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Primary Storage is Becoming Secondary Storage Sep 19, 2023

The storage industry is increasingly focused on memory rather than traditional storage, and this reflects an architectural shift in the compute stack. This episode of On-Premise IT focuses on the new storage stack, which now includes memory, with Andy Banta, Jim Jones, Vuong Pham, and Stephen Foskett, all of whom are attending Storage Field Day 26 and SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference. The difference between memory and storage was historically based on the technology at hand, but these lines are blurring. The latest systems can address storage and memory in very similar ways, and can apply advanced data management techniques to memory as well as storage. NVMe, NAND flash, CXL, and persistent memory technologies are blurring the lines, and the latest developments in software, as highlighted at SNIA’s SDC, bring new capabilities. As memory becomes more like storage, what was once primary storage has a new job to perform further down in the hierarchy focused on data management, ransomware, and data protection.

Memory is Edging Out Primary Storage

As reflected in the Storage Field Day presentations and discussions, as well as topics at this year’s SNIA Storage Developer Conference, primary storage is increasingly adopting the traits of secondary storage. This is caused by advancements in memory technology which step into the shoes of primary storage, and a focus on secondary services from primary vendors.

Prior to Storage Field Day, Andy Banta, Jim Jones, Vuong Pham, and Stephen Foskett discussed this new storage methodology. The discussion centered around persistent memory and CXL, memory systems, memory layering, and the emerging difficulties with memory tiering. We all agreed that primary storage looks more and more like secondary, while memory near the CPU is gaining traction as “primary memory!”

Of course memory isn’t storage, so we have to consider data persistence. Despite the need for speedier data access, we will also always need persistence of stored data, and this must be more than traditional archiving. We must also consider cache coherence, since these systems will have multiple cache levels beyond L1, L2, and L3.

CXL (Compute Express Link) provides a path forward, since it will deliver system expansion and cache coherence, even though apprehensions about coherency and processor contention (components of the forthcoming CXL 3.0) have surfaced. Despite these concerns, the protocol’s widespread adoption demonstrates its momentum and potential for radical IT infrastructure transformation.

The radical rearrangement of memory and storage, the mounting significance of tiered memory, and the incorporation of breakthrough tools like CXL signal a paradigm shift in understanding primary and secondary storage. Shaping the future of the IT stack, they are ushering in a new era that both challenges and excites the industry.

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Jim Jones

Andy Banta

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Stephen Foskett

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AI Infrastructure Disrupts Enterprise IT with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage Sep 12, 2023

As enterprises try to deploy infrastructure to support AI applications they generally discover that the demands of this application can disrupt their architecture plans. This episode of On-Premise IT, sponsored by Pure Storage, discusses the disruptive impact of AI on the enterprise with Justin Emerson, Allyson Klein, Keith Townsend, and Stephen Foskett. Heavy duty AI processing requires specialized hardware that more resembles High-Performance Computing (HPC) than conventional enterprise IT architecture. But as more enterprise applications leverage accelerators like GPUs and DPUs, and become more disaggregated, AI starts to make more sense. Power is one key consideration, since companies are more aware of sustainability and are impacted by limited power availability in the datacenter, and efficient external storage can be a real benefit here. This is still general-purpose infrastructure but it increasingly incorporates accelerators to improve power efficiency. One issue for general purpose infrastructure is the concern over security, and enterprise AI applications will certainly benefit from broad access to a variety of enterprise data. Enterprise use of AI will require a new data infrastructure that supports the demands of AI applications but also enables data sharing and integration with AI applications.

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Allyson Klein

Keith Townsend

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@TechAllyson

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Justin Emerson, Principal Product Manager and Technical Evangelist – FlashBlade at Pure Storage. You can connect with Justin on LinkedIn or on Twitter. Find out more about Pure Storage and FlashBlade on their website.

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Stephen Foskett

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Once Again, Snapshots Are Not Backups Sep 05, 2023

Snapshots are still not backups but the nature of data storage means care must be taken to determine data retention requirements. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Brian Knudtson, Matt Tyrer, and Richard Kenyan discuss the nature of data protection and recovery point objectives. The rapid pace of cloud storage growth as well as the shift toward using microservices and serverless computing have added additional challenges to the definition of data that needs to be backed up. In addition, the terminology changes with major companies in the space have created confusion in features.

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Brian Knudtson

Matt Tyrer

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Firewalls Need to Evolve with Fortinet Aug 29, 2023

Security is an ever-changing technology that requires constant vigilance. Traditional models face challenges in a modern world where bad actors have better tools and methods for avoiding detection. If security teams want to stay on top of threats today they need to be sure they’re using the latest solutions to address these challenges.

In this episode, sponsored by Fortinet, Chris Grundemann, Michael Levan, and special guest Nirav Shah discuss the need for updated solutions and how Fortinet is changing the game with their Hybrid Mesh Firewall platform.

Fortinet Panelist:

Nirav Shah is the VP of Products at Fortinet. You can connect with Nirav on LinkedIn and find out more about Fortinet and their Hybrid Mesh Firewall platform on their website.

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Michael Levan

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Tom Hollingsworth

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VMware Should Focus on the Hypervisor and Networking Aug 22, 2023

As we head into VMware Explore US 2023, we are forced to consider the company’s strategy once again. Wouldn’t it be better if VMware focused on the hypervisor and networking rather than continually exploring new products and markets? That’s the question posed by Stephen Foskett to Allyson Klein, Andy Banta, and Matt Tyrer in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast. Focus isn’t a bad strategy, especially given the slow pace of development for cloud-native applications in the enterprise. And VMware’s involvement in edge computing is an enticing new market for their core technologies. But not everyone is convinced that this is the right move!

In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Stephen Foskett poses the question of focus and strategy for VMware. Allyson Klein, Andy Banta, and Matt Tyrer acknowledged the significance of VMware in the enterprise and the value of their core products, with Banta pointing out the value of moving a running Virtual Machine (VM) from one place to another, memory over-provisioning, and its capability in effectively utilizing multi-core processors. The discussion emphasizes VMware’s relevance for enterprises preferring to run their applications in a modern data center.

However, the panel expressed skepticism about VMware’s decision to diversify its focus. VMware initially gained traction by encouraging collaboration among networking, storage, and processor vendors, providing an integral platform that unified these varied technologies. But its decision to compete with these firms by branching out beyond its core competencies has raised concerns among panelists.

The panelists’ apprehension was also influenced by emerging technology trends, particularly the rise of edge development and container use. The panelists saw VMware as playing a potentially critical role in edge environments, given its established ties with enterprise IT. They anticipated VMware’s strategies for hypervisor control in multi-cloud to multi-edge settings responding to interoperability challenges.

The upcoming VMware Explore event in Las Vegas is highly anticipated by the panelists, as they look forward to insights about the company’s vision and imminent innovations. Especially significant is the fact that this event comes as the company nears takeover by Broadcom. VMware’s steps in leveraging enterprise data center applications beyond data center boundaries, suggesting its involvement in edge compute and storage, will be closely watched.

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Allyson Klein

Andy Banta

Matthew Tyrer

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Stephen Foskett

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Low Code and No Code Aren’t The Magic Solution Aug 15, 2023

Low Code and No Code automation solutions have been gaining significant popularity. Organizations are embracing them to kickstart or continue automation projects. But are they the right fit for every company? There are considerations to discuss and sizing issues that need to be addressed. You also need to understand the potential impact of having a team dedicated to a solution and not a methodology.

In this episode, Carl Fugate, John Osmon, and Girard Kavelines discuss where Low Code and No Code make sense and where you should consider using a different tool.

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Carl Fugate

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Startups are Tech Trailblazers for the Giants Aug 08, 2023

As tech giants struggle to adapt to changing business conditions, startups are quick to blaze new trails. This episode of On-Premise IT, hosted by Stephen Foskett and featuring Rose Ross, Tim Crawford, and Justin Warren, compares the tech world to an environment where small, innovative startups are advancing while larger, traditional companies fight to keep their market dominance. Companies can only flourish if they are able to understand the evolving needs of the industry, while startups can close the gap in markets they overlook. When it comes to IT products, CIOs are no longer the primary customer, necessitating a better understanding of who the target audience is and how to communicate effectively with them.

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In the fast-paced world of information technology, where the landscape is constantly evolving, small startups have emerged as the tech trailblazers, driving progress and revolutionizing the industry. The significance of these small ventures making their way in the tech world is the focus of The On-Premise IT Podcast hosted by Stephen Foskett. Joined by Rose Ross, Justin Warren, and Tim Crawford, the panel delves into the challenges faced by established companies in adapting to change and the opportunities that arise for startups to innovate.

Large, traditional companies often struggle to adapt to the rapid evolution of the tech industry, leaving them ill-prepared to meet the changing needs of consumers. On the other hand, startups thrive by identifying gaps in the market and overlooked opportunities that incumbents might have missed. This ability to innovate and offer solutions tailored to emerging customer expectations becomes the driving force behind the success of small startups.

One critical aspect that differentiates startups from established companies is their approach to understanding the customer. While larger companies may struggle to decipher the true needs of their customers, startups have the advantage of being closer to their target audience, enabling them to create products that directly address specific pain points. However, the panel notes that as startups innovate, their target audience may shift, necessitating a refined understanding of who to target and how to communicate effectively.

Startups tend to be trailblazers, envisioning and creating solutions for future problems rather than focusing solely on current issues. This forward-looking approach allows them to carve out unique spaces in the market. However, it is crucial for startups to ensure that the solutions they develop genuinely add value and fulfill the customer’s needs. Startups must avoid the trap of solving problems that may not require immediate solutions or deliver tangible benefits to their customers.

The shift towards software-dominated solutions and the leverage of open-source and cloud components have significantly reduced entry barriers for startups. Software development has become more accessible compared to hardware development, allowing startups to explore innovative ideas without significant upfront costs. Additionally, the industry’s focus on interoperability and flexibility opens doors for new companies to challenge established processes and bring fresh perspectives to existing solutions.

While startups have an advantage in being customer-centric, the panel raises concerns about the current investment model’s impact on technology innovation. Venture capitalists may prioritize investor interests over customer needs, potentially hindering genuine innovation. The Tech Trailblazers Awards recognize companies that innovate and bring value to customers, irrespective of VC funding, encouraging startups to focus on solving real-world problems.

The panel speculates on the possibility of increased collaboration among startups, where smaller ventures unite to create something more substantial collectively. This shift could redefine the perception that joint ventures are exclusively for large companies, creating new avenues for small startups to scale their impact.

Small startups have become the driving force behind the transformation and evolution of the technology industry. Their ability to innovate, understand their customers, and adapt to changing market trends sets them apart from established incumbents. As the industry continues to evolve, startups have the unique opportunity to carve out their niche and lead the way for established companies to follow suit. The podcast sheds light on the importance of nurturing the startup ecosystem, reevaluating investment models, and embracing collaborative efforts to pave the way for a thriving tech industry driven by innovation and customer-centricity.

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Rose Ross

Tim Crawford

Justin Warren

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Stephen Foskett

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Hybrid Environments Require Cloud DR Aug 01, 2023

One of the most attractive use cases for VMware was disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud infrastructure enhances this use case. That’s the topic of this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage. Cody Hosterman, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Ned Bellavance, and Stephen Foskett discuss the use case for disaster recovery in the cloud. Although each cloud platform has different virtual machine capabilities, most now have a storage platform like Pure Storage Cloud Block Store, which is available in AWS and Azure. In addition to the pay-as-you-go aspect, the consistency of operations when using a compatible storage solution between the datacenter and the cloud is extremely compelling. Once data is in the cloud it opens the door to cloud-native applications and modernizing the enterprise as a whole.

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Ned Bellavance

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Cody Hosterman, Sr. Director of Product Management – Cloud, at Pure Storage. You can connect with Cody on Twitter or on LinkedIn. To learn more about Pure Storage, head to their website.

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Stephen Foskett

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Network-as-a-Service is the End of Network Engineering Roles Jul 25, 2023

Network-as-a-Service is a new concept. Or is it? The ideas behind having someone else working on your network infrastructure are as old as the industry. With the advent of public cloud becoming the dominant form of IT consumption the industry is taking a second look at NaaS. In this podcast episode Drew Conry-Murray, Mohammad Ali, and Pat Allen discuss the definition of Network-as-a-Service, the various different kinds of adoption models that NaaS can take, and how enterprises small and large can find benefits.

