Avere provides high performance file system solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructures, and is partner for Google Cloud Platform.

To tell you all about it Francesc and Mark are joined by Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Products at Avere, and Dave Elliott, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform.

About Scott Jeschonek

Scott Jeschonek is Director of Cloud Products at Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud.

Scott has spent his past 20 years synthesizing his enterprise, telecommunications and vendor experience together to provide a unique perspective to the implications of the cloud phenomenon.

About Dave Elliott

Dave Elliott is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. In this role he engages communities to inspire them to try new products and technologies, embrace new ideas, and he is the voice of those communities to product and engineering teams.

Prior to Google, Elliott was a Chief Cloud Evangelist at Symantec where he advocated for new architectures in data and storage. Mr. Elliott was an early advocate of cloud computing while at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s and has spent his career helping companies understand and embrace emerging technologies.

Prior to Symantec, Elliott served as GM Americas at Arkeia Software, an innovator in data protection for virtual and cloud environments. Earlier, Mr. Elliott was responsible for Strategic Development for Iomega Corporation’s PSS Business Unit, and held positions at Blue Martini Software and with management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. Mr. Elliott holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and an BA in Quantitative Economics & Decision Sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

Cool things of the week

• GCP arrives in South America with launch of São Paulo region! announcement
• Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA announcement
• Read between the lines with Cloud Natural Language’s new recognition features blog
• Classifying text content with the Natural Language API big data blog
• Google Cloud Dataprep is now a public beta big data blog

Interview

• Avere Systems
• Subnetworks docs
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Overview docs
• #40 Rodeo FX with Alan Fregtman
• GlusterFS gluster.org

averesystems.com

Question of the week

Container Builder seems pretty cool … but how do I get started?

• Google Cloud Container Builder Documentation
• #79 Container Builder with Christopher Sanson and David Bendory
• Google Container Builder youtube series by Carter Morgan
  • Google Container Builder, Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update)
  • Google Container Builder, Part 2: Multi-Step Builds (Cloud Rolling Update)

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will is presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Chicago today and just released a new #justforfunc episode on justforfunc #20: code reviewing ursho (part 1). In October, he’ll be presenting at Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes

Mark is attending Strangeloop. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.