The Hot Aisle: Recent Episodes
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Mark Thiele (@mthiele10) CIO & Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera (@Apcera) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Container Management and infrastructure architecture at scale. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the enabling technologies of the data center in regards to containers, and how workload composition […]
Tom Phelan (@tapbluedata), Co-Founder & Chief Architect for BlueData (@BlueData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the future of Big Data architectures and how consolidation, disaggregation, and automating are changing the Big Data landscape. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the latest innovations in Big […]
Barry “The Colonel” Hensley, Chief Threat Intelligence Officer at Secureworks (@Secureworks), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about cyber-security. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down FBI statistics on Ransomware, GDPR impact, the use of Machine Learning in cyber-crime, and how organized crime is making a business […]
David “Gonzo” Gonzales (@datagonzo) CEO and Co-Founder of Ziff, Inc. (ziff.ai) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the principles and frameworks used to locate patterns in data and how those can be applied to deliver business insights. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Artificial Intelligence, […]
Steven Hillion, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer for Alpine Data (@AlpineDataLabs) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about approachable and accessible analytics and how they’re bridging business the business to their data. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how organizations’ mission to capture analytic outcomes and […]
Brian Rutledge (@scarabeetle) Principal Security Engineer for Spanning (@spanningbackup) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Security Awareness and the need for heightened awareness in today’s climate. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) are all over the map as they break down security threats and education, GDPR and […]
Michael Ducy (@mfdii) Director of Product Marketing at Chef (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the the launch of Habitat Builder, which enables organizations build, control, and manage its’ apps. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) Work to understand how Chef is helping organizations bridge the […]
Rob Zuber (@z00b) Chief Technology Officer for CircleCI (@CircleCI) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Continuous Integration & Continuous Development (CI/CD) and fundamental ideas about how to break down monoliths and improve development processes through tools. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how CircleCI is […]
Greg Warden (@usmile1) VP of Engineering at DigitalOcean (@DigialOcean) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about delivering a reliable massively scalable service. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Greg and the team at DigitalOcean are managing the complexities of being one of the largest hyperscalers […]
Tim Armandpour (@TimArmandpour) Senior Vice President for Pager Duty (@PagerDuty) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about instrumenting companies’ digital operations signals across their entire stack and how they are helping provide situational and contextual awareness to customers for their alerts and events. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]
Chris Knoch (@cknoch) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Big Squid (@Big_Squid) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about improving the signal to noise ratio on your data and how they’re impacting the world of predictive analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down predictive analytics for executive […]
Brian Carmody (@initzero) CTO for Infinidat (@infinidat) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about seeing thru the fog and where long term technology trends are headed. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Infinidat intends to be the answer for yet unsolved storage problems, the real […]
Justin Erenkrantz (@jerenkrantz) Head of Compute Architecture for Bloomberg (@TechAtBloomberg) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the delicate balancing act between developers and operations, and how to achieve the best velicoty, flexibility, and their desired outcomes. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how modular architectures […]
This week we are joined by two guests from DataTorrent (@DataTorrent) – Guy Churchward (@GuyChurchward) President & CEO and Phu Hoang, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. They joined us on The Hot Aisle to talk about Real Time Streaming Platforms and analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how batch […]
Josh Gwyther (@joshuagwyther) Google Cloud Platform Agent of Innovation for Google (@google) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about hyperscale public clouds and how GCP’s technology is keenly positioned to support their customer’s line of business applications. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the cost and […]
