The enterprise storage industry has passed from the hard disk era through hybrid to all-flash, but what comes next? In this sponsored episode, Moshe Twitto of Pliops joins Enrico Signoretti, Chris Evans, and Stephen Foskett to discuss the end of the SSD era. Considering the durability issues of NAND flash, the limited value add of most SSDs, and the emergence of disaggregated infrastructure, the industry is on the cusp of a radical transformation. While disks and flash SSDs will still exist, these will have less relevance architecturally as intelligence moves closer to the storage media. The next architectural step is to develop flexible solid state key-value store devices rather than continuing with block storage.

Chris Evans

Enrico Signoretti

@ChrisMEvans

@ESignoretti

Moshe Twitto, CTO and Founder at Pliops. Connect with Moshe on LinkedIn.

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

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AI-powered applications are rolling out everywhere, but enterprises are really not ready for this shift. From lack of infrastructure to power training and inferencing, to a skills gap to manage data and AI, to a lack of readiness to deal with diversity and ethics, there are many holes in enterprise IT. Engineering teams tend to approach all applications from a technical perspective, but AI brings more to the table, demanding a deeper knowledge of bias and legalities than most other applications.

Frederic Van Haren

Ayodele Odubela

Chris Grundemann

Stephen Foskett

@FredericVHaren

@DataSciBae

@ChrisGrundemann

@SFoskett

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The enterprise network is full of data. We’ve spent the past decade trying to learn how to unlock those secrets. However, the recent shift away from on-premises networks to cloud-focused solutions means much of the progress we’ve made obsolete. We live in a world of telemetry and analytics and data lakes, not SNMP and simple measurements. In this episode, brought to you by Cisco, we take on the premise that traditional network monitoring tools can’t keep up with modern networks.

Teren Bryson

John Herbert

Rita Younger

Bruno Wollmann

Darrel Clute

@SomeClown

@MrTugs

@SDN_Girl

@WollmannBruno

@DarrelClute

Prab Singh, Product Lead, Internet & WAN at Cisco

Renato Quedas, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Strategy, Cisco AppDynamics

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

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We spent hours and hours, dollars and dollars to create state-of-the-art networks, ensuring that all the computers in our companies could talk to each other. Now, it seems like nobody uses them… unless they’re accessing their cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms. Have networks just become on-ramps to the internet interstate? As we ramp up for Networking Field Day 25, Tom and Co. dive into the topic of on-premises networks and their function in this cloud age on this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast.

Terry Slattery

Chris Cummings

Pieter-Jan Nefkens

Tom Hollingsworth

LinkedIn

@CrankyNetMan

@PJNef

@NetworkingNerd

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SD-WAN has been the truest example of implementing software-defined networking in the last decade. With the rise of SASE, we’re seeing the integration of software-defined security as well. SD-WAN helped us tie our branch offices together in ways we never thought possible. But the environment of 2020 and beyond doesn’t look like a traditional office any longer. Workers are leveraging the cloud more and more. Does that mean that SD-WAN and SASE adoption have slowed down? Not at all! So what gives? In this episode brought to you by Cisco, we explore the idea that Multicloud Networking is the True Driver for SD-WAN and SASE Adoption.

Kevin Myers

Teren Bryson

Jordan Martin

John Herbert

Nick Buraglio

@StubArea51

@SomeClown

@BCJordo

@MrTugs

@ForwardingPlane

Steve Wood, Principal Marketing Engineer at Cisco

Jamey Heary, Chief Security Architect at Cisco

Darrin Miller, Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

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Dynamic. Extensible. Scalable. These are just some of the key traits today’s companies need from their infrastructure, and frankly, it seems like the server as it has been known is not built to the same specifications. Add on top of that the upcoming announcements by Micron and Xilinx, covered in the next Tech Field Day event at the end of April, and it’s apparent that major changes are in store for servers. Check out this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable to hear how these changes are affecting server infrastructure and, ultimately, answer the question: is it the end of the server as we know it?

John Obeto

Denny Cherry

Jason Collier

Stephen Foskett

@2Obeto

@MrDenny

@BocaNuts

@SFoskett

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Wi-Fi networking is the way we do business today in the enterprise. Our workstations, printers, and mobile devices are all connected with the technology to allow us to roam around without wires. But what about 5G? The newest generation of mobile broadband technology is rapidly being deployed and adopted. Recent rule changes with the FCC have enabled providers to offer a private version of LTE and soon 5G to change the way we offer services to our users. But is it enough to topple the dominance of Wi-Fi in the enterprise? In this episode, we explore whether or not Private LTE will displace Wi-Fi.

Lee Badman

Keith Parsons

Jennifer Huber

@WiredNot

@KeithRParsons

@JenniferLucille

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

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Modern software is not invulnerable. We constantly find ourselves under attack from a variety of angles trying to sneak in to steal information or cause harm. We can recover from these hacks, but what happens to the software that was violated? Do we need to patch it? Or do we rip it out and replace it with something else? In this episode, we ask if we need to toss out hacked software.

Ben Story

Teren Bryson

Rita Younger

Tom Hollingsworth

@Ntwrk80

@SomeClown

@SDN_Girl

@NetworkingNerd

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Security is a lot of things. It’s the way we protect ourselves and our information. It’s a process and a need. But can we boil it all down to some product? Are we able to just say that we can order some software and a piece of hardware to run it on and we’re protected? Does the Security Check Box Product list really keep us safe? Or is there more to it? In this episode, we discuss whether or not Security Is Just A Bunch Of Products.

Chris Grundemann

Avril Salter

Kori Younger

@ChrisGrundemann

@AvrilSalterUSA

@SDNDaughter

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

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Pure Storage Spotlight: Does Kubernetes Even Need Storage?

In this sponsored episode by Pure Storage, we’re discussing Kubernetes and storage. Specifically, we’re questioning whether Kubernetes even needs persistent storage or if it’s just about the data being kept in containers. With modern applications moving beyond our traditional ideas of what storage should look like, what does that mean for the cloud and new technologies. Join us as we figure out where storage is headed from here.

Michael Ferranti (Pure Storage)

Adam Fisher

Larry Smith

Stephen Foskett

@FerrantiM

@BonzoVT

@MrLESmithJr

@SFoskett

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