On this week's podcast Keith and Mark are joined by Val Bercovici. Val is the former CTO of NetApp Solidfire. Val has been a thought leader in IT infrastructure for a very long time. Val left his role of CTO for AI startup Peritus.AI. We discuss the major factors in IT Infrastructure that prompted Val to make such a bold career move. We also discuss the impact of AI on IT infrastructure teams and the role of IT vendors moving forward.

The theme at Dell EMC World 2017 was all about the realizing business value from the digital transformation. At the conference, Mark and I had a chance to sit down the flagship of Dell Technologies transformation story – Pivotal. Joining the conversation was not only Pivotal but a Pivotal Customer, Express Scripts.

Dell Communities announced major changes during DellEMC World 2017. How do these changes impact VMUG?

Review of Dockercon 2017

Cloud architect Jon Hildebrand joins to discuss DevOp from the group up.

Cloud hosted storage provider ClearSky Data provides an update on their offerings and lessons learnt

As business and IT processes converge what's the resulting impact on the CTO?

Rawlinson Rivera talks leaving the VMWare VSAN team for secondary storage startup Cohesity

Wikibon's Stu Miniman makes a return appearance to discuss AWS Re:invent

Tyler Britten and we discuss the fallacy of the Hybrid Cloud concept. We discuss the idea of hybrid cloud and how it differs from hybrid-infrastructure. What exactly should infrastructure team focus their efforts if hybrid cloud isn't a thing?