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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

Jeffrey Powers

Michael Davis

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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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Andy Banta

Geoff Burke

Nico Stein

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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

Dominik Pickhardt

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@PacketJay

@NetworkAutobahn

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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

Alastair Cooke

Enrico Signoretti

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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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John Kilpatrick

Jody Lemoine

Vince Schuele

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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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Zoë Rose

Dominik Pickhardt

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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

Chris Grundemann

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@MaxMortillaro

Pure Storage Panelist

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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Jon Myer

Michael Levan

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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

Ethan Banks

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@TimBertino

@ECBanks

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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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Panelists

Vuong Pham

Arjan Timmerman

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@Digital_KungFu

@ArjanTimm

NetApp Panelist

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

Richard Kenyan

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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

Ken Nalbone

Vuong Pham

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Stephen Foskett

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@JDanton

@KenNalbone

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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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Panelists

Dr. Avril Salter

Mohammad Ali

John Kilpatrick

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Tom Hollingsworth

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@AvrilSalterUSA

@Malief46

@HypergeekWiFi

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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

Phoummala Schmitt

Becky Elliott

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@ExchangeGoddess

@BeckyLElliott

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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

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@MaxMortillaro

@JDAnton

NetApp Panelist

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

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Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Panelists

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Keith Townsend

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@CTOAdvisor

RackN Panelist

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

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Stephen Foskett

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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

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@EvanMintzer

@_JonMyer

@PacketJay

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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.

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Panelists

Girard Kavelines

Enrico Signoretti

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Dell Technologies Panelist

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

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Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Panelists

Jim Czuprinski

Richard Kenyan

Glenn Dekhayser

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@RichardKenyan

@GDekhayser

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Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Andy Banta

Vuong Pham

Pete Robertson

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@Digital_KungFu

@vCloudPete

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Stephen Foskett

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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?

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Chris Hayner

Craig Rodgers

Chris Reed

Twitter

@Hayner80

@CraigRodgersms

@TheCMReed

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Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Aaron Conaway

Eric Stewart

Tony Mattke

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

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@AConaway

@BotFodder

@Tohne

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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.

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Panelists

Landon Foster

Manon Lessard

Mohammad Ali

Mark Houtz

Moderator

Tom Hollingsworth

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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.

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Alastair Cooke

Gina Rosenthal

Brian Knudtson

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@DemitasseNZ

@BKnudtson

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Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Nathan Bennett

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Joep Piscaer

Twitter

@vNathanBennett

@JPiscaer

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

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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.

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Panelists

Jim Czuprynski

Larry Smith Jr.

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Pure Storage Panelist

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

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Stephen Foskett

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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

@SPuluka

@PJWelcher

@MichyfishMurphy

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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.

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Panelists

Chris Evans

Enrico Signoretti

Twitter

@ChrisMEvans

Hammerspace Panelist

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

Moderator

Stephen Foskett

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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

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@Dreadders2

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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

@SPuluka

@JohnOsmon

@Network_Charles

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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

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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

@Ned1313

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

@AvrilSalterUSA

@JenniferLucille

@KeithRParsons

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

@JPWarren

@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

Relavant Links

Secure Your Cloud Journey

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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

@JPWarren

@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

@KeithRParsons

@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

@DataChick

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

@SPuluka

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

@JPWarren

@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

@Ned1313

@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

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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

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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

@GhostInTheNet

@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

@Ned1313

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

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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

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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

@MaxMortillaro

@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

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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

Social Media

@PJNef

Social Media

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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

Twitter

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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

@KeithRParsons

@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

Twitter

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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

@AvrilSalterUSA

@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

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

@DataChick

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.

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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