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The demands on business IT continue to evolve rapidly, we need our technology to respond to change, to be deployed quickly, provide scale and flexibility. This is changing the way applications are developing with approaches such as low/no-code and serverless becoming increasingly common.
On this week's Tech Interviews we look at these new development approaches and ask what does low-code and serverless mean for you and your enterprise? Joining me to discuss this is Mike Williams, founder, and CTO at BuildLab.
We discuss.
Trends driving change.
What is low code and serverless?
Don't get hung up on how, focus on the what
It isn't for everyone
How do you define the right route for you?
What makes a good project?
This is not a silver bullet
BuildLab, building more with less.
I found this a really useful introduction to a technology and approach that is becoming more commonplace. I like Mike's approach, using these technologies to allow the focus to be on outcomes while appreciating that this doesn't work for everyone.
I hope you enjoyed that, if you have an idea for a show or would like to be a guest email me at podcast@techstringy.com.
Until next time, thanks for listening.
Full show notes with links can be found here: https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1R6
Data is everywhere and part of every strategic business conversation how do we use it better? How do get more value from it? How do we truly make it a business asset? The answers to those questions are driving a whole new way of thinking in the way we deliver IT services to a business. New workflows, new development architectures and exploiting technology shifts to try to break the shackles that traditional infrastructure often enforces on how we can use data to meet our business needs. This has led to a steady evolution, virtualisation, cloud and architectures such as serverless which allows us to run our code and services independent of any underlying platform.
What if we could achieve that same flexibility for our data?
If your business could use its data without restriction what would that allow you to do? That was the thesis of a blog post that I read recently from David Flynn the CEO of my guest Doug Fallstrom’s company Hammerspace and is the topic for this weeks show.
Join us as we discuss.
•Why we need to be data-centric.
•Getting additional value from our data.
•Users don’t care where the data is and why should they?
•Talk to the non-storage people in your business to know how they use data.
•Tips for shifting to a data focussed approach.
•The Hammerspace Tech.
•The power of the “as a service” model.
For today’s enterprise taking a data-centric approach to the way, we build our IT platforms is critical if you want to be a data-driven business. Approaches such as those discussed by Doug, coupled with technical innovations to enable your data strategy is going to be central to your success.
For full show notes visit here https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1Qx
Finally, If you have an idea for a show or would like to be a guest, then email podcast@techstringy.com.
Until next time, thanks for listening.
As the world of technology and data continues to evolve, so must the solutions that we use to build our enterprise technology stacks, which of course means new versions of products and services from our leading vendors. At the end of February 2021 Cloud Data Management specialists Veeam released Version 11 of their highly successful availability suite. But what does that mean for those of us who deliver, manage and maintain enterprise infrastructure?
Because while the world we operate in continues to evolve are vendors listening to the challenges that their customers have? Understanding evolving trends and how they are likely to impact both them and their customers?
In this episode, I'm joined by Veeam Senior Global Technologists and regular Tech Interviews contributors, Michael Cade and Anthony Spiteri, as I put those questions to them as we explore some of the key announcements from Veeam's V11 launch. We discuss what was behind some of those design decisions and how are these developments helping to solve enterprise challenges.
We discuss.
The V11 Strategy
Continuous data protection and the critical workload.
Be right, not first.
Immutable backups made easy.
Making innovation available to all.
The power of the cloud for long term retention.
Helping to balance costs.
Improving instant recovery.
Protect it anywhere, recover it anywhere.
Getting more value from our backup data.
This was a jam-packed show and it is always great to catch up with the Veeam team, there is always a real enthusiasm from them for their technology and it's great to see that not only are customers listened to, but what they hear is then acted upon. Michael and Anthony, as always, offered great insight into this significant technology release.
For all the links as well as how to watch the Veeam V11 announcement visit the show notes page https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1PY
If you have an idea for a show email me at podcast@techstringy.com and to catch the next episode, then subscribe in all good homes of podcast and YouTube.
Thanks for listening.
Networks are at the very heart of the way business operates in the modern world, with so much of what we do driven digitally the need for us to connect our devices with our applications and data is central to almost everything the enterprise does to function. For something so central to our operations it’s interesting how little we think about it, networks are like a utility, you turn on the tap water comes out, you flick a switch electricity flows, you hook up your device you expect to get connected and in many enterprises, we are as confident of our network as we are any other utility.
But should we be? How sure are we that our networks are as robust and resilient as the modern enterprise requires? Is that confidence misplaced?
That is something I’ve been considering recently after been sent the latest Network Field Report from network management specialists Auvik. Joining me on this week’s podcast is Steve Petryschuk a Network management expert at Auvik to discuss what they discovered in their survey, how they are seeing the enterprise network changing and what we can do as IT pro’s to ensure our network continues to meet the demands placed upon it.
