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Send us Fan Mail Hey Everybody, no new interview this week, because I’ve got this kind of stuff going on. I’m getting a new roof put on and New siding on the house, so that made things a bit crazy. I just want to take a moment to thank you for watching and if you like this channel, please think about subscribing. Most of the regular viewers of this channel are not subscribers, but subscribing can...

Send us Fan Mail Have you been wanting to know how to get more out of LinkedIn, but were afraid to ask? Well, you’ve come to the right place, because we are going to be talking about all things LinkedIn. When John McGrath moved back to Dublin Ireland in the middle of a recession, it was difficult to find a job, and he leaned heavily on LinkedIn to make it all happen. From then on, he was hooked. F...

Send us Fan Mail We often forget that some of the technology we use every day begins life in the labs of Universities around the world, and many of those people doing the work will one day be the technology leaders we look to solve the worlds most challenging problems. Today we are going to be speaking to one of those future leaders. Sandesh and I were recently talking with Kai Pederson, a young m...

Send us Fan Mail We have all had the dream that we could live in a world of automation, like George Jetson, just pushing a button. That dream has been slow to arrive, but now we are seeing the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistants. Companies that specialize in automating the mundane, and not so mundane task of people, have finally arrive to help drag us all into the future.  T...

Send us Fan Mail Due to the 4th of July Holiday, we are not releasing an interview this week. Instead, I thought I would talk about the top 5 things I hear people in tech talking about the most these days. Folks in the tech world have a lot on their minds these days, but here are the top 5 things I have been asked about the most. 1. Ransomware 2. AI/ML 3. Data 4. RPA (Robotic Process Automation) 5...

Send us Fan Mail One of the things we don’t spend enough time talking about is how hard it is to build a business. Bringing an idea to market requires so many factors to align it can be mind-blowing. We are going to talk to someone who is a veteran of the startup space to tell us what it is really like. Today we are talking with VAST Data CMO and co-founder Jeff Denworth about what it takes to bri...

Send us Fan Mail The number one security risk right now is Ransowmware. The amount of breaches we have seen recently has been alarming, and the number continues to grow. Ransomeware is big business, so we are going to talk about how to survive an attack. Today we are talking with Andrew Miller, who is a subject matter expert on Ransomware for Pure Storage. He has been on the front lines helping co...

Send us Fan Mail Get your tinfoil hats out, because today we are going to be talking about 5G. We are also going to be talking about SPACS. So, what is this stuff and why is it important? Well, stay tuned and you will find out. Today we are talking with Shekar Ayyar who is the CEO of AdMY Technology Group and is a Venture Partner at NTTVC the venture arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company....

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing our conversation about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and today’s conversation is going to touch on some difficult subjects. We are going to hear some very personal stories and unpack some of the complexity of these issues. Celia Daniels is an Indian trans women, entrepreneur, public speaker, activist, motivator, musician, artist, photographer and filmmaker. Sh...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be talking with a company that is re-thinking the way computers work. As workloads become increasingly more resource intensive, this company is leading the Big Memory and Memory Centric Computing charge. Sandesh and I first met MemVerge’s founder and CEO, Charles, Fan, a few years back, and much of what he was talking about sounded like science fiction at the...

Send us Fan Mail Security is top of mind for everyone. With the recent Colonial Pipeline breach, ransomware is at the top of the list for most companies. We are Going to talk security, so get ready. Today we are talking security with Vectra (AI)’s CEO Hitesh Sheth. Vectra is a leader in the threat detection and response market. They have raised over $350 million and are definitely a Unicorn, and p...

Send us Fan Mail Here are some ways to help with the COVID relief effort in India: Direct Relief: https://secure.directrelief.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2924&mfc_pref=T&2924.donation=form1 Oxygen for India: https://cddep.org/ Project HOPE: https://secure.projecthope.org/site/SPageNavigator/2021_04_India_COVID_Response_unr.html?s_subsrc=hh1 Association for India’s Development: https://aidindi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back, today we are going to continue our conversations about women in tech and what it takes to become a data engineer in this industry. We are also going to talk about what data engineers really want in tools to make their life easier. We are talking to Lee Blackwell, an architect and data engineer at Databricks, about why diversity and company culture matter, and she is...

