Speaking in Tech #206 - Live from Kennedy Space Center

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg and Sarah are in Cape Canaveral, Florida at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of SpaceX CRS-8 Dragon. One of the primary goals of the mission is to test the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), an experimental program to test and validate expandable habitat technology. Our very special guests this week are Jason Crusan, Director, Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA and Robert Bigelow, Founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace.

(1:00) Interview with special guests Jason Crusan of NASA and Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace

(13:20) Review of Kennedy Space Center visit and thoughts before launch

(19:10) LIVE: Launch of SpaceX CRS-8 Dragon with BEAM module

(20:32) Launch recap and prep for the booster rocket landing on drone boat

(23:38) LIVE: First ever successful SpaceX booster rocket landing on a drone ship in ocean

(25:13) Wrap up from Kennedy Space Center

Speaking in Tech #205 - Server Side

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, the whole gang is together to talk about Tesla, Dell and VCE news, Revolv and Infinio. Our special guest this week is Sheryl Koenigsberg (aka @StorageDiva), Senior Director of Marketing at Infinio Systems.

Here are the details:

(1:00) Preparing for launch: Ed’s head on a stick(3:55) Tesla’s perpetual kickstarter car company(12:49) Dell re-sells VCE(20:27) Google/Alphabet/Nest bricks Revolv (26:00) Google culture of failing fast(28:50) IoT ecosystems, everyone is going to have them(30:01) iPhone SE proof of Apple’s lack of innovation?(30:33) FLASHBACK: The Rascal Electric Scooter (1995)(32:00) Introducing Sheryl Koenigsberg, Senior Director of Marketing at Infinio Systems(34:03) Jumping from Dell to a startup(37:10) Growth of Infinio and server-side storage(46:52) OpenStack on the whiteboard(47:32) Infinio v3 details(50:25) TheTableSpace.com(53:56) Data driven: Scope of marketing

Speaking in Tech #204 - Bush League!

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, it's Ed, Greg and Sarah and no guests... just us discussing listener complaints, Oracle suing Google (again) and Australian bike bells.

Here are the details:

(1:00) Bush League: Mopping up after last week(7:39) Batman v Superman: The Dawn of Horrible(10:47) Holiday travel woes pays off(14:00) Ubering the Republican Convention(17:00) Vaughn’s bike (18:10) Australian bike bells(23:17) What happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe?(27:16) Listener complaints(29:31) FLASHBACK: Lite Brite from 1970’s(32:16) FBI cracks the iPhone(37:58) Java Herpes(40:15) Dell dumps services(46:03) Crowd sourcing your job

Speaking in Tech #203 - More Pure Vaughn

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg is out while Sarah and Eddie drive the car talking Uber, Apple and data center pay. Our special guest is Vaughn Stewart of Pure Storage.

The details:

(1:00) Ed does Southern Europe(4:10) Coming up: NASA SpaceX launch(7:22) Uber snags Carnegie Mellon(9:17) Apple goes small(14:06) FBI now thinks it can break the iPhone(17:10) Survey: Data Center women get paid MORE(21:53) FLASHBACK: Apple Iic commercial from 1984(22:23) Pure Vaughn comes back!(24:26) Hyperconverged: Up, down and sideways(28:35) Pure NAS(33:36) Enabling the future of the enterprise(38:50) HCI market adoption(41:46) No Vaughn’s Army(45:25) OpenStack Summit around the corner(47:20) Social Vaughn

Speaking in Tech #202 - Ditching Cloud

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is sipping wine on the French Riviera while Greg and Sarah discuss SXSW, Dropbox and Data Gravity. Our special guest is Gabe Chapman from NetApp.

The details:

(1:00) POTUS crashes SXSW(6;23) Airbnb goes big for Republican Convention(12:11) Dropbox ditches AWS(19:46) Data Gravity meets reality(24;10) Chinese hackers demand ransom(27:57) FLASHBACK: 1997 Dell PC commercial(28:57) Introducing Gabe Chapman from NetApp(37:23) Pure gets object, in a pretty box(42:45) Nutanix jumps into file services(49:12) Hyper Converged space gets tighter

Speaking in Tech #201 - Streaming on the Edge

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, we discuss Amazon Echo, AT&T streaming and SQL Server on Linux. Our special guest is Dan Sahar, co-founder of video delivery pioneer Qwilt.

