debate strategy, Apple’s recent announcements, the latest Malware hit and more! 00:00 – Taco Twednesday 04:00 – Peter gets Fyred up 07:00 – Big Blue gets a Red Hat 07:01 – Now all they need is a purple feather 16:20 – Remote galaxy reboots for the win 19:32 – Peter tries to relate to the kids 20:00 – Twitter may kill your likes 33:30 – Shiny new Apples 38:00 – Government compute gets an STD 42:30 – Halloween
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Mon, 29 October 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa travel back in time a bit to discuss IBM's JEDI Protest, Duck Duck Go's success, California's new password laws and Microsoft's big opening of patents. 00:00 - Melissa the fool 07:30 - NewOps Days 09:28 - IBM joins the Empire 16:01 - Duck, Duck, Growth! 24:00 - California hacking 31:15 - Microsoft opens Pandora's patent box 31:16 - …and all I got was an I <3 Linux t-shirt
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Thu, 11 October 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK’s conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google’s search engine spend, Azure’s Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened. 00:00 – Peter gets snubbed 03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud 07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once 12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires 15:30 – How much is being #1 worth? 18:12 – Linux puts Windows in the corner 21:58 – Everyone is denying it
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Wed, 3 October 2018
This week, Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss MS Ignite, Sirius XM's acquisition plans for Pandora, the US government's JEDI program and AI takeovers in marketing. 00:00 - Gurney-Atwell Dance Off 05:15 - Ignition Failed 15:35 - Opening the Box on Sat Radio 21:25 - Jedi for sale, $10 Billion 28:00 - 70 is Pulling Out 33:40 - Face Creepers 38:25 - Deeply Learn-ed Advertising 43:35 - Boy Scout Popcorn
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Wed, 26 September 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Elon Musk’s new rocket plan, Apple’s new product line, Amazon’s echo launch, Equifax’s new fines, a Netapp acquisition and more! 00:00 – New Intro 06:00 – Melissa throws everyone under the bus 08:00 – To the moon (ish), Elon! 12:00 – Flo 16:00 – MAX Mac’s? craziness 21:00 – Josh turns Alexa on 32:00 – Her Majesty gives Equifax a light spanking 36:00 – Netapp acquires hypetrain 45:00 – The buy more stuff game! 50:00 – Little Josh didn’t make it
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Tue, 18 September 2018
This week, Ed, Peter and Melissa are joined by Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) with CloudBerry Lab. Together, they discuss more trouble for Tesla, Equifax's fall out a year after the breach, eBay's switch and more. Doug's Podcast- MSP Voice: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/msp-voice-podcast.aspx 00:00 - Hit by the life bus 05:00 - Take a toke, and all of my stocks... 12:20 - Equifree of consequences 16:00 - Microtik's new internet parasite 20:00 - Ebay dumps OpenStack for the hypetrain - auction to follow 24:00 - MSPS plz friend me 30:00 - Backing up all the clouds 37:00 - IBM takes us back to the future
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Tue, 3 July 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Uber's return to London, Facebook's drone WiFi program, the latest in consumer tech manipulation, the hyperconverged state of the union and more! 00:00 - Slackers gotta slack 06:33 - Uber's British Invasion 12:40 - Facebook's WiFi faceplant 15:00 - Github ADD Sidebar 21:30 - Consumer tech <3's cheap tricks 26:00 - Hyperconverged: engage hyperdrive 35:20 - Doing nothing and crushing it
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Tue, 5 June 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Chris Weis (@ccweis), Global Practice Manager of Compute and Automation at World Wide Technology. Together they discuss Snapchat's hardware upgrade, updates from the Uber AV crash, Tintri's recent struggle, Amazon's facial recognition for government offering and lessons in iterating and automating at scale. 00:00 - Corn and Captain Kirk 04:37 - Spectacles++ 10:31 - AV Indecision 17:05 - AutNOPE-pilot 20:19 - More Storage on Life Support 24:15 - Soon: Paying Taxes to AMZN 31:47 - WW Whaaaaat? 37:24 - Driving to Solutions 44:24 - Silo Bustin' 47:00 - Sharing is Caring
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Mon, 28 May 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by Jason McGee (@jrmcgee), IBM Fellow, VP & CTO of IBM Cloud Platform. Together they discuss new options in AWS, HPe's new acquisition, AI creating jobs and cloud trends. 00:00 - Cast off Kinks 04:00 - AWS hops on the NVMe bandwagon 07:00 - HPe plugs their SDN hole 10:00 - Robot job creation 14:00 - Open Source and Cloud 20:00 - GDPR is everywhere 25:00 - Cloud futures 32:00 - AI strategy and ethics 35:00 - Yet Another Marketing Fail brought to you by Google
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Fri, 11 May 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss Comcast's attempt to swipe more content, Uber's fatal autonomous vehicle collision, Air taxis and Google's latest assistant demo. 00:00 - The guys got robbed 10:00 - Comcast tries to outdo the Mouse 16:00 - It's not a bug, it's a false positive 23:00 - Can't figure it out on the ground? put it in the air! 27:30 - AI takes another job you hated 38:00 - Who do you want to be next?
