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Episodes
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
This week Gabriel, Rick and Nigel are joined by special guest Keith Townsend to discuss the state of OpenStack, the upcoming Pure Storage IPO, and why HP took 10 years trying to replace a Mainframe and failed....
@00:00 Intros
@08:00 Tech news roundup
@10:00 Apparently OpenStack has major issues with complexity, scalability, and availability. Not much then!
@22:00 Biz news roundup.
@23:10 All eyes are on Pure Storage as they plan to IPO next week.
@30:20 Are the days of architectures like the Symmetrix that will last for 20 years gone?
@37:45 10 years trying to replace a 1960's Mainframe....and... failed.
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
Thursday Oct 01, 2015
This week Gabriel, Rick and Nigel are joined by special gues Keith Townsend to discuss the state of OpenStack, the upcoming Pure Storage IPO, and why HP took 10 years trying to replace a Mainframe and failed....
@00:00 Intros
@08:00 Tech news roundup
@10:00 Apparently OpenStack has major issues with complexity, scalability, and availability. Not much then!
@22:00 Biz news roundup.
@23:10 All eyes are on Pure Storage as they plan to IPO next week.
@30:20 Are the days of architectures like the Symmetrix that will last for 20 years gone?
@37:45 10 years trying to replace a 1960's Mainframe....and... failed.
Friday Sep 25, 2015
Friday Sep 25, 2015
This week Marc and Nigel record the show live from TECH.UNPLUGGED Amsterdam. On the show they're joined by Enrico Sgnoretti, Chris Mellor, Howard Marks, and a secret special guest....
Topics of conversation this week include:
@00:00 The AWS mega outage.... hope nobody needed to watch Netflix over the weekend!![http:]()
@11:00 It's patent war time in the hyperconverged world... with Simplivity spending their cash dragging Springpath through the courts
@17:00 Nexenta whips VSAN and Nutanix on the storage front... but who wouldn't with shiny STEC Zeus RAM caching device on the front!?
@21:30 NVMe fabrics again.... some of our guests seem to think they're viable as the high-speed storage interconnect of the future
Thursday Sep 17, 2015
Thursday Sep 17, 2015
This week it's Marc, Gabriel and Nigel cutting through the important tech news and views of the week.
And can you believe it....... we've been doing the podcast for more than a year! Woot!
@04:30 Marc gives us the low down on the recent Teh Reckoning 2015 tech careers show
@13:00 EMC announces a pre-validated SDS config based on SCaleIO..... Is ScaleIO the bastard brother of VSAN?
@18:35 Give us a shout if you've got any numbers or stories about real world production deployments of NSX and VSAN
@19:50 HP to cull another 30,000 jobs when they finally split the company in two
@24:50 QLogic laying more staff off....
@29:50 Chef lands $40M in 6th round of funding to take them to 136M. DevOps is real!
@35:50 Marc lowers the tone of his neighbourhood with mounds out dirt on the front lawn
Thursday Sep 10, 2015
Thursday Sep 10, 2015
This week Marc and Nigel are joined by special guest Enrico Signoretti - prolific blogger and organizer of the TECH.unplugged events.
In week distinctly lacking in true infrastructure tech news, the guys mix a bit of consumer/office tech into the mix -
- 00:00 - In Tech We Trust is nearly a year old.... and where have the Secret Windows Phone Apps and Captain Dogger tales gone?
- 04:00 - What's the value of small tech events?
- 17:45 - Tech news round-up
- 19:00 - We reckon the iPad Pro's gonna suck And we reckon the Microsoft Surface Pro is a better device. Also..... can tablets and mobile devices ever be true productivity devices - especially if they run an OS like IOS?
- 30:00 - Privacy on Windows 10.... oh and Android and the rest
- 33:00 - IDC says the enterprise HW market is strong. Enrico's experience with customer adoption of public cloud in Italiy.
- 41:00 - Are mobile apps gonna drive the public cloud and will we ever be productive on mobile platforms?
- 46:30 - Is the SSD form factor for flash on its way out? Is it risky to go the proprietary route for flash form factors?
Thursday Sep 03, 2015
Thursday Sep 03, 2015
This week the guys are joined by Greg Ferro of Packet Pushers fame as they roundup the interesting stuff from VMworld, including:
- VSAN 6.1
- VVOLs
- NSX
- Photon and containers
- SDDC
Other topics covered include high capacity flash-based storage systems, talk of the 8TB Seagate monster drive, and the potential need for NVMe based fabrics...
Thursday Aug 20, 2015
Thursday Aug 20, 2015
Schedules get mixed up, guests leave, and agendas are lost (or never actually created). Still.... Marc, Rick and Nigel manage to pull something together that almost resembles a podcast worth listening to.
News
- Seagate to acquire Dot Hill [Link]
- An update on 3d x-point memory [this was straight from Marcs brain and I haven't had time to look for a link]
- Paul Maritz apparently stepping aide as Pivotal CEO [Link]
- Chris Mellor add some magic to Gartners recent Integrated System MQ [Link]
- Hackers *expose* Ashley Maddison customers [Link]
Thursday Aug 13, 2015
Thursday Aug 13, 2015
This week, Trevor Pott from The Register joins Gabriel, Marc, and Nigel to discuss the best enterprise tech news from the week.
Tech News
- What's the point of bloatware? Lenovo caught loading laptops with unremovable crapware [Link]
- North Korea disappeared off the internet for 4 hours.... anybody notice? [It's sooooo important I can't find the link]
- Gartner woos the world with a Magic Quadrant for "Integrated Systems"... we think that's pretty much anything remotely converged [Link]
Biz News
- Google splits amid spat with the EU. Alphabet will be the new holding company [Link] Marc also mentioned this interesting article during the show [Link]
- Congrats to Pure Storage (PSTG) who announced their intent to IPO [Link]
- Symantec dumps Veritas on the Carlyle Group and robs them of $8BN in the process [Link]
Thursday Aug 06, 2015
Thursday Aug 06, 2015
This week the show gets taken over by a bunch of vDBs. Gabriel and Marc host the show, with special guests Jason Langer, Damian Karlson, and Tim Jabaut. And it's a riot.
News
- Tintri loves F'ng - startup raises $125M in series F round of funding, taking their total raised so far to $260M [Link]
- EMC plans to eat VMware.... or is it the other way around? May be they'll eat each other! [Link]
- Pernix Data downsizes while apparently taking the market by storm [Link]
- Something about a burning man and a massive wall around San Francisco Bay ;-) [Link]
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
In this weeks show Gabriel, Rick, and Nigel are joined by special guest Ken Hui from Platform9.
Intros
In the intros we catch up with Ken and what he's doing at Platform9 and pick his brains on the current state of affairs with OpenStack and the recent Kubernetes news.
Tech News
@25:34 Tech news roundup
@26:47 Datrium comes out of stealth, announcing itself as a "new dominant player" in the data storage world [Link]
@29:00 Will Intel & Microns joint effort on 3D XPoint Memory change the storage world forever? [Link]
Biz News
@44:45 Biz news roundup
One last thing.... check out this baby from SavageIO -
