Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Director Technical Marketing at Turbonomic. He joins a discussion talking about Rob Hirschfeld’s recent post on The New Stack, The Optimal Kubernetes Cluster Size? Let’s Look at the Data.
Category Archives: Data Center
Don’t Touch That – Open Infra Summit Talk on Edge Computing
Rob Hirschfeld and Mark Thiele give their Open Infrastructure Talk from the recent event in Denver in this podcast. Slides for the podcast are available at speakerdeck.com/zehicle/edge-dont-touch-that. A video of the talk is at youtu.be/KvqN8x1bDCw.
Software is Not Eating the World, it’s Dying
Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector talk about the Software industry and how SaaS and other trends are killing the traditional software solution based on installation and management in your own data centers.
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Eric Wright on Challenges of Enterprise Software Sales
Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist, Turbonomic .
About Turbonomic
Turbonomic workload automation for hybrid cloud environments delivers enterprise organizations with automation that enables on-premises and public cloud to self-manage in real-time, thereby assuring application performance while lowering cost and maintaining compliance with business policies. The platform matches workload demand to infrastructure supply, helping customers maintain a continuous state of application health.
Launched in 2009, Turbonomic is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the virtualization and cloud management space, trusted by thousands of enterprise organizations to maximize the value of their IT investments.
DiscoPosse Podcast
The DiscoPosse Podcast is designed to share personal and technology stories with great folks from all across the industry. More than just tech, you’ll find founder’s stories, technology stories, personal productivity, fitness, and much more. Recently rebranded from the original GC On-Demand which spawned from community interactions I have enjoyed through my role at Turbonomic.
Follow Eric’s podcast at https://discoposse.com/.
Highlights:
- Discoposse Podcast
- Discussion on Luke Kaines Article
- Open Source Impact on IT Ops and Purchasing
- Money Drives Operational Alignment
- Sales as Organizational Improvements
Time Stamp
- 0 min 6 sec: Introduction of Guest
- 1 min 19 sec: Discoposse Podcast
- History of Podcast
- Canada – Brewers Retail
- 6 min 07 sec: Luke Kaines Article, My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
- Like Watching a Netflix Story Heading to an Unexpected Ending
- Starts with Hard Lessons Learned – how not to do things
- Who are you building the product for? User or Purchaser
- Still early in our industry on how to build a product that doesn’t require enterprise sales
- When is sales enterprise? How to define that?
- You succeed on your ability to manage relationships of warring departments at the prospect’s company; it’s not the product that you are selling
- 13 min 16 sec: Examples of Politics impacting sales
- RackN and Internal Champions
- Open Source allows customers to bypass their sales departments: dangers of this happening
- Tour de France of IT Operations
- Justify the cost of the product vs. value or the product
- 21 min 05 sec: People take things seriously when money is being spent
- Free consulting never gets used
- Open source has less perceived value since its free but it’s not really free
- Personal investment vs team investment in solution
- Disagreements add value to organizations
- Silos vs Cross-Silo Communications
- 31 min 08 sec: How sell product communicating value to multiple groups via internal champions
- Having to use software purchased already to get value
- Have to pay for software, even free software
- Even open source software has commercial support that cost money
- Always about building a team and communication
- 40 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up
Podcast Guest: Eric Wright
Eric Wright is a Principal Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, VMware vExpert, and Cisco Champion with a background in virtualization, containers, VMware, OpenStack, Business Continuity, PowerShell scripting and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada.
When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.
Cloud Don on Service Mesh and Edge Federation
Joining us this week is Sriram Subramanian, Founder and Principal Analyst, CloudDon.
About Cloud Don
Sriram Subramanian is an independent analyst catalyzing modern enterprise IT Transformations. His primary area of coverage is how cloud computing/ container technology based services are impacting modern enterprise IT. His representative clients include vendors such as Red Hat, Microsoft, HPE, and end users in retail, fin tech and healthcare.
Service Mesh Event (18 min 45 sec)
Service Mesh Day : March 28 – 29, 2019
Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco
Highlights:
- Thoughts on late 2018 AWS ReInvent and KubeCon (Software vs SaaS)
- Vendor Lock-In Hype
- Service Mesh
- Edge Computing
Highlights
- 0 min 16 sec: Introduction of Guest
- 1 min 33 sec: Impressions from AWS ReInvent and KubeCon 2018
- Software vs SaaS
- 9 min 00 sec: Services Spun up Inside Kubernetes vs Vendor Lock-in
- Over Hype of Vendor Lock-In?
- 12 min 38 sec: Service Mesh
- Why do I need Service Mesh on Kubernetes?
- Enable Cloud-Native Paradigms
- Kubernetes is not the Answer to Everything
- 20 min 35 sec: Data Center Environment and Edge Computing
- Is Kubernetes assumed for Edge?
