The TECHunplugged Podcast

In this 10th episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, Scott Shadley (@SMShadley), Marketing Executive at NGD Systems, joins hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) for an insightful discussion about a potentially transformational event in the storage industry: the advent of computational storage. To complement the podcast and get a deeper dive on the topic, we recommend … Continue reading EP10 – Computational Storage: A Paradigm Shift In The Storage Industry with Scott Shadley and NGD Systems →

In this 9th episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, Michael Cade (@MichaelCade1), Global Technologist at Veeam, joins hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) for a really fun discussion around Veeam. Show schedule: 00:00 Intros & presentation 00:30 It’s that time of the year again: conferencing season! 01:20 What is the perspective of working for a … Continue reading EP09 – Veeam: Building Communities, Infrastructure-as-Code, Data Management and Latest Product News with Michael Cade →

In this 8th episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) are joined by Vince Westin (@ApplyITNow),IT Architect and Dell EMC Technical Evangelist working with the PowerMax and VMAX high-end storage arrays. Show schedule: 00:00 Intros & presentation 01:20 A recap about the Dell EMC PowerMax 02:30 PowerMax was introduced … Continue reading EP08 – Dell EMC PowerMax: NVMe All Flash Arrays, Storage-Class Memory and Machine Learning with Vince Westin →

In this 7th episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) are joined by Jerome McFarland (@JeromeMcFarland), VP of Marketing at Elastifile. Show schedule: 00:00 Intros & presentation 01:15 Jerome McFarland introduces Elastifile 01:46 Arjan Timmerman returns on the changes at Elastifile: new CEO, collaboration with Google Cloud 02:32 Jerome … Continue reading EP07 – The Elastifile Story – Discussing scalable distributed cloud file systems with Jerome McFarland →

In this 6th episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) are joined by Dominic Wellington (@dwellington), Director of Strategic Architecture at Moogsoft. You can find Dominic’s blog at http://findthethread.postach.io. The top post right now is actually pretty relevant to this conversation, since it talks about augmented intelligence. Permalink: http://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-road-to-augmented-intelligence. Dominic also … Continue reading EP06 – AIOps: Augmented Intelligence for ITOps and DevOps – with Dominic Wellington →

In this fifth episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) are joined by an old friend & special guest: Enrico Signoretti (@esignoretti), the original founder of TECHunplugged. Enrico left TECHunplugged in early 2017 to join OpenIO as Head of Product Strategy. In this episode we talk about Enrico’s role … Continue reading EP05 – ARM-based architectures, Object Storage and OpenIO with Enrico Signoretti →

In this episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast (recorded live at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas), host Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) is joined by two awesome industry friends: Gina Rosenthal (@gminks), a VMware Product Marketing Manager working on VMware on AWS, and Tom Hollingsworth (@networkingnerd), Organizer at Tech Field Day. Gina, Tom and Max cover the challenges … Continue reading EP04 – HPC / GPU virtualization on VMware vSphere with Gina Rosenthal and Tom Hollingsworth →

In this episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast recorded live at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, host Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) is joined by Chin-Fah Heoh (@storagegaga) an independent storage consultant hailing from Malaysia, and Pierluca Chiodelli (@chiodp),Vice President of Product Management & Customer Operation for Midrange Solutions at Dell EMC, to discuss about midrange storage and … Continue reading EP03 – Midrange Storage and NVMe with Pierluca Chiodelli and Chin-Fah Heoh →

In this episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) and Arjan Timmerman (@arjantim) are joined by Abhinav Gupta, Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Historically, Ravello has been much loved by VMware / Infrastructure / data center community folks (especially among the vExpert subgroup) for the ability to create labs … Continue reading EP02 – Oracle Ravello: Lift & Shift or gateway into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services – a discussion with Abhinav Gupta →

In this inaugural episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast recorded live at TECHunplugged New York 2018 on 22-Mar-18, Max Mortillaro (@darkkavenger) is joined by Datrium’s Field CTO, André Leibovici (@andreleibovici), as well as industry influencers Keith Townsend (@ctoadvisor) and James Green (@jdgreen). During the talk we cover the data center journey from the early converged infrastructure … Continue reading EP01 – Talking Open Convergence and Business Outcomes with Datrium – André Leibovici, Keith Townsend, James Green, Max Mortillaro →