New York Times CTO / CIO Nick Rockwell (@nicksrockwell) joins me for a conversation discussing Digital, Business and IT transformation, Serverless Life Beyond DevOps and related topics.

Tom Becchetti (@tbecchetti and @mspcmg) joins me for a Friday afternoon conversation recorded live at Meisters Bar and Grill in Scandia Minnesota. Tom has been involved with IT, data center and data infrastructures spanning various servers, operating systems, storage, networks, hardware, software for many decades as a customer and vendor. In addition to performance, capacity planning (hence the Computer Measurement Group aka CMG connection), he is also involved in data protection (archiving, backup, BC/BR/DR) and related themes spanning legacy mainframe to open systems, cloud, virtual along with containers. Our conversation spans backup, big data, big data protection, CMG and more as we wrap up a week on a Friday afternoon to talk some tech. Check out Tom on Twitter @mspcmg and @tbecchetti as well as his new website www.storagegodfather.com. Ok, nuff said, for now...

@Kevinclosson Oracle and Database performance expert as well as create of Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) joins me in a web conversation. Kevin has been involved in database performance (and porting) optimization for decades which means CPU server, memory, I/O and storage issues, resources and tuning. Part of server, storage I/O a tuning is understanding the workloads, also the demands of software such as databases along with how they use CPU and its impact on resources. We also discuss metrics, gaining insight to resources uses, what they mean including how CPU wait may be costing your lost productivity with overhead, as well as benchmarks, simulations, and related themes. Check out Kevins website ( https://kevinclosson.net/ ) to learn more about Oracle, Databases, SLOB, tools and other content. Also check out www.storageio.com/performance for additional performance, benchmark, workload simulation tools including SLOB. Ok, nuff said, for now...

@EMCcode (Part of EMC) developer advocate Kendrick Coleman (@KendrickColeman and www.kendrickcoleman.com) join me in a web conversation. EMCcode is a group within EMC that is involved with various open source activities both internal and external focused spanning Openstack to Pivotal Cloudfoundry along with existing EMC products as well as those of others including public and private cloud and object storage solutions. We get started by talking about springtime in Kentucky where Kendrick lives along with his new look that could allow him to dress up as @Captainobvious if needed, then exploring more about what EMCcode is about. From there we get into a discussion about cloud and object storage, buckets, containers, objects, docker and microservices, node.js as well as the need for a tool such as S3motion. S3motion is a tool available free (its open source) that I have been using myself for moving buckets and objects between different cloud and object storage solutions and services. Kendrick explains the motivation behind S3motion along with trends in and around objects as well as programming among related topic themes and how context matters. We close with Kendrick giving a great perspective of the one constant is change, something we will have to pick up on in a future discussion. Here are some additional links to learn more about Kendrick Coleman, EMCcode, S3motion along with cloud and object storage including Twitter: @emccode @kendrickcoleman Blog and webs: www.kendrickcoleman.com plus www.blog.emccode.com and www.emccode.github.io along with www.blog.emccode.com/2015/02/12/introducing-s3motion/ as well as www.objectstoragecenter.com ok, nuff said, for now...

Cashton (Cash) Coleman of ClearDB joins me. ClearDB is a provider of MySQL database software tools for cloud and physical environments. We talk about ClearDB, what they do and whom they do it with including deployments in cloud's as well as onsite. For example if you are using some of the Microsoft Azure cloud services using MySQL, you may already be using this technology. However, there is more to the story and discussion including how Cash got his name, how to speed up databases for little and big data among other topics.

SNIA Chairman Emeritus Wayne Adams and current Chairman David Dale join me in a conversation from the Data Storage Innovation (DSI) 2014 conference event. DSI is a new event produced by SNIA targeted for IT professionals involved with data storage related topics, themes, technologies and tools spanning hardware, software, cloud, virtual and physical. In this conversation, we talk about the new DSI event, the diversity of new attendees who are attending their first SNIA event, along with other updates. Some of these updates include what is new with the SNIA Cloud Data Management Initiative (CDMI), Non Volatile Memory (think flash and SSD), SMIS, education and more. Listen in to our conversation as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage.

Computex Rethink your Datacenter for 2017 advance planning and strategy event I am joined by Matt Vogt. Matt is a Principal Architect with Computex as well as being a certified VMware specialist and fellow vExpert. We talk about the role of automation for performance and capacity optimization along with how VMware vCop plays an important role. Listen in to learn more about how to gain insight and situational awarness to make informed decisions for your data infrastructure environment with Matt. Ok, nuff said.

SNW Spring 2013 in Orlando, I am joined by my co-host Bruce Rave aka Bruce Ravid of Ravid and Associates as we catch up with long time storage industry educator Dave Demming of Solution Technology. Our conversation covers learning and education, from instructor lead to self paced, now and the future. We also discuss learning, time management, industry trends, music to learn with and more. Ok, nuff said.

SNW Fall 2012 in Santa Clara,

I am joined by my co-host Bruce Rave aka Bruce Ravid of Ravid and Associates as we catch up with long time storage industry veteran Claus Mikkelsen of HDS. Bruce and Claus meet for the first time having been around and probally passed each other in the halls at various events, hence, its a small world, however theres always oppourtunity to meet somebody new. We also chat about SNW past and present, data storage, technologies, networking with people, travel and of course with Claus, touch on wine. Note that Claus and me were apart of a consortium of people that colaborated and created the orignal book The Resilient Enterprise released in spring of 2012 published by Veritas. Ok, nuff said.

NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, I meet up with the Padcaster creator Josh Apter. The Padcaster is a mounting bracket for iPads (among other things) that enables you to safely attach lights, lenses, microphones, tripods among other things to create a production studio.

Check out their website which is thepadcaster.com and see if they will give you the NAB show special price, tell them Greg from StorageIO sent you. Ok, nuff said.