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With Cisco Live US happening this week in Orlando, we decided to share a throwback episode featuring Rob Rodgers and Mils Swart of Skyport Systems. Skyport was recently acquired by Cisco in February. It’ll be interesting to see how Cisco uses this talent to address the security concerns raised in this episode. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our...

Enjoy this bonus episode of the podcast. Ted Dunning is the Chief Application Architect at MapR and a board member of the Apache Software Foundation . This week on IT Origins, we had a conversation with Ted Dunning, Apache Software Foundation board member, and the Chief Application Architect at MapR. We discussed Ted’s introduction to IT, his early involvement with the open source software c...

The Premise: Enterprise AI is a buzzword slapped onto products and services without any technical merit. Let’s face it, AI gets thrown around a lot in the enterprise these days. It often gets conflated with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and neural networks. But does the term actually mean anything? Are there solutions out there that actually qualify as AI? The roundtable debates. For anot...

We recorded a great interview with Patric Palm of Favro and decided to put it in the podcast feed as a bonus episode. Enjoy! Patric Palm is the Co-Founder and CEO of Favro . This week on IT Origins, we had the privilege speak to Patric Palm, the Co-Founder and CEO of Favro. We discussed how he started the company, his previous startup efforts, the importance of adaptability,  and his background in...

The Premise: The efficiencies of network engineering will decimate engineering jobs. The panel debates if this is true. They look at if this will happen across the board, if engineers will just become programmers going forward, or if automation will actually benefit network engineers down the road. And if automation does eliminate all these jobs, does it then become a pernicious form of support lo...

On this episode, we’re discussing Network Functions Virtualization, aka NFV. The roundtable discusses what exactly NFV is, how it differs from SDN, and if it’s going to eat all specialized networking hardware. The discussion then turns into how changes in network design principles als make NFV even more viable in the enterprise. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Meatspace Only...

An episode so nice, we share it twice. Throwing in a bonus episode to the feed. Had a great conversation with Karen Lopez for IT Origins. If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to her appearance on the podcast with What is Big Data? Karen Lopez is a Senior Project Manager and Data Architect.  I had the privilege to talk to Data Architect Karen Lopez for this week’s IT Origins interv...

On this roundtable, we’re getting cloudy. The panelists discuss why it matters where your SaaS apps live, and not just depend on an SLA. This can impact not just business continuity and customer experience, but security and compliance as well. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

Enjoy this bonus IT Origins interview episode. Our regularly schedule podcast will post April 10, 2018. Zachary Smith is the CEO of Packet .  I had the privilege to talk to Zachary Smith from Packet in our most recent IT Origins interview. We discussed how he went from majoring in the double bass at Juilliard to becoming an IT entrepreneur. We also discussed his two months in the Boy Scouts, the h...

Let’s face it, your alerts stink. If you’re finding lifehacks to deal with the amount of notifications you’re receiving, you’ve already lost the battle. On this episode of the podcast, the roundtable discusses why we’re drowning in notifications, how to better approach it, and why can’t we actually get actionable alerts. On-Premises for today’s roundtable:...

The podcast that inspired it all! Today we’re sharing the pilot episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable, looking at terrible IT language. Does the name of our podcast drive you nuts? Do you cringe when someone asks you to “double-click” in conversation? Do you have opinions on how to pronounce BPDU? This is the episode for you. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us...

Enjoy this bonus IT Origins interview episode. Our regularly schedule podcast will post March 13, 2018. Dong Ngo is an IT consultant and writer at Dong Knows Tech. From 1999 through 2017, he was an Editor at CNET.com, covering the storage and networking beats.  This interview provided some fascinating perspective into what we assume is significant technology. Dong shares his journey from a small v...

Do words mean things? It depends on who you ask. Often the more technically minded IT folks like hard and fast definitions, while marketing tends to lend to a more “generous” interpretation of words. Do we need to rigidly enforce definitions, or are we resigned to an infinite regress into mutual unintelligibility? We’re no stranger to this debate on Gestalt IT , but the panel she...

We dug back in the On-Premise IT Roundtable archives to bring you an episode originally recorded in 2016, but incredibly prescient today. The roundtable discusses how IT companies can differentiate in an age of increasing commoditization. They look at examples like DSSD, Kaminario, and SimpliVity as ways to differentiate hardware, albeit at a considerable expense of time and resources. They then t...

Enjoy this bonus IT Origins interview episode. Our regularly schedule podcast will post February 13, 2018. Matt Leib is a Technical Sales Executive at  Connection .  You can follow him on Twitter , LinkedIn , and his blog .  I had the privilege to talk to Matt Leib about how he got his start in IT, how the industry has changed since his Radio Shack days, and why the hybrid cloud is here to stay. I...

In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth leads the roundtable in discussing the role of whitebox switching in enterprise networking. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

The On-Premise IT Roundtable has a bold premise for this episode: enterprise licensing models are interesting! The panel discusses why understanding licensing is vital for a modern data center as we move from CapEx to OpEx models. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

Since we recorded this great interview for IT Origins, we’re including it in the On-Premise IT Roundtable feed. Allison Sheridan is perhaps best known for Podfeet Podcasts, Technology Geek Podcasts with an EVER so Slight Apple Bias. Since 2005 her NosillaCast podcast has come out weekly without fail. Outside of her extensive podcasting career, Allison also has decades of experience in IT. In...

Intent-based networking is the new hotness, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, the panel discusses how it differs from older SDN ideas. IBN integrates an abstraction layer and orchestration into a system that identifies a single source of truth that isn’t the network itself. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more gr...

On today’s show, each of our roundtable panelists chose what was the hot ticket item of 2017. Tune in to hear their arguments why 2017 was the year of SD-WAN, HCI, Net Neutrality, or Data Management! On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

On this episode, host Stephen Foskett talks with Mark May, Howard Marks, and Keith Townsend about what makes a failed startup. Are some concepts simply too early, or are there ideas whose time simply never arrives? They look at specific examples like Auspex Systems and Coho Data. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage ri...

Scale-out storage is great, but does it apply to all enterprise storage needs? The roundtable discusses the premise that all storage should be scale-out. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

The roundtable discusses the premise that the CLI is dead, or at least terminally ill. They look at why this is the prevailing narrative in networking and the greater IT landscape. Is the death of the CLI a forgone conclusion, or merely a framing device for moving to better processes in IT? On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great...

Security is a dumpster fire, or is it somehow worse? Our esteemed guests discuss whether it’s actually many dumpster fires or some other form of refuse conflagration. It’s an invaluable and inflammable discussion. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.

In this episode, the roundtable discusses the idea of technical debt. They look into why technical debt occurs, why it isn’t always a bad thing, and how to possibly optimize for when to incur it. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox.