In Tech We Trust Podcast

074: Live from Cisco Live

This week we're recording live from Cisco Live. With Rick, Lauren and Gabriel.

073: VSAN Kubernetes and Gaming

@Start: Intros and travel stories

@11:10 News roundup 

@11:38 More downsizing and more on the current startup funding issues

@18:00 Is VSAN 6.2 the real deal now

@27:20 Is Kubernetes the future of container orchestration

@31:00 Some insight into AWS vs Azure adoption

@39:30 AWS sets isights on the game development industry  

@45:40 Hot or Not: e-gaming 

  

   

  

072: EVO FAIL

A good mix of topics this week as Marc leads the show with Lauren, Rick and Gabe.

071: Is Walmart Labs the new Bell Labs

Marc is at the helm on this weeks episode, with Rick and Lauren keeping him real.

On the agenda:

@ Intros and medical technology

@04:00 VMware's woes - cutting jobs and products

@11:40 Rick will take $100 bucks on the Dell + EMC deal falling through 

@14:00 VSAN and NSX are still positive for VMware

@16:55 RIP dotCloud... but thanks for giving us Docker 

@19:15 It's not looking good for Coho Data

@23:05 Tech Preview of Azure Stack hits the streets. Is this bad news for OpenStack

@28:20 Microsoft raises the floor for Enterprise Agreements (EAs)

@35:00 Is Walmat Labs the new Bell Labs

@41:10 Book review: The Idea Factory:Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation. Thanks and props to Claude Shannon

070: The Sky is Falling

This week it's all doom and gloom over the tech industry and the economy....

@00:00 Intros

@01:30 News roundup

@06:15 Hortonworks goes back for more money only a year after IPO....is it just them, or is the big data space struggling as a whole?

@16:00 Puppet Labs takes on a bank loan rather than a 7th round of funding. And is only 15% of stuff being automated?

@21:40 Hats off to Atlassian after their great IPO and superbly run business

@23:50 USA Today suggests VMware tracking stock is worthless, and could Dell be in trouble if the market tanks?

@30:34 Surely the la suit against Nimble is bogus

@37:45 Hitachi Flash Storage A series - a purpose-built AFA from Hitachi

@41:25 Dell Network OS 10

@44:00 Hot or not: DIY blog sites and rebranding companies

069: Machine Forgetting

This weeks sees a full house plus a special guest.... Melissa Gurney.

On the agenda this week: 

@00:00 Intros

@04:00 News roundup

@05:25 The recent 8GB Windows 10 upgrade

@12:45 Is Microsoft the king of the hybrid cloud

@25:35 What does a female tech ninja look like

@31:10 Diablo gets another round of funding with a new CEO thrown in for free

@35:45 Inside view of EMC during the Elliott pressure

@38:50 Will Citrix still be around in a year from now

@44:50 Is IBM in trouble

@50:00 Will IBM ever be great again

@51:00 Hot or not

@54:30 Movie recommendations

Link to Marvel site for creating your own character 

068: Somebody has a new job!

Just Gabriel and Marc this week...

@00:00 Cool music and intros

@09:00 Marcs big announcement - devops, jobs for the future....

@27:50 A few book recommendations

@32:20 Congrats to Chad on his new role.... will he end up running Dell?

@35:00 EMC revenue off - HP etc up everyone else down - market share up - revenue down - inverse for hp.

@37:00 - AWS, Azure and Google race to the bottom of cloud storage pricing plus predictions for the coming year

@41:40 - Google paying over the odds for Bebop - nothing to do with her being on the board 

Link to Robins article cited in the show

067: Double-nutted

This week the conversation is all about NetApp acquiring SolidFire, Nutanix intending to IPO, and Star Wars The Force Awakens.

@00:00 Intros

@04:20 Is NetApp's acquisition of SolidFire a good thing and can it change their fortunes. Plus a perspective from within SolidFire from Gabriel

@26:40 Why is Nutanix intending to IPO without any forecast of being profitable? Will this IPO impact the future of tech startups?

@48:40 Hot or Not: Star Wars The Force Awakens

066: Stickers and Tattoos

Bare metal in the cloud, NetApp bidding for SolidFire and more....

@02:00 We revisit the question over whether or not bare metal in the public cloud is hot or not

@08:00 News Roundup

@10:10 Rumour has it that NetApp are attempting to acquire all-flash startup SoldFire (no comment from Gabriel)

@14:50 According to some AWS has the potential to go from an $8BN business to $38BN in just 4-5 years

@18:30 VMware pull out of VirtuStream joint venture with EMC

@24:20 HP sinks $10M into Scality.... and what's the impact

065: Cloud Fried Chicken

This week sees the full stack of hosts on the show, talking about everything from clouds and bare metal... through to Obama Fried Chicken.

@06:50 Tech News Roundup

@09:15 Will Google Cloud Platform become the default big data and data analytics platform. Also.... is IBM ahead of Google as the number 3 player in the public cloud space

@18:30 Is now the time for cloud apps to be spread across multiple cloud platforms for better availability

@27:50 EMC Isilon is heading towards a software defined future

@32:40 Cisco ACI beefs up its bare metal game

@35:45 Hot or not

@42:20 Biz News Roundup 

@43:55 Hyperconverged stuff - Are Springpath about to be acquired, and is the Lenovo+Nutanix deal a big deal

Finally....here's the link to the Quartz article Marc mentioned in the show.