Join us as we discuss.
•The background behind the report
•The changing role of the networking professional
•How has the enterprise view of networking changed?
•Why we need network knowledge?
•The problem of over-confidence!
•The increasing rate of change and are we tracking it?
•Embrace change
•Proactive management giving us time back
•The benefit of better insight
•Steps to improving your network posture
•The power of automation
Steve shared some great insights into what he is seeing in the modern enterprise network, some of the challenges as well as some of the strategic shifts we need to make to ensure we continue to meet the demands placed upon it.
The Auvik network report is well worth a look and you can request your copy here www.auvik.com/networkfield21.
If you have an idea for a show or would like to join me as a guest then why not email me at podcast@techstringy.com and to make sure you catch our future episodes you can subscribe, you’ll find Tech Interviews in all good home of podcasts and on YouTube.
Until next time, thanks for listening.
For full show notes with all links : https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1PS
Compliance is a serious discussion point in most organisations, as the use of our information has become an increasingly everyday part of the way we operate our lives, ensuring organisations take care of it appropriately is critical to the privacy and security of our "digital selves". However much of the compliance technology organisations rely on is based on understanding our digital footprint, to ensure the person making the transaction is authorised to be doing it and that transaction is legal and correct.
That's great when the use of technology is commonplace, but what when it isn't, how do you examine a digital footprint when there isn't one?
On this week’s show, I am joined by Shubhradeep Nandi, co-founder at PiChain Labs a company looking at how they can use leading-edge technology trends to start to deal with the global problem of reducing fraudulent transactions in a world where technology is not always easily accessible and digital footprints are harder to identify.
We discuss.
Fintech and Regtech what do they mean?
How a "black box" attitude means we are missing the gaps in compliance.
The size of the problem.
How not actively engaging with compliance is a problem.
When regulation impacts a financial institution.
The problems of "hotfixes".
The problem of scale.
What happens when there is no digital record?
The three steps to making compliance sustainable.
Using leading-edge technology to solve the compliance problem.
Thanks to Shub for providing insight into what is a massive problem impacting us on a global scale and how by using technological advances we may be able to solve it.
If you have an idea for a show or would like to appear as a guest email podcast@techstringy.com and to catch the next episode then please subscribe on YouTube or all good homes of podcasts.
Full show notes are here: https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1PD
It is 2021 and Tech Interviews is back with new shows looking at all aspects of enterprise IT. For this first show of the year, we do what all good podcasts like to do and take a look ahead to 2021 and what we expect to see in the technology space. The topic of our look ahead this week is the storage industry, as I catch up with some of my fellow delegates from a recent industry event we attended, Storage Field Day 21.
What of Storage Field Day 21? What did it have to offer? What were the key themes? And what did it tell us about current storage industry trends? That is the topic of this first show of the year as I join up with three of my fellow delegates to hear what they thought and their key “takeaways” from the event.
I am joined by Barry Coombs, Jason Collier and Max Mortillaro to discuss the key moments from another excellent Storage Field Day Event and hopefully apply some context to what we heard.
Thanks for listening.
Full show notes are here :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1Pt
2020 has been one heck of a year, for all kinds of reasons, many of them of course less than positive. The world has been turned on its head, with lots of the things we took for granted as our “normal” behaviour no longer allowed or drastically changed. 2020 has also put a strain on the global community in unprecedented ways, straining healthcare, education, and business.
The technology industry has been at the forefront of much of the global response, not just in business, but across all areas of life tools like Zoom and Teams moved from corporate apps to an everyday part of people’s lives, a way to do business, yes, but also a way to stay in touch, have get-togethers, quizzes and of course of ways of carrying on education from the youngest to those studying for advanced qualifications.
However, this move to a more technologically driven world, also highlighted real disparity while for many they have plentiful access to technology and are tech literate, for swathes of the population that is not true. It was this disparity that was noted by two of my close IT community friends, Michael Cade and Jason Benedicic, both are regular guests on the show, and both have very busy day jobs, but both saw examples of that technology gap and wondered what they could do about it. This led them to start to look at different ways of making technology available, what exists today, and what we may need to change to truly make technology accessible to more people than it is today.
It was this work that caught my eye and felt like a great topic for our last Tech Interviews of 2020, so that is exactly what we do as I’m joined by Michael and Jason to explore what we can do as individuals and industry to make technology available to all. It’s a great chat and with a fine collection of Christmas outfits for you to enjoy (if you watch the YouTube version).
What Jason and Michael have taken on is a great example of what we can do as a tech community, if we just think about the way we can use technology a little differently and look to solve problems.
As this is the last show of the year, I would just like to say thanks for all of the support of the show this year from both a fantastic collection of guests and to you the listener, because without listeners there wouldn’t be a show.
May you all have an enjoyable holiday season and let’s hope 2021 is a bit of an improvement on 2020!
Until next year, thanks for listening and watching.
Full show notes are here : https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1P0
Thanks to PowerTribe for the use of their version of Carol of the Bells in our festive theme tune.
As our technology stack continues to evolve and the demands on our IT systems grow, we need to become increasingly smarter with the way we deliver it. Increasingly we want all elements of our technology infrastructure to be software-driven, we want intelligence about performance so we can use it to drive and automate change.
However, one area that is often not considered is the area of networking. Networking is at the very heart of modern infrastructure but often we still see very traditional approaches to how it is designed and deployed. Why is that and how do we change it?
That is the topic of this week’s show as I catch up with Rich Martin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at intelligent network automation specialists Intential. Join us as we discuss.
•The networking bottleneck in IT automation.
•Why can’t we “spin-up” networking?
•How do we modernise when there a lack of strategy, skills and tools?
•The COVID effect.
•The problems with a traditional approach.
•The cloud networking quandary!
•Automation “sprawl”.
•Cloud networking, like a network but different!
•How networking is evolving.
•Building a network automation strategy.
•What Itential do.
•Building a network platform.
•Tips for your network modernisation approach
I find network automation an interesting part of the evolution of the way we deliver technology and one that is beginning to change. I think Itential is offering some strong solutions in helping enterprises to evolve their network automation capabilities and are well worth checking out.
If you have an idea for a show why not email podcast@techstringy.com. If you want to be sure to catch our last show of 2020 then why not subscribe, you’ll find us in all good homes of podcasts or over on YouTube.
Until next time thanks listening.
For full show notes : https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1OQ
As we have covered many times on this podcast, data is a core asset for modern enterprises, how we gather it and use it is amongst the hottest topics for enterprise IT decision-makers. Of course, along with that comes how we protect and secure that data, making sure we do not lose it for technical, commercial and regulatory reasons is vital. However, there is one area of data, that in my experience gets far less consideration and that is erasure.
There is always a lifecycle when it comes to data, it is created, it is used and then when it has served its production purpose there is the question of “what do we do with it now?”.
That is the subject of this weeks show as I’m joined by Paul Katzoff, CEO of WhiteCanyon Software a company specialising in the secure erasure of data. Paul brings a great perspective to understanding the challenge and the things you need to consider when you include erasure as part of your data strategy.
Join us as we discuss.
•While erasure is not new the challenge continues to evolve.
•How do I verify erasure?
•The issues in “physical destruction”.
•Compatibility and standards.
•The evolving challenge of data erasure.
•“Consumer” tech and enterprise data.
•Data erasure is not just a technology problem.
•Plan for your data’s lifecycle.
•How is the tech evolving?
•Tips for your data erasure strategy at scale
•Should I do it myself?
Paul’s experience in the industry offered me a fresh perspective on the challenges of data erasure and the importance of not forgetting that data is not all about collection, analytics and production use, we need to consider what happens when our need for data or the repositories that hold it ends.
If you have an idea for a show or would like to appear as a guest, then please drop me a line at podcast@techstringy.com. To catch the next episode be sure to subscribe.
Thanks for listening.
Full Show Notes are here : https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1OJ
Security is a constant challenge for organisations big or small whether it is the security of our systems, network or data the problem continues to get more complex. Our complexity doesn’t stop there as increasingly more enterprises look to embrace Internet of things (IoT) projects our challenge grows significantly.
But why, why does IoT present such a peculiar challenge? This is an interesting question and a major security challenge.
On this week’s show, I’m joined by AgilePQ CEO Paul Clayson as we discuss both the IoT problem as well as some of those approaches to addressing it, including the innovative and elegant approach Paul’s company is taking. An approach not only looking at solving the IoT issues of today but also is looking ahead to how they can use the same approach to help crack one of the security industries biggest conundrums, quantum computing.
Join us as we go all quantum and discuss.
•The IoT security challenge.
•The inadequacy of today’s approaches.
•Is the IoT security risk real?
•When just good enough is not good enough!
•Rethinking encryption for IoT.
•The importance of simplicity in security at scale
•The quantum computing problem.
•Quantum hacks are closer than you think!
•Tips for the top of your IoT security list.
I enjoyed this chat with Paul, it’s an area that is new to me but one that is hugely interesting not only for today's threat posed by IoT devices but the real threat, that maybe is closer than we think, posed by a quantum computing future.
If you have an idea for a show or would like to appear as a guest then why not drop me a line at podcast@techstringy.com and to make sure you catch the next episode then please subscribe.
Until next time thanks for listening.
For full show notes :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1OD