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 cloud. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Name Craig ConnorsPaul StringfellowGreg StuartModerator: To...
Nov 24, 2020•30 min
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!
Nov 17, 2020•38 min
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 at home utilize their bandwidth and provide resilience in commodity connections. On-Premises for toda...
Nov 10, 2020•28 min
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 role in security? In this episode, we explore the idea that governments trying to disrupt botnets is...
Nov 03, 2020•25 min
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 IPv6. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more g...
Oct 20, 2020•21 min
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 teams across enterprises are now building container-based applications leveraging S3. High-performanc...
Oct 13, 2020•29 min
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 inherently bad but people can be. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to ou...
Oct 06, 2020•33 min
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, we’ll explain why and try and find some solutions to the issue. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow...
Sep 22, 2020•29 min
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 to be accessed, we’re finding some limitations, which means we have to develop new thoughts and new w...
Sep 15, 2020•27 min
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 metrics to the COVID pandemic to government surveillance. This episode reunites our social justice panel, ...
Sep 08, 2020•34 min
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 based on commodity hardware. And there are many instances where a production storage environment uses s...
Aug 25, 2020•21 min
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 . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for more great coverage right in your inbox....
Aug 11, 2020•31 min
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, cheaper radios. So, the premise of this episode is that IoT Doesn’t Need Wi-Fi 6E. On-Premises for to...
Jul 28, 2020•26 min
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 of enterprises to build a hybrid cloud. But there has been a lot of talk about architecture as well...
Jul 21, 2020•36 min
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 true of the wider world as well? What is the difference between data, fact, and truth and how can we l...
Jul 14, 2020•32 min
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 Coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice issues that are shaking the United States and the world?...
Jul 07, 2020•19 min
The Premise: Does artificial intelligence do anything for WiFi? Today’s world is driven by software. Applications rule the tech space and they are increasingly relying on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to make better, faster decisions. But there are some technologies that don’t really take full advantage of AI. Can an algorithm replace a person troubleshooting? Is something at is as much art as science able to leverage the power of a computer to get the job done? Is it tr...
Jun 30, 2020•26 min
The Premise: Orchestration is the reason enterprises haven’t adopted containers. Pure Storage Spotlight Orchestration is almost synonymous with containers nowadays. One popular opinion is that maybe the reason enterprises haven’t adopted containers quickly is that people are hungry for a way to orchestrate containers that fits into their overall environment. Is this the reason why containers have yet to be widely adopted? Follow this discussion, featuring Jon Owings – Principal Solution Architec...
Jun 23, 2020•31 min
The Premise: There used to be a time when the Internet was free, wild, and nothing was encrypted. With the advent of things like SSL and TLS, some network analytics and security folks are wondering: is encryption ruining security? The world is encrypted today. Our traffic is being protected from beginning to end so our identities and data are safe. But how safe are we in reality? What about the traffic that we want to see? How can we protect against threats when everything is using TLS to hide f...
Jun 16, 2020•27 min
The Premise: There are a bunch of new AI/ML startups, and we hear about the latest advances and interesting concepts, but it tends to fall down when it comes to implementation. Is there any good use for AI in the enterprise? Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are extending the capabilities of our technology at a rapid pace. Or so we have been led to believe. But what is ML really giving us? What good is it to our enterprise? Is there a use case that shines above all others? Or is it ju...
Jun 02, 2020•25 min
The Premise: With the release of vSphere 7, there are some new storage features and interoperability, but is NVMe-oF ready for prime time? Pure Storage Spotlight Those of us who have been following storage and server architecture are pretty excited about NVMe and various things over fabrics. So far, it’s been a challenge to bring NVMe-oF into the enterprise datacenter. Does the release of vSphere 7 mean that this technology is finally ready for prime time? Follow the discussion and decide for yo...
May 26, 2020•40 min
The Premise: With the number of computer performance issues reported by consumers each day, one begins to wonder is IT really broken? Computers never work. I can’t check my email. The Internet is always slow. No matter what I’m doing it seems like Information Technology is never the way I want it. Everything is completely broken. Or is it? Join us as we’ll discuss the various ways in which IT can be operating properly but still not as users want and why there is a huge difference between slow an...
May 12, 2020•20 min
The Premise: Software companies have found a way to offset development costs, but is charging customers for features a good thing? Modern technology has focused on delivering value. The current shift away from hardware to software means that companies need to recognize how they deliver that value. In order to ensure they are responding to their customers’ needs in the best possible way, they need to charge appropriately for the features that are being used. So, we ask the panel today, if feature...
May 05, 2020•39 min
The Premise: There is so much talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning from many enterprise IT companies lately, and the general feeling is that a lot of it is just BS. Enterprise AI seems to be a buzzword we are having trouble escaping. Is it following us, or just getting smart enough to know the paths we tread to shake it? The roundtable faces this pursuer and decides if we should take away its boastful title, call it something else, or if we have crossed the threshold far enoug...
Apr 28, 2020•24 min
The Premise: With more people working from home, organizations need to focus on both security and humanity during this COVID-19 pandemic. Security will always be a bit of a treadmill that organizations need to keep moving on. But that treadmill got kicked into overdrive as a result of COVID-19. Organizations that seemingly had well-implemented security policies in place now have to account for everyone working from home. This changes the threat surface from devices used, to how traffic is routed...
Apr 21, 2020•25 min
The Premise: The demands of IT support make physical distancing not practical in all situations. With many people working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, IT is faced with challenges of how it can fulfill its support mission while maintaining a safe physical distance. Certainly the proliferation of cloud services has changed the landscape considerably for a lot of organizations, removing some of the infrastructure that would otherwise need to be maintained by the organization. But...
Apr 07, 2020•26 min
By now, we’re all familiar with software-defined wide area network or SD-WAN. SD-WAN enables the use of multiple circuit types, including both MPLS and commodity broadband. Everyone knows how reliable MPLS can be. Can broadband reach that level of assurance? Given the history of using the technology with enterprise networks, our panel of experts debates the premise that commodity broadband is inferior to MPLS. On-Premises for today’s roundtable: Follow us on Twitter . SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter...
Mar 24, 2020•17 min
Backing up data is standard practice and one that both companies and individuals take part in regularly. Having your data at your fingertips to be able to restore any potential loss and keep your forward movement is a must in all of our quick moving industries. How do you make sure that your backup protocols are taking into account proper security measures? How do you know if encryption is taking place? Is malware slipping into your snapshots and being replicated? Do your backups include data ac...
Mar 10, 2020•22 min
The Premise: Single Pane of Glass is a Myth If you use network monitoring software or SIMS, you’re probably used to having a ton of browser windows open at any given time because there are many aspects to the tools you need to get info from. Looking over your shoulder, a team member might tell you that they have the solution to the “many open browser” issue, and it’s four magical words: Single Pane of Glass. From a user’s perspective, it can be argued that single pane of glass doesn’t exist at a...
Feb 25, 2020•20 min
The Premise: Is Backup Dead? Data protection used to be pretty straightforward. In recent years, there have been a number of changes in enterprise backup. It’s not necessarily that backup has changed, but systems and people have changed. In fact, many small and medium-sized businesses don’t even have servers anymore. Now, we have different applications and different infrastructure, and we have to adjust our processes to accommodate new systems. In this episode, we’re talking about backup… specif...
Feb 11, 2020•26 min
