The Hot Aisle – Efficient Distributed Applications with Mesosphere’s Thomas Rampelberg – Episode 30

Thomas Rampelberg, Project Manager at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System (DCOS) and how it was created to enable your Public & Private Cloud to be more efficient, resilient, and automated. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Apache Mesos (@ApacheMesos), using DCOS with existing technologies like VMware, and integrations with all the big buzzwords (Docker, Cloud Foundry, Big Data, and DevOps).  So, let us take a minute and sit right there; we’ll tell you how you can become the Prince of Mesosphere.

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The Hot Aisle – Contain Your Cloud Natives with VMware’s Chris Sexsmith – Episode 29

Chris Sexsmith (@VirtualMittens) Sr. Manager of Field Enablement | Cloud-Native Apps atVMware (@VMware) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about VMware’s Cloud Native Application strategy and platforms (@cloudnativeapps) and share the greatness that they bring to the table with us and our listeners. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down AppCatalyst, CodeStream, Photon OS, Photon Machine, Photon Controller, Xenon, VMware Integrated Containers, Photon Platform, LightWave, and so much more.  Chris helps explain how you can embrace Cloud Native apps, utilize containers like