Speaking in Tech

Speaking in Tech #186 - Cloud RAID

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie and Greg talk Netflix, net neutrality, Anonymous, Open Source and more. Our special guest this week is Justin Warren of PivotNine.

The details:

(1:00) Eddie in Indy(2:40) Netflix open sources multi-cloud tools(6:05) T-Mobile teases net neutrality (11:20) Anonymous declares “total war” on ISIS(14:09) Spooks smack encryption to fight terror(16:08) Flashback: Cingular “Stop the cat box” (16:38) Introducing Justin Warren of PivotNine(18:18) Cloud Raid(20:30) Netflix Open Source strategy(22:42) Cloud broker biz and the future cloud derivative market(26:00) Dissecting Dell’s cloud strategy(32:42) vExperts and social engagement

Speaking in Tech #185 - Snapped

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, everyone is back to talk about Cisco, over-priced watches, Snapchat porn and more. Our special guest this week is Mark Twomey (AKA Storagezilla).

Here are the details:

(1:00) Eddie, the Forbidden City, travel snobs and the Open Stack Summit(5:15) Sarah goes over to the dark side(9:45) Cisco is in the bag with Ericsson(11:45) Two laptops, a tablet and a phone(15:15) Cisco acquisitions: Stalking mode(17:45) TAG Heuer’s $1,500 Android watch… for eternity(22:45) Snapchat up to 6 Billion daily views and marketers melt(25:45) Flashback: Cisco Cius(27:40) Back into the fray with Storagezilla and a Bob Ross marathon(29:26) Snapchat is porn(30:45) More Dell EMC reactions(36:10) The IT shift: consolidate or die(41:00) Hewlett Packard Enterprise into the hole(49:05) Larry and the cloud(54:50) Zilla is back to school

Speaking in Tech #184 - Troyer

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Eddie is wandering around Germany while Sarah and Greg talk about Australia, Oracle, Microsoft's limited storage and Twitter hearts. Our special guest this week is John Troyer of Tech Reckoning.

Here are the details:

(1:00) Back from down under(7:12) Post Dell World hangover(10:02) Larry not bidding on EMC(12:20) Microsoft One Drive storage not so unlimited(17:09) Don’t dare call it HP Enterprise!(23:27) Twitter: Stars vs Hearts(27:49) Introducing John Troyer from Tech Reckoning(29:50) The big TR Newsletter(32:50) The end of enterprise public cloud?(40:50) Troyer’s new podcast(45:30) More digging on Dell EMC

Speaking in Tech #183 - Pubcast Down Under

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Greg is live in Gold Coast Australia with an all star panel to talk more about Dell, data retention, cloud washing and Virtuestream. Our special guests are Sam Johnston, CTO, CSC ANZ; Ben Di Qual, Azure Global Blackbelt, Microsoft; Matthew Zwolenski, CTO, EMC Australia & NZ; Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor, The Register; Andrew Birmingham, Publisher, Which50 and Andrew McGee, HDS ANZ CTO.

Here are the details…

(1:00) Pubcast Down Under(1:30) Dude, it’s Dell(4:15) The Walking Dead in tech(5:40) OpenStack trending(8:50) Panel rundown (10:13) Australian data detention laws kick in(20:40) Cloud: Public vs Private vs Hybrid(33:52) Nesting Virtustream (39:45) State of tech in Australia

Speaking in Tech #182 - Live from Dell World 2015!

This week Greg is flying across the globe and Ed goes absent so Sarah is joined by special guest co-hosts Julia Weatherby and Amy Lewis with special guest from Down Under, Justin Warren of PivotNine to discuss IBM, nerd fights, outsourcing and changes at Dell.

Here are the details:

(1:00) Who is Eddie?(3:30) IBM revs on the slide(8:08) Digital divide: Hawking vs Andreessen (15:48) The outsourcing economy(21:42) Flashback: Dude, it’s a Dell(22:24) Justin Warren jumps back in for bbq(25:40) Sharing sausage(26:43) Dell launches Data Center Scalable Solutions(30:09) Cloud winning, utility data, derivatives and disaster(34:40) Dell’s strategy going forward(46:15) Who want to live in the valley?