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Drew Conry-Murray

Pat Allen

Mohammad Ali

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@Layer8Packet

@malief46

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**Network Testing Is Critical** Jul 18, 2023

The importance of testing cannot be understated. Network testing is more than just working bandwidth or certifying network components. Applications play an important role in determining how networks should operate. So too does the role of components integrated with each other at the unit and system level.

The sponsor of this episode, Keysight, brings a wealth of knowledge to the discussion borne from years of experience in the networking testing space. Learn how Keysight uses that knowledge and experience to the modern world of high speed Ethernet and the needs of companies deploying it at scale.

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Tim Bertino

Nick Buraglio

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@TimBertino

@ForwardingPlane

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Charles Seifert, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Hardware Platforms at Keysight Technologies. You can connect with Charles on LinkedIn and learn more on Keysight Technologies’ website. You can also scan the QR code below.

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Security is not Privacy Jul 11, 2023

Modern information security teams have a need for visibility to ensure user safety. Traffic flows and patterns are analyzed for anomalies and polices are put in place to ensure everyone is secure. However, protecting the data that you’ve collected is an even bigger task. Organizations need to ensure users have their identities and patterns hidden away from those that might use them for nefarious purposes. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Roy Chua, Karen Lopez, and Alex Neihaus join Tom Hollingsworth to debate the need for organizations to secure their enterprise but also keep user data private and why the gap between the two aims is easy to lose sight of while making business policy.

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Karen Lopez

Roy Chua

Alex Neihaus

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@WireRoy

@Yobyot

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Hardware Doesn’t Matter Anymore Jul 04, 2023

In this age of software, cloud, and platforms, custom hardware seems to be a lost art. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Joep Piscaer, Max Mortillaro, Steve McDowell, and Stephen Foskett consider whether hardware really matters anymore. Given that developers generally prioritize higher-level abstractions and platforms, they often ignoring the importance of hardware. But we can argue that optimizing hardware is crucial for efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. The importance of hardware is dependent on the specific use case or context. And developers should be educated about the impact of their hardware choices. The possibility of regulations being introduced to enforce efficiency and optimize hardware usage should also be considered.

The panelists debated whether hardware is truly relevant in today’s IT landscape. It was observed that developers often focus on higher-level abstractions and platforms, caring less about the underlying hardware. However, some panelists emphasized the importance of hardware optimization, highlighting its impact on efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. The role of hardware was seen as varying depending on the specific use case or context. While developers may not prioritize hardware, it was argued that they should be educated about its significance to make more informed decisions and consider aspects like energy efficiency.

Looking towards the future, the panelists speculated that hardware optimization could become increasingly important, especially for product vendors operating in an abstracted software-defined world. As software becomes more efficient and abstracted from hardware, there is an opportunity for vendors to differentiate themselves by offering optimized hardware solutions. They also discussed the possibility of regulations being implemented to enforce efficiency and encourage hardware optimization. This could be accomplished through measures such as introducing taxes or incentives based on hardware usage.

In conclusion, the panelists agreed that while developers may not prioritize hardware, its relevance is still important for efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. The need for hardware optimization may vary depending on the use case or context. However, there was consensus on the importance of educating developers about the impact of their hardware choices. The conversation also touched on the possibility of regulations being introduced to enforce efficiency and optimize hardware usage. For further discussion on this topic, the panelists shared their contact information, making it easier for listeners to engage with them.

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Joep Piscaer

Max Mortillaro

Steve McDowell

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Stephen Foskett

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@JPiscaer

@SR_McDowell

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Silos Are Sabotaging Your Security Strategy Jun 27, 2023

IT is full of siloes. They help ensure that experts are working on the areas they are best suited for. However, siloes are a problem for security teams. When you need information and visibility the walls insulating your other teams become a barrier. How can we address this in the security space? And what does the CIO need to know to make everyone more effective? In this episode, join Alex Neihaus, Karen Lopez, and Bruno Wollmann as we explore the impact that siloes have on our security strategy.

This episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast focuses on the challenges posed by the siloed nature of enterprise IT departments, which often hinder effective security practices. This fragmentation within organizations makes it particularly difficult to implement cohesive security measures that cover all aspects of an enterprise’s infrastructure and systems.

While enterprise IT departments are often divided into separate teams, attackers do not limit their efforts to specific silos. They exploit vulnerabilities across the entire system, necessitating holistic security measures. Recognizing this, organizations must strive to break down silos and develop cross-silo solutions to effectively protect against cyber threats.

In the realm of data security, internal threats are just as significant as external ones. Malicious actors within an organization can cause significant harm to data integrity and confidentiality. Hence, it is crucial to address internal security risks alongside external threats. This requires collaboration and cooperation between different teams, which can be challenging due to conflicting priorities and differing perspectives.

The implementation of cross-silo security solutions can sometimes lead to disagreements between teams. IT and security teams may have different approaches, preferences, or priorities, causing friction and delays in the decision-making process. However, when security and IT teams share common goals, trust can be built, leading to increased collaboration and more effective security strategies.

While security policies are essential for safeguarding organizations, they can be poorly implemented in technology, resulting in tension between IT and security teams. In some cases, security measures can impede the smooth operation of systems or restrict the flexibility required by IT teams. Striking a balance between robust security and operational efficiency is crucial for ensuring the overall success of an organization’s security efforts.

To achieve optimal security, it is necessary to maintain awareness of security issues. However, information overload can sometimes lead to a lack of understanding of the underlying technology. It is important to strike a balance between staying informed about security threats and vulnerabilities while ensuring that IT professionals possess a deep understanding of the technologies they work with. This helps bridge the gap between security and IT teams and facilitates effective collaboration in implementing security measures.

To address the challenges posed by siloed IT departments and enhance security, organizations should consider adopting a more balanced approach. This entails breaking down silos through education, support, and increased visibility into business needs. Additionally, job descriptions within IT departments should evolve to reflect the importance of cross-functional expertise, encouraging the cultivation of generalists who possess knowledge in networking, database management, and application development. By fostering collaboration and eliminating silos, organizations can achieve a more robust and comprehensive security posture that aligns with business objectives.

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Karen Lopez

Bruno Wollmann

Alex Neihaus

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@WollmannBruno

@Yobyot

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Constant Rebranding is Ruining Your Sales Cycle Jun 20, 2023

You may be intimately familiar with brands and their products for some lines but not everything is iconic. Companies rebrand products all the time in order to get rid of per performers or try to increase sales. In the world of enterprise IT does that mean it’s more difficult to figure out what you’ve bought? Or how best to support it? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Zoe Rose, Eric Steward, and Josh Warcop discuss the challenges faced in constant rebranding and how your efforts to put on a fresh face may lead to hard feelings.

In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, the panel discusses the negative impact of constant rebranding in the IT industry. They highlight how the confusion caused by changing product names and lack of documentation creates challenges for users and customers. The panelists share their experiences with Cisco’s security products and the difficulty of identifying and understanding the specific functionalities of each product. They also discuss the frustration of dealing with outdated domains and the need to constantly relearn and adapt to new product names.

The conversation then shifts to the importance of market education and how the constant rebranding hinders the sales cycle. The panelists express concerns about not having enough time to learn about the products they are working with or supporting, which affects their ability to provide effective sales solutions. They emphasize the need for clear documentation and product comparisons to help users make informed purchasing decisions.

The panelists acknowledge the challenges of maintaining consistent branding and the potential confusion it can create. They mention examples like Cisco Catalyst switches, which can refer to access points or routers, and Apple’s macOS versions, which have undergone multiple name changes. While consistency can be beneficial, it can also lead to problems when expectations are not met. They discuss the balance between leveraging existing brand reputation and avoiding negative associations or becoming synonymous with subpar products.

The panel also explores the concept of genericized trademarks, where a brand name becomes synonymous with a specific product category. They highlight Palo Alto’s success in becoming synonymous with application-level firewalls and how this can both benefit and harm a company’s reputation. Finally, they discuss the challenge of leveraging acquired brands like Meraki to reshape perception and whether it’s a positive move for a company like Cisco. They debate the trade-offs between simplicity and the loss of complexity, emphasizing the importance of understanding the target market’s needs and skill levels.

Overall, the panel agrees that constant rebranding can have a detrimental effect on sales cycles and customer perception. They stress the significance of clear documentation, market education, and finding a balance between consistency and adaptability in branding strategies.

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Josh Warcop

Zoë Rose

Eric Stewart

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@Warcop

@RoseSecOps

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Machine Learning is Best Suited for Security Jun 13, 2023

Although artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and large language models, is in the news, it isn’t very useful in enterprise IT. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Karen Lopez, W. Curtis Preston, Michael Levan, and Stephen Foskett discuss the use case for AI in security. The panel acknowledges that machine learning can be beneficial in identifying anomalies and patterns that humans may overlook. It can assist in generating policies, templates, and rule sets, as well as providing best practices based on aggregated data. However, they also express concerns about the responsible use of AI and the need for training models on specific environments to ensure effectiveness. They highlight the importance of having the right data sets and the challenges of dealing with the black box nature of machine learning. Despite potential exploits and limitations, they agree that AI is currently the best tool available for detecting and addressing security threats, such as data exfiltration and unauthorized access.

In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast the discussion focuses on the use of AI in enterprise security. They emphasize the potential benefits of AI, particularly machine learning and large language models, in identifying anomalies and patterns that might go unnoticed by human analysts. By leveraging AI, organizations can generate policies, templates, and rule sets that enhance security measures. Furthermore, AI can provide valuable insights and best practices based on aggregated data, assisting security teams in making informed decisions and strengthening their defenses.

Despite these advantages, the panel also raises concerns about the responsible use of AI in security. They emphasize the necessity of training models on specific environments and datasets to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of AI systems. Without proper training, AI algorithms might produce false positives or negatives, leading to inadequate security measures or unnecessary alarm. This highlights the importance of utilizing relevant and high-quality data sets to achieve optimal results.

Another challenge discussed in the podcast is the “black box” nature of machine learning models. While AI algorithms can detect and flag suspicious activities, it can be challenging for human operators to comprehend and interpret the reasoning behind those decisions. The lack of transparency poses difficulties in understanding the rationale of AI systems, potentially impeding the ability to trust and effectively utilize them for security purposes.

In spite of these challenges, the panel unanimously agrees that AI, at present, is the most powerful tool available for detecting and addressing security threats. It can effectively identify data exfiltration attempts, unauthorized access, and other malicious activities. The panel members emphasize the importance of continuously refining and enhancing AI models to adapt to evolving threats and changing attack techniques.

Overall, the discussion offers a balanced view of the use of AI in security. While acknowledging the potential advantages of AI in augmenting human capabilities, the panel highlights the need for responsible implementation, proper training, and ongoing refinement of AI systems. By leveraging the power of AI and combining it with human expertise, organizations can bolster their security defenses and effectively combat sophisticated threats.

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Michael Levan

W. Curtis Preston

Karen Lopez

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Stephen Foskett

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@TheNJDevOpsGuy

@WCPreston

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Predictive Site Surveys Don’t Work Jun 06, 2023

Can a remote predictive wireless survey achieve the same results as something on-site? Can the current generation of modeling give you the assurances that your design is going to work? And does the coming future of AI-driven development offer any additional capabilities that we don’t see today? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Kerry Kulp, Peter Mackenzie, and Mohammad Ali discuss the trends of predictive surveys and how we can improve overall design satisfaction.

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Kerry Kulp

Peter Mackenzie

Mohammad Ali

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@KeKulp

@MackenzieWiFi

@malief46

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Cloud Workload Repatriation is a Real Problem May 30, 2023

Enterprise IT is constantly oscillating between centralized and distributed, and we’re currently in a period of repatriation of workloads from the cloud. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast features three delegates from Cloud Field Day 17, Joey D’Andoni, Eric Wright, and Jason Benecicic, discussing the reality of repatriation of cloud applications with Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT. Pundits constantly tout the money they save by repatriating from public cloud, but this might not be the best choice especially for smaller organizations. The only way to ensure functionality between on-prem, hybrid, and public cloud is to use them and use each where it is the best solution. Repatriation is especially challenging for today’s SaaS-oriented businesses, since most of these solutions can’t be run on-prem. But even workloads that can be run outside the cloud will likely require re-architecting to run locally. Yet many companies are developing software to ease the transition to and from the cloud, and these make it much easier to repatriate.

Finding the Cloud’s Sweet Spot: Navigating Workload Challenges and Unleashing the Power of Hybrid Solutions

Enterprise technology has witnessed a pendulum swing between centralized and distributed models, with the cloud representing a distributed approach. However, challenges persist in determining the suitability of cloud for different workloads, considering factors like performance and cost profiles. This has prompted a reevaluation of the cloud’s effectiveness for certain applications.

Early cloud adopters often faced the realization that their expectations of cost savings and architectural understanding were not always met. This led to a shift back to on-premises environments. However, technological advancements have reignited the assessment of the cloud’s true cost-effectiveness, highlighting the ongoing challenge of predictability that software solutions have yet to fully address.

The initial allure of cloud services was driven by the expertise and offerings of major providers like AWS and Microsoft, which catered to specific purposes and modern workloads that organizations couldn’t handle internally. Over time, hardware advancements and distributed skill sets made running workloads in the cloud more manageable. However, challenges arise when evaluating the benefits of on-premises solutions, particularly for technology-focused organizations with substantial investments and engineering staff.

The polarized narrative of being exclusively “all-in” or “all-out” of the cloud fails to recognize the value of hybrid models and the nuanced decision-making required for different workloads and architectures. It is crucial to move beyond trends and focus on evaluating applications and workloads based on their specific needs, using sensible and proven approaches.

The cloud offers flexibility, burst capacity, and programmable workload deployment, making it suitable for certain tasks. Instead of abandoning the cloud solely based on cost considerations, organizations can adopt a hybrid approach, strategically choosing which workloads are best suited for on-premises environments and which benefit from the cloud’s capabilities.

To optimize cloud adoption, organizations must continuously evaluate their strategies, leveraging tools and evaluating cost models to determine which workloads may be better suited for on-premises environments. Challenges related to storage performance, costs, and capturing accurate metrics must be addressed to ensure cost-efficiency and predictable outcomes.

The perception of the cloud as “broken” often stems from human decisions and reluctance to deviate from established practices. Embracing advancements in self-service, automated provisioning, and comprehensive analytics can help organizations overcome these challenges and fully leverage the benefits of the cloud.

As organizations continuously revisit their cloud strategies, the focus should remain on evaluating specific workload needs, leveraging the strengths of the cloud, and incorporating practical solutions. The industry must prioritize teaching the new generation of technologists the nuances of selecting the right tools for the job, ensuring that cloud adoption decisions align with business objectives and generate significant returns.

Finding the right balance between on-premises and cloud-based solutions remains a critical task for enterprises. It requires a nuanced approach, considering workload requirements, cost-effectiveness, performance, and scalability. By embracing hybrid models, leveraging cloud strengths, and making informed decisions, organizations can navigate the complexities of cloud adoption and unlock the full potential of modern enterprise technology.

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QLC SSDs Are Ready for Mainstream with Solidigm May 23, 2023

As NAND flash memory technology has evolved, MLC, TLC, and QLC has been perceived to compromise both reliability and performance. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, we confront the reality of Quad-Level Cell (QLC) SSDs, shedding light on their capabilities and suitability for today’s workloads. Roger Corell of Solidigm, who sponsored this episode, discuss QLC SSD with Karen Lopez, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett. The industry is increasingly embracing the benefits of QLC SSDs for mainstream workloads, and this discussion debunks common misconceptions, emphasizing the equivalent reliability, performance, and quality of QLC, TLC, and MLC SSDs. With the shifting landscape of read-intensive workloads and the growing data demands, QLC SSDs offer an efficient and cost-effective solution for mainstream applications.

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Karen Lopez

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Roger Corell, Director Solution Marketing at Solidigm. Find out more about Solidigm’s SSDs and other products on their website.

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The Rise of QLC SSDs for Mainstream Workloads

As technology evolves, there are often trade-offs between reliability, performance, and capacity. This has been especially true in the world of NAND flash memory, where multi-level cell (MLC) technology has long been perceived to compromise both reliability and performance. However, in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Solidigm, industry experts confront the reality of Quad-Level Cell (QLC) SSDs, shedding light on their capabilities and suitability for today’s workloads. Roger Corell of Solidigm is joined by Karen Lopez, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett, in a discussion of the advantages of QLC SSDs.

In recent years, workloads have shifted towards being more read-intensive, aligning perfectly with the capabilities of QLC flash technology. Solidigm’s fourth-generation QLC SSD drives are a testament to this evolution, delivering impressive capacities of up to 32 TB, a wide range of high-density form factors, and cost-effectiveness tailored for mainstream workloads. These SSDs have even made their way into new form factors like EDSFF E3, offering improved cooling and density for applications beyond traditional data centers and the cloud.

One of the persistent misconceptions surrounding QLC SSDs is the belief that increased bit per cell density significantly impacts read performance. However, the latest generation of QLC products provide equivalent read performance to TLC SSDs, effectively debunking this perception. Users can expect reliable and fast read speeds, enabling efficient data access and retrieval.

Another concern often raised is the potential compromise of write performance in QLC SSDs. However, Solidigm’s latest QLC drives offer write performance that is within 20-67% of certain TLC SSDs, making them highly suitable for mainstream and read-intensive workloads. Furthermore, these drives boast impressive endurance with 3,000 program/erase (PE) cycles, ensuring their reliability and longevity even under demanding usage scenarios.

Contrary to the belief that QLC compromises reliability and performance, Solidigm emphasizes that QLC, TLC, and MLC SSDs all offer equivalent quality and reliability in terms of drive reliability and data integrity. By optimizing technology for specific use cases, any expected differences can be effectively alleviated, providing peace of mind for organizations adopting QLC SSDs.

The need to efficiently store and access vast amounts of data is on the rise. With read-intensive workloads becoming more prevalent and the ever-increasing size of AI models and HD movies, QLC SSDs prove to be an ideal solution for mainstream and read-intensive workloads. These drives can handle the demands of data-intensive applications, providing the required speed and capacity while maintaining cost-effectiveness.

The discussion also highlights the value and extended lifespan of solid-state storage. Retired systems often have significant life left in them, demonstrating that the limited write cycles of NAND flash isn’t usually a restriction. It is likely that QLC SSDs will similarly outlast the servers in which they are used.

As the perception-reality gap narrows, the industry is increasingly embracing the benefits of QLC SSDs for mainstream workloads. The panel’s insights debunk common misconceptions, emphasizing the equivalent reliability, performance, and quality of QLC SSDs. With the shifting landscape of read-intensive workloads and the growing data demands, QLC SSDs offer an efficient and cost-effective solution for organizations across various sectors, empowering them to unlock the full potential of their data-driven initiatives.

We Gave Away Too Much To Get Wi-Fi 6E May 16, 2023

The industry is excited to implement Wi-Fi 6E with all the new devices coming out. Even with regulatory challenges the world is ready for faster connectivity and more reliable signal. But those same regulatory challenges are just part of the myriad of issues. Standards bodies, marketing teams, and even users themselves are asking why it’s taking so long to implement Wi-Fi 6E even after it has been brought to market faster than any Wi-Fi standard in the past. Is that because we gave up too many things to get it here? In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth talks to Sam Clements, Avril Salter, and Mario Gingras to find out whether Wi-Fi 6E got here so fast because we left so much of it behind.

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Don’t Just Store Your Data, Make It Useful with Hammerspace Orchestration May 09, 2023

There is a wide gap between storing data and making it useful, and it is getting worse with the growing volume of unstructured data. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast presented to you by Hammerspace, delegates Justin Warren and Chris Evans get together with Hammerspace’s Head of Global Marketing, Molly Presley, to drill into the pains of managing unstructured data, and learn how Hammperspace addresses them with data orchestration. Data orchestration takes the one-dimensional approach of storing data, to the next level that is cleaning, organizing, enriching and making data accessible across systems. It makes it possible to move large volumes of data across distances. Not bound by any one data or infrastructure type, data orchestration helps businesses handle new kinds of complex data and keep up with their changing uses.

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Justin Warren

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Molly Presley, Head of Global Marketing at Hammerspace. Connect with Molly on LinkedIn or learn more on the Hammerspace website.

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Stephen Foskett

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Key Points

Data orchestration involves the movement and utilization of data regardless of its location or format. The challenges posed by unstructured data and the rise of edge computing have emphasized the need for efficient data orchestration solutions. Over the past two decades, the transition has shifted from structured to unstructured data, requiring complex workflows and interconnections between different data types. Unstructured data, such as genomics data, microscopy data, and multimedia data, necessitates effective data orchestration for proper management and utilization.

Technology advancements have enabled the decoupling of metadata from individual storage systems, allowing for distributed orchestration and flexibility in leveraging unstructured data. The focus is now on leveraging technology to enable desired actions with data, rather than being constrained by traditional tools. The shift towards NoSQL databases and data lakes reflects the need to make both structured and unstructured data useful and break free from tool limitations. Efficient data orchestration enhances workflows by facilitating data transformations, metadata application, collaboration, archival, retrieval, and interaction, while allowing for flexibility in storage systems and applications.

Data orchestration removes friction and simplifies access to data by eliminating the need to remember specific storage systems or locations. It empowers users to repurpose or modify data efficiently. By separating the storage system from data management, a more flexible approach is achieved, where storage focuses on security, performance, and accessibility, while data policies and actions can be layered on top for effective organization and utilization. Skilled professionals, often referred to as data architects or librarians, play a vital role in managing and organizing information across different storage systems.

The longevity of data is an important consideration, as it often outlasts storage systems and applications. Automation plays a crucial role in ensuring data remains accessible even when the original creators are no longer present. Curation, similar to the role of librarians curating books, is essential for data management. Data curators ensure data quality, facilitate migration between mediums, and appropriately dispose of unnecessary or sensitive information. Frictionless access to data is critical, as its value diminishes when it cannot be easily accessed and utilized. Data management and data orchestration are interconnected, with orchestration facilitating the movement and presentation of data to applications and users while adhering to front-end and back-end policies. The complexity and volume of data necessitate a robust orchestration model to unlock its true value, and advancements in AI engines and commercial products are emerging to meet the evolving needs of data businesses.

Private 5G Can’t Be Simplified For Enterprises May 02, 2023

Private 5G is coming to the enterprise near you. Deploying this hot new wireless and mobility technology is a great way to overcome challenges with Wi-Fi and allow IoT devices to be provisioned quickly in remote locations. But with new technologies come new complexity. Can Wi-Fi engineers figure out how to make these two solutions co-exist? And does the complexity of 5G radio technology mean we have to choose between one or the other? In this episode, Avril Salter, Troy Martin, and Keith Parsons discuss the complexity of Private 5G and whether or not it can be simplified for the enterprise.

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Tom Hollingsworth

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The Edge is a Real Place Apr 25, 2023

Although the Utilizing Edge podcast dives deep into the topic of edge computing, it’s worth considering the topic from other perspectives. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast features Andy Banta, Jim Jones, and Gina Rosenthal discussing the reality of edge with Stephen Foskett, host of Utilizing Edge. After a quick consideration of the various devices that could be considered edge, from mobile phones to 5G base stations to software to Intel NUCs, we discuss the requirements and demands of edge computing. But there are many similarities with datacenter and cloud, including virtual machines and containers, Kubernetes and firewalls, hyper-converged infrastructure and SD-WAN.

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Stephen Foskett

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Lock In Is The Enemy Apr 18, 2023

The term “lock in” gets thrown around a lot in IT. It’s the reason why we spend so much time engineering solutions that don’t make us dependent on technologies. But does it really matter in the long run? Is the treatment for lock in really better in the end? Does it matter if it’s in the enterprise or in the cloud? And are we finding ourselves locked in slowly or all at once? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Jody Lemoine, Snehal Patel, and Steve Puluka join Tom Hollingsworth to discuss the pros and cons of lock in and how it might not be as bad as you’re imagining.

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Jody Lemoine

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Tom Hollingsworth

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APIs Are Ruining Networking Apr 11, 2023

Every piece of software has an API now. If you want to interact with the program you’re going to need to write a program of your own. Are you ready to learn? Should companies still be expected to have a CLI available for the non-programmers? And does the ease of accessing a published API create more problems than it solves? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Jody Lemoine, and Steve Puluka discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having easy access to everything at your fingertips via the API.

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Jody Lemoine

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Databases and Storage Systems Are Converging Apr 04, 2023

Storage systems and databases are becoming increasingly alike. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast recorded at the recent Storage Field Day event in California, delegates – Glenn Dekhayser, Jim Czuprynski and Denny Cherry, join host Stephen Foskett, to chew over this. In what ways are storage platforms and databases alike? Are they only different in the way they store data, or is the distinction purely based on the IT personas using them? Watch the panel explore the ins and outs of modern arrays and databases, and dissect into why, despite their likeness, the two exist side by side. Learn how databases and storage platforms treat data differently. Hear them list down the properties that separate the two.