- LF Edge Announcement Podcast
- Federation
- 30 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up
Sabjeet Johal on Hybrid Clouds, AWS Outpost and More
Joining us this week is Sarbjeet Johal, Principal Advisor, The Batchery.
About The Batchery
Founded in 2015, The Batchery is an Berkeley-based global incubator for seed stage entrepreneurs ready to take their startup to the next level. We are a community of veteran investors and advisers ready to provide you with ideas, insights, and networks. Our partnerships with law firms, technology providers, and other startup services means that you start building your company the minute you join us.
Highlights:
• Latest in Data Centers and Hybrid Clouds
• Amazon Announcement on Outpost and ReInvent Thoughts
• Design Approaches of Cloud and Future Technology
Calsoft on the value of NFV for Telecom and Edge Computing
About Calsoft
Founded in 1998, Calsoft provides end-to-end product development, quality assurance, product sustenance, and solution engineering services to assist customers in achieving their product development and business goals. Our deep domain knowledge across various verticals helps customers create exceptional products and get them to market on time and within budget.
Calsoft’s deep technical expertise has led to the creation of several proprietary accelerators which are a huge hit among customers. Our niche skillset and intuitive engagement models are geared to meet the ever-evolving business needs of our customers.
Highlights:
· NFV Overview and Importance in Telecom
· NFV Usage and Use Cases
· Edge Service Delivery
Highlights
· 0 min 36 sec: Introduction of Guests
· 2 min 18 sec: Particular area of Industry that is exploding right now?
o 5G, Edge Computing, NFV
· 3 min 03 sec: NFV — Define and why it’s so important?
o Operators need agile technology that is easy to manage
o Data rates are dropping — What does that mean?
§ Data Service Fees are Dropping
· 6 min 06 sec: How does NFV help reduce data?
o Move from hardware to software to provide services
o Are Virtual Machines required? Are Containers coming?
o New capabilities that NFV offers
· 10 min 19 sec: Use Case for NFV
· 13 min 16 sec: What are you seeing in moving computation closer to the Edge?
o Need to save Packet travel time for new solutions
o Section.io Podcast on CDN for Edge
o What do NFV Clouds need to do for Edge support?
· 18 min 21 sec: How do you build and deliver apps for Edge?
o Designing solutions to scale is critical
o Standards matter for Open NFV
· 23 min 13 sec: Dynamic Infrastructures for Quick Tear-Down
o Technologies to watch for in this space
o Who connects Service Provider to Service Provider?
· 28 min 51 sec: Bottleneck to Delivering Edge Services
o Datacenters closer to the customer and connecting them back to the NFV ecosystem
o How does Calsoft help the industry and its role?
· 31 min 34 sec: Wrap-Up
Podcast Guests:
Pavan Gupta, Software Architect, Calsoft
Pavan has worked extensively in building and promoting wireless telecom products. He is an NFV architect at Calsoft Inc. and prior led engineering efforts at Cisco Systems to build LTE EPC Gateways on Cisco ASR5500 platform. He has worked closely with leading operators such as AT&T, Verizon and RJio and has been responsible for laying down product and business strategy in the wireless mobility space. Pavan is also engaged with open source efforts particularly OPNFV and ONAP.
Kiran Divekar, Software Architect from Calsoft.
Kiran has 17 years of experience working on the networking domain, SDN, NFV, OpenVswitch, DPDK, VMware NSX, Cloud computing, Docker, Linux System Software, Networking and Embedded Systems. He has delivered several sessions on Kernel programming, Linux Architecture. Kiran is recognized for his understanding of Networking stack, Linux Kernel Stack and embedded systems.
Quick Chat: Time Constraints on Operations Teams
Rob Hirschfeld, CEO/Co-Founder of RackN and Greg Althaus, CTO/Co-Founder of RackN have a short discussion of the issue faced by DevOps and Operations teams finding time to investigate new technologies that could improve their day to day capabilities. In this discussion, time is more important than money.
Jason Hoffman on Edge and Joyent Reflections
Joining us this week is Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX, a startup “creating a global marketplace for organizations to deliver and drive the business of these edge enabled services and products.”
Matt Trifiro talks Jitter, Real Estate and Augmented Reality for Edge
Joining us this week is Matt Trifiro, CMO of Vapor.io. Matt offers insight into how Edge infrastructure and 5G will be deployed to meet the increased demand for low latency, high data distributed technology.
Highlights
• Edge is a place: the last mile network
• Jitter at the Edge (Jitter definition)
• Data sovereignty and location
• Apps for Edge have are not similar to existing apps for communication processes
• Edge as multi-vendor data sharing environment
• Real estate problem – solved by Akamai
• Vision of schedulers on keeping apps running vs keeping apps fast
• Cloud providers will extend into the Edge
• Augmented reality discussion of video and latency (Digital Twin)
• Importance of 5G to Edge and commercial impact
• Real estate is key in Edge computing
• Building and Managing Edge infrastructure
• What does Vapor do?