Paul Galjan (@PaulGaljan) Sr. Director, Microsoft Hybrid Cloud at Dell EMC (@DellEMC) joins us live on Day 4 of Dell EMC World in Las Vegas for an extra immersive recording The Hot Aisle to talk about the latest announcement around the partnership between Microsoft and Dell EMC for a turnkey delivery of Azure Stack and […]
Stathy Touloumis (@stathyinc), Technology Director at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us live on The Hot Aisle during Day 3 of Dell EMC World 2017 to talk Mesosphere DC/OS, REX-Ray from {code} by Dell EMC (@codeDellEMC), and Dell EMC ScaleIO Ready Nodes as a reference architecture for your next generation data center. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) […]
John Bass (@JohnGBass) Founder & CEO at Hashed Health (@HashedHealth) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Blockchain in general and specifically how it applies in the healthcare world. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into the differences of Bitcoin, blockchain, hyper-ledger, and Etherium; why John believes […]
Matt Mccormack Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer for Virtustream (@Virtustream) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to demystify the subject of Cloud Security and the constantly changing role of the Chief Information Security Officer. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) discuss best practices for a modern data center […]
Ron Bianchini (@RonBianchini) CEO of Avere Systems (@AvereSystems) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about solving NAS problems at scale. There are architectural implications to the way modern applications and data centers are being deployed – and your critical infrastructure services need to keep up. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and […]
Bobby Johnson (@InteranaBobby) CTO & Founder at Interana (@InteranaCorp) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Interactive Analytics and how companies can break down barriers of putting valuable insights right into their employees’ hands. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down where Hadoop works & doesn’t and […]
Patrick Lin, VP of Products & Marketing at SignalFX (@SignalFX), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about monitoring the Billions and Trillions of streaming events that happen in a modern Cloud Native application architecture. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down why capturing these real-time events is […]
Tom Lyon (@aka_pugs) Chief Scientist and Founder at DriveScale (@DriveScale_Inc) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about making a Private Cloud for Big Data using composable rack-scale infrastructure. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dive into how a UNIX kernel developer goes on to create a cool startup […]
Alex Hertel, CEO for Xperiel (@xperiel), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Experiential Marketing and how any organization can leverage Augmented Reality and Internet of Things to interact with consumers. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down complexity theory, pebbling, and using modern technology to trigger […]
Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky) Co-Founder and VP of Product at Platform9 Systems (@Platform9sys) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Cloud Managed Infrastructure, overcoming risk, and providing the trust enterprises need to adopt agile infrastructure. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the value propositions of well managed […]
Steven Silva, Chief Technology Officer for Cypherpath (@cypherpath), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Secure Infrastructure Containers and how the market is demanding security driven architectures. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what exactly Cypherpath means by Infrastructure-as-a-File, how Infrastructure containers differentiate, and explore the […]
Mike Gualtieri (@mgualtieri) VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (@forrester) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about evolving and emerging analytics technologies. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down topics like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, and Advanced Analytics. Grab your friend Sarah Connor […]
Ray O’Farrell (@ray_ofarrell) CTO & Chief Development Officer at VMware (@VMware) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about VMware announcements form VMworld. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) have Ray break down Cross-Cloud Architecture, the new VMware Cloud Foundation with IBM & AWS, integrations with Virtustream, how NSX […]
Gareth Rushgrove (@garethr) Senior Software Engineer at Puppet (@puppetize) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about leveraging a thriving community to drive incremental value in Open Source. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Project Blueshift and how Puppet is using it to build better code and community in the Enterprise […]
Sandeepan Banerjee SVP Engineering and Operations for ClusterHQ (@ClusterHQ) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about storage persistence in an ephemeral world and what he thinks the challenges and how his teams plan to solve them. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the container persistence market […]
