Joining us this week is VM (Vicky) Brasseur from Open Source Initiative.
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Provisioning is not Provisioning
Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus discuss their recent experiences with customers in truly understanding what provisioning is and what it is not. They even compare where the word provision comes from
Mathew Lodge on Data Science as a Service in 20 Minutes from Scratch
Joining us this week is Mathew Lodge, SVP of Products & Marketing of Anaconda.
Yves Boudreau on State of the Edge Report and Edge vs Cloud
Joining us this week is Yves Boudreau from Ericsson for his 2nd Podcast appearance (1st Podcast).
Highlights
• Edge as an accelerant not having to wait until Edge is built completely
• Opportunity Cost using Edge as is; no time to wait
• Be Specific when Requesting Services
• Internet and Networks are Not Unlimited Pipes
• Interesting Use Cases for Edge – Augmented Reality, Drone, Cars, Batteries
o Jason Hoffman Podcast for Batteries
• Cost savings of where the data processing is done
• Open Source software communities at the Edge
Are you a Zebra or a Donkey? Chat on Recent IT News
Stephen Spector and Rob Hirschfeld offer commentary on the recent news about a Donkey in Egypt painted to be a Zebra at the local zoo. From this we have created the Donkey – Zebra concept of IT solutions, marketing and sales. Also add in a short discussion on a recent post that Google Cloud has an advantage in the marketplace because of open source; quick hint ~ we don’t buy it.
Richard Primeaux talks Robotics as a System
Joining us this week is Richard Primeaux, Head of Product and Strategy, Hangar Technology.
Highlights
• Cars are the wrong choice for autonomous vehicles – test out on autonomous drones for infrastructure projects (e.g. new buildings, cell towers, …)
• Mission plans delivered to drone for execution as a robot
• What is a robot? Difficult – Dangerous – High Degree of Repeatability – Dull Tasks
• Robot is controlled from program that is run independent of a controller
• 4-D visual insights delivered to customers
• Robotics as a System ~ requires a great deal of components for success; not just electronics
• What an Edge infrastructure will look like to support these robots
• GPS accuracy is not enough for flying robotics
• Supporting external influences that happen in real time
• Building multi-vendor edges coordinating data
• Discussion on how car automation can learn from drone automation
Lack of Seriousness in Cybersecurity, Security thru Transparency, and Blockchain
Joining us this week is Mike D. Kail, previously the CTO of Cybric and Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure.
Highlights
• RANT Cast on Cybersecurity Regulations from Governments
o Security is Important but NOT a Priority
• Culture around Security is Lacking
• Time for Security Tech to Include UI Testing and Consider User Experience
• Confusing on Not-Working Security Settings and Profit Motives
o Security thru Transparency
• Accountability of Provider in Turning off Security based on Requests
• Definition on Distributed Ledgers / Blockchain & Scalability Challenges
• Promise of Blockchain and Good Application for It / Digital Identity
• Zero Trust Security Overview
• Equifax Example and Regulation
Yadin Porter de León on critical open source community failings
Joining us this week is Yadin Porter de León (@porterdeleon), IT Community at Druva as well as from the Level Up Project and host of the Tech Village podcast.
Highlights
” Open Source Communities and the People
” Relationship of Corporations in Open Source and Community
” Users of Open Source care about Community?
” Community’s should FOCUS and not overlap to adjacencies
Kong Yang on golden age of cloud, CI/CD and DevOps, and operator opportunity
In this week’s podcast, we speak with Kong Yang, Head Geek at SolarWinds. He also hosts the Wide World of Tech podcast. Key topics discussed in the podcast:
” State of cloud computing ~ entering its golden age
” IT & business units coming together to deal with shadow IT responsibly
” Building technology on services with no control over them
” CI/CD model
” Operators skills and time available
” Human aspect
Eric Wright talks DevOpsishFullStackishness and Woke IT
Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing/Evangelist at Turbonomic and podcaster/evangelist at Discoposse.com.
Highlights
” RANT on Cloud Terminology w/ new terms “DevOpsishFullStackishness” & “Woke IT”
” Open Source communities, vendors, and value of users
” Edge Computing – Definition, Turbonomic Role in Cloud/Edge
” Edge and Cloud are Hybrid – Embrace multiple paradigms including legacy
” Discussion of Go language and RackN usage