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Glenn Dekhayser

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Stephen Foskett

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Enterprises Need Security Specialists to Succeed with Fortinet Mar 28, 2023

The prevailing cybersecurity skills shortage has impacted security teams around the world and their ability to protect against today’s threats. As decision makers analyze the potential remedies to this issue, how should they proceed? Is automation the answer? Should you be investing in cybersecurity training programs to advance your employees’ skills and expertise? Should you look at bringing in third party experts to help you close the gap? Or is it a combination of all three?

In this episode, brought to you by Fortinet, Melissa Palmer, Chris Grundemann, and Karin Shopen of Fortinet dive into the state of the modern enterprise and cybersecurity skills, and the solutions that can help security teams combat the talent shortage in the short and long term.

Fortinet Panelist:

Karin Shopen, Vice President of Cybersecurity Solutions and Services at Fortinet. You can connect with Karin on LinkedIn. Learn more about how Fortinet’s SOC-as-a-Service and Cybersecurity Assessments and Readiness Services can help combat the challenges of the skills gap and better protect against cyber threats. In addition, find out how the Fortinet Training Institute can help security professionals advance their skills and help organizations build the cyber workforce of tomorrow.

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Mellisa Palmer

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Big Storage Is Everywhere! Mar 21, 2023

Ever since IBM introduced external storage in the mainframe age the concept of big storage keeps changing. This special episode of the On-Premise IT podcast includes Storage Field Day 25 delegates Ray Lucchesi, Andy Banta, and Rohan Puri considering the current state of enterprise storage, from the datacenter to the cloud. Although every device and computer has storage of one sort or another, the market still has a tremendous appetite for dedicated storage hardware, software, and services. Storage for different use cases can be wildly different as well, from IoT and edge to machine learning and analytics to databases to the cloud, and each of these have different solutions. But it’s all big storage, and big storage will continue to grow and diversify.

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Andy Banta

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Stephen Foskett

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IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network Mar 14, 2023

IP address management in the era of IoT and BYOD is a total torment, especially for growing organizations. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast, recorded at Tech Field Day event in California, delegates Aaron Conaway, Jeffrey Powers and Michael Davis take the lid off the pain points of managing DNS and DHCP in large networks. Learn about the current methods of network administrators, and know why they are inefficient at best, and messy at worst. Hear the experts give their verdict on what could be the most elegant solution for administrators.

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Aaron Conaway

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Stephen Foskett

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The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems Mar 07, 2023

There’s a lot of bad news coming out of the IT industry, especially large service providers and suppliers, but overall things aren’t as bad as it sounds. This episode of On-Premise IT features Andy Banta, Nico Stein, and Geoff Burke, who will be attending Tech Field Day this week, discussing the state of the industry with Stephen Foskett. Many tech companies, especially hyperscalers and online services, over-hired, and over-purchased, during the pandemic and have handled the resulting pull-back and layoffs particularly poorly. But supply chain constraints are normalizing and companies outside Silicon Valley are purchasing and hiring again, and this can help offset these losses. Leading-edge startups and new technologies continue to see investment and uptake, and these are the companies that will lead the industry out of this tech recession.

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Stephen Foskett

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Is Encrypted Traffic Monitoring Worth It? Feb 28, 2023

In the race to make our users safer, have we reduced our visibility? Encrypting traffic with TLS everywhere means that our users can use online banking and protect their privacy without worry of theft or eavesdropping. However those same protections also obfuscate malicious traffic and keep our security personnel from finding attackers. Should we implement newer methods of analyzing encrypted traffic? Is it reliable? Or are we just guessing? In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth, Jasper Bongertz, and Dominik Pickhardt discussed whether or not encrypted traffic monitoring is really worth it.

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Jasper Bongert

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter Feb 21, 2023

Even though most of the technologies and infrastructure elements are the same, the nature of edge comping is entirely different. This episode of On-Premise IT features Edge Field Day delegates Enrico Signoretti, Allyson Klein, and Alastair Cooke discussing these differences with Stephen Foskett. Many edge environments look a lot like the datacenter, with servers, switches, storage, virtualization, and more. Other environments resemble clouds, with Kubernetes, hyper-converged, and containerization. All of these technologies are being deployed in a different way, and they are transformed by being adapted to use at remote locations.

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Allyson Klein

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Stephen Foskett

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Stop Building Snowflakes Feb 14, 2023

Uniqueness is the enemy of consistency. We spend our time building custom environments and then find our efforts to automate them fail. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, John Kilpatrick, Jody Lemoine, and Vince Schuele highlight all the reasons why we’ve spent our careers tailoring the needs of the infrastructure to the workload. They also discuss why it’s important to understand how things need to be accomplished and how automation and orchestration systems need to be tuned to work with our design philosophies. Learn why you shouldn’t build snowflakes but also how to avoid being buried under a blizzard of design decisions.

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Is XDR Only for Security Teams? Feb 07, 2023

XDR is the latest exciting solution that will fix all of your security woes. It will break down siloes in your organization and reduce response time to intrusions. But is it a tool that only the security team can use? Or is it something that requires buy-in from the whole organization? In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth, Zoë Rose, and Dominik Pickhardt discuss XDR and how it can be leveraged by the entire organization to help secure your assets and users.

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Storage as a Service is More Than Financial Engineering with Pure Storage Jan 31, 2023

Although the move from capital to operational expenses is important, many organizations expect more than financial engineering from their storage as a service. This episode, sponsored by Pure Storage, is a discussion of the various ways storage can be delivered and consumed as a service. Taruna Gandhi of Pure Storage discusses this premise with Chris Grundemann, Max Mortillaro, and Stephen Foskett. First we tackle the question of capital versus operational expenses and alignment of business and IT. Next we consider whether companies need ownership of storage or just access to appropriate capacity. Finally we discuss the creation of a true managed service and the transition to the cloud.

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Max Mortillaro

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Taruna Gandhi, Product Marketing Executive | Cloud Management and Infrastructure, Pure Storage. You can connect with Taruna on LinkedIn. Learn more about Pure Storage’s Storage as a Service here.

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Stephen Foskett

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It’s Time to Repatriate Applications from the Cloud Jan 24, 2023

Although the definition of hybrid cloud is loose, it’s inescapable that organizations are getting smarter about locating applications on-premises as well. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Michael Levan and Jon Myer join Stephen Foskett to discuss on-premises IT. It can seem that this discussion is driven by cost, but companies are actually getting a lot smarter and considering how to make the best use of resources in any location. In addition to on-prem versions of cloud platforms, OpenStack is still being deployed and OpenShift allows transparent location of applications. For Kubernetes applications, Rancher, Portainer, Lens, Arc, Anthos, and more. Cloud Field Day includes presentations from SoloIO, Forward Networks, and Fortinet, and all of these are important solutions for modern cloud as well. Cloud technology is a breath of fresh air for the datacenter and the people who work in modern IT, as applications are repatriated to the modern hybrid cloud.

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Stephen Foskett

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Enterprise IT Doesn’t Care About A Recession Jan 17, 2023

Is enterprise IT capable of weathering a recession better than any other area of business? The vendors of the technology would have you believe that they’re not going to be affected by a coming slowdown in purchasing. The analysts say that there is trouble brewing on the horizon. What is it about infrastructure that makes it more likely to be a safe bet? In this episode, Tim Bertino, Ethan Banks, and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the various ways that investing in tech helps grow business but also the potential pitfalls of companies that think they’re bigger than the economic indicators.

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Tim Bertino

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Hybrid Cloud is Evolving Into the Multicloud with NetApp Jan 10, 2023

The whole concept of the cloud is evolving, from traditional datacenter to cloud-native applications to the next generation of hybrid cloud. This episode of On-Premise IT, sponsored by NetApp, features Arjan Timmerman, Vuong Pham, Stephen Foskett, and Phoebe Goh discussing the evolved cloud. Data gravity and sovereignty is leading enterprises to reconsider the platforms chosen to host their applications. Although terms like hybrid cloud, private cloud, and multicloud are changing, customers care more about functionality and practical applications. Data must be made available both inside and outside the datacenter but it must be managed and protected in these locations and comply with regulations and industry best practices. Businesses are increasingly using multiple cloud services as well, from public IaaS to their own datacenter Kubernetes environment. This makes it especially difficult when considering data services and tools since they must support a wide variety of platforms.

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Vuong Pham

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Phoebe Goh, Product & Marketing Leader at NetApp. Connect with Phoebe on LinkedIn and on Twitter. Learn more about BlueXP from NetApp here.

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Stephen Foskett

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Flash Memory Won’t Replace Disk Drives, Let Alone Tape Jan 03, 2023

Flash maybe the shiny new toy that enterprises are beguiled with, but it’d be wrong to prophesy that flash would put older technologies like disk and tape out of business. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast, host Stephen Foskett talks with guests from the IT world – Jim Czuprynski, Richard Kenyan, and Ray Lucchesi about the growing prominence of solid state drives and what it means for disk and tape. Learn how the older storage media are keeping pace with the meteoric rise of flash, and if there will come a time when these older options will fall out of favor.

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Jim Czuprynski

Ray Lucchesi

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Stephen Foskett

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The Edge is Real This Time Dec 20, 2022

Edge computing is getting more real every day. What emerged as a viable architecture to support distributed computing has now taken center stage. So, as it stands now, how do we define edge? What technologies make up the edge in 2022? Is it truly coming together as a computer paradigm or is it just another term that came out of the marketing mill to disappear tomorrow or be used for something else?

Filmed in Santa Clara, California, in this On-Premise IT Podcast, Stephen Foskett, and Tech Field Day delegates Voung Pham, Sr Solutions Architect, Ken Nalbone, Solutions Architect and Joey D-Antoni, Principal Consultant, answer all these intriguing questions about the edge making the concept hopefully a little bit clearer.

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Joey D’Antoni

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Stephen Foskett

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Security Isn’t The WiFi’s Fault Dec 13, 2022

Wireless is the new edge. Almost every client out there, whether a laptop or phone or IoT sensor, uses Wi-Fi to connect to the network. What happens when security gets in the way? How can we keep our devices safe but ensure that users or headless systems are capable of connecting without issue? How should our security team be involved in the discussion? Do you agree that Security Isn’t The Wi-Fi’s Fault?

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Dr. Avril Salter

Mohammad Ali

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Tom Hollingsworth

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Enterprises Should Be Looking for CloudOps Devs Dec 06, 2022

A major hurdle in the path to deploying cloud-based technologies is skill shortage. It’s a crisis many organizations are struggling with, and it is slackening their cloud progress. The story behind this makes perfect sense. Modern CloudOps isn’t the same as it was in the starting. With the advent of hyperconnectivity, cloud computing is about adopting rapidly to new technologies. That demands high levels of cloud computing skills. The reason that is in short supply is because cloud professionals are on a steep learning curve. They are upskilling as the industry is evolving. This gap can potentially put a pause on enterprises’ digital transformation projects.

In this On-Premise IT podcast recorded at the recent Cloud Field Day event in Silicon Valley, IT experts Gina Rosenthal, Phoummala Schmitt and Becky Elliott put a finger on what precisely entails CloudOps and what skills enterprises should be looking for.

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Gina Rosenthal

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Stephen Foskett

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The Initial Journey to the Cloud is Over with NetApp Nov 29, 2022

After nearly two decades since the first use of cloud computing in modern IT, organizations have completed the first phase of their journey into cloud, and now, the next stage of the transition begins. In this episode of On-Premise IT podcast, brought to you by NetApp, host Stephen Foskett and panelists, Joey D’Antoni and Max Mortillaro, and Jeff Baxter from NetApp, discuss the unfolding of the cloud transition. Although the migration to cloud part is over for the most part, the journey hasn’t been the same for every company. Not every organization’s itenerary was packing and leaving for the cloud. There are organizations that consciously chose to leave a section of their workloads on-premises, or maybe even move things back on-premises after running them on public cloud because that made the most sense. But whatever curve organizations followed, it appears that they have worked out what and whether to migrate to cloud, a decision that was shrouded in ambiguity in the early stages.

On-Premises for Today’s Spotlight Podcast:

Panelists

Max Mortillaro

Joey D’Antoni

Twitter

@JDAnton

NetApp Panelist

Jeff Baxter, Product & Marketing Leader at NetApp. Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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It’s Too Hard to Collaborate in Automation Nov 22, 2022

Ineffective collaboration between teams in automation leads to lack of clarity that translates to pointlessly doing the same work over and over again. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast, presented by RackN, host Stephen Foskett delves into this problem with Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Keith Townsend, and Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO at RackN to discuss ways in which the walls between teams can be knocked down. RackN sees reusable automation as the way to reduce toil and improve communication. RackN builds automation workflows that are universally usable across teams, so that every time a new feature is added, or a bug is fixed, it is accessible to all teams. Listen to this podcast to learn how collaborative automation saves time and effort, and how RackN achieves it with IaC automation.

