TechBasement Audio

In the first episode of season 2, Matt and Dean interview David Siroky from Dell. David leads the HPC and solutions team within Dell ANZ. They discuss some of the exciting technologies that Dell has been working on in the HPC space and some of the things that customers can look forward to with Dell and EMC coming together.

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This is a special audio only episode. We interview David Lloyd,

Principal SE from EMC, while he is at VMWorld in Las Vegas. David covers

the highlights and launches from the VMWorld 2016 keynote and provides

an overview of what's going on around this mega event.

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In this episode, Dean (@dean_j_jackson) and Matt (@mattzwol) talk to Lawrence Crowther (@LozCrowther) who is the Director Of Pivotal Labs in Sydney. We discuss topics ranging from lean startup methodologies to agile development, and look at the ways Pivotal Labs helps customers optimize their innovation and software development processes.

During this episode, Matt and Dean

discuss the Hyperconverged landscape and take a look at VxRail. We tackle some

of the "FUD" that has been thrown around about VxRAIL and take a look

at the simplicity of the platform.

In this epic episode of TechBasement, we talk to EMC's president of converged systems and solutions, Chad Sakac. He discusses EMC's converged and hyperconverged strategy, what happened to VSPEX Blue, the adoption of flash, his new role, native hybrid cloud, open source and the shift to DevOps and infrastructure as code.

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In this episode, Matt Zwolenski @mattzwol and Dean Jackson @dean_j_jackson talk to Matt Dunfee @dunfee16. Matt Dunfee is the global operations leader for EMC Presales. In this insightful episode he talks about life in Presales, some of the ways in which his team is helping the EMC Presales team across the world and what it takes to be both a great SE and a great SE manager at EMC.

On this special episode of TechBasement, Matt Zwolenski @mattzwol interviews Ana Vasquez @AnaVasquezMaya. Travelling all the way to Sydney from Spain, Ana is the global head of HR for EMC Presales. During this episode we discuss the EMC Presales team, with a focus on culture, careers, development and how the team has fun. The episode provides a great insight into what it’s like working in the Presales team.

During this episode we interview Simon Elisha, CTO of Pivotal Australia. We discuss the changing landscape of application development, how microservices and cloud native apps are gaining adoption and some of the new initiatives Pivotal has in Australia. The podcast includes a demo of Cloud Foundry.

In this episode we interview Jonas Rosland from EMC {Code} and Matt Cowger to look at the world of DevOps. We discuss the link between DevOps, Agile Development and various 3rd platform technologies and strategies that enable agility for organizations. In this episode we join forces with Danny Elmarji and Ryan Tassotti from The Fourth Wave (https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-fourth-wave/id1041875929)

Audio version of the podcast.

In this episode, Matt & Dean interview Cory Minton, EMC's global expert on Data Fabrics and Big Data architecture. We discuss the lambda architecture, capturing and actioning data in real time versus analyzing large amounts of historical data sets and we have the debate re traditional Hadoop infrastructure strategies versus the data lake architecture.