In this episode of the Big Data Beard Podcast, Cory Minton & Thomas Henson discuss software as infrsturcture with Tom Lyons and SK Vinod from DriveScale. Tom Lyon  is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at DriveScale. Tom had a hand in the creation of iconic products and technologies like UCS, Nexus switching, IP switching in general, NFS and SPARC as employee number #8 Sun. SK Vinod is VP of Product management at DriveScale and has a diverse background in bringing emerging technologies to market around the world. A full list of show notes can be found at https://bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep20/ (https://bigdatabeard.com/?p=1543&preview=true)