On-Premises for Today’s Spotlight Podcast:

Panelists

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Keith Townsend

Twitter

@CTOAdvisor

RackN Panelist

Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO of RackN. Connect with Rob on LinkedIn and the RackN website.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Hybrid Work has Vastly Increased the Enterprise Threat Surface Nov 15, 2022

The threat surface of our enterprise has increased dramatically because our enterprise now includes remote workers. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Jasper Bongertz, Jon Myer, and Evan Mintzer discuss the ways in which our organizations face increased challenges with securing workers that are outside our enterprise defenses. Find out how organizations are trying to solve issues with personal devices as well as home internet traffic filtering. Hear how professionals are using tools more effectively to prevent attacks and reduce dwell time for potential threats.

On-Premises for Today’s Podcast:

Panelists

Evan Mintzer

Jon Myer

Jasper Bongertz

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@EvanMintzer

@_JonMyer

@PacketJay

Twitter

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Security has to be Integrated into the Entire IT Stack Nov 08, 2022

Modern storage systems increasingly have data security capabilities, but these need to be part of a complete security solution to be effective. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Dell Technologies, takes on the premise that security must be integrated throughout the entire IT stack to be effective. Join Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Pete Gerr of Dell Technologies, Enrico Signoretti, and Girard Kavelines as they consider the state of the art in security. No matter what security capabilities a system has, they won’t protect the business unless they are integrated with applications and the end user workflow.

On-Premises for Today’s Spotlight Podcast:

Panelists

Girard Kavelines

Enrico Signoretti

Twitter

Dell Technologies Panelist

Pete Gerr, Senior Consultant, Cybersecurity Portfolio Marketing at Dell Technologies. Connect with Pete on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Where Have All The Objects Gone? Nov 01, 2022

Although object storage goes back decades in the enterprise datacenter, it’s nowhere near as dominant as it is in the cloud. That’s the question Stephen Foskett puts to some of the Storage Field Day delegates in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast. Glenn Dekhayser suggests that AWS S3 has created a data gravity well that is turning into a data singularity for object storage in the cloud, and this might drive adoption of this technology in enterprise. Richard Kenyan came into storage later and saw much greater adoption of enterprise object storage, so maybe we’re just overlooking it? Jim Czuprynski comes from a DBA background so he always thinks of storage as objects, and suggests that databases are the logical future for storage. What is an object store really? Is it a database? Is it about the metadata and structure? Or is it defined by being application-integrated? All of these questions cloud the market, leaving us to overlook the vast world of enterprise object storage.

On-Premises for Today’s Podcast:

Panelists

Jim Czuprinski

Richard Kenyan

Glenn Dekhayser

Twitter

@RichardKenyan

@GDekhayser

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Subscription Services are Strangling Enterprise IT Oct 25, 2022

Subscriptions have moved up from meal kits and streaming services to all of technology. In just a few short years, enterprise IT has transitioned into a service-focused industry that makes a lion’s share of its revenue from subscription services. The subscription model instantly got a wild reception because now you can subscribe to anything you want. But on the flip side, now you will never own anything. The subscription economy has been on the rise for a while now and many would argue its merits, but speaking specifically of IT, this everything-as-a-service also has a darker side that is still largely undiscovered.

That is the premise of today’s discussion. In this On-Premise IT podcast, Stephen Foskett and our panel of delegates from the IT world, Andy Banta, Vuong Pham and Pete Robertson, take the subscription revolution, one of IT’s biggest business trends and distill it to reveal the less-exciting side of it.

On-Premises for Today’s Podcast:

Panelists

Andy Banta

Vuong Pham

Pete Robertson

Twitter

@vCloudPete

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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The Future of Datacenter is Serverless Oct 18, 2022

Despite all the hardware and software changes that have come to the datacenter, the server has remained the primary unit. But new technologies, from CXL and silicon photonics to virtualization and containers, is challenging the entire concept of a server. In this episode, Craig Rodgers, Chris Reed, and Chris Hayner join Stephen Foskett to consider the end of the server itself. The first step in this evolution was the move to external storage, followed by blade servers, and now complete disaggregation and composability. On the contrary, a virtual machine or container can already be seen to be a logical server, while microservices and webscale eliminates the very idea of a server. Are we building a new mainframe or rack-sized servers? Will people really adopt this concept or is it completely the wrong direction?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Hayner

Craig Rodgers

Chris Reed

Twitter

@Hayner80

@CraigRodgersms

@TheCMReed

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge Oct 11, 2022

The network has moved from the edge to the core and on to the cloud. We have added intelligence throughout and tried to make things easier for professionals to manage. However there are still areas that need improvement. As we increase the ways we can extend our network we need to ask ourselves if we should. The best example is the network edge. In this podcast we discuss the idea that Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Aaron Conaway

Eric Stewart

Tony Mattke

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@AConaway

@BotFodder

@Tohne

Twitter

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You Don’t Need Wi Fi 6E Today Oct 04, 2022

The world of wireless is advancing quickly and new protocols and hardware are coming into the market. Manufacturers are pushing the latest and greatest technologies around Wi-Fi 6E. Are you ready to embrace it? Should you be looking at it today? Or is this more of something to adopt later? In this episode we debate the premise that You Don’t Need Wi-Fi 6E Today.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Landon Foster

Manon Lessard

Mohammad Ali

Mark Houtz

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

Twitter

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It’s The End of VMworld as We Know IT Sep 27, 2022

To the IT community, the VMworld is an Ops conference like no other. But things are about to change. The in-person VMworld events stopped with the pandemic back in 2019. Now VMware is back with another conference, but it’s not quite the same as VMworld. A lot has changed in this time. VMware was acquired by Broadcom for one. And on the heels of that, VMworld became VMware Explore. Is it just post-merger rebranding, or is this the end of VMworld as we know it?

Recorded at VMware Explore 2022 US in San Francisco, this podcast explores the question that the entire IT community is scratching its head about. Brian Knudtson, Gina Rosenthal and Alastair Cooke join Stephen Foskett in this discussion that tries to define the ways in which VMworld has changed and what to expect from the future VMware Explore conferences.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Alastair Cooke

Gina Rosenthal

Brian Knudtson

Twitter

@DemitasseNZ

@BKnudtson

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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IT Infrastructure Companies Don’t Understand Developers Sep 20, 2022

Enterprise IT companies are fixated on developers as a new market for IT infrastructure products, but it seems like they don’t even know what the term means. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings Joep Piscaer, Nathan Bennett, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker together with Stephen Foskett to talk about the new world of developer-focused enterprise tech.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Nathan Bennett

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Joep Piscaer

Twitter

@vNathanBennett

@JPiscaer

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Storage Admins Aren’t Ready for Infrastructure as Code Sep 13, 2022

Storage has historically not been compatible with modern infrastructure as code concepts, so today’s administrators probably aren’t ready for this change. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, Larry Smith and Jim Czuprynski discuss the evolution of storage with Anthony Lai-Ferrario of Pure Storage and Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT. Moving storage forward requires process and organizational changes as well as the application of new technologies. But of course an evolution to storage as code also requires technical changes like the creation of complete APIs and integration with modern frameworks. What can today’s storage admins do to get ready? Start looking at storage as a service to be provisioned and matched to an SLA, embrace public cloud concepts and technologies, and try to script and automate every component of the infrastructure stack. Anthony recommends starting with the interfaces supported by your storage solution, then pick a tool that allows you to start working, and finally put scripts and tools into version control. This helps bridge the gap between manual configuration and infrastructure as code.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Jim Czuprynski

Larry Smith Jr.

Twitter

Pure Storage Panelist

Anthony Lai-Ferrario, Product Manager for APIs and Developer Experience. Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Observability Needs to Be Smarter Sep 06, 2022

In the modern world of enterprise IT it’s important to keep an eye on your systems. But the amount of data that is being generated makes it very difficult to know what’s happening and how to fix issues. Companies are touting the latest advances in ML and AI to help solve the issue but does Observability Need to be Smarter?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Steve Puluka

Pete Welcher

Micheline Murphy

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@PJWelcher

@MichyfishMurphy

Twitter

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Real Cloud Hybrid Storage Doesn’t Exist Aug 30, 2022

There is a long-standing dream of hybrid cloud that combines the best of datacenter and cloud architecture, but does this exist for storage? In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Enrico Signoretti and Chris Evans join Molly Presley of Hammerspace and Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT to discuss the reality of hybrid cloud storage. Like a hybrid car, the dream of hybrid cloud is to bring the best of two different infrastructure approaches together in a truly unified fashion. But most hybrid cloud solutions fail deliver on this promise in terms of technology, protocols, management, security, and usability. Can a true hybrid cloud storage solution exist? And what will it take to bring this to market? Hammerspace is creating a global data environment rather than simply hybrid cloud storage, with the goal of enabling IT to manage data while users simply access a single namespace.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Evans

Enrico Signoretti

Twitter

@ChrisMEvans

Hammerspace Panelist

Molly Presley, Head of Marketing at Hammerspace. Connect with Molly on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN Aug 23, 2022

VXLAN changed the way we use layer 2 networking in the data center and solved a lot of our multitenancy problems. Today it’s inexorably linked with EVPN. Do you need to use VXLAN with EVPN? Are there alternatives? And how does the cloud change the conversation? In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons behind how EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Cummings

Vince Schuele

Jay Stewart

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@Dreadders2

Twitter

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Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation Aug 09, 2022

The modern enterprise network is excited by the prospect of network automation. But is automation a new idea? Or is the enterprise finally catching up to where other disciplines have been all along? In this episode featuring delegates from Networking Field Day: Service Provider, we discuss how Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Steve Puluka

John Osmon

Charles Uneze

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@JohnOsmon

@Network_Charles

Twitter

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Wireless is Not Mission Critical Jul 26, 2022

The world is more wireless now than ever. No matter where you go you’ll find some form of wireless connectivity. But what about those applications that need to be more reliable? What about those places where you need it to work no matter what? Is wireless reliable enough? Or is wireless not mission critical?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Reed

Troy Martin

Shaun Neal

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@TheCMReed

@TroyMart

@SV_Neal

Twitter

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Multi-Cloud is Inevitable Jul 19, 2022

What really is multi-cloud and why does it keep coming up so often in the context of enterprise cloud computing models? If you know anything about cloud computing, you’d know that the hottest thing in the cloud domain right now is multi-cloud – a model companies are incrementally adopting to keep their applications and services distributed across public and private clouds, and now edge cloud platforms. Seeing that that’s the status quo for a majority of the enterprises in cloud, the big question is – is multi-cloud inevitable? Are companies that have not embraced it yet also headed in that same direction? Are all vendors in the future going to have a cross-cloud service portfolio to support the multi-cloud movement? Or is it just another trend that’s having its 15 minutes of fame? On this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Stephen Foskett is joined by a panel of delegates who drills into these questions to bring clarity to the topic of multi-cloud and what the future looks like for this model.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ather Beg

Chris Hayner

Ned Bellavance

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@AtherBeg

@Hayner80

Twitter

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You’re Using the Word Site Survey Wrong Jul 12, 2022

In wireless we talk about doing site surveys but do we actually know what that means? Are we even talking about the same thing when we mention in as part of a pre-sea engagement or post-sales validation? And who should be doing it? In this episode, our group of wireless experts discuss the premise and whatever or not we are Using the Words Site Survey Wrong.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Dr. Avril Salter

Jennifer Huber

Keith Parsons

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@JenniferLucille

Twitter

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The Future of Storage Isn’t Purely Hardware or Software Jul 05, 2022

The development of enterprise storage has historically oscillated between a focus on special-purpose hardware and optimized software. In this episode, brought to you by Pure Storage, Justin Emerson, Justin Warren, and Marc Staimer join Stephen Foskett to discuss this push and pull. Modern storage systems are extremely complicated, with layers of virtualization, different protocols, intelligence, tiered media, and scalability. All of this complexity makes the design of a storage system more difficult, so a company like Pure that can control the entire stack is able to deliver a more efficient system.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Justin Warren

Marc Steimer

Twitter

@ChiefDS

Pure Storage Panelist

Justin Emerson, Technology Evangelist. Connect with Justin on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Is AI Supplementing Our Skills or Deskilling Us? Jul 01, 2022