Send us Fan Mail NetApp's very own storage guru, Rajesh "Sheik" Kapoor talks with us about the importance of mentors and about his journey through the world of tech. Today we are talking to another legend in the tech community. His presence has been huge and and he has been a mentor to many. Rajesh Kapoor, or as many know him by his nickname, Sheik, has been at NetAp for more than 2...

Send us Fan Mail I remember watching the Jetsons when I was a kid. The promise of pushing a button and letting machines do the work was the future cartoons promised me.  It was a young child’s vision of the future, but that vision isn’t that far from reality.  Today we are going to dig into Robotic Process Automation. So, buckle in, here come the robots. We are talking about RPA or Robotic Process...

Send us Fan Mail In the world of emerging tech, Venture Capital plays a huge role. We have seen the rise of some of the biggest and most successful technology companies from the portfolios of VC firms. Still, much of it is shrouded in mystery. We are going to dig into Venture Capital. Today, we are going to be talking with Saqib Awan, a partner at the prestigious venture capital firm Lightspeed Ve...

Send us Fan Mail I think one thing we can all agree on is that robots are cool Really cool Robots come in many shapes and sizes. There are dancing robots, scary robots , villanous, murderous robots, surgery robots, romantic robots, domesticated robots, and robots that entertain cats. Ultimately, the dream of robots is that they will perform many of the tedious or dangerous tasks that human’s don’t...

Send us Fan Mail I was recently called out for not having enough women on the podcast, and it is a very fair criticism. Out of the last 34 interviews I have done over the last year, only 2 have been with women. Today we are going to talk diversity and data. Women are underrepresented in technology. It can be a difficult career path for women and the underrepresented people. Today we are going to b...

Send us Fan Mail In IT, there is a tremendous amount of jargon. We are constantly using acronyms and abbreviations and obfuscating meaning. And, I have to admit, I have used terms without fully understanding their meaning, even though I thought I did Sometimes, the same terms can have different meanings like the term SASE, which means Secure Access Services edge, and not the Self Addressed Stamped...

Send us Fan Mail Zero Trust, Microsegmentation, What does it all mean and why does it matter. Well, we are going to try to answer those questions today, because we are talking with Illumio, so stay tuned. We are going to be talking about a couple of hot topics in security, Zero Trust and Microsegmentation. So many companies have been told by their auditors to segment their systems, but it hasn’t b...

Send us Fan Mail With the infrastructure sprawl that has been accelerated by the pandemic, many companies are flying blind without the necessary visibility into their assets. Over the past few years, one company has emerged and grown to be a dominant player. Today we are going to talk to the big dog in the monitoring space, Datadog. Today, we are going to be talking about monitoring and the critic...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking with SentinelOne. Their product faired better than most against the SolarWinds attack. To quote their site,  “SentinelLabs, the research division of SentinelOne, has confirmed that devices with SentinelOne agents deployed were excluded from the SUNBURST attack from an early stage, even before any communication with a malicious C2. Technical analysis confirmed...

Send us Fan Mail There are some people in IT who become quite notable for always being at the center of great things. They enable others with their knowledge, and by doing so, they rise to legendary status within the community. Today we have just such a person, Duncan Epping. Duncan Epping is the Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO for VMWare. If you use VMWare, you have probably read his...

Send us Fan Mail Here at FUTRtech, we love to talk about great new companies. We also have been talking a lot about security these days with major breaches regularly appearing in the headlines. Today you are in luck, because we are going to be talking about both.  One of the challenges with security is knowing where to spend your money and where to put in the effort to achieve the best results. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be continuing our conversations about security by talking with Arctic Wolf CEO Brian NeSmith.  Brian has been a fixture in the industry for quite a while. Prior to Arctic Wolf, Brian was CEO of Blue Coat Systems and Ipsolon Networks. Arctic Wolf is a rare venture backed services company that has raised $350 million and is solving security challenges for Small...