The Edgevana Podcast

CTO, entrepreneur and inventor, Rick Braddy joins Mark to discuss the shift in data towards the edge, storage management, and how to plan for the future.

About Rick Braddy: Entrepreneur and inventor, with patents on web load-balancing, fault-tolerant systems & Internet management tools, with other patents pending. Served as CTO and VP Product Marketing and Product Management of CITRIX Systems; responsible for technology and business strategy, product management and architecture for XenDesktop desktop virtualization and XenApp application delivery software.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

About Lauren Cooney: Lauren Cooney has twenty years of experience creating, building and leading high-growth teams, businesses, platforms and developer communities for multiple Fortune 500 companies including BEA Systems (now Oracle), IBM, Microsoft, Juniper, and Cisco Systems, where she has led product management, Open Source, product marketing, developer strategy and new business model creation. Her work has netted companies over $1B in revenue, hundreds of new clients and over a million developers. The Huffington Post, CIO Magazine, Business Insider and Light Reading have all recognized Cooney as a top leader in software, open source, developer relations, women in technology and cloud computing industries. In 2019 Cooney was also appointed to the prestigious Forbes Coaches Council.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

Co-Founder of The CTO Advisor joins Mark to discuss the evolution of today's digital infrastructure and architecture.

About Keith Townsend: Keith Townsend is a technology management consultant with more than 20 years of related experience in designing, implementing, and managing data center technologies. His areas of expertise include virtualization, networking, and storage solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. He holds a BA in computing and an MS in information technology from DePaul University. About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

What does it take to be "successful?" Special guest, Brianna McCullough and Mark Thiele talk career goals, the road to engineering, and the pursuit of education.

About Brianna McCullough: Brianna McCullough is an authoritative force conquering dynamic duality as an Infrastructure Program Manager at Google and founder of the lifestyle empowerment brand, Bri Limitless. In her daily mission to diversify the engineering industry, the innovation leader and Detroit, Michigan native, resiliently shares her voice and vision for inclusivity across STEM fields, simultaneously serving youth and fellow millennials with mentorship and enthusiastic encouragement to live life without limits. Brianna’s dedicated discipline and knowledge has led her to captivate audiences at Google Developers Fest, Ernst and Young, Afrotech and so many more. Her engineering milestones earned her the Minnesota Pioneer Women in Tech award in 2017. She is a graduate of Michigan State University.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

Data center expert and Global Head, Rick Collins joins Mark to talk about the changes in today's data center infrastructure, global footprint, and future.

About Rick Collins: Rick Collins is Global Head of Data Center Services for AIG and manages over 200 data center sites and locations globally. Rick carries decades of experience in IT transformation and data center infrastructure. He has experience in managing data center people, sites, data center facilities and technology across several industries. Rick has been successful in developing strategic and operational plans, establishing and operating data centers, directing budgeting, mergers and acquisitions. Rick is an expert in designing application migration plans, BCPs, project management, transition and relocation management, data center operations, planning, etc. He has a proven ability to solve problems and make decisive cost effective decisions that impact the bottom line. Experience being and working with C-level executives across all markets to negotiate contracts, close deals and win the confidence and support at all levels of the organization.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

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About Alistair Croll: Alistair Croll is an entrepreneur, author, and startup accelerator. He is the is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent, an executive at CloudOps, an advisor to various technology venture firms, the founder of the Bitnorth conference, and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startupaccelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups. Our website: https://www.edgevana.com

Mark Thiele and special guest, Dion Hinchcliffe take us on a journey through all things digital transformation, automation, and edge.

About Dion Hinchcliffe: Dion Hinchcliffe is an expert in information technology, business strategy, and next-generation enterprises. He is currently VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research as well as Chief Strategy Officer at 7Summits. A veteran of enterprise IT, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to bridge the widening gap between business and technology. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, advises, and writes prolifically on social business, IT, and enterprise architecture. Dion still works in the trenches with clients in the Fortune 1000, government, and Internet startup community. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker and is co-author of several books on 2.0 subjects including Web 2.0 Architectures from O'Reilly as well as the best-selling Social Business By Design from John Wiley & Sons (May, 2012.)

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups. Our website: https://www.edgevana.com

Vapor IO's CMO, Matt Trifiro joins as a guest on Episode 7 of the Edgevana Podcast to talk about edge, its importance, how it came to be, and more.    About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.   Our website: https://www.edgevana.com              

Digital Infrastructure Entrepreneur and Investor, Tony Wanger talks about what it takes to be successful in the data center game.

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About The Edgevana Podcast: The Edgevana Podcast will illuminate subjects in the IT infrastructure space. Never in IT history has infrastructure been more abstracted yet more critical to so much of what a business does. Whether edge computing, digital transformation or increased agility and security are the goals having choice is essential to enterprise success. Access to modern infrastructure (Data centers, global networks, IT gear, cloud, edge computing, etc) are more and more these days, exemplified by the notion of "Best Fit". There is no single right answer and we hope to shine light on the alternatives.

About Anthony Wanger: Anthony "Tony" Wanger is an entrepreneur and investor based in Phoenix, AZ. Tony was the founder and President of IO Data Centers (acquired by Iron Mountain for $1.3 billion) as well as the founder and board member at DCSG and BASELAYER. Prior to his involvement with IO, Wanger co-founded and managed Sterling Network Services, LLC, a leading enterprise data center services provider. Earlier in his career, Wanger was a private equity investor and served as Senior Vice President at Sterling Partners where he directed a variety of investments and transactions for the firm. Wanger graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Emory University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.

Our website: https://www.edgevana.com

In Episode 5 of the Edgevana Podcast, Tom Lounibos, The President of Accenture Ventures shares his amazing & inspirational journey through 40 years of being a veteran and legend of Silicon Valley. For more episodes, visit: https://www.edgevana.com/podcast/

 About Tom Lounibos: Tom is the President of Accenture Ventures. A six time Silicon Valley entrepreneur (2 IPO's + 4 Acquisitions), investor, board member, and advisor to corporations and technology startups in the US and Europe. He co-founded SOASTA in 2006 and served as CEO until Akamai acquired the company in 2017. When it was acquired, SOASTA had become the Leading Global Test Platform for web and mobile applications used by 350 of the Global 500 Digital Brands.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups. Our website: https://www.edgevana.com