Can you imagine a world without AI? It’s a bit too late for that because in a short time AI has become an inseparable part of our lives. Imagine typing without the autocorrect feature or building a playlist without recommendations. AI has undeniably made our lives easier in a lot of ways, but there’s a debate forming around it. By saving us the trouble of doing certain things, is AI ultimately deskilling us? Is it robbing us of our natural ability to do the mundane things like learning how to spell a word? Some would argue that it is saving us time and bandwidth doing the routine things that take little imagination or intelligence for us so that we can focus on more important and pressing matters? In this episode of On-Premise IT podcast, Stephen Foskett is joined by a panel of industry experts who dissect this premise in search of a black and white answer.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ray Lucchesi

David Kanter

Peter Mackenzie

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@RayLucchesi

@TheKanter

@MackenzieWifi

Twitter

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Consistent Security is Very Difficult Jun 28, 2022

Security is a hard job. We spend our time analyzing our environment and building controls to keep our users and their data safe. As hard as security can feel it’s even harder to apply consistently. Attackers only have to get lucky once. Is your company using security in a reactionary mode? Or are they planning ahead with policies and platforms designed to prevent exposure? In this episode, sponsored by Fortinet, we discuss why Consistent Security is Hard.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Matt Haedo

Larry Smith

Twitter

@MattHaedo

Fortinet Panelist

Vince Hwang, Senior Director of Cloud Security. Connect with Vince on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Networking is Too Complex Jun 24, 2022

The more advanced a technology becomes, the more complex it appears. Is that always the case? Or is the complexity in networking coming from something besides the technology itself? Are there reasons why networking gets more and more complex as the years go by? Are we just doing this to ourselves? Is Networking Too Complex?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Jordan Villarreal

Jason Gintert

Martin Duggan

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@SystemMTUOne

@BitsInFlight

@MartinCcie7942

Twitter

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The Cloud is More Than Just an API Jun 21, 2022

Pretty much every application today has an API and scales out using modern infrastructure approaches, but is it a cloud? That’s the question we put to the panel of podcast guests today, as we look forward to Cloud Field Day 14 in June 2022. Certainly APIs are important to cloud applications, but it takes more than an API to be a cloud. The cloud operating model, and as-a-service financial models, are just as important, as are automated provisioning and scaling and hands-off management. All of these things existed historically in enterprise IT but never came together the way they do with today’s cloud services, and this is what makes them unique.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Lino Jan Telera

Nico Stein

Brian Knudtson

Craig Rodgers

Karen Lopez

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Twitter

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Full Stack Engineering is a Joke Jun 17, 2022

You may have engineering talent on staff but how full are they? Because you must have a full stack engineer, or you’ll never get anything accomplished. What is a full stack engineer? Why are they so in-demand? And why are there no full stack lawyers? Or full stack doctors? In this episode, we discuss whether or not Full Stack Engineering is a Joke.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Keith Townsend

Dan Kelcher

Bruno Wollmann

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@CTOAdvisor

@IPSwitch

@WollmanBruno

Twitter

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Does Enterprise IT Matter Anymore Jun 14, 2022

Enterprise IT has endured a significant number of changes in the past few years. The rise of the cloud coupled with a global pandemic forcing users to work remotely has made stakeholders ask about the need to replace hardware for a location that doesn’t see much traffic. Coupled with the desire of hardware vendors to move to a subscription model, it’s time to ask Does Enterprise IT Matter Anymore?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Drew Conry-Murray

Troy Martin

Remington Loose

Jody Lemoine

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

Twitter

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Sometimes the Best Storage is No Storage Jun 07, 2022

The line between storage and memory is blurring thanks to Intel Optane technology, and systems equipped with this might not need storage at all. Join Dr. Jawad Khan of Intel as he discusses a real-world system that was able to outperform a high-end solution at a tenth the cost thanks to Intel Optane technology. Justin Warren and Frederic Van Haren join Stephen Foskett to discuss the implications of a system that can keep an entire big data graph in persistent memory and thus does not need as much memory or high-performance storage. Dr. Khan uses Intel’s winning entry at the recent NeurIPS Conference Big ANN Challenge competition as an example, in which the Intel offering returned 4x better CAPEX and OPEX than alternatives.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Justin Warren

Frederic Van Haren

Twitter

@FredericVHaren

Intel Optane Panelist

Jawad Khan, Principal Engineer at Intel. Connect with Jawad on LinkedIn or on Twitter.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Relevant Links for Intel Optane:

Winning the NeurIPS BillionScale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge

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IT is Always Reinventing the Wheel May 31, 2022

Companies are reinventing things all the time in IT. In their own fields, when venturing out to new ones, it seems that every company is trying to do things their own unique way, albeit trying to bring something new and incredible to the market, but there is a fallacy to this approach that’s foiling their good intentions. Enterprise IT companies don’t seem to communicate much amongst themselves and that is causing them to repeat each other’s mistakes, develop partial solutions to full size problems, and as secure as they’re in their own silos, wouldn’t it be great if they came together and talked to each other, share their decades of experience, talk technologies, exchange their thoughts and help clear the doubts of one another? As we enter a new era of enterprise IT, it may be time to end this disengagement and communicate more, for the good of their own business and cater better to the customers they’re serving.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Aaron Conaway

Keith Parsons

Ben Story

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@AConaway

@Ntwrk80

Twitter

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People Don’t Realize How Insecure Their Storage Is May 24, 2022

Most people assume that storage systems are secure, but security is not necessarily part of the design for most storage systems. In this episode, sponsored by RackTop Systems, Marc Staimer and Arjan Timmerman are joined by Eric Bednash and David Hughes of RackTop to discuss the real state of storage security. Although cybersecurity professionals have processes and directives in place in many spots within modern IT infrastructure, most do not have robust security practices within the domain of storage. RackTop sees this as a “doors and windows” problem, with a misplaced sense of perimeter security that does not match modern architecture. How do we secure storage in modern environments? The key to the RackTop solution is to monitor the behavior of storage access and use this to infer their motives and act to intervene. The system then acts based on policy to set up an active defense of the data accessed through the RackTop system.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Marc Staimer

Arjan Timmerman

Twitter

@ChiefDS

@ArjanTim

Pure Storage Panelist

Eric Bednash, CEO, RackTop Systems. Connect with Eric on LinkedIn.

David Hughes, Director Sales Engineering, RackTop Systems. Connect with David on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Relevant Links for RackTop Systems:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/racktop-systems
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RackTop
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RackTop
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6978638
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/myracktop

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AI Needs Specialized Storage May 17, 2022

Given the announcements of just about every company in the industry, it appears that AI requires specialized storage to function. In this special episode, recorded prior to AI Field Day, Andy Banta and Karen Lopez join Stephen Foskett to discuss the relationship between storage, data, and AI. We’ve seen lots of companies, including AI Field Day presenters DDN, NetApp, and WEKA, selling their high-performance distributed storage solutions for AI workloads. But is this just the nature of modern storage or is it truly linked to AI systems? It seems that much of this depends on the specifics of the AI application, whether it is used for training, the size and nature of the data set, and the specific use case. We should also consider what we mean by AI. Is it image recognition, autonomous driving, or a massive data set like GPT-3 or DALL-E? Just as with all such architecture questions, the answer is it depends on the specific use case.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Andy Banta

Karen Lopez

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Twitter

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VPNs Aren’t Required Anymore May 10, 2022

The technology behind VPNs is venerable. Heavy clients that create client networking issues coupled with key exchanges makes users want to throw their hands up in dismay. Applications have integrated security features and moved to the cloud to provide centralized access. Are VPNs even worth it any more? In this episode, brought you by Keeper Security, we debate the premise that VPNs Aren’t Required Anymore.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Girard Kavelines

Evan Mintzer

Twitter

@EvanMintzer

Pure Storage Panelist

Zane Bond, Director of Product Management, Keeper Security. Connect with Zane on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Developer Advocacy Isn’t Exactly What We Think It Will Be May 03, 2022

Many companies are trying to leverage DevOps to sell products through developer advocacy, but does it actually work? Just having open source or sharing code on GitHub doesn’t guarantee that a company will get quality engagement, let alone testing or adoption. In fact, a developer focus can be counter-productive if a company wants to become a strategic partner to other companies. Open source works great to spread and develop software, but self-centered developer-focused marketing isn’t the same thing. Is it true engagement or is it a one-sided effort to attract customers and leverage free talent? If companies focus on real developer engagement, advocacy will take care of itself.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Andy Banta

Gina Rosenthal

Josh Warcop

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@Warcop

Twitter

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Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular? Apr 19, 2022

Wireless is the new normal for endpoint connectivity. But does it solve all the problems we have with connecting lots of devices over a wide area? Are there places where Wi-Fi doesn’t work as well as other technologies? With the rise of private cellular deployment options IT departments are asking whether or not they should be considering alternatives to traditional Wi-Fi. In this episode, a panel of experts answers the question Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Guest

Özer Dondurmacioglu, VP Marketing, Celona

Panelists

Troy Martin

Shaun Neal

Dr. Avril Salter

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

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Too Much Security is Just as Bad as No Security Apr 05, 2022

We all know how dangerous it is to have no security around your important IT assets. We need to keep the users safe and the infrastructure secure. What happens when we go overboard and implement too many polices and tools to protect things? Are we really helping the situation? Or are we just making it worse for everyone, including the people that rely on us to get their work done? In this episode, our panel of security experts discuss whether or not Too Much Security is Just as Bad as No Security.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Gerard Kavelines

Zoë Rose

Dominik Pickhardt

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@RoseSecOps

@NetworkAutobahn

Twitter

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In 2022, Ransomware Attacks Will Dissipate Mar 22, 2022

We’ve seen the peak of ransomware attacks in 2021. More and more attackers have started going after critical targets and trying to extort money from their victims. In 2022, will this continue? Or will the responses to the threat landscape have an impact? In this episode, the premise is that in 2022, Ransomware Attacks Will Dissipate.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Hayner

Steve Puluka

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@Hayner80

Twitter

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Storage is Insecure Mar 15, 2022

Storage is not secure, period. Storage has security weaknesses that can open doors to attackers to easily hack into sensitive data stores, and this is not news. Security vulnerabilities in storage have existed for years, but not much has been done about it. Today, on the face of rising ransomware attacks, when data security is supremely important, storage is still the weakest link in security. In this On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast, Stephen Foskett and his guests discuss this situation to find a strategic solution to poor security in storage.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Enrico Signoretti

Jeffrey Powers

Andrea Mauro

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@Geekazine

@Andrea_Mauro

Twitter

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Firewalls Don’t Seem To Belong Everywhere Mar 15, 2022

The typical approach to security is to just put some firewalls in place and create a perimeter, right? While that might work well in very specific enterprise settings reality is more nuanced, especially in a service provider. In this episode we discuss why Firewalls Don’t Seem to Belong Everywhere.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Nick Buraglio

Chris Cummings

Vince Schuele

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@ForwardingPlane

Twitter

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Next-Generation Storage is Not Storage Anymore Mar 08, 2022

Looking at the new companies in enterprise storage, it’s obvious that storage just isn’t storage anymore. Even more traditional storage vendors are adding software as a service and data services, and these are major selling points rather than the ability to store data. At Storage Field Day in March 2022, none of the companies is presenting block and file storage, SAN or NAS, or any of the other traditional storage technologies. Is the storage array “a solved problem” or are we just looking at the new application-centric market? Pure Storage is perhaps the most traditional storage company presenting this week, but they’re coming to talk about Pure1 and storage as a service. The same is true of companies like Hammerspace and SIOS that are focused on data distribution and availability. VAST Data, RackTop Systems, Fungible, and MinIO are developing storage solutions but they are aimed at special use cases, like data analytics, security, high-performance, and cloud. Then there’s Intel, who is coming to Storage Field Day to give an update on their Optane technology, which promises to fundamentally change the entire storage paradigm. Clearly, next-generation storage isn’t storage anymore, it’s something altogether new and different!

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Erik Ableson

Andy Banta

Enrico Signoretti

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@EAbleson

Twitter

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Reactive Security Controls Are Not Enough Mar 01, 2022

The modern world of security is transforming quickly. Attackers are leveraging new tools and new ways to invade systems and capture data or demand ransoms. The traditional method of securing your enterprise isn’t enough any more. If you’re thinking in a reactive way you’re falling behind and may never catch up. In this episode we discuss all the ways that Reactive Security Controls are Not Enough.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Justin Warren

Scott Driver

Twitter

@VTsnowboarder42

Pure Storage Panelist

Andy Stone, CTO for the Americas at Pure Storage. Connect with Andy on Linkedin.