Jeremy Burton (@jburton) CMO for Dell Technologies (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the largest merger in tech history between Dell & EMC (now Dell EMC) – and what it means for the future of both companies and the industry as a whole. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]
Hitesh Patel (@F5Hitesh) Solutions Architect for F5 (@F5Networks) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about how F5 is evolving for and fully embracing the new “Cloud” model. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into building a 250K+ person community with DevCentral, how Open Source & GitHub have […]
Our guest list is strong this episode – in order of appearance: Joshua Bernstein (@quityourjoshing) VP of Technology for EMC Code (@emccode), Grant Martin (@grantkmartin) Product Manager for Avegant (@avegant) Glyph, and Nelson Aquino (@kruelx) FPV Racer, Race Organizer, and more – all join us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Open Source Software, the […]
Shannon Williams (@smw355) & Sheng Liang (@shengliang), Co-Founders of Rancher Labs (@Rancher_Labs) join us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about some more of that hot hot hot container stuff and how Rancher integrates your Docker ecosystem with automated deployments of Swarm, Kubernetes, and Mesosphere. Public cloud? Private Cloud? Don’t care – they gots! […]
Kelsey Hightower (@KelseyHightower) Software Engineer for Google’s (@google) Kubernetes (@kubernetesio) and the Samuel L. Jackson of Tech Conferences, joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the 1 year old birthday kid, Kubernetes. We’ll learn how Kubernetes is ready for production use with your containerized applications; and your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) […]
Barak Michener (@barakmich) Software Engineer for CoreOS (@CoreOSlinux) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Torus, their take on the modern distributed storage system. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Torus approaches software defined storage, why distributed storage is the right fit for containerized workloads, […]
Stephen Pope (@StephenGPope) Partner & Software Engineer for Project Ricochet (@ProjectRicochet) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Application Development, platform rationalization, and why customers are leveraging Containers to deploy their new apps. Fresh off a trip to the house that Starbucks built – or “Seattle” as it’s sometimes known – he […]
Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) Founder and CEO of IOPipe (@iopipes) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Serverless and help define what it is, and what it isn’t. What did we learn? Serverless != Server Less! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into subjects like Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), how serverless scales and […]
Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz) R&D Engineer for the Office of the CTO at Cisco (@cisco) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle and expertly educates us on a number of storage (and not-so-storage) related topics including but not limited to: Fibre Channel, FCoE, Ethernet, iSCSI, PCIe, NVMe, NVMf, iSCSI, RDMA over Ethernet, and More! […]
David Estes (@davydotcom) VP of Engineering at Morpheus Data (@MorpheusData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Multi-Cloud Automation and Orchestration from your P2 (Traditional) and P3 (Cloud Native) Application Stacks.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how the Morpheus Platform enables companies to provision Bare […]
Andy Rhodes (@andrewmrhodes) Executive Director of IoT for Dell (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the Internet of Things (IoT). Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what IoT is, why it’s become such a popular topic, and how companies are leveraging it. We’re learn […]
Live from EMC World 2016!!! Our first trifecta of guests on the Podcast this go round: Brian Gallagher (@bgallagher32) – President of EMC’s Cloud Platform Team, Brian Roche (@brianrochebos) – Sr. Dir. of Engineering & Cloud Platforms for the Team, and Idit Levine @Idit_Levine – their CTO. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]
Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny) Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for Rackspace (@rackspace) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about OpenStack and all the hotness that was revealed at OpenStack Summit 2016 . Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down where OpenStack is winning & losing, the different consumption models […]
Mike Shapiro, Vice President and Co-Founder of EMC’s DSSD (@EMCDSSD) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about a new twist on deploying Flash – Specifically NVMe – in new and different ways. Block? Sure Thing. Object? Yup. Hadoop / HDFS? Gots. Oh, and don’t forget the Flood API. What’s a flood […]
James Watters (@wattersjames) SVP, Products for Pivotal (@pivotal) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about SpringBoot, Pivotal Labs, Pair Programming “Starter Dough”, and what Pivotal Cloud Foundry is up to these days. We learn a bit about how CloudFoundry came to where it is today and what Pivotal’s charter is as […]
John K. Thompson (@johnkthompson60) General Manager of Advanced Analytics for Dell (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Analytics, Big Data, & IoT so that we can get our brains wrapped around these evolving topics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what the Analytics landscape […]
Chris Webber (@cwebber), Engineering Manager for Chef Software (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Configuration Management & treating Infrastructure as Code.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what Chef is, how its working to change the game, and why the Chef Community is the best […]
Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) creator of Jenkins and CTO of Cloud Bees (@CloudBees) – (not Code Bees, lol) – joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment (The other CD) – and why working in a circle is a good thing – with the right […]
Thomas Rampelberg, Project Manager at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System (DCOS) and how it was created to enable your Public & Private Cloud to be more efficient, resilient, and automated. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Apache Mesos (@ApacheMesos), […]
Chris Sexsmith (@VirtualMittens) Sr. Manager of Field Enablement | Cloud-Native Apps at VMware (@VMware) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about VMware’s Cloud Native Application strategy and platforms (@cloudnativeapps) and share the greatness that they bring to the table with us and our listeners. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian […]
Chad Sakac (@sakacc) Newly anointed President of VCE (@VCE) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about his new Converged world, his first 30 days on the job, how a life fueled by RedBull and 5 Hour Energy can accomplish so much, and a not-so-secret product reveal on February 16th, 2016. Your […]
Jason Hand (@jasonhand) DevOps Evangelist for VictorOps (@VictorOps) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about ChatOps and the benefit it has on a well oiled DevOps teams’ overall function. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get the details on how ChatOps became a thing, Who is using it, […]
Patrick McFadin (@patrickmcfadin) Chief Evangelist at DataStax (@Datastax) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on NoSQL, Cassandra, Apache Spark, and so much more. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to learn a bit about how Cassandra got here (Thanks Facebook!), the inspirations behind Cassandra (like the […]
Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson) from EMC{code} (@EMCcode) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on containers and infrastructure portability. Specifically your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to peel back the onion on the subject of container persistence vs. ephemerality and why this is becoming a large issue to […]
Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) operating in his new capacity as Developer Advocate at Intel joins us this week on The Hot Aisle! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get into the holiday spirit and talk about building open source communities and how to get people to engage, interact, and more. We also cover Matt’s fun […]
Rob Peglar, (@peglarr) VP of Advanced Storage at Micron joins us this week on The Hot Aisle! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get Rob to take a quick breath in his busy schedule to educate us on all things flash (SSD, NAND, NOR, 3DNAND, 3DXPoint, NVDIMM, PCIe, NVMe, OH MY!), the applications for […]
Matt Baker (@mattwbaker), Executive Director of Strategy, Enterprise Solutions at Dell takes a seat in The Hot Aisle this week to expose the Innovations that Dell is delivering to their customers and the IT landscape as a whole. Matt joins your co-hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) as we find out what Matt means in […]
Jeremy Edberg (@jedberg), Co-Founder of CloudNative (@CloudNativeIO) and well known for his Distributed Systems and Cloud Native Application Resiliency expertise joins us this week on The Hot Aisle. Your co-hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dive into Jeremy’s storied history as the 1st paid employee of Reddit and as a reliability and distributed systems architect […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Joining us this Episode is Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) Co-Founder of Hashi Corp. – creators of super cool and open source projects like Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and more. Learn about how they use Atlas to tie those projects together to better enable […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Joining us this Episode is Bill Schmarzo (@schmarzo) the anointed #DeanofBigData, author of Big Data Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Current EMC Big Data CTO, former VP of Analytics for Yahoo & Business Objects. Of course, he also somehow finds time to teach the […]
This week on The Hot Aisle, your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get beaten senseless with heaps of converged & hyper-converged goodness. We learn from EMC’s Sr. Director of Converged Infrastructure & ‘closeted VCDX’, Brad Maltz (@bmaltz), about “how”, “why”, and “what” the whole Converged Infrastructure + Hyper-Converged Infrastructure + Disaggregated Hardware movement is […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Joining us this Episode is John Appleby (@applebyj) of Bluefin Solutions – a global consultancy focused on SAP, SAP HANA, digitization, analytics, mobile, and more. John joins us as renown SAP HANA expert, keynote speaker, and SAP Mentor. We discuss the rapidly evolving subject of […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Joining us this Episode is Steve Francia (@spf13) of SPF13.Com and recently of @docker fame (as their Chief of Operations, Open Source). Steve joins us as a well known mentor, and highly respected member of the Open Source community as a whole, to give insight […]
This week on The Hot Aisle, your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) converse yet again with someone that dwarfs their collective intellect. With the mind of a mathematician, the spirit on an entrepreneur, the goal to automate everything, and the the ability to make infrastructure interact like code – our guest Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) […]
Storage Paparazzi, or their proper name – Storage Industry Journalists / Analysts have the unique role of watching the marketplace from the outside in (and sometimes inside out!). The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Together with us this week, Chris Mellor (@chris_mellor) of The Register (@TheRegister) joins us to discuss his […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Joining us this Episode is Randy Bias (@randybias), VP of Technology for EMC in their Emerging Technology Division and Director in the OpenStack Foundation. Randy helps us navigate through our questions on how customers are either starting out in Platform 3 or Mode 2 […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). This Episode’s guest is none other than Ashley McNamara (@ashleymcnamara) Developer Advocate for Object Rocket (a Rackspace company) to educate us on the role & rise of the Developer Advocate as well as how one can break into the world of code. Aside from resources on […]
The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). This Episode’s guest is none other than Fred Nix (@nixfred) Systems Engineering Manager for EMC in the South. Fred comes to us specifically to talk about v0dgeball 2015 @ VMworld and its origins and charity The Wounded Warrior Project, but leaves us […]
Our 10th Episode is here! We’re on a roll and you can’t stop us. This is our first remote recording, done with none other than POPS – Chad Sakac (@sakacc) while we got him to sit still for almost an hour at the mothership in Hopkinton. We get Chad to give us concise answers on […]
Welcome back! This week Senior Vice President of EMC’s Advanced Software Division (ASD) Manuvir Das joins us on The Hot Aisle to discuss all things Object Storage, Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Why he’s choosing to embrace Open Source for various product offerings, and he also opens the Kimono a bit to talk about Project […]
The goal of this week’s episode is to educate our listeners on EMC Ventures and their activities around funding startups, merging with, and/or acquiring existing businesses for the improvement of the “Federation”. Bringing fun and interesting things about venture capitalism to the broader community. Scott Darling, President of EMC Corporate Development and Ventures joins us from […]
You’ve made it to Episode 7 and we’re proud of you! We’re proud of us too! The list of guests is already slotted out thru Episode 11, and our invites list is even longer! Thanks for joining us. TELL YOUR FRIENDS! This episode we have Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland) of EMCCode (@EMCCode) fame giving us the […]
For our sixth podcast we asked Matt Cowger @mcowger (VCDX #52!) to pick something relevant about Cloud Native applications that might be of the beaten path a bit. Matt suggested that we discuss NoSQL, SQL, Message Queues and how they fit into modern application structures. We cover a wide list of technology such as Redis, RIAK, […]
Welcome to Episode #5 of The HOT Aisle, this train is rollin’ and we don’t want to get off! On this episode we have EMC’s VP of Technical Strategy (ETD), of Apple Siri fame and drone flyin’ (racing) machine, Joshua Bernstein. We’ll get lost in the sauce on all things DevOps, Open Source, EMC Code, Containers (Persistence) and […]
Happy Friday! Episode 4 of The Hot Aisle is in the books. Our guest this week was none other than Sean Jennings (@VCDX17), one of the co-founders of Virtustream! Sean walks us thru the Virtustream story from drawing board to fully functioning IaaS platform. You’ll get to hear information around xStream, their Cloud Advisory tools, […]
With our 3rd episode in the books, we’re here to say that this thing is real and we’re here to stay! Our guest for this episode is none other than Tyler Britten (@vmtyler)! We discuss the topic of OpenStack, which is garnering more and more attention daily in the tech industry. Tyler discusses a bit […]
In this week’s episode, we invite Tommy Trogden (@vTexan) to join us to recap EMC World 2015. We cover XtremIO 4.0 “The Beast”, Data Domain 9500 “The Beast” – Backup Edition, EMC Code DevOps Days, VNXe3200 All Flash Array, VMAX3 w/ FAST.X and SRDF Metro, VxRack, vVNX and more. Blocks, Racks, and Appliances as a Converged […]
For our first (hopefully!) weekly Podcast, my partner and good friend Brent Piatti joins me to break in the sonic tools at our disposal. We spend this episode having a bit of fun asking questions that reveal such deep insights as: “Would you rather fight 1000 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?” or “Star Wars vs. Star […]