Stay ConnectedHighlighting technology companies doing great things with great technology. In each episode we will talk with technical leads of companies that leverage great tech to build and productize innovative solutions and market leading products.
GTwGT is hosted by Anthony Spiteri
In this episode I talk with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at Weka. Weka has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. WekaFS delivers high performance, low latency storage. Weka provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. With customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling, EDA, software development, satellite imaging and media and entertainment.
Weka was founded in 2014 and is based San Francisco.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
NVMe, DELL, HPE, nVidia, SuperMicro, Cisco, Mellenox, Infiniband, Linux
Web: https://wkea.io
WekaFS Tech Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7VGbiO9Us
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In this episode I talk with Niraj Tolia, President, GM and Co-Founder at Kasten. Kasten simplifies the operational management of stateful cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. The K10 Platform for Kubernetes Backup and DR provides an enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications. Niraj and I talk through the brief but eventful history of Kasten leading up to and beyond the Veeam acquisition. We also spend a lot of time talking about how Kubernetes is changing the IT landscape and going deep into the WHY and HOW of protecting Kubernetes workloads with Kasten.
Kasten was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Altos, California, USA.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
Kubernetes, Helm, VMware, Tanzu, Docker, Containers
Web: https://kasten.io
K10: https://kasten.io/product
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In this episode I talk with Yves Sandfort, CEO and co-founder at comdivision. comdivision have built a strong reputation over the past 25 years as a leading Professional Services company, spanning architecture, design, implementation as well as education and enablement primarily with VMware Technologies. They enable enterprises and service providers to do great things with great technology with a strong focus on emerging technologies. Yves and I talk about current industry trends such as intrinsic security and the future of multi and hybrid cloud and how the commoditization of technology platforms enables the next wave of great technologies.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, Veeam, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Carbon Black, VMware Cloud
Web: https://comdivision.com
Solutions: https://www.comdivision.com/en#solutions
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In this episode I talk with Brad Jervis, Senior Cloud Architect at OffsiteDataSync (ODS). OffsiteDataSync is a leading cloud services provider, recognized as a global provider of highly available and secure cloud data protection solutions, including Infrastructure (IaaS), Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) and Backup (BaaS). Brad an I talk about how the company was founded for break/fix but quickly filled a growing niche in becoming one of the first true backup and DR focused providers.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, Veeam, Zerto, Nimble, Dell, CEPH, Linux, Microsoft
Web: https://www.offsitedatasync.com
Exclusive Offer: DRaaS 1TB FREE https://www.offsitedatasync.com/Q2/promo
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In this episode I talk with Tim Brewer, Co-Founder and CEO of Functionly. Functionly is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company focused on delivering a real time intelligent Organizational Chart. Tim and I talk about how his prior experiences within organizations and as an advisor lead him to believe that there was a better way to do organizational mapping and charting leveraging web based technologies. This is a great story about looking to fill a gap in the market through SaaS based tooling and automation for what was previously deemed to be only doable via manual functions and tasks.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
AWS, Heroku
Web: https://www.functionly.com
Trial Now: https://www.functionly.com/trial-functionly-now
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In this episode I talk with Sheng Yeo, CEO and Co-Founder of OrionVM. OrionVM are a wholesale Cloud Service Provider who designed their cloud platform for speed and distributed resiliency leveraging the InfiniBand networking standard as the core of their architecture. They where doing Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) before HCI was a thing! Sheng gives us an insight into their founding and we go through what makes them unique as a IaaS provider doing great things differently, creating their own niche in the market while continuing to learn and grow along the way.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
Linux, Xen, InfiniBand, Cumulus Networks
Web: https://www.orionvm.com
Architecture: https://www.orionvm.com/features
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In this episode I talk with Justin Giardina, (CTO) at iland. iland are one of the most innovative Cloud Service Providers in the world. This has been achieved by building their platform with usability and management as cornerstones. Justin and I talk about how iland's purpose built public API provides partners and customers with the ability to consume and manage their cloud services at scale with a focus on Infrastructure as Code. This API allows them to expose great technology platforms across 11 global locations offering IaaS, DRaaS, BaaS, Storage, Security and Compliance, and Office 365 backup.
Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, Veeam, Zerto, Cassandra, Cisco, Nimble, Tenable, Trend Micro, HyTrust
Web: https://www.iland.com
API Swagger: https://api.ilandcloud.com
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This is Great Things with Great Tech Short Take 1. While we take a break from regular episodes, I spend a bit of time looking back at the first 5 episodes and talk a little bit about what sort of technology company I am looking forward to interviewing as the show grows. As mentioned, please have a listen to all the previous episodes and subscribe on YouTube and the Podcast platform of your choice.
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In this episode I talk with Sagi Brody, (CTO) at Webair. Webair has grown into one of the leading IT Infrastructure and Cloud solutions providers based out of New York, offering a wide selection of IT solutions including DRaaS, BaaS, Dedicated Private Cloud, Managed Security, IaaS and more. Sagi and I talk about the company history spanning 20+ years and how they grew from a small web hosting company finding its way in the 90s and 2000s to an innovative Service Provider leveraging automation and trusted technology partners now with a commanding data center presence.
Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, Veeam, Zerto, Ubuntu, Cisco, KVM
Web: https://www.webair.com
Solutions: https://www.webair.com/disaster-recovery
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In this episode I talk with Stanimir Markov, (Founder and CEO) from Runecast. Runecast Analyzer’s patented AI engine converts industry sources of information into machine-readable data. The Runecast AI Knowledge Automation (RAIKA) technology gathers and parses information from publicly available sources of data, then uses Artificial Intelligence and human expertise to translate this into machine-usable data. Stanimir and I discuss his roots working in IBM where him and his co-founders saw a gap in the market in proactive issues management that has fueled Runecast's success today.
Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, AWS, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Elastic Stack
Web: https://runecast.com
Technology: https://www.runecast.com/how-does-runecast-analyzer-work
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