Tomer Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dremio.

You can follow Tomer on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.

For this bonus podcast episode, we had the privilege to speak to Dremio CEO Tomer Shiran. We discussed how he got his start in IT, compare the tech scenes between Israel and Silicon Valley, and look at the value of over delivering in your career. They also discuss the importance of coffee in being an entrepreneur. It was a great discussion, enjoy!

Check out Tomer’s book recommendation: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

This is post 33 of 41 in the series “IT Origins”

IT Origins is an interview series looking at how IT professionals got their start working in their field and how it’s changed since then.

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Premise: IT burnout is simply unavoidable. It’s a part of the gig.

The discussion: Is burnout an inevitable part of IT? Is it part of the way IT roles are created? Maybe it says something about the types of people attracted to IT. Or maybe it has something to do with the incentives that causes work to become burnout. Our roundtable discusses why they’ve seen burnout happen and how they cope with IT stress to avoid or mitigate it.

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With Cisco Live US happening this week in Orlando, we decided to share a throwback episode featuring Rob Rodgers and Mils Swart of Skyport Systems. Skyport was recently acquired by Cisco in February. It’ll be interesting to see how Cisco uses this talent to address the security concerns raised in this episode.

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Enjoy this bonus episode of the podcast.

Ted Dunning is the Chief Application Architect at MapR and a board member of the Apache Software Foundation.

This week on IT Origins, we had a conversation with Ted Dunning, Apache Software Foundation board member, and the Chief Application Architect at MapR. We discussed Ted’s introduction to IT, his early involvement with the open source software community, and how AI advances quickly go from aspirational to blasé. We were also fortunate to have Ted’s colleague and co-author Ellen Friedman join in on the second half of the interview. Both were able to give some great career advice about how to stay relevant in rapidly evolving fields.

Books mentioned in the interview by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman:

* Streaming Architecture: New Designs Using Apache Kafka and MapR Streams

* Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation

* Real World Hadoop

Music: “Inspired” by Kevin MacLeod 

The Premise: Enterprise AI is a buzzword slapped onto products and services without any technical merit.

Let’s face it, AI gets thrown around a lot in the enterprise these days. It often gets conflated with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and neural networks. But does the term actually mean anything? Are there solutions out there that actually qualify as AI? The roundtable debates.

For another look at this topic, check out our conversation with Dr. Rachel Traylor on the difference between ML and AI.

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We recorded a great interview with Patric Palm of Favro and decided to put it in the podcast feed as a bonus episode. Enjoy!

Patric Palm is the Co-Founder and CEO of Favro.

This week on IT Origins, we had the privilege speak to Patric Palm, the Co-Founder and CEO of Favro. We discussed how he started the company, his previous startup efforts, the importance of adaptability,  and his background in organization and process.

Book recommendations from the interview:

* The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

* The Age of Agile by Stephen Denning

* Teeming: How Superorganisms Work Together to Build Infinite Wealth on a Finite Planet (and your company can too) by Tamsin Woolley-Barker, PhD

Music: “Inspired” by Kevin MacLeod 

The Premise: The efficiencies of network engineering will decimate engineering jobs.

The panel debates if this is true. They look at if this will happen across the board, if engineers will just become programmers going forward, or if automation will actually benefit network engineers down the road. And if automation does eliminate all these jobs, does it then become a pernicious form of support lock-in?

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On this episode, we’re discussing Network Functions Virtualization, aka NFV. The roundtable discusses what exactly NFV is, how it differs from SDN, and if it’s going to eat all specialized networking hardware. The discussion then turns into how changes in network design principles als make NFV even more viable in the enterprise.

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An episode so nice, we share it twice. Throwing in a bonus episode to the feed. Had a great conversation with Karen Lopez for IT Origins. If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to her appearance on the podcast with What is Big Data?

Karen Lopez is a Senior Project Manager and Data Architect. 

I had the privilege to talk to Data Architect Karen Lopez for this week’s IT Origins interview. We discuss how data hasn’t changed all that much since she started her career, but our ways of relating to it have. We also discussed the best and worst IT trends, got some book recommendations for the world, and walked away with some career advice.

You can follow Karen on Twitter, LinkedIn, and at InfoAdvisors

Music: “Inspired” by Kevin MacLeod