Tech Field Day Podcast

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 be...

The world of networking and security are being wrapped up together with the advent of Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE. Is this a new technology that is going to revolutionize secure connectivity for businesses and users? Or is it a new coat of paint on an existing product line? In this episode, we try to figure out if SASE is just a marketing term or if there’s something really there. Learn mo...

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 p...

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 mode...

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 nee...

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...

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 bou...

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  a...

Docker has recently announced that they will rate limit image pulls from Docker Hub. These images are critical to modern infrastructure and have become critical to modern cloud infrastructure. Just about every Kubernetes environment pulls dozens of images from Docker Hub, and even if this move doesn’t cause issues immediately it sends a message that the community needs to find another place to sto...

The world of the cloud is not your traditional enterprise IT space. The requirements are different for the way we access data and services. The tools we use to facilitate that also need to change. Is there a perfect mix of on-premises hardware and cloud software that will enable our digital transformation to the cloud? In this episode, we will see if you need cloud gateways to transition to the cl...

How can an open source project become your full-time job and how can you make money at it? Good question. Catch the podcast to find out!

VMware Spotlight Podcast VMware Work From Anywhere Spotlight Podcast: The pandemic has created challenges for professionals working from home, not the least of which is networking. With so much technology focused on the enterprise the new branch seems to be neglected. In this episode, we speak with experts from the community and from VMware about how SD-WAN can play a key role in helping workers a...

The Premise: Are Governments Disrupting Botnets a Bad Idea? Botnets are becoming a huge part of Internet attack methods and data collection tools. The idea that thousands of machines can be used to create DDoS attacks or even impact legitimate services cannot be underestimated. But how much of a role should the government play in disrupting them? Is it right for your government to play such a big...

The Premise: Does enterprise networking need IPv6? Enterprise networks have been on the verge of address exhaustion for years. The promise that was once the utopia of unlimited address space with IPv6 has seemed to disappear with barely a whimper. Our networks seem to be running just fine on IPv4 for the foreseeable future. In this episode, we discuss whether or not enterprise networking needs IPv...

PURE STORAGE SPOTLIGHT PODCAST featuring Rajiev Rajavasireddy, Vice President Of Product Management. The Premise: Is object storage the future of primary storage? On-premises object storage has traditionally been associated with archive data. Scale and density were important, but the performance was not a major consideration. Fast object storage was an oxymoron. That paradigm is changing. DevOps t...

The Premise: Are companies inherently good or evil? We all have the idea that there are companies that are good and companies that are bad. Some do kind things for their communities and others seek to take as much as possible. But are the companies really at fault here? Or is this behavior being driven by people behind the scenes? In this episode, we set out to prove that companies aren’t inherent...

The Premise: Is working from home all that it’s cracked up to be? The current state of the world has forced us all to work from home. It’s what we’ve always wanted, right? Freedom to hang out in our PJs all day and no travel to the office. Yet, the reality of working from home is less appealing when you get into the details. For many, working from home isn’t all that great. In this podcast,...

The Premise: Are all APIs created equally? NGINX Spotlight: We live in an increasingly interconnected world that hinges on responsive APIs. It is becoming a standard way for us to interface not only with software, but with devices that run that software. We are trying to do magical things with APIs now, yet not all APIs are created equal. As we develop more and more around APIs and their ability t...

The Premise: Is your data telling you the truth? Facts are facts, but that doesn’t mean that your data is telling you the whole story. Data experts know that biases crop up any time we look at data, and this cannot be avoided. That’s why we need to be sensitive to these biases when making judgments and when planning data collection exercises. We apply these concepts to everything from sales metric...

The Premise: Should you roll your own storage system? As enterprise storage moves to commodity hardware and software, has the time come for businesses to consider building their own storage systems? In this podcast, we discuss the pros and cons of packaged enterprise storage solutions and consider how the market is changing. Many modern storage solutions, from VMware vSAN to cloud storage, are bas...

The Premise: Is Wi-Fi the Best Wireless Solution? In a highly-connected world, we rely on our technology to stay online at all times. Almost everything uses wireless today, right? But what kind of wireless does it use? You might be tempted to say Wi-Fi, but as it turns out, WI-Fi isn’t always the best wireless solution for your needs. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter...

The Premise: Does IoT Need Wi-Fi 6E? The standards for faster wireless communications are being adopted much more quickly. We have faster speeds and different spectrum allocations to work with. However, the largest consumers of the wireless space in the coming years are the ones that won’t be able to use those faster new speeds without a radical shift in direction. IoT devices use slower, older, c...

The Premise: Does disaggregated architecture run best with enterprise hybrid cloud? Pure Storage Spotlight In this episode, we are taking on enterprise cloud architecture, and specifically, the move towards disaggregated infrastructure. As enterprises move towards cloud architecture, a lot of companies are jumping in. Software solutions like VMware Cloud Foundation, for instance, drive the ability...

The Premise: Could a single source of truth help bring justice to the world? Continuing our effort to reconcile the perspective of enterprise IT nerds with the social upheaval happening all around us, the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast guests discuss the concept of a single source of truth. In IT analytics, we believe that one system or application has “truth” even if others disagree. Is this tr...

The Premise: Could IT observability principles help bring justice to the world? Technical people love clarity, facts, transparency, and data, but the world outside the datacenter is anything but. How can we in tech apply ourselves and our experience to promote justice and transparency in the real world? Why don’t governments, media, and the population at large know the facts about crises like the...