Speaking in Tech #181 - Boom!

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full house to talk about Dell and EMC but there was also news from AWS re:Invent, Safe Harbor and Apple. Our special guest this week are Stu Miniman, Sr. Analyst at Wikibon and Brian Gracely, Wikibon contributor.

The details:

(1:00) Ed goes Blue while Sarah gets gamed(7:50) Dell to swallow EMC(13:30) Sarah’s does the dance(17:10) Gelsinger’s Mac(18:40) Safe Harbor gets sunk(27:13) Apple gets bit by WARF(32:18) Flashback: WANG from 1983(32:48) Introducing Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely(33:55) The vibe from AWS re:Invent (41:00) Enterprise is really on-boarding to AWS(45:44) The new Dell effect on tech(49:50) Condemnation of the public market(53:40) Dell or EMC brand?(54:20) Other suitors for EMC: Oracle?

Speaking in Tech #180 - Heathers

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out but Amy Lewis sits in with Greg and Ed to discuss AWS, Big Data, VMware and cloud app protection.

Here are the details…

(1:00) Trade: Amy sits in for Sarah(2:31) Ed in transition(7:55) Aussie “Pubcast” details(11:30) AWS wants you to ship your Big Data(16:88) Amazon Big Data… all your data(19:52) Report: Apple dumps VMware for KVM(29:12) Peeple: The Heathers app(38:00) Kaia update(38:51) Cloud promiscuity: Wrap that app rascal

Speaking in Tech #179 - Live from Spiceworld

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Ed and Sarah are in Austin for Spiceworks annual convention, Spiceworld where they discuss China, Citrix, selfie deaths while digging deep into Spiceworks culture with special guest Scott Able, former CEO, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Spiceworks.

Here are the details…

(1:00) Ed and Sarah spice it up(1:55) China brings business and hacking to the US(6:25) Elliott strikes again: Citrix puts up the ‘for sale’ sign(12:07) Aussie uses robot to stand in line for iPhone(15:05) Now you know: Selfie deaths outpace shark attacks(19:05) Flashback: Rock’em Sock’em Robots(20:05) Special guest Scott Able from Spiceworks(24:07) The difference in the Spiceworks community(27:23) Brand and culture(38:58) Spiceworks product development(42:45) Scaling human resources(46:45) Spiceworks IT Concierge Service

Speaking in Tech #178 - Bad Actors

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full cast as we cover new AWS outage, probes cars and bad executives.

The details:

(1:00) Sarah’s big game show moment(3:00) Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 10.1 review(5:21) Windows 10 on a small screen(6:26) Ed hangs out and gets an new iPhone(9:20) Tinder, Netflix and Airbnb crash with AWS(12:58) Report: EMC and VMware get probed(15:15) United CEO gets pinched(16:32) Apple car is a thing(20:48) Software eats Volkswagon(25:10) Bad CEOs(28:14) Spice World, Dell World and “Pubcast” in Australia

Speaking in Tech #177 - Kaia 

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week Sarah is out while Ed and Greg cover Cisco's plans for cloud taxes, Oracle taxes and HP axes. Our special guests this week are Garrett Rysko and Luke Pendergrass to talk about their Kickstarter campaign, Kaia (http://kaia.life).

Here are the details…

(1:00) Keeping up with Eddie

(1:44) Screwing with airline reservations

(6:00) Vanity email addresses

(6:57) Chicago gets sued over cloud tax

(8:57) Oracle squeezes for the cloud

(14:23) HP cutting thousands of positions

(16:30) More crazy rumours

(17:58) FLASHBACK: Digital Equipment Corp., 1984

(19:28) Kickstarting with Kaia

(23:12) Air quality… as a Service

(26:40) Delivering on Kickstarter

(27:54) Air quality API’s

(33:27) The world of anti-counterfeiting 

(38:30) The Kaia Kickstarter party

(40:40) Lessons learned