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AI Export Controls Work?

We discuss whether or not AI export controls work, but we take a really interesting twist because what we talk about is manufacturing. What we talk about is innovation, and it’s not whether or not you can control AI chips, but what does it actually take to build innovative product? That’s where we really have challenges on export and controls. There’s military manufacturing and goods, and that’s part of what this AI embargo is about. We really talk about how challenging it is to actually build truly innovative manufacturing and what the barriers are.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/k6Thp-TOfwKc_RjXHC…?utm_source=copy_url

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Container Driven Architecture

In this episode, we continue our dive into the changing architecture of IT infrastructure and look at how containers and container platforms are changing. We also look at the fundamental nature of what people want to buy, accelerated by VMware Broadcom, making virtualization platforms much less attractive, and the shifting landscape here. This is work that is based on a presentation that I’ve been giving around the shift towards open shift virtualization and Kubernetes in general.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/BnYKzI0zzOLqqWi45v…?utm_source=copy_url

HA Troubleshooting [Tech Ops]

This episode of the TechOps series goes into high availability troubleshooting. Not just high availability, not just troubleshooting, but actually talking through what it takes to manage and maintain and fix HA systems. This is part of a longer discussion we’ve been having and so there’s some really interesting ideas in the middle of these discussions that I hope will shape your thinking as you build high availability systems, diagnostics and troubleshooting for people who are in high availability very complex environments.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/wM__4w1YIzZnhVdgLu…?utm_source=copy_url

References:
status.openai.com/incidents/ctrsv3lwd797\

Is 2025 even harder than we expected?

We review 2025 predictions today and dig into why I think this year is going to be both boring and terrifying for a lot of enterprise IT leaders. That, of course, spans Amazon, Reinvent storage, VMware, AI, and Agentic AI – we run the gamut on what is coming and why this is actually going to be a very challenging year.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/H6UvLC-r2zmBO9A5jf…?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: zenoh.io by ZettaScale

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Kubernetes on Prem vs Cloud

We step back in this episode of our Tech Ops series and talk about cloud self managed infrastructure and how you balance the competing concerns. We started from a report that RackN had commissioned talking about on premises Kubernetes, and mixing that into your IT infrastructure.

Can you have a cloud broker? Can you do multi cloud, some sort of tried and true topics for cloud consideration, but through a new filter and through this repatriation idea of mixing and matching your IT Infrastructure?

Transcript: otter.ai/u/FKGuQpV-5bQFVASAYD…?utm_source=copy_url

Resources:
store.repebble.com/
rackn.com/2025/03/18/ready-for…netes-on-bare-metal/
www.reuters.com/technology/cybers…ports-2025-03-18/
gabrielsimmer.com/blog/kubernetes-plus-oneplus

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DeepThink AI and Kubernetes

We springboard from DeepThinking AI and have a robust conversation about what impact DeepThink is having on the industry. We also discuss where we see things going into the dilemma of people building AI infrastructure and working to do that quickly, robustly and with strong governance. This is necessary to ensure that they can quickly update and manage that AI infrastructure that they’re spending so much money to build, and this leads into a broader conversation about virtualization, containers and open shift.

Recorded Jan 30, 2025

Transcript: otter.ai/u/79JxdYOiXUoSS44pYP…?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: www.perplexity.ai/search/provide-a…TQ6LJG_X0SlB5g#8

Writing Great Test Scripts [TechOps]

We deep dive into something seemingly very small, but with a lot of repercussions for how you manage and run a data center, and that is test scripts for servers.

As you’re going through a production cycle or a provisioning cycle, how do you test? What do you test? This topic was from a Reddit thread that we answered and then had a whole hour conversation about just how important and impactful this type of script is.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/Cb3yac8JHvlM2yqh72…?utm_source=copy_url