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Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be talking about re-invigorating your career during a Pandemic with Organizational Psychologist Nick Tasler who appeared in Podcast #9 back in May of 2020. So, stay tuned When we first talked with Nick Tasler in May of last year, he was trying to figure out what he was going to do when the events industry went into lockdown effectively ending his work as a ke...

Send us Fan Mail Check Below for links and additional information mentioned in this episode!  There have been some very high profile hacks in the news lately. Some of these have even been hacks of security vendors themselves, from Microsoft to FireEye, but perhaps one of the most disturbing was the recent SolarWinds hack that we are just starting to come to grips with. If you are not familiar with...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to talk about two big pandemic concerns, pivots and security, and we have a company taking care of both, Sysdig. Sysdig was founded as an open source troubleshooting tool by Loris Degioanni in 2013. You may know Loris Degioanni as co-creator of the very popular open source network analyzer Wireshark and the container security tool Falco. While Sysdig began life...

Send us Fan Mail Those of you who know me know I like a good turn around story and I have a great one for you today. When the pandemic struck, it hit the events industry particularly hard. Our partner for the eMERGE 2020 Chicago event, Echelon Design felt the impact immediately, seeing a drastic reduction in engagements with no clear end in sight. Today we are going to be talking with Josh Rush fr...

Send us Fan Mail These days, everyone is feeling the stress of their jobs and of the industry. With so many people just dreaming of starting over, I always hear, I am going to just quit and go work in the Cannabis industry. It is the modern equivalent of saying I am going to run off and join the circus.  But the reality is more challenging. It is a highly regulated and complex industry, it is ille...

Send us Fan Mail In 2008, Veritas employees Jaspreet Singh and Milind Borate got together to create the data protection company Druva. Fun Fact: In Sanskrit, "Druva" translates to "North Star". For years they built the business around endpoint data protection, but the product evolved over into a more enterprise focused cloud data management company. Last year they completed a s...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. The audio version of the podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most of the others or you can find it at FUTR.buzzsprout.com. Cohesity started out as a disrupter in the data protection market, but quickly expanded their vision to become a leader in the hyper converged secondary storage space, and now in...

Send us Fan Mail So, I have a question for you. There is a study from 1967 that indicated that 93% of communication is non-verbal. Now there are some caveats to that study, but If up to 93% of Communication is non-verbal, why are you still having low quality voice calls with your customers? This is one of the reasons that email and text have been such challenging communications mediums. Email is g...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to talk about an important topic that doesn’t always get enough attention in IT and that is the AIOPs space. In my previous life on the business side, I know how valuable tools like this can be and leadership doesn’t always sufficiently understand the value they can provide to the business. There is an interesting group of very successful entrepreneurs who spin...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to talk storage with Molly Presley from Qumulo. In 2012, Isilon veterans, Neal Fachan, Peter Godman, and Aaron Passey set out to create a new vision for storage. After extensive market research and development, they released the file-based storage platform Qumulo in 2014. Most recently, they finished a substantial funding round with a valuation over a billion do...

Send us Fan Mail Sports has been an unfortunate victim of this global pandemic. Sports junkies all over the country are really hurting. We always say that in chaos there is opportunity, and one company standing ready to step in and help bring the fun back to sports is HotMic. HotMic gives you the opportunity to choose your watch party with your favorite sports personality, celebrity or just host y...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Everybody welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast, and as a side note, our podcasts are now available in audio podcast form on iTunes, Spotify and many of the other podcast outlets as well as at https://futr.buzzsprout.com. I am really excited about today’s guest, as he has been a friend and advisor to Sandesh and I for a while now and I can’t tell you how much I genuine...

Send us Fan Mail Unfortunately, do to the challenges presented by the Coronavirus the FUTRtech eMERGE 2020 Chicago conference has been cancelled. Tune in for an update on the conference and the world of marketing. Adam Updates us on the world of marketing, and we talk about building your brand in 2020. https://adamvoss.com https://echelondesign.com https://12for12.com Click Here to Subscribe :  FU...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are so excited to have writer, director, actor, Investment banker and entrepreneur Ravi Patel.  You may know Ravi from his award winning documentary Meet the Patels and the Charlize Theron, Seth Rogan hit, Long Shot as well as from his work on the shows Master of None, Grandfathered, It’s aAlways Sunny in Philadelphia, Scrubs, Hawaii Five-0, Grey’s Anatomy, Children’s Hos...