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Thu, 3 May 2018
This week Melissa is joined by special guest Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) of thectoadvisor.com and ctodose.com Together they discuss this week's tradeshows, CIOs looking at AI, Cloud revenue reports, Ford is reducing car options in North America, Fitbit's new Google Healthcare Cloud announcement and how to rock being unemployable. 00:00 - No Spoilers because we <3 you 01:30 - Little shows in Vegas 06:00 - Half of CIOs -already replaced by robots 09:40 - Cloud companies still printing $$$$ 12:20 - Ford shifts its Focus 15:11 - Fitbit putting an end to lying to your doctor 21:44 - Building business as an independent influencer
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Fri, 27 April 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest and occasional co-host Amy Lewis (@commsninja) Director of Influence Marketing at VMware. Together they discuss: Cloud Foundry's new take on Kubernetes, Pivotal's IPO, AI taking over Banking jobs, the custom AI chip trend and the latest Amazon rumor. 00:00 - It's not you, it's us 03:00 - Doubling down on Conference Adventures 08:00 - Cloud Foundry eats Kubes 09:25 - IPOs with meteor attention 12:00 - The robots are canning your bank teller 20:00 - Chipping away at AI 23:18 - Melissa's Small Wonder 24:00 - These are not the droids we are making 28:00 - Foo what? 33:00 - Geek Whisperer Activate! 36:00 - Yadin is a Robot
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Thu, 19 April 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Mark Twomey (@storagezilla). Together, they discuss VMware's VSAN Announcement, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, Amazon pausing perscription drug play, Elon Musk's new couch, the FBI's latest recruiting challenge and movie suggestions. 00:00 - Zilla teaches Peter about books 04:20 - VSAN isn't quite past it 09:30 - Tech Giants making the arena shrink 16:20 - Amazon steps back from the drugs for a minute 21:06 - Solid proof you are surrounded by idiots 24:20 - The FBI: because clean is more important than good 31:00 - Hiding from the real world because you're gorgeous
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Wed, 11 April 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Julian Wong, VP of Customer Success at DataVisor (@DataVisor). Together, they discuss EU domain reclamations, Cryptocurrency for the Joshes of the world, Apple's privacy play, Vulnerability issues in Serverless, the new WinDefender exploits and the world of data fraud. 00:00 - EUUUUUUUR OUT! 04:30 - Cryptocurrency: it's better with Whisky 07:48 - Apple: We're selling you in, not out! 11:23 - Serverless, you have some 'splaining to do 13:57 - WinOffender 17:00 - Veeping Customer Success 23:00 - The Fraud Arms Race
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Fri, 30 March 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss the Dropbox IPO, Pivotal's filing for IPO, Uber's move out of Southeast Asia, Zuckerberg's UK summons, Pure's blinged out AI Play, Intel's new glasses and Ecuador killing Assange's wifi. 00:00 - Dropboxing stock like it's hot 07:35 - Josh gets called on the carpet 09:40 - Pivotal's Filing by the Haters 15:30 - Uber Grab's a new approach in Asia 21:00 - Zuck's UK snub 31:00 - Pure and Nvidia go for gold 37:30 - Intel's sweet new dating technology 40:00 - Julian is grounded from the interwebs
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Thu, 22 March 2018
301 - Product Privacy This week Josh, Peter and Melissa are joined by Todd Cowles (@toddcowles01) Data Science and Analytics Technical Specialist at IBM. Together they discuss Facebook's recent headaches, IOT Farm troubles and potential data privacy challenges with machine learning. 00:00 - Digital Packrats 05:30 - Facebook's data hell is Peter's fault 15:00 - Hey man, your data is showing 20:00 - IOT eating the farmers 24:50 - Shout out to legitimizing your gut 26:30 - Learning to teach machines to learn 30:55 - Data Science not sexy -Wait what? 38:00 - You are not a snowflake
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Thu, 15 March 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces with special guest Tim Crawford (@tcrawford) CIO Strategic Advisor at Avoa. Together they discuss robot job replacement issues at CaliBurger, Tintri's financial struggles, drones causing wildfires and transforming the role of CIO and what it means to the future of technology 00:00 - Conference Crashers 03:26 - Will the real Tim Crawford please stand up? 08:19 - Flippy gets flipped off 13:30 - Tintri finds it's THIS IS SPARTA! moment 19:33 - Drone goes up in smoke like its owner's money 22:11 - Bracing for 6 years of technical impact 34:00 - Tim drops the ultimate #TruthBomb about cloud 38:30 - Snowflakes are for suckers, and we are fully stocked 40:30 - Josh has a "moment"
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Thu, 8 March 2018
This week Peter and Melissa discuss the AI burger takeover, VMware's results, Amazon's latest acquisition, Yet Another Uber Innovation and Apple bleeding its employees. 00:00 - Planes, Ninjas and Sledging 05:00 - Flippy is here to replace your angsty teen 11:00 - VMware: Kicking it. 16:15 - Amazon and Beyonce suggest you put a ring on it 20:24 - The EU wants a bite of Apple's Dutch Sandwich 25:22 - Uber now picks up hitchiking truckers 31:20 - Apple's new building calls for blood
