Speaking in Tech

Speaking in Tech #266 - Making Friends

This week Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Sarah Vela (@orchid8), Senior Digital Communications Manager at Forcepoint (@forcepointsec). They discuss new jobs, Trumping government in the cloud, buying Whole Foods with Alexa, pizza on Mars, AirBnB's shifting business model and how to use LinkedIn.

0:00 - We're all Marketers Now 5:29 - How to Make Friends at Your New Company 8:56 - IT's a GaaS! 16:41 - Whole Infrastructure at Amazon 27:05 - Elon Musk's Ultimate FU 33:04 - UberBlame Game 39:32 - AirHotelnB's Kick in the Grass 46:49 - Normal? 50:18 - Stalking Sarah 52:47 - Words of Wisdom Make a Comeback

Speaking in Tech #265 - Ribbed

This week, Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Terrence Ryan, (@tpryan) Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. They discuss parliamentary plots, Uber's continued descent into creepy, a new Xbox and IBM's giant cloud deal.

0:00- Bronto Ribs 1:09- Terrence Ryan says hello 3:14 - Rule1- Don't hear NDA stuff 5:13- Google/Don't Google it 8:47- Squishy Human Things 12:18- Parliamentary Plot Foiled? 15:18- Crowning Uber King of Creepy 23:20- Who's the new Uber of? 27:06- Chocolate covered Razorblades 28:19- The Brits have all the good news- like XBOX One X 33:53- Pinball Wizardry and Pong 36:09- A Billion Dollars for Hybrid Cloud? It's the Worst!/Best! 40:22- The Oldest 2 Factor Authentication 42:57- Potty Tweeting

Speaking in Tech #264: usermind

This week Greg returns to the podcast with Amy and Melissa as well as special guest Michel Feaster, Co-Founder and CEO at usermind. This week the crew talks about CRM evolving, startup life, tech backlash and Apple announcements.

The details:

(0:00) Dropping F Bombs and Easter Eggs (3:24) Deep diving on usermind: Disrupting CRM (8:10) How mobile (and millennials) changed customer engagement (20:53) Working with big VC’s like Andreessen Horowitz (23:50) Startups as life or death (25:30) Tech backlash from terrorism (32:33) Apple announcements: Hits and misses (41:08) Are you normal? Sanitizing your phone

Speaking in Tech #263 - Bad Power

Melissa Gurney leads the gang this week and Greg is still locked in a trunk somewhere. The team jumps into the BA outage, cheating emission tests, cloud portability and cloud native myths.

The details…

(0:00) Rage Cage: Expenses and Oracle Sh!t Sandwich (2:30) Splash back (5:51) DJ Smallbone (7:29) AirBnB Internationalization (13:15) Manchester Tragedy (16:57) Amazon Grocery Stores (22:19) British Airways Outage: Bad power supplies? (27:25) VW Complex Emissions Cheat (35:13) Tech and Consumption Changes in the Automotive Industry (42:33) Cloud Portability is a bunch of BS (43:13) Sweating the Cloud Native details (53:27) New segment: Are you normal? Twitter poll

Speaking in Tech #162 - Cats in Teslas

This week Ed Saipetch, Melissa Gurney and Amy Lewis are joined again by special guest Chris Wysopal, security guru and co-founder and chief technology officer of Veracode.

The details…

0:00 - Chris Wysopal our resident security guy, NBD 2:45- Hair dryers for grass 4:45- #catsinteslas 7:50- l0pht article resurrection 14:16- WannaCry? How about now? Now? 22:04- Get a flu shot, wash your hands, patch your sh!t 29:56- Snake oil, security and the real cost 36:27- Mar Lago, wifi and pringles 40:36- Googling IOT & the cloud buzzword bandwagon 47:04- All your devices R belong to what? Eddie's travel ban tears 53:17- Chuck Norris: making corporate security great again

Speaking in Tech #261 - Trainers

This week, Ed’s driving along with Amy and Peter with special guest Martin Cooper, Sr. Director Worldwide System Engineering and Alliances at NGDC.

The details...

(00:18) Bomb in Peter’s backyard (02:41) Amy discretely coming into DellEMCWorld (04:17) Peter’s civic duties (04:50) Martin’s long title (06:03) What is Next Gen Datacenter (07:54) Amy wrecking Martin’s trainers (10:02) What the heck is NVMe? (13:43) Transformation of storage companies (15:55) Opensource disruption to commercial storage (19:23) Is America anti-innovation? (26:41) Innovation vs. entrepreneurship (31:27) SpaceX’s first geostationary satellite launch (34:41) Digging into Fyre App and Festival (39:56) World’s largest single memory computer

Speaking in Tech #260 - Live from Dell EMC World

This week the whole gang, past and present, are live in Las Vegas podcasting from Dell EMC World. Besides pealing back this week’s announcements, Greg, Ed, Amy, Peter and Melissa are joined by Sarah Vela and Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla) to discuss changes at Dell EMC, Amazon’s new toy and a quick movie review.

(0:00) The Prodigal Daughter returns (2:04) Executive back packs (3:00) Dell EMC World, a different feel (4:13) Storagezilla crashes the party (7:52) The big announcement: Amazon Echo Show (10:29) Dell EMC announcements (16:04) What is IT Transformation? (25:11) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 review (27:55) Tech escape and show highlights (37:00) Sarah’s choir

Speaking in Tech #259 - Fyre!

An engineer gets fined in Oregon for calling himself an engineer and Amazon wants a peak at what you are wearing. This week Greg, Ed and Melissa mull over absurd state rules and new toys from Amazon as well as horror stories from Fyre Festival in this week’s tech podcast.

(0:00) Eddie’s flame throwing birthday (4:01) Nutanix vs VxRail (6:08) Fyre Festival fail (13:21) Engineer fined $500 for calling himself 'engineer' (19:13) Zuck discovers the US midwest (27:15) Rumours: Apple to release a Siri Speaker (32:27) Apple should buy Disney (30:27) Amazon’s Echo Look: Alexa with eyes (46:30) Cinco de Mayo and Dell EMC World

Speaking in Tech #258: Juiced

Google just can’t avoid privacy fights whether its fighting legal requests for emails or fending off criticism from the Electronic Freedom Foundation. This week Greg, Ed, Melissa and Peter are joined this week by John Rakowski, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management and analytics at AppDynamics to discuss privacy issues, the new Galaxy S8, Docker branding and valley juicers.

The details…

(0:00) Application performance and AppDynamics (2:52) The new Samsung Galaxy S8 review: the good, the bad and the return (12:27) Judge tells Google to turn over emails (18:36) EFF slams Google over student privacy (26:32) Infosec company caught using real hospital IT in product demos (29:31) Huh? Docker renames container project as “Moby” (35:35) Valley of the Dulls: $120 million in VC funding for a $400 Juicer (39:30) Juice drones and UberEats

Speaking in Tech #257: Nice Hackers

Hacking Microsoft Windows? Been there, done that. Ed, Melissa and Amy are joined by Chris Wysopal, noted hacker and CTO/Co-founder of Veracode on this week’s tech podcast. The crew talks about how hacking has evolved and the importance of secure software.

The details…

(0:00) Out and about (2:40) Over Slacking (4:30) Wysopal: raising awareness of insecure software (8:55) Hacking Windows (10:19) “Nice hackers” testifying to Congress (16:07) Taking down the internet in 30 minutes (19:02) Building a security company (26:21) Automating code review (30:59) Veracode just acquired by CA (41:16) Making secure software (46:50) NSA hacking tools in the wild (51:29) Burger King hijacks Google Assistant (53:23) Re-gifting Alexa