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Episodes
Friday Jul 24, 2015
Friday Jul 24, 2015
This week sees Marc, Gabriel, and Nigel joined by Lauren Malhoit of Cisco ACI legend!
Tech News
@08:30 Tech News Roundup
@18:00 State of the SDN world
Biz News
@40:00 Biz News Roundup
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
In this weeks episode Gabriel, Marc, Rick, and Nigel are joined by former VMware Uber-Evangelista John Troyer! In the intros they talk to John about what he's currently doing on the work front, including his upcoming event The Reckoning 2015...
Tech News
@07:26 Google finally adds Windows to the list of supported operating systems running on Google Cloud Platform!
@24:00 Rackspace gets into bed with Microsoft as it moves more and more into the managed cloud space
Biz News
Rumours abound that some Chinese company wants to make a cheeky bid US-based Micron
@39:50 XIO goes on an executive hiring spree
@30:00 Scale Computing nets $18M in its 7th round of funding, taking its total funding over $60M
Delphix (data archiving and analytics as a service) lands $75M in its 4th round of funding taking its total funding to $120M
And if you wanna see the Microsoft videos making fun of Google... check these out
Thursday Jul 09, 2015
Thursday Jul 09, 2015
On this weeks show Gabriel and Nigel are joined by Tyler Britten from Blue Box (an IBM company).
Topics on this weeks show include:
Tech News
- United Airlines and the NYSE both suffer major downtime
- Microsoft are rumoured to be increasing Azure prices
- Cisco make investments in French whitebox switch startup 6wind
Biz News
- EMC to sell enterprise Dropbox alternative Syncplicity
- X-IO announce yet another CEO
- Facebook announces another wind powered data center
Guest Interview
- The guys interview Tyler Britten about his time at EMC and his recent move to Blue Box. Lots of talking about OpenStack...
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
This week the team are joined by Chris Wahl, co-host of the Datanauts podcast and on his way to Rubrik.
The show has a distinctly sci-fi feel to it with all things from telepathy to teleportation on the agenda...
Intros
- @00:00 Intros and beer stories
- @12:40 Good sci-fi books
Guest Interview - Chris Wahl
- @18:24 Chris talks about his new podcast Datanauts, and why he's making the jump to Rubrik.
- @29:00 We're all planning on founding startups
Tech News @40:16
- Gartners new Cloud Storage Magic Quadrant [Link]
- Radian Memory Systems planning to come out of stealth at Flash Memory Summit [Link]
Biz News @54:51
- VMware agrees to pay ~$75M over allegations it ripped off the US government [Link]
One more thing..... @58:41
- In the not so distant future we'll be updating our Facebook status via telepathy [Link]
Thursday Jun 25, 2015
Thursday Jun 25, 2015
Intros
- Marc has a new job - Evangelista at Tegile! The #Tegilean is born...
- Rick's manic travel schedule is calming down for the summer
- Nigel released a new course on programming in Go and finished reading "Stranger in a Strange Land". He now Groks...
- Tech.UNPLUGGED is coming to Amsterdam on September 24th
Tech News
- The guys discuss the current state of the Docker juggernaut following a wild Dockercon in SF. Open Container Platform and the commoditization of the container runtime
- Google Cloud Platform suffers three *brown outs* in one day
- NetApp unleashes no less than three platforms into the all-flash royal rumble
Biz News
- Red Hat announces solid profits off the back of subscription fees and government deals. Still not making money on OpenStack.... yet.
- Komprise announces a $6M Series A round and has its eyes on taming the unstructured data beast
- Pure Storage announces Jonathan Martin (formerly of EMC) as new CMO
Thursday Jun 18, 2015
Thursday Jun 18, 2015
This week the guys are joined by special guest Nick Howell formerly of the once-great NetApp... ;-)
From last weeks show
This weeks starts off with a continuation of last weeks discussion about where Nutanix is going, as well as a correction about Hedvig's Series A funcding round.
Tech News
A slow week for tech news this week
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Biz News
Thursday Jun 11, 2015
Thursday Jun 11, 2015
In our first week without Hans.... Rick, Marc, and Nigel are joined by Josh De Jong (@Eurobrew) to discuss everything of interest from the previous week in infrastructure tech.
Following on from a previous show, the guys talk about the changes at the top of Cisco, and what this might potentially mean for the future. The term "the new Cisco" gets thrown around.
Tech News
Tech news for the week is dominated by all of the buzz coming out of Nutanix .NEXT in Miami -
Biz News
In business news from the week -
- Another set of sorry looking results from struggling Violin [Link]
- Software defined scale-out storage startup Hedvig nets another 18M in a series-B round of funding only weeks after announcing series-A [Link]
- Chinese cloud giant Aliyun looks to spread its business far and wide with new partnerships to help them in the west. Would you trust your data to a Chinese cloud provider? If not, why not? [Link]
- And the rumour that refuses to die.... more talk of HP and EMC hooking up and having ugly children [Link]
Image from Hoeg - http://hoeg.deviantart.com/art/hate-you-all-7532241
Friday Jun 05, 2015
Friday Jun 05, 2015
Big news on this weeks show..... Hans leaves the building!
It's true.... Hans has decided to take up a new challenge with Belgian startup D Square and won't have time to keep track of the markets we cover on the weekly show. It's a sad day, but we thank Hans for his massive contributions and dedication to the podcast, and wish him the very best for the future. We're not convinced the IT infrastructure industry has heard the last from him!
Tech News
- Pure storage has announcements
- HP gets a shiny new logo
- HP announces new models in its 3PAR product line
Biz News
- Avago acquires puts its hand in it's pocket and acquires Broadcom for a paltry $37BN ($17BN in cash!!!!!)
- IBM acquires OpenStack as-a-service company Blue Box Inc.
- Cisco pick up Piston Cloud to bolster it OpenStack play
- Cisco re-shuffles the deck with several senior execs leaving the company
- NetApp CEO (former) Tom Georgens leaves the building
And finally......
Apparently Rickatron guest blogs for addictedtocostco.com 'nuf said!
Thursday May 28, 2015
Thursday May 28, 2015
Last Week's Show
- Gabriel's Top3 takeaways from OpenStack summit
- Science Project status is coming to a close
- Developers becoming new rockstars
- OpenStack is here to stay but needs to be tightened up
This Week's Tech News
- Intel's container isolation
- Parallels splits off Virtuozzo & Plesk into Odin
This Weeks' Bizz News
- EMC Acquires VirtuStream for $1.2bln
- HP acquires ContexTream for NFV , while cutting yet again in Enterprise Services Business
- Rubrik announces $41mln B-round (A-round $10mln)
- Tegile announces $70mnl D-round (total $117mln)
- Microsoft offers $50bln for SalesForce, Benioff asking 70
Thursday May 21, 2015
Thursday May 21, 2015
Yes, this piece of Consumer Tech made it in the show
This Week's Tech News
- SimpliVity announces KVM + OpenStack support
- Zerto loses patent infringement lawsuit with EMC +$500k fine.
- EMC adds rebates for partners that kick out all their competitors
This Week's Biz News
- Cisco buying into the HyperConverged space rumours
- NetApp drops the hammer on their staff
- Drobo spun off from Connected Data
- Coho anounces $30mln C-round
- Exablox adds Toshiba as a C-Round investor. +$7mln for a total of $23mln in this round and an all time total of $45.5mln.