The details:

(1:00) Bouncing back with Ed(2:10) Big layoffs at IBM(3:10) Dating Alexa(8:15) Datamation’s cloud panel on Friday(10:11) AT&T to stream DirecTV(13:49) Big moves for Survey Monkey(15:02) Hell freezes over for Microsoft(19:24) FLASHBACK: Atari 2600, 1982 UK commercial(19:52) Introducing Dan Sahar, Co-founder of Qwilt(23:30) Living on the edge(27:18) Delivering a better video experience(28:35) Startup scrutiny(33:48) The real life Pied Piper(34:14) Market adoption focus(38:48) The real cord cutters(45:20) The next generation of video consumption

Speaking in Tech #200 - The Big 4 Year Anniversary Show

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week we are joined by a few our our favorite guests to celebrate four years and 200 episodes as we discuss the startup bubble, Cisco gets hyper and EMC’s Quantum leap. Our special guests this week are Chad Sakac, President of VCE, Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla) of EMC and Amy Lewis of NetApp and Geek Whisperers podcast.

The details...

(1:00) Big 200th episode(4:33) VC’s are wising up to the bubble(10:32) How to value a startup(13:40) Startup death spiral: Fighting gravity(19:22) Signs that your startup is about to die(23:24) Sources: Cisco and Springpath jump into hyper-converged (since confirmed)(29:40) Is Cisco serious about storage?(34:32) EMC’s “Quantum Leap”(41:44) Chad’s big leap to VCE(50:46) Episode 200: Self indulgent reflections

Speaking in Tech #199 - Simon Anderson

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah is missing so Amy Lewis jumps in to take her seat while we talk about private clouds, Ravello and the tech IPO freeze. Our special guest is serial entrepreneur Simon Anderson, Co-Founder & Chairman at Akanda.

The details...

(1:00) NetApp adjusts to Amy(3:37) True Blue in Vegas for IBM Interconnect(6:16) vCloudAir and IBM confusion(10:00) Haters gonna hate Private Cloud(21:17) Cloud domains unleashed(22:44) Oracle nabs Ravello (25:05) Tech IPO freeze(31:10) Bad time to be looking for a tech job(32:00) Yapping at Yelp(38:24) Flashback: Scotch VCR tape head cleaner(38:44) Special guest Simon Anderson, Co-Founder & Chairman at Akanda(40:30) The story behind Ceph(45:16) Sharing the wealth with Inktank sale(46:50) Swimming the Seine(49:08) Open Source culture(51:55) Akanda: open source network orchestration software(58:26) Getting on the board of the Museum of Science Fiction

Speaking in Tech #198 - Fred & Wade

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, it's just Greg and Ed to dish about iPhone bricks, Deadpool and ransomeware. Our special guests this week are Fred Next and Wade O'Harrow from storage startup Reduxio.

(1:00) Brick your iPhone(2:25) Kids in Deadpool(5:30) “State of The Cloud” report(9:12) India rejects Internet.org(11:44) Hospital held hostage by ransomware(13:56) Flashback: IBM and the internet (1997)(14:22) Special guests Fred Nix and Wade O’Harrow from Reduxio(16:10) Goodbye to Chad(19:03) Digging into Reduxio(28:00) Being a storage startup in 2016(34:35) Time Bandits(36:38) Jaegers and a Springsteen concert

Speaking in Tech #197 - Jungle Dave

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week the team is all together to talk about the death of Twitter, the death of private clouds and the art of tech acquisitions. Our special guest this week is Dave Wright, founder and CEO of SolidFire and now VP and GM at NetApp.

The details...

(1:00) All the tech, in Austin(2:49) EnterpriseTe.ch progress(4:50) RIP Twitter(7:45) Facebook Friend Day(12:20) Private Cloud is dead (again)(18:35) “True Public Cloud”(19:51) ONUG calls for better cloud interoperability (25:41) Flashback: Wang Net, 1982(26:11) Special guest Dave Wright VP and GM at NetApp, founder of SolidFire(31:37) The cultural fit between NetApp and SolidFire(33:34) Does anybody actually graduate from Stanford?(38:00) The future for ONTAP(39:48) The beginning of the end of all flash arrays(45:10) Public vs Private Cloud