Tech Field Day Podcast

The Premise: In recent years, the velocity and sophistication of malicious hacks have accelerated beyond the capability for modern IT security to keep up. You don’t have to follow the news very closely to find evidence of large scale security breaches. The sophistication, breadth, and sheer velocity of malicious hacks have reached a point that IT security simply can’t keep up like it u...

The Premise: Public cloud providers should adapt to the needs of the enterprise, not the other way around. It would be great if all our applications were cloud native to get the best cost, resilency, and architecture overall. But enterprises don’t move that quickly. The cloud should offer services that work for existing applications that organizations want to get out of the data center but a...

The Premise: When it comes to wireless, redesigns are useless. Redesigns in wireless are done more for compulsive than technical need. When a new access point comes out, the entire wireless network doesn’t need a redesign, other than to satisfy the need to tinker for those managing them. We discuss if and when a redesign is actually needed, why you need to consider what’s driving your...

The Premise: Backing up SaaS apps isn’t my problem, the cloud provider should handle it. We all know how traditional backup work, but SaaS is different. Since the software comes as a service, backup is just one of those services, right? The roundtable discusses this idea. Do current SaaS offering really provide backup? If they don’t, should that even be their responsibility? And should...

The Premise: The traditional office will be dead in the next 5-10 years. The traditional office is dying. Since the rise of telecommuting in the 90s, less and less people need to be in the office. With open offices killing productivity, in the near term, we’re going to see the traditional office become extinct. The roundtable debates how true this is, and what makes it worth it for a lot of...

The Premise: VARs are useless. Value-added resellers (VARs) are often characterized as useless, adding a needless cost for something that should be sold direct to customers. In this On-Premise IT Roundtable, the panel discusses where the value actually gets added and what benefits VARs can still provide. It was an interesting discussion with a lot of different perspectives. On-Premises for today&#...

The Premise: By proliferating the number of devices on our networks, IoT is making our society less secure. On this episode, the roundtable discusses if IoT is making us less secure overall. They get into a discussion of what kind of attack surfaces IoT presents, whether these device impact privacy more than security, and why current IoT is based on a “no support” model. On-Premises fo...

The Premise: The push for multi-cloud is driven by vendors and analysts, not by an actual IT need.  On this episode, the roundtable discusses if the framing of multi-cloud as an inevitable IT outcome is really accurate. Is multi-cloud just something being pushed by analysts and vendors with solutions to sell? If so, will it ultimately be a fad? They further discuss what they mean when they say mul...

The Premise: Data protection policy isn’t defined by business need or IT capability, rather than an inherited set of traditions and superstitions. On this episode, the roundtable discusses data protection policy. The premise is that most organizations are doing this wrong. There’s a fundamental misalignment between what IT thinks it needs to be doing and what the business needs for ope...

The Premise: There’s value to the business in bringing your personal interests to work in IT. Today’s show discusses when you can bring your personal life into IT. We discuss if doing so is just a way to reduce burnout, or if there is legitimate business value to be found. We touch on how to approach supposed “third rail” topics and more. Be sure to checkout Leon Adato&#821...

The Premise: People don’t want cloud, they want what it does. Today’s episode considers if people want cloud, or what the cloud actually does. In this case, we’re looking at if a focus on providing services will eventually make the cloud irrelevant, since people don’t really care about it. Or have the cloud providers created sufficient value-add services to solve business p...

The Premise: Network analytics is too expensive for the modern enterprise. Thanks to the growth of software-defined networking, a lot of network information that used to be unknown, is now known. But in order to get that information out of the network, you have to spend a lot of money on specialized hardware, software, and talent to program it all. Is it beyond the reach of most enterprises? Or is...

The Premise: With the current corporate vision, Microsoft is done with Windows. Declaring the Death of Windows is always a great way to drum up some clicks. But today, the roundtable discusses whether Windows is just kind of beside the point for a modern Microsoft. The debate whether this means the end of Windows, the end of the beginning of the end of Windows, or just that Windows’ role in...

The Premise: The best way to keep passwords secure is to change them all the time. Changing your passwords frequently is the best way to keep accounts secure, right? Or does frequently changing passwords cause users to lean on easily predictable patterns that ultimately make things less secure? The roundtable discusses what the best approach is, whether two-factor authentication changes your appro...

The Premise: The storage array is dead, dead as a doornail. The monolithic storage array used to be the standard of storage, but it’s time has come and gone… or has it? The roundtable discusses what specifically we mean when we talk about storage arrays, why they are increasingly irrelevant, and if their decline is permanent, or a temporary reaction to recent IT trends. On-Premises for...

The Premise: In order to be an effective analytics company, you need a sensor. Tom Hollingsworth leads a discussion around how important sensors are for analytics and data. Is network monitoring enough? What about something in software? Or is the added expense of a dedicated out-of-band physical sensor the price you have to pay? The roundtable is pretty evenly split on the subject, and discusses w...

The Premise: 5G is set to replace traditional networking. In this episode, the roundtable discusses what impact 5G will have on traditional networking. They dig into why wireless is a more finite resource than wired networking, the difficulty of service degradation, and how to justify rolling out 5G for fixed end points. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to...

Premise: Composable Infrastructure is just another iteration on blade servers. Stephen Foskett leads a discussion about how big of a change composable infrastructure is from the tried and true blade server. CI sounds like a great idea. It offers infrastructure that’s dynamic, reconfigurable by software, and has full API integration. The roundtable discusses a little history of the ideas behi...

Stephen Foskett and the Roundtable discuss whether or not you should be running your own website. They weigh the pros and cons of each path and delve into the specifics. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

The Premise: In our automated and disaggregated world, it doesn’t matter where your data is stored. The roundtable discusses if data locality is important to storage administrators anymore. They discuss why it might matter for technological, regulatory, and organizational needs, and how those needs have changed over time. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSC...

Phoummala Schmitt is a Senior Cloud Ops Advocate with Microsoft and the Co-Host of Current Status . You can follow her at her blog , Twitter , and LinkedIn .  Enjoy this bonus IT Origins interview in the feed this week, we spoke with Senior Cloud Ops Advocate, podcaster, and oenophile, Phoummala Schmitt. We discuss how she came into an IT career from the fashion industry, why we’re already l...

The Premise: Networking disaggregation is not ready for the enterprise. The panel discusses where networking disaggregation is relevant in today’s IT. Is it limited to just the largest organizations, or can even small IT teams enjoy its benefits? Or is scale less important than how an organization values the network itself? On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUB...

Tomer Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dremio . You can follow Tomer on LinkedIn , Twitter , and GitHub . For this bonus podcast episode, we had the privilege to speak to Dremio CEO Tomer Shiran. We discussed how he got his start in IT, compare the tech scenes between Israel and Silicon Valley, and look at the value of over delivering in your career. They also discuss the importance of coffee i...

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Premise: IT burnout is simply unavoidable. It’s a part of the gig. The discussion: Is burnout an inevitable part of IT? Is it part of the way IT roles are created? Maybe it says something about the types of people attracted to IT. Or maybe it has something to do with the incentives that causes work to become burnout. Our roundtable discusses why they’ve seen burnout happen and how they...