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Web3 is Bunk Feb 24, 2022

You’ve probably heard of Web3 but how do we actually define it? We know that it has something to do with connecting the web to a blockchain but the true definition of Web3 is unclear. We can all agree that there are exciting aspects of Web3 but why are we doing this? We can already do a lot of things without Web3, from online banking to distributed applications. Do we really need a blockchain? Is being used for what it was intended for? In this episode we take on the premise that Web3 is bunk.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Brian Knudtson

Craig Rodgers

Jim Czuprynski

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@BKnudtson

@CraigRodgersMS

Twitter

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Link: My First Impressions of Web3

The Hypercloud is More Important Than the Cloud Feb 15, 2022

As public cloud becomes more popular and competitive, developers are adopting cross-cloud platforms that can be thought of as a hypercloud. One driver for this is high availability, but many platform decisions are driven by a desire for more advanced features. Still, we must be aware of data gravity and the complexity involved with these platforms. Kubernetes is the ultimate example of a hypercloud platform, but many vendors are producing compelling tools that sit above the cloud and replace the proprietary offerings of public cloud providers. Is it time for the hypercloud? Is the traditional cloud dead?

Companies Mentioned: Red Hat OpenShift, Kasten by Veeam, NetApp, Pure Storage, IBM cloud satellite, VMware

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Adam Fisher

Enrico Signoretti

Glenn Dekhayser

Jim Czuprynski

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Twitter

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Disruptive Technologies Get Buried Feb 08, 2022

How many times have we heard of an exciting new advance in enterprise IT that is poised to revolutionize the way we do things only to see it fizzle out? Perhaps it’s bad business practice but what about those that were acquired by bigger companies and disappear? Is it a bit of bad luck? Or is it something more sinister? In this episode we explore the idea that Disruptive Technologies Get Buried.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Carl Fugate

Ed Weadon

Kerstin Mende-Stief

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@CarlFugate

@AvalonHawk

@Fraustief_in_IT

Twitter

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2022 Will Be the Same For Technology As 2021 Jan 11, 2022

Have you ever watched a movie sequel that felt just like the previous one but with slightly newer references? That’s how 2021 felt compared to 2020. In 2022, will we see the technology landscape shift dramatically? Or will it feel like the past twelve months but with faster speeds and lower costs? Join a group of forward-looking thinkers on this episode as we decide whether or not 2022 will be the same year for technology as 2021 or not.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Stephen Foskett

Chris Grundemann

Tim Crawford

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@TCrawford

Twitter

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Can Disaggregation Solve Lock-In Problems? Dec 21, 2021

Disaggregation is the future of networking. Decoupling the operating system and software from the hardware will give us the freedom to build the networks we’ve always wanted to use without the restrictions of bundling bad parts together. But does this freedom really exist? Are we going to have the future we’ve always dreamed of? Or does disaggregation lead to other lock-in problems? Join us for this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable where we discuss the advantages and issues with network disaggregation.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Nick Buraglio

Chris Cummings

Vince Schuele

Orhan Ergun

Rati Jokhadze

Faisal Khan

Drew Lentz

Kerstin Mende-Stief

Kevin Myers

David Penaloza Seijas

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

Twitter

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A Service Provider Network is Not Your Enterprise Network Dec 07, 2021

Networking is networking, right? It’s all the same routers and switches that move packets between locations. How different can they really be? Join Tom Hollingsworth as he brings on a panel of service provider networking experts to dissect the differences between the traditional enterprise network and a service provider or transit network. What are the ultimate goals of your infrastructure? And who is the customer? When you finish listening to the episode, will you agree that A Service Provider Network is Not Your Enterprise Network?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Nick Buraglio

Chris Cummings

Vince Schuele

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@ForwardingPlane

Twitter

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You’re Not Ready to Deal with Unstructured Data Nov 30, 2021

Unstructured data is varied in nature and continues to grow, especially in our new world of telematics, multimedia, and AI. In this sponsored episode, Amy Fowler of Pure Storage joins Gina Rosenthal, Enrico Signoretti, and Stephen Foskett to discuss the challenge of dealing with unstructured data. With IDC estimating that 85% of user data will be unstructured, the challenge isn’t to provide structure but to develop solutions that can handle data as it is. Today’s object storage systems offer extreme scalability, high performance, cost-effective, and offer API-based integration with applications to offer a world of possibilities for analytics and insights. This is an area where developments in data storage systems can help improve business outcomes and potentially benefit the world at large.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Gina Rosenthal

Enrico Signoretti

Twitter

Pure Storage Panelist

Amy Fowler, VP, Strategy & Solutions, FlashBlade Business Unit at Pure Storage. Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Data Rates Don’t Change Cell Size Nov 23, 2021

When designing Wi-Fi networks, there are a number of buttons that you can push to help make the perfect setup to maximize coverage and throughput. Depending on the application you use to do the work you may find some buttons easier to use than others. However, the most popular value to change seems to be the data rate. Is this a good idea? Or are you just setting yourself up for failure? In this episode, will we find out that Data Rates Don’t Change Cell Size?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Sam Clements

Jake Snyder

Mohammad Ali

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@Samuel_Clements

@JS nyder81

@Malief46

Twitter

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Heavy Containers Shouldn’t Exist Nov 09, 2021

Containers were supposed to be lightweight and stateless, unlike the heavy virtual machines that dominate today’s datacenter. In this first on-premises episode in two years, Stephen Foskett puts the question of heavy containers to Ned Bellavance, Nico Stein, and Nathan Bennett. Containers were intended to abstract system services rather than hardware like virtualization, and this results in their light and stateless nature. But this is a result rather than a necessary quality of containers, and companies are increasingly deploying heavy containers with multiple application components and data. As microservices applications rise, so do container management systems, and these are increasingly including light, heavy, and system service containers for networking and storage. Should heavy containers exist?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ned Bellavance

Nico Stein

Nathan Bennett

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@NicoAStein

@vNathanBennett

Twitter

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The Cloud Is Finally Ready For the Enterprise Oct 26, 2021

The question of cloud readiness has plagued the enterprise for a decade, but we have finally gotten to the point that enterprise IT is coming to the public cloud. Some of the drivers for cloud adoption include the pandemic and work-from-anywhere as well as the current shortage of chips and equipment. But there is a pull for cloud as well, now that applications have evolved to the point that they work better in the cloud enterprises are making the switch. Applications like collaboration and email belong outside the firewall, and cause more trouble than they’re worth inside the datacenter. Enterprises today have a difficult decision to make on a per-application business: Does this belong in the datacenter? Hybrid cloud? Public cloud? Software as a service? And there are many considerations to make, from security to ownership to cost.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Jim Jones

Nico Stein

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@K00laidIT

@NicoAStein

Twitter

Join us on November 3–5, 2021 for another exciting Cloud Field Day event, where you can learn more about the premise of this episode. Also, follow us on Twitter! AND SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

Data Protection Software Doesn’t Solve Ransomware Issues Oct 12, 2021

The rise of massive ransomware outbreaks has led to a number of strategy changes, including the pivot of disaster recovery and business continuity companies into marketing their solutions as an effective way to stop ransomware. But are these products really going to solve the issue? Or just treat the symptoms of the wider problem?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Scott Driver

Bruno Wollmann

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@VTsnowboarder42

@WollmannBruno

Twitter

Join us on October 20–22, 2021 for another exciting Security Field Day event, where you can learn more about the premise of this episode. Also, follow us on Twitter! AND SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

You Need To Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone If You Want To Learn Sep 28, 2021

Techies are inherently curious, and magic happens when they step outside their area of expertise and really dig into something new. That’s what we’re talking about this week on the On-Premise IT Roundtable with a set of delegates from Tech Field Day 24. We’re mixing disciplines and breaking down the walls between industry verticals and learning about everything from IoT to storage to container management to smart networking. When we see things we don’t know, we can spot novel approaches and try to bring them to our own realm.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Drew Lentz

Denny Cherry

Chris Hildebrandt

Chris Maki

Evan Mintzer

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Twitter

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Will Working From Anywhere Destroy Enterprise IT? Sep 14, 2021

With a hybrid work model now a reality for a growing number of enterprise employees, IT departments are now rethinking the way they deploy their resources. One of the big questions is what happens during the next upgrade cycle. Are IT budgets going to be cut? Do we need full-featured devices in an office no one is going to visit? Should that spending be shifted to the end users or to cloud services? Will working from anywhere be the end of enterprise IT?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Jody Lemoine

Girard Kavelines

Tim Bertino

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@TimBertino

Twitter

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Service Mesh Is a Use in Search of a Problem Sep 07, 2021

Today, it seems like every cloud vendor is pitching a service mesh, but is this really necessary? In this episode, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Ned Bellavance, and Jason Benedicic join Stephen Foskett to discuss the value of a service mesh to modern application stacks. In theory, a service mesh facilitates communication between services and microservices in modern applications. It also provides a data and management plane to today’s scalable applications and can improve security and flexibility. But a service mesh is built of proxies, and this adds multiple layers of complexity to already-complex containerized application platforms. Before companies deploy a service mesh, they should consider whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Jason Benedicic

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Ned Bellavance

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@JABenedicic

Twitter

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Hype and Reality Are Not Related Aug 31, 2021

The history of information technology is bound up with hype. In this discussion, Tech Field Day 24 delegates Paul Stringfellow, Robert Novak, and Craig Rodgers discuss the endless parade of hype with Stephen Foskett. Whether it’s 5G or edge or disaggregated infrastructure or the cloud, every technology goes through a wave of hype before it becomes reality. How can we tell what a technology will really deliver and what’s just marketing talk? The famous Gartner Hype Cycle is more about marketing than the reality of technology adoption, and a product can be good or bad regardless of the amount of hype surrounding it. That’s one thing the delegates are watching for during the Field Day events! Amazingly, hype can even be productive in pushing change and adoption of new concepts, and even product development to meet these inflated expectations.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Craig Rodgers

Paul Stringfellow

Rob Novak

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@CraigRodgersms

@TechStringy

@Gallifreyan

Twitter

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When is it Time to Scrap Everything in Storage and Start Over? Aug 17, 2021

In today’s ever-shifting enterprise IT landscape, when is the right time to completely respec your storage setup? Should you tear it all down and start over? Should you learn from the past and keep some of the old ways?

When it comes to innovating storage practices in a changing world, there are a lot of opinions on how to do it. Join host Stephen Foskett and his round table of esteemed guests from around the storage industry as they discuss these questions and more.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Wolfgang Stief

David Klee

Dan Frith

Ralph Ronzio (Pure Storage)

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

Twitter

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It’s Time to Embrace the Bottlenecks in Storage Aug 03, 2021

Storage administration has always been about fighting bottlenecks, but today’s architecture means it’s time to embrace them instead. In this episode, our panel discusses the premise that it’s most important to match bottlenecks to the position in the infrastructure stack and application. One reason for this is the amazing bandwidth and low latency we have, thanks to Optane PMEM, NVMe, flash, and other technologies, but another is the emergence of new technologies that enable disaggregated architecture, moving storage closer to the application.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Christian Mohn

Rob Koper

David Klee

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@H0bbel

@50mu

@KleeGeek

Twitter

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Technical Debt Will Bankrupt Your Modern Apps Jul 27, 2021

Traditional IT architecture is a poor fit for modern applications and holds us all back. So-called technical debt can pile up, forcing companies to spend time and money supporting legacy infrastructure for the sake of keeping it running rather than moving the company forward. In this special episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, we discuss the modern application stack and how technologies like object storage and Kubernetes are allowing companies to break free from their technical debt once and for all.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Arjan Timmerman

Thom Greene

Twitter

@ArjanTim

@ThomTalksTech

Pure Storage Panelist

Shawn Rosemarin, VP of Worldwide Systems Engineering at Pure Storage. Connect with Shawn on LinkedIn or on Twitter @ShawnRosemarin

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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High Availability Is the Worst Reason to Go Multi-Cloud Jul 20, 2021

Multi-cloud has quickly become a buzzword in the enterprise IT industry, but as organizations start to adopt multi-cloud strategies, their reasoning behind the switch may not justify the act itself. Although a multi-cloud approach can increase an organization’s availability, that alone doesn’t warrant introducing the complexity and costs that come with multi-cloud. Listen to this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast to hear how host Tom Hollingsworth and our esteemed guests unpack the concept of multi-cloud and uncover more impactful reasons than just high availability to consider adopting multi-cloud.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ather Beg

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@AtherBeg

Twitter

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Is Enterprise Wireless the Key to Bringing Workers Back to the Office? Jul 06, 2021

The world is starting to recover from the pandemic. People are starting to ask if it’s time to return to the office. And more than a few aren’t ready to go back. At the same time, employers are trying to find a way to get people back, and they’re asking questions about the infrastructure. Could new fast wireless access points be the tipping point? In this episode, we discuss whether or not new wireless networks are enough to bring workers back to the office.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Mike Wade

Landon Foster

Rocky Gregory

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@WirelessKahuna

@AceHighWiFi

@BionicRocky

Twitter

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DNS is Critical for Modern Cloud Jun 29, 2021

Cloud is the way that we consume our media, content, and even perform our jobs. We rely on it daily to live our lives. And cloud relies on services to ensure prompt delivery and reliable service. We know networking and storage are critical. What about the other services that we don’t always see? In this episode, we explore the importance of DNS to the way modern cloud operates and decide whether or not DNS is critical for the operation of modern cloud. Special thanks to BlueCat Networks for their partnership with this episode.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Larry Smith

Ather Beg

Twitter

@AtherBeg

BlueCat Panelist

Andrew Wertkin, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at BlueCat. Connect with him on Twitter @AWertkin

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Enterprise IT Has Transformed Public Cloud Jun 22, 2021

Cloud computing has transformed enterprise IT, but it is perhaps less obvious how traditional concepts like data protection and high availability have infiltrated the public cloud. In this episode, Cloud Field Day 11 delegates Max Mortillaro, Adam Post, and Thom Greene join Stephen Foskett to discuss the many ways that cloud computing has adapted to the demands of the enterprise. This has been called “inside-out” computing, since it takes the things that have been run inside the datacenter out to the public cloud, as opposed to the “outside-in” approach, which brings concepts like Kubernetes and DevOps to the enterprise.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Max Mortillaro

Thom Greene

Adam Post

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@ThomTalksTech

@Semi_Technical

Twitter

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Humans Aren’t Smart Enough to Manage Storage Jun 15, 2021

With so much data at the average organization’s disposal, the task of storing it all — and storing it in an effective manner — seems to be quickly becoming more than humans can handle on their own. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, host Stephen Foskett is joined by Pure’s Prakash Darji, as well as IT luminaries, Gina Rosenthal and Chris Grundemann, to discuss how IT organizations can smartly manage their storage. SPOILER ALERT: it looks like it’s time to let machines like Pure Storage’s FlashBlade do the storage management work for us.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Gina Rosenthal

Chris Grundemann

Twitter

Pure Storage Participant

Prakash Darji, General Manager, Pure Storage Digital Experience Business Unit. Connect with Prakash on LinkedIn.

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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Composable Infrastructure Will Save the Data Center From the Cloud Jun 08, 2021

With the rise of Kubernetes and other completely cloud-based deployments, on-premises data centers seem to be on the way out to make way for the scalability and dynamism of the cloud. Innovations in data center and AI composability showcased by Xilinx and Micron at the last Tech Field Day event as well as those displayed by Liqid at the recent AI Field Day event, however, might say otherwise. By defining infrastructure operations through software — much like how the cloud does — and building it on top of faster, more capable hardware, data centers can act at the speed of business, saving them from being outdated and outmatched by cloud-based infrastructure.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Frederic Van Haren

David Klee

George Wagner

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@FredericVHaren

@KleeGeek

@WeAreLiqid

Twitter

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We Have Reached the End of the SSD Era Jun 01, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Evans

Enrico Signoretti

Twitter

@ChrisMEvans

Pliops Participant

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

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

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The Enterprise is Not Ready for AI May 25, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Frederic Van Haren

Ayodele Odubela

Chris Grundemann

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@FredericVHaren

@DataSciBae

Twitter

Be sure to join us for AI Field Day May 27-28, 2021! Follow us on Twitter! AND SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

Traditional Network Monitoring Tools Can’t Keep Up With Modern Environments May 11, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Teren Bryson

John Herbert

Rita Younger

Bruno Wollmann

Darrel Clute

Twitter

Cisco Participants

Prab Singh, Product Lead, Internet & WAN at Cisco

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

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Are Our Networks Just Becoming Cloud Service Providers? May 04, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Terry Slattery

Chris Cummings

Pieter-Jan Nefkens

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

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@PJNef

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Multicloud Is the True Driver of SASE and SD-WAN Adoption Apr 27, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Kevin Myers

Teren Bryson

Jordan Martin

John Herbert

Nick Buraglio

Twitter

Cisco Participants

Steve Wood, Principal Marketing Engineer at Cisco

Jamey Heary, Chief Security Architect at Cisco

Darrin Miller, Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

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Is It the End of the Server as We Know It? Apr 13, 2021

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?

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

John Obeto

Denny Cherry

Jason Collier

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@2Obeto

@MrDenny

@BocaNuts

Twitter

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Private LTE Won’t Displace WiFi Mar 30, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Lee Badman

Keith Parsons

Jennifer Huber

Twitter

@WiredNot

@JenniferLucille

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Do We Need To Toss Out Hacked Software? Mar 23, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ben Story

Teren Bryson

Rita Younger

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

@Ntwrk80

@SomeClown

@SDN_Girl

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Is Security Just A Bunch of Products? Mar 16, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Grundemann

Avril Salter

Kori Younger

Twitter

@SDNDaughter

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Kubernetes Needs Data, Not Storage Mar 09, 2021

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.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Michael Ferranti (Pure Storage)

Adam Fisher

Larry Smith

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@FerrantiM

@BonzoVT

Twitter

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What Is The Fate of VMware? Mar 02, 2021

With the recent departure of Pat Gelsinger and other executives, VMware finds itself in uncertain times. Rumors have swirled for months about plans to spin it out, leverage the stock to take parent Dell public again, or even purchase the stake outright and make them a part of the organization proper. With deadlines looming later this year, what happens to the tech titan when time’s up? Join us on this episode of the roundtable as we try to determine the fate of VMware.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

David Chapa

Max Mortillaro

Gina Rosenthal

Stephen Foskett

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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XDR Isn’t Enough for Your Security Needs Feb 23, 2021

Cisco Spotlight: Is XDR Enough for Your Security Needs?

What is XDR exactly? Is it a specific tool? Is it a term that encompasses the entirety of security? Or is it just a buzzword that sells more security devices? How can XDR help you understand the forces at play in your enterprise? Can XDR offer you the capabilities to enhance your security and make it easier for your operations staff to keep everyone safe?

Join us in this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast, sponsored by Cisco, as we try to find out if it’s true that XDR Isn’t Enough For Your Security Needs.

For more information on Cisco’s solution, check out Cisco SecureX!

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Ben Greenbaum (Cisco)

JJ Minella

Larry Smith

Twitter

@SecIntsight

@JJX

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

Twitter

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Metadata is Not Data Feb 16, 2021

Metadata is not data… or is it? Should it be treated and protected like data? For example, using metadata, phone providers may not know the content of your conversation, but they can certainly tell who you called and when. This raises the issue of security and how bad actors could use metadata to their advantage.

In this episode, we tackle the metadata vs data debate and discuss the distinction between these categories of information.

On-Premises for Today’s Roundtable:

Panelists

Kori Younger

Karen Lopez

Chris Grundemann

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@SDNDaughter

Twitter

@ChrisGrundemann
@MountainViewer
@BitsInFlight

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Is SASE Just A Marketing Term? Feb 09, 2021

The world of networking and security are being wrapped up together with the advent of Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE.

Is this a new technology that is going to revolutionize secure connectivity for businesses and users? Or is it a new coat of paint on an existing product line? In this episode, we try to figure out if SASE is just a marketing term or if there’s something really there.

Learn more about Palo Alto Networks.

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On-Premises for today’s roundtable:

Panelists

Chris Grundemann
Rohan Grover (Palo Alto)
Jason Gintert

Twitter

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

@SFoskett
@TCrawford
@GMinks
@MattBryson

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Pat Gelsinger is Going to Save Intel Feb 02, 2021

On February 15, Bob Swan is stepping down from Intel as the CEO, and Pat Gelsinger will take his place.

The former CTO steps into a company embattled by competitors and the loss of large customers. Gelsinger has the leadership skills and the perspective to lead the CPU giant but does he have the time to make the changes that it will take to ward off the challenges?

In this episode, we debate the premise that Pat Gelsinger is going to save Intel.

Guests

Stephen Foskett
Tim Crawford
Gina Rosenthal
Matt Bryson

Social

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth @NetworkingNerd

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Docker Only Cares About Developers Now Jan 26, 2021

What direction is Docker going in now? Does it really only care about developers now?

There are over 10 million people out there in the world using Docker, a huge and fantastic community that has had had a lot of vendors involved.

About a year ago, Docker reached a realization; the company had become two companies combined. One focuses on production orchestration, selling to ops in a top-down model, and the other is developer-focused.

So what next?

Find out exactly what happened and if Docker is really just focused on developers now as Donnie Berkholz, VP of Product, Docker walks us through Docker in 2021.

Panelists

Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Donnie Berkholz, Docker
Larry Smith

Twitter

@CalvinHP
@DBerkholz
@MrLESmithJr

Host

Stephen Foskett – Publisher of Gestalt IT and Organizer of Tech Field Day – @SFoskett

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Is Storageless Storage Just Someone Else’s Storage? Jan 19, 2021

Storageless storage? What, in the name of oxymorons does that mean?

This new buzzphrase has hit the storage world and we need to figure out what it means, and whether this will be the next storage revolution. Storage companies do need to find a way to abstract the complexity that comes with storage and find new ways of delivering their services and platforms. Perhaps this is it.

This immediate need for storage simplification is driven primarily by the technology evolution that COVID-19 and remote work has forced on the tech industry. Many companies can no longer afford to wait and see on their storage, nor can they afford to cobble together something in the hope that it will work ‘for now’.

Storageless storage aims to reduce operational complexity, shrink operational expenditure, and provide a simpler, managed service that requires less in-house expertise – just like the cloud promised (and delivered on) all those years ago. However, there are a lot of questions that need to be asked around how it is going to work, what it actually means, and the compliance issues that may arise with utilizing remote storage.

Our Storage Field Day 21, will nail this topic (and more) down, answer your questions, and figure out exactly what storageless storage is from the companies that are driving this new platform.

Join in live on this link between January 20 and 22, 2021 https://techfieldday.com/event/sfd21/

Panelists

Max Mortillaro
Matthew Leib
Jason Collier
Paul Stringfellow

Twitter

@MaxMortillaro
@MBLeib
@bocanuts
@techstringy

Host:

Stephen Foskett, Publisher of Gestalt IT and Organizer of Tech Field Day. Find Stephen’s writing at GestaltIT.com and on Twitter at @SFoskett Date: 1/5/2021

Do Predictions Even Matter in 2021? Jan 05, 2021

Could anyone say they got their predictions mostly right in 2020? Even a little bit?

As we begin 2021, we take a moment to realize that no matter how straightforward things might seem right now, there is always something coming at us that could upset every potential idea we have.

Join a group of the brightest minds in the enterprise IT community to look at some of the trends and drivers that will shape the year to come.

Ask yourself, do predictions even matter in 2021? Or will this be the year when everyone gets it all right?

Participant

Keith Townsend
Ned Bellavance
Tim Crawford
Stephen Foskett

Twitter

@CTOAdvisor
@Ned1313
@TCrawford
@SFoskett

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth @NetworkingNerd

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Bug Bounty Programs are Just Legalized Bribery Dec 15, 2020

Finding bugs in software isn’t new. Finding security bugs is just as old. Even the process of selling them to nefarious operators has history.

The rise of bug bounty programs is changing the economics of disclosure and patching, however. We’ve entered a new era of people trying to get top dollar for their investigations. The morality around it all is troubling.

In this episode, find out if bug bounty programs are just legalized bribery.

Bug bounty programs are legalized bribery. Or are they? Catch this podcast to learn more.

On-Premises for today’s roundtable:

Name

Jens Soeldner
Pieter-Jan Nefkens
Christopher Kusek

Twitter

@JensSoeldner
@PJNef
@cxi

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth @NetworkingNerd

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Traditional Security Models Don’t Work From Just Anywhere Dec 08, 2020

As workers transition into the new state of working from their home office, what does that mean for our existing security technologies?

How does the enterprise model of firewalls and appliances work when no one is in the corporate offices? Does the cloud hold the key to our salvation? Or is this problem too much to deal with in a pandemic?

Join the community experts and a guest from VMware as we look at how traditional security models need to be tweaked to work from where we work now.

On-Premises for today’s roundtable:

Name

Rohan Naggi (VMware SME)
Chris Grundemann
Jason Benedicic

Twitter

@VMware
@ChrisGrundemann
@JABenedicic

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth