Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekicks Ed Saipetch (@edasi), Sarah Vela (@orchid8) and our gurest, Tom Petrocelli (@tompetrocelli). This week we discuss… SXSW Recap, Spring Break for Silicon Valley Emergence of the “Social Enterprise”? “Social Enterprise” tools Tom and Greg bump heads on quality and timing of Forrester research Heads in the sand on [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) with special guest Alistair Croll (@acroll). This week we discuss… Ed and Gina head to SXSW Bitnorth Conference Dropbox and Box all over the media Double billing on consumer cloud storage Google privacy policy changes Big Data and [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) and Nekkid Tech virgin, Sarah Vela (@orchid8). This week we discuss… AT&T wants to make app makers pay for subscribers’ data use Large majorty of Verizon customers don’t use LTE Eddies driving habits Dell isn’t a PC company [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our special guest this week is Steve Kaplan, Vice President Data Center Virtualization Practice at Presidio (@ROIdude) This week we discuss… Fred Nix takes a spill VMware Partner Exchange recap Possible VMware licensing changes VMware’s push to the cloud VMware vs. Amazon VMware social media presence [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi), our guests this week, Gina Minks (@gminks) and Christina Weil (@c_weil). This week we discuss… Christina’s corporate apartment in New Orleans Cloud Connect conference, customers and expectations Crystal the Unicorn Cost of hosting with Amazon or in house Cloud bandwidth costs and constraints Big data [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with special guest, Jim McNiel, CEO of FalconStor Software (@jimmcniel). This week we discuss… Technology, vision and adoption of clouds The role of the cloud in backup and disaster recovery Backup software lock-in Tape is not a backup solution Challenges of VMware’s ecosystem for data protection Replication efficiency Toppling the backup [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edsai), our guests this week are Mark Twomey (@storagezilla), Greg Schulz from StorageIO (@StorageIO) and special guest, the recently unemployed Marc Farley (@3ParFarley) This week we discuss… Farley / Knieriemen reunion Farley makes a job change New twitter handles for Farley When does Dell buy Farley’s [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen with our guests… Chris Harney, Founder of the New England VMUG (@csharney), Taya Wyss from The Enterprise Strategy Group (@TayaWyss) and Erin Banks, vSpecialist with EMC (@banksek). This week’s topics: A recap of New England VMUG, the largest VMUG in the world with over 1,000 attendees live at Gillette Stadium; The [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are… trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America’s for Joyent (@edsai), Mark Twomey (@StorageZilla) and Christina Weil (@c_weil). In this week’s episode we discuss… Ed and Greg figure out data plans in Europe; Thai massage parlours in Soho; Spotify vs Pandora; Fatboy Slim’s subliminal Apple Server [...]

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are… trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America’s for Joyent (@edsai), Darren Thomas – Dell Storage VP & GM, Phil Soran – President at Dell Compellent and many others… We kick off StorageBeers with Chris Evans and Martin Glassborow at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub. [...]