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Tue, 27 February 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Yadin Porter de Leon (@porterdeleon), Head of Content Marketing @druvainc and serial podcaster. Together they discuss Flight Simulators that hack you, AI's impending job takeover, Dropbox's massive savings, Android Pay going away and the Dell EMC Code Community. 00:00 - Yellow Snow Warning 05:30 - Putting Light Sabers in Hands 06:36 - Simulator Street Justice 11:50 - AI is coming for your job 21:00 - Dropping it and it's hot 27:25 - Android's lost Wallet 33:35 - Saying goodbye to Dell EMC Code 35:55 - Yadin's Mission
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Thu, 22 February 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Hyperloop proposals, Atari's new cryptocurrency, Sony's taxi bid, Microsoft's drug program, Spotify's new bet and being Switzerland. 00:00 - Watching bad movies #ForTheTech 03:28 - Elon's boring between McDonald's & ATF bureau 04:52 - Melissa hates on the MidWest 10:38 - Atari's Token Stock Market game 14:58 - Sony gives Uber the "Boy Bye" using AI 19:49 - Microsoft's giving away free cloud candy 26:16 - Spotify's hardening their approach 33:09 - Josh has moved to begging, Melissa nerd-dating 36:20 - Pouring one out for the Swiss
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Wed, 14 February 2018
This week Josh and Melissa discuss drones, Citrix’s new acquisition, IBM’s new vulnerability, iMessage features on Android phones, Uber’s settlement, a new Social Engineering trick and moody voice assistants. 00:00 – Drones filing for separation 08:30 – Citrix’s warm blanket security strategy 12:20 – Using lotus notes? My Secret Squirrel has a present for you. 15:00 – Passive Aggressive iMessaging love for all 17:50 – I love you baby, here’s $240 mil. We cool? 21:05 – Why you should treat Siri like your crazy ex 25:40 – Simulating conversations with lost loves 29:00 – Even your voice assistant sets a bad mood
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Fri, 9 February 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Comodore64 making a comeback, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch, Kodak’s new Cryptocurrency, Samsung overtaking Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker, Cloud company revenue and RedHat’s acquisition of CoreOS 00:00 – Dry Hell in Colorado 04:45 – Peter is ready to get his nunchuckers on 06:25 – Using Rockets to dispose of your rivals 11:45 – Cryptocurrency playing with your film stock 16:51 – Congrats Tostitos! Worlds largest chipmaker 20:00 – Cloud companies making it rain 24:00 – Just to have Kubernetes in the show notes 26:00 – M& maybe a Reverse A… ? 30:02 – Superb Owls
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Wed, 31 January 2018
This week, Josh and Melissa are joined by Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Director of Product Strategy at RedHat. Together they discuss Microsoft's bug "fix" rejection, the UK gets high speed broadband, Dell's reverse acquisition rumor, podcasting, BBQ and great causes. Donations for the Krispy Kreme Challenge can be made here: https://www.crowdrise.com/thecloudcastnet 00:00 - Engineering tiny cars 03:00 - Intel gets bit by the love bug 04:40 - Josh remote trolls Peter 07:12 - Brian says hello 10:52 - The Dell Reverse Turducken 17:00 - Buy Elon Musk's boring flame throwers 19:00 - Doing all the buzzwords at RedHat 23:30 - Amazon taking the FUN out of VC funding 30:29 - Run to Krispy Kreme for the kids 34:24 - Doing the DevOps with Gene Kim
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Wed, 24 January 2018
This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Eddie. Together they talk about the AI Next Conference, the OnePlus phone breach, Bitcoin's recent plummet, Apple's redistribution of wealth plan and Whole Foods food shortages. 00:00 - Ready or not, here AI come 10:00 - ph-0wn3d your credit to buy ring gear 19:40 - Doing the bitcoin dip and nay nay 24:13 - Apple is all about the washingtons 29:23 - No-ole Foods 34:50 - Streaming in the Sky, because no one should go an hour without Rick and Morty
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Fri, 19 January 2018
This week Melissa and Josh are joined by Greg McCarthy @gmccarthy24, Social Business Advisor at Dell. Together they discuss the Hawaiian missile threat, Google's new acquisition and all things CES from the couch. 00:00 - Lost bets 04:00 - Not a drill, but not true 07:16 - Deep Touch 10:00 - Rained Out in Vegas 15:12 - Speaking in Blockchain, CES greatest hits 20:00 - Wireless charging at the coffee shop is as good as it gets at CES? 26:30 - Alexa, give me a courtesy flush 33:43 - Boom box suitcase 36:35 - Software Defined Coffee 38:54 - We are Bane 44:30 - Roll up TVs 49:12 - Animatronic ducks for the kids 58:36 - Management - not for readers
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Fri, 12 January 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa are joined by Ariel Zane (@lariebyrd), Health Sciences Analyst at MSC. Together they discuss Trump website issues, Amazon's Linux 2 release, Microsoft's latest acquisition, Specter/Meltdown and all things Data Science. 00:00 - Data Science.... OoooOOh! 04:00 - Trump the web troller 07:20 - Amazon is creeping onto your premises 13:00 - MS gets NAS-y 16:50 - Specter Meltdown is my James Bond themed emo cover band 22:51 - Data Science Shaping Policy 27:51 - On the next Hoarders: Your Data 30:05 - Data Archaeology and Data Janitors 37:15 - The Future of Data Science 45:10 - Getting Data Naked
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Wed, 20 December 2017
This week, Josh and Melissa use the undeniable power of the dark side to lure Greg and Ed out of the trunk. Together they discuss Net Neutrality, Tintri offering to sell out, the SpaceX relauch/reuse/recycle program and they predict top tech trends and events for 2018. 00:00 - The Return of Greg and Ed 03:00 - The Net Joins the Dark Side 08:32 - No Spoiler Review of The Last Jedi 11:40 - Tintri debates going Han Solo 15:07 - The SpaceX Falcon 20:00 - Predictions for '17: about as good as the Christmas Special 25:35 - Atwell's Only Hope for Backup 32:20 - Voting in the Next Senate Race using AR: super-impose JarJar on your favorite 37:40 - Amazon's Clone War move: Self-Destructing Drones 48:26 - Eddie goes Phantom Menace 53:39 - Peter's Force Presence Predicts the future 58:45 - Melissa has been lost to the dark side
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Wed, 13 December 2017
This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Carl Niger @carl_niger, Director of Advanced Technology at CGI Northpoint. Together they talk about Netflix trolls, HP, 3D body scanning technology, The Apple-Shazam acquisition, new tech from Nvidia and a bit of SDN. 00:00 - Carl Drives In 05:40 - Big Data: It's for Shaming 09:15 - HP is Keylogging Your Mom 13:42 - 3D Body Scans: What are they good for? 17:50 - Ready Player Chunky 22:30 - Shazappled 27:00 - Old Cars are the New Technology 30:57 - Nvidia Goes Mining 36:46 - Hacking at Python and SDN
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Wed, 6 December 2017
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Bourbon, the first deployment of Azure Stack in the UK, Facebook Messenger for kids, Elon Musk's next launch, UX for kids on home devices and an Echo Look review. 00:00 - Speaking in Bourbon? 03:30 - Scouting is shouting 13:15 - Azure Stack takes on the UK 21:00 - Facebook Messenger is the new Joe Camel 27:30 - Safety starts with Communication? We are all Doomed! 35:30 - Roadster Space Oddity 40:30 - Alexa isn't taking any crap from your kids 42:45 - Echo Look - looking pretty basic 50:00 - Wrapping up the year
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Wed, 29 November 2017
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss the newest rishest man on the planet, black Friday trends, Microsoft's new VMWare Migration Strategy and even more industry hacks. 00:00 - Blah-ck Friday 06:09 - Bezos' Billions 09:35 - Microsoft's rogue VMware plot 19:29 - GitHub Uber-N00bs 24:50 - I'm MAH GRRRRRR 28:43 - News is sad mmmkay?
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Wed, 22 November 2017
This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Keith Townsend, @CTOAdvisor. Together they discuss loot crates, Android location tracking, law enforcement DNA warrants, Candid's disruption of the Orthodontics industry and Tesla's new venture. 00:00 - Hello CTOAdvisor 02:55 - Battlefront Gamblin' 06:45 - Google: treating you like a crazy ex 12:00 - All your DNA are belong to us 17:30 - Introverts rejoice! Braces by mail 23:24 - Tesla goes BIG and small 34:40 - Book Reviews with Josh 38:04 - How's business on your own?
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Tue, 14 November 2017
This week, Melissa is joined by new cohost Lauren Malhoit. Together they talk about HPE and Rackspace teaming up for a new offering, Qualcomm and Broadcom's not merger, more sexual harassment allegations in the tech industry and Bill Gates building smart cities. 00:00 - Welcome Lauren! 02:54 - Private not Private Cloud 11:31 - Qualcomm's just not that into you 14:31 - Great at what you do isn't the same as being a good person 18:21 - Move to Bill Gates' Racoon City! 23:53 - What's new at Cisco? 26:28 - Encrypted Traffic Cops 29:13 - Software Defined Access, because Networking was taken 37:50 - Taking over with Robots on the Weekend
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Wed, 1 November 2017
This week Amy, Peter and Melissa are joined by their new co-host. Together, they discuss Twitter, Look, Freedom, Kinect, Blockchain and Robot citizenship. 00:00- Well, there goes that surprise. 07:50- Twitter makes money? 13:44- Free Speech Snake Oil 22:13- Amazon is watching you 27:02- Kinecting in other ways 33:01- Gimme more $$, I got Blockchainzzzz 38:50- Arabian Nights with Robot citizens
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Tue, 24 October 2017
This week Peter, Eddie and Melissa talk about the latest on Docker, Citrix, Botnets, hostile media players and Google. 00:00 - 6 degrees of Eddie Saipetch 06:39 - Ed's news 12:41 - Docker's no surprise-surprise 22:21 - The Citrix sue off and spelling bee 29:45 - The New Botnet on the Block 36:57 - ElMedia player -the KILLer MacOS experience 41:03 - Google Maps fat shames you into walking 46:00 - We still kinda like you, Austin
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Wed, 18 October 2017
This week Amy, Melissa and Peter are joined by special guest James Watters (@wattersjames) SVP of Products @Pivotal. Together they discuss hack backs, blue screens, Krack and all the cloud platform buzzwords. 00:00 - Peter's Bionic Woman 04:16 - James Watters: He Doesn't Own Things 06:22 - Weirdest as a Service 09:50 - Hack! No Hack Backs! 14:34 - Blue screen of Servers vs Services 19:52 - Can't get enough Krack! 23:02 - Walls in France more interesting than your Krack 26:39 - Micro State of the Union 33:09 - Build not Buy... Wait What? 37:02 - Amazon's lack of ambition 40:00 - Public Cloud Netwerkin'
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Wed, 11 October 2017
This week Peter, Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Paul Stamp, Director of Product Management at Onapsis. Together they discuss AIM, Windows 10 Mobile, Google's big announcements, Equifax, Yahoo and ERP. 00:00 - Hi Paul 02:30 - Getting dumped on AIM 05:08 - Windows 10 Mobile going the way of PalmOS 08:57 - Google softly babeling in your ear 13:18 - Pixel 2 - Jacked out 15:30 - Google goes full Circle 16:35 - Equipatsy 23:30 - Yahoo's massive data dump 30:40 - Onapsis Synapsis
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Wed, 4 October 2017
This week Ed and Melissa are joined by Rob Beddard (@rob_beddard), Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft. Together they discuss dead startups, stopping dubious cows, shipping Greg, unlikely unions and moving your traditional IT workloads to the cloud. 01:00 - Eddie nearly dies in the Michigan wilderness 04:13- Hello Rob 07:40- Pouring one out for the suckers 14:34- Autoreply on the phone 16:38- Nabbing terrorist cows 21:00- Greg's going on a mission trip to China 30:34- Marital War games with Alexa 32:04- New Frenemies- Watch your back Apple! 37:32- Moving your applications to the cloud 46:53- The reward for heroism 54:55- Normal?
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Tue, 26 September 2017
This week Peter, Ed and Melissa are joined by Jane Murison (@mewroh) a head of UX design at BBC. Together they dive in to Uber, Google, Equifax, new data visualization techniques and user experience! 00:00 - Eddie's new sucker 01:50 - The curse of SiT 03:24 - Meet Jane 06:38 - Uber's straight out of London 19:25 - Googling phone hardware 27:54 - Equif*xed it up again 31:58 - Fonting brilliant 37:28 - Living, loving, UX 45:00 - Chasing the good UX unicorn 51:20 - Control freakery 55:38 - Normal?
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Thu, 21 September 2017
This week Ed, Peter and Melissa discuss the excitement over the new iPhone, Google dropping Symantec certs and Equifax's latest exits. 0:00 - There's no marching 7:14 - Ed's unplanned homework 16:03 - Apple pushes ahead? 29:16 - Truth or Dare 32:00 - Google doesn't trust you 41:30 - Remarkable Coincidences at Equifax 48:52 - Pokémon or Nokémon?
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Tue, 12 September 2017
Speaking in Tech #277 - The Big Finale on The Register Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Peter Smallbone host the final show on The Register with a full house. Chad Sakac, from Dell EMC, Marc Farley, now back at HPE, Sarah Vela, from Forcepoint and Mark Twomey (aka StorageZilla), from Dell EMC all jump in to discuss disruption, Dell, Oracle, Solaris, Equifax and much, much more. The details… (1:00) Wrapping up on The Register (4:08) Dell and EMC one year wedding anniversary (5:35) Farley back at HPE (6:50) Storage consolidation (8:00) Larry puts a bullet in Solaris (16:05) The Public Cloud war winners and losers (17:55) Disrupting Converged Infrastructure (23:05) Sarah jumps to Forcepoint (25:24) Equifax circles the bowl (30:35) GDPR and more regulation is coming (36:25) Chad’s book recommendation: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind (40:22) Who owns data about you? (44:40) Zilla reviews Stephen King’s “It” (46:35) The podcast moves on With that, we wrap up our tenure on The Register. We want to thank Drew, Chris, Jude and the entire team at The Register for giving us this fantastic opportunity and tolerating the good, the bad and the ugly of the podcast. We’d also like to thank our 40,000 plus monthly listeners who have never been shy with their feedback. The podcast will still be available through your favorite podcast app as Ed, Melissa and Peter will be driving while Greg and Amy will still jump on periodically. Everything can be disrupted - even podcasts.
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-- posted at: 6:45pm EDT
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Tue, 29 August 2017
Speaking in Tech #276 - LIVE from VMworld This week Amy Lewis and Melissa Gurney are live from VMWorld with special guest Vaughn Stewart (@vstewed) VP of Technology at Pure Storage. Together they roll through all the latest buzzwords: bio-computing, cloud, SDDC, blockchain and transformation. This is a live edition from VMworld, background noise and all. (0:00) Welcome Back Vaughn (3:56) My computer smells a bomb and it isn't me (8:19) Down the Nerd Path (12:00) New Uber C-E-Oh... (13:50) Vaughn's mom (15:26) Grandma's grocery Blockchainz (21:18) Google Tiers their cloud- Shots! (25:35) Listicles and SDDC (35:40) Mo Data Mo Mischief (36:13) Where's Vaughn (38:16) Normal?
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-- posted at: 11:24pm EDT
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Wed, 23 August 2017
Speaking in Tech #275 - Splunk! This week Peter Smallbone steers the ship with Amy Lewis and Eddie Saipetch with special guest Hal Rottenberg from Splunk. This week the nerdcast focuses on the Internet of Things, both consumer and business. The details… (0:00) Smoke alarms and this old house (11:42) Wink.i.am (15:47) Nest vs. Ecobee (19:49) Home IoT draw (27:17) Lockstate’s bricked locks (34:38) Splunk and IoT (38:55) Intel axing maker IoT platforms (42:16) Amazon 3rd party Alexa devices (49:30) Celebrity endorsed tech
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-- posted at: 12:53am EDT
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Tue, 15 August 2017
Speaking in Tech #274 - Living on the Edge Amy Lewis, Eddie Saipetch and Dom Delfino, the go to market team lead for Software Defined Data Center at VMware. The trio discuss the edge of cloud, HBO, ransomeware and more WannaCry. The details… (0:00) Dinner with Greg (2:42) Parking the Geek Whisperers (5:29) Pushing cloud out to the fringe (17:13) HBO out of bitcoins? (18:50) Standing up to ransomware (21:57) IT’s bad security posture (30:28) EMEA Hotel Guests WannaCry
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-- posted at: 6:11pm EDT
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Tue, 8 August 2017
Speaking in Tech #273 - Coasters Amy Lewis, Ed Saipetch and Greg Knieriemen are all together this week on the nerdcast to discuss resting and vesting in the valley, hacking bust in Vegas, VMworld and IoT accidents. The details… (0:00) Coastal podcast wars (2:30) IoT accident (4:30) The failure of Google Voice (11:30) Floods and asbestos (13:40) Texas beaches and Outerbanks outage (18:02) Kronos bust (22:15) VMworld and FUTURE:NET (28:10) Qualcomm’s grand plans for China (33:45) Silicon Valley coasters (39:00) Where’s Vaughn?
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Tue, 25 July 2017
Speaking in Tech #271 - pbooks Amy Lewis, Ed Saipetch, Peter Smallbone and Greg Knieriemen are all together this week on the nerdcast to discuss UK internet problems, the year of VDI… again, tech lobbying and drones. The details… 0:00 - Amy’s new gig 5:32 - Mac-n-Cheese in Tokyo 9:41 - Tile injuries 13:31 - Birmingham moves and UK broadband 17:41 - Microsoft goes multi-tenant 22:06 - Tech giants spend big on lobbying 29:11 - Peter schmoozes the Prime Minister 32:22 - New tech terms quiz 41:52 - DNA testing Ed 44:04 - UK drone registration 51:15 - Are you normal? IoT devices for the home 55:10 - Podcast wars 58:22 - VMworld plans
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-- posted at: 10:11pm EDT
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Wed, 19 July 2017
Speaking in Tech #270 - Diapers This week Amy is joined by Ed and Melissa with special guest Michael Coté (@cote), Director of Technical Marketing at Pivotal. Together they discuss IOT's turn to stink, more douchebags, AI takeovers, the rise of the content providers and zombies. 00:00 - Digital Transformation? Use Powerpoint 04:54 - Amy's apocalypse-proof wifi 09:00 - Legacy Software and Flooring 12:00 - 3 year olds and CIOs 14:05 - IOT? Fail 18:13 - Hey everybody, douchebags aren't news. 22:16 - AI takeover? We can't even schedule meetings! 33:08 - Amazon turns Eddie into Tipper Gore 40:41 - Netflix makes it rain $400M 45:36 - Do you not know that's a zombie? 47:19 - Normal to mow?
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-- posted at: 6:20am EDT
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Wed, 12 July 2017
Speaking in Tech #269: Opex! Melissa Gurney is steering the nerdiest this week with co-hosts Ed Saipetch and Peter Smalbone to discuss Microsoft news, iPhone hacks and the shelf life of Kubernetes. The details… (0:00) Sky’s “instant” messenger support (5:55) Ring Floodlight, Android tablets, car wifi (11:33) iPhone exploits too valuable (16:30) Microsoft 365: Opex all the things (25:24) MS Azure Stack finally GA’ing (37:36) Kubernetes days NOT numbered (54:43) Do you bookmark?
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Tue, 4 July 2017
Speaking in Tech #268 - Back to Java Ed, Amy and Greg are back together for this week’s uber-nerd podcast with special guest Richard Seroter, Sr. Director of Product at Pivotal to talk about bad actors in tech, destructive malware and developer productivity with obscure programming languages. The details… (0:00) Vertigo from U2 (5:30) Valley of the Douchebags (8:09) Sacca sorry (13:10) Petya, not Petya (15:42) The death of desktop backups (19:56) Fyreguy gets busted (22:25) Resolution to the middle seat dilemma (27:42) Return of Java (35:13) The intersection of containers and PaaS (38:06) The rise of platforms (41:06) “There’s not a single technology that will make a company relevant” (44:10) Are you normal? Inbox Zero
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-- posted at: 7:44pm EDT
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Tue, 27 June 2017
Speaking in Tech #267 - Bagged This week Petersmallbone steers the ship with Ed Saipetch and special guest Ben Kepes, noted business leader, evangelist, entrepreneur and commentator. This week the trio discuss Ben’s adventures without a passport, OpenStack woes, AWS and Walmart scuffles and Windows source code leaks. Stay tuned pass the wrap for outtakes from this week. The details… (0:00) Ben’s bag ejected from flight (7:23) 96 million robocalls for $129M (12:38) Russia: Symantec, give us your code (18:42) Windows 10 source code leak (25:15) Walmart and AWS spat (36:30) PaaS mafia (40:08) Monolithic PaaS vs Microservices paradigm (42:34) Putting OpenStack out of it's misery (48:23) Airplane mode or no? (53:58) Outtakes: Uber and SolidFire v4 socks
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-- posted at: 10:06pm EDT
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Tue, 20 June 2017
Speaking in Tech #266 - Making Friends This week Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Sarah Vela (@orchid8), Senior Digital Communications Manager at Forcepoint (@forcepointsec). They discuss new jobs, Trumping government in the cloud, buying Whole Foods with Alexa, pizza on Mars, AirBnB's shifting business model and how to use LinkedIn. 0:00 - We're all Marketers Now 5:29 - How to Make Friends at Your New Company 8:56 - IT's a GaaS! 16:41 - Whole Infrastructure at Amazon 27:05 - Elon Musk's Ultimate FU 33:04 - UberBlame Game 39:32 - AirHotelnB's Kick in the Grass 46:49 - Normal? 50:18 - Stalking Sarah 52:47 - Words of Wisdom Make a Comeback
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-- posted at: 10:36pm EDT
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Tue, 13 June 2017
Speaking in Tech #265 - Ribbed This week, Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Terrence Ryan, (@tpryan) Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. They discuss parliamentary plots, Uber's continued descent into creepy, a new Xbox and IBM's giant cloud deal. 0:00- Bronto Ribs 1:09- Terrence Ryan says hello 3:14 - Rule1- Don't hear NDA stuff 5:13- Google/Don't Google it 8:47- Squishy Human Things 12:18- Parliamentary Plot Foiled? 15:18- Crowning Uber King of Creepy 23:20- Who's the new Uber of? 27:06- Chocolate covered Razorblades 28:19- The Brits have all the good news- like XBOX One X 33:53- Pinball Wizardry and Pong 36:09- A Billion Dollars for Hybrid Cloud? It's the Worst!/Best! 40:22- The Oldest 2 Factor Authentication 42:57- Potty Tweeting
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-- posted at: 9:31pm EDT
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Mon, 5 June 2017
Speaking in Tech #264: usermind This week Greg returns to the podcast with Amy and Melissa as well as special guest Michel Feaster, Co-Founder and CEO at usermind. This week the crew talks about CRM evolving, startup life, tech backlash and Apple announcements. The details: (0:00) Dropping F Bombs and Easter Eggs (3:24) Deep diving on usermind: Disrupting CRM (8:10) How mobile (and millennials) changed customer engagement (20:53) Working with big VC’s like Andreessen Horowitz (23:50) Startups as life or death (25:30) Tech backlash from terrorism (32:33) Apple announcements: Hits and misses (41:08) Are you normal? Sanitizing your phone
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-- posted at: 11:28pm EDT
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Tue, 30 May 2017
Speaking in Tech #263 - Bad Power Melissa Gurney leads the gang this week and Greg is still locked in a trunk somewhere. The team jumps into the BA outage, cheating emission tests, cloud portability and cloud native myths. The details… (0:00) Rage Cage: Expenses and Oracle Sh!t Sandwich (2:30) Splash back (5:51) DJ Smallbone (7:29) AirBnB Internationalization (13:15) Manchester Tragedy (16:57) Amazon Grocery Stores (22:19) British Airways Outage: Bad power supplies? (27:25) VW Complex Emissions Cheat (35:13) Tech and Consumption Changes in the Automotive Industry (42:33) Cloud Portability is a bunch of BS (43:13) Sweating the Cloud Native details (53:27) New segment: Are you normal? Twitter poll
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-- posted at: 7:42pm EDT
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Wed, 24 May 2017
Speaking in Tech #162 - Cats in Teslas This week Ed Saipetch, Melissa Gurney and Amy Lewis are joined again by special guest Chris Wysopal, security guru and co-founder and chief technology officer of Veracode. The details… 0:00 - Chris Wysopal our resident security guy, NBD 2:45- Hair dryers for grass 4:45- #catsinteslas 7:50- l0pht article resurrection 14:16- WannaCry? How about now? Now? 22:04- Get a flu shot, wash your hands, patch your sh!t 29:56- Snake oil, security and the real cost 36:27- Mar Lago, wifi and pringles 40:36- Googling IOT & the cloud buzzword bandwagon 47:04- All your devices R belong to what? Eddie's travel ban tears 53:17- Chuck Norris: making corporate security great again
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-- posted at: 12:29am EDT
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Tue, 16 May 2017
Speaking in Tech #261 - Trainers This week, Ed’s driving along with Amy and Peter with special guest Martin Cooper, Sr. Director Worldwide System Engineering and Alliances at NGDC. The details... (00:18) Bomb in Peter’s backyard (02:41) Amy discretely coming into DellEMCWorld (04:17) Peter’s civic duties (04:50) Martin’s long title (06:03) What is Next Gen Datacenter (07:54) Amy wrecking Martin’s trainers (10:02) What the heck is NVMe? (13:43) Transformation of storage companies (15:55) Opensource disruption to commercial storage (19:23) Is America anti-innovation? (26:41) Innovation vs. entrepreneurship (31:27) SpaceX’s first geostationary satellite launch (34:41) Digging into Fyre App and Festival (39:56) World’s largest single memory computer
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-- posted at: 9:42pm EDT
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Tue, 9 May 2017
Speaking in Tech #260 - Live from Dell EMC World This week the whole gang, past and present, are live in Las Vegas podcasting from Dell EMC World. Besides pealing back this week’s announcements, Greg, Ed, Amy, Peter and Melissa are joined by Sarah Vela and Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla) to discuss changes at Dell EMC, Amazon’s new toy and a quick movie review. (0:00) The Prodigal Daughter returns (2:04) Executive back packs (3:00) Dell EMC World, a different feel (4:13) Storagezilla crashes the party (7:52) The big announcement: Amazon Echo Show (10:29) Dell EMC announcements (16:04) What is IT Transformation? (25:11) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 review (27:55) Tech escape and show highlights (37:00) Sarah’s choir
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-- posted at: 8:02pm EDT
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Tue, 2 May 2017
Speaking in Tech #259 - Fyre! An engineer gets fined in Oregon for calling himself an engineer and Amazon wants a peak at what you are wearing. This week Greg, Ed and Melissa mull over absurd state rules and new toys from Amazon as well as horror stories from Fyre Festival in this week’s tech podcast. (0:00) Eddie’s flame throwing birthday (4:01) Nutanix vs VxRail (6:08) Fyre Festival fail (13:21) Engineer fined $500 for calling himself 'engineer' (19:13) Zuck discovers the US midwest (27:15) Rumours: Apple to release a Siri Speaker (32:27) Apple should buy Disney (30:27) Amazon’s Echo Look: Alexa with eyes (46:30) Cinco de Mayo and Dell EMC World
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-- posted at: 6:01pm EDT
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Tue, 25 April 2017
Speaking in Tech #258: Juiced Google just can’t avoid privacy fights whether its fighting legal requests for emails or fending off criticism from the Electronic Freedom Foundation. This week Greg, Ed, Melissa and Peter are joined this week by John Rakowski, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management and analytics at AppDynamics to discuss privacy issues, the new Galaxy S8, Docker branding and valley juicers. The details… (0:00) Application performance and AppDynamics (2:52) The new Samsung Galaxy S8 review: the good, the bad and the return (12:27) Judge tells Google to turn over emails (18:36) EFF slams Google over student privacy (26:32) Infosec company caught using real hospital IT in product demos (29:31) Huh? Docker renames container project as “Moby” (35:35) Valley of the Dulls: $120 million in VC funding for a $400 Juicer (39:30) Juice drones and UberEats
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-- posted at: 5:39pm EDT
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Wed, 19 April 2017
Speaking in Tech #257: Nice Hackers Hacking Microsoft Windows? Been there, done that. Ed, Melissa and Amy are joined by Chris Wysopal, noted hacker and CTO/Co-founder of Veracode on this week’s tech podcast. The crew talks about how hacking has evolved and the importance of secure software. The details… (0:00) Out and about (2:40) Over Slacking (4:30) Wysopal: raising awareness of insecure software (8:55) Hacking Windows (10:19) “Nice hackers” testifying to Congress (16:07) Taking down the internet in 30 minutes (19:02) Building a security company (26:21) Automating code review (30:59) Veracode just acquired by CA (41:16) Making secure software (46:50) NSA hacking tools in the wild (51:29) Burger King hijacks Google Assistant (53:23) Re-gifting Alexa
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-- posted at: 4:01am EDT
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Tue, 11 April 2017
Speaking in Tech #256: United We Fight In this week's episode Amy and Melissa are joined by Rebecca Fitzhugh from Rubrik. They discuss the merits and struggles of the vcdx, United's new fight it out standby policy, dragging switches out of the datacenter, Microsoft buying in to container hype and neural network pick up lines. (1:40) Throw it on the ground (3:24) VCDX- I'd rather be back in the Marine Corps (12:10) United- Fight for your right (17:29) Dragging switches out of the Datacenter (23:18) Containers aren't just a fad. Wait. What? (25:20) Ginger extinction event (31:41) Neural Network pick up lines (39:36) Military invading Tech- come get us!
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-- posted at: 7:15pm EDT
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