Nekkid Tech #12 – “Palms Out”


Posted by admin on 21 Dec 2011 / 1 Comment


Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, our guests this week are Ed Saipetch, Sr. Technical Director for the America’s for Joyent (@edsai) and J Metz, Product Manager, FCoE at Cisco (@jMichelMetz).

In this week’s episode we discuss…Palms Out

  • VMware releases View for the Kindle Fire
  • Gartner Data Center Summit… and Gartner still sucks
  • J Metz bumps heads with Brocade on FCoE
  • Where’s the Cisco Cius?
  • Eddie gets his 1K status
  • Donut bombs, airport security and groping
  • Protecting liberties… and passport numbers

Disclosure: Nekkid Tech does not receive support directly or indirectly from vendors or guests. Vendor relationships are disclosed on the podcast. 

  • Jean

    For me Gartner and cie comes into few flavors. 

    At first, most people do not realize that, Gartner and cie provide valuable information to vendors about customers need, trend and on the flip side they ask Gartner to push their technologies in order to differentiate themself (Magic Quadrant).  It takes at least 4 years to develop a product and been release with enough feature functions often based on these customers requirements.  The complex support interop matrix makes it hard for just about all products.

    Second, they provide vulgarization that is unfortunately required because very few understand technologies like it was back on mainframe.  Customers, resellers and some vendors have too many generalists and not enough practitioners like Greg said.  Also very few can talk freely about their finding with detailed architecture.  They all worry to be sued or nailed by vendors and employer.  So we are left with very few details and try to attach all the strings together by ourself to build a working solution. 

    Yes they might not be accurate but at least they spread to the world direction their competitions are going and help to standardize the industry. 

    I recently found some market have open user group, such as SMPTE, that help them to share information, knowledge, expertise in much more open and intelligent way we are doing in IT.  SNIA was suppose to do similar but the board is composed of vendors and not users.

    For me the biggest problem is education.  Universities and colleges need to raise significantly their expertise in order to make sure our students come out with valuable and deep expertise in technologies.  Stop them playing games in virtual world…the real world need brillant peoples to solve business and technologies issues.

    Like one of my ex-collegue said.  How many users can tell, in fine details (hardware-software), what happen when a finger hit a key on the keyboard, display the letter on the screen, stored on disk and get transmitted to the internet.  Imagine in virtual world…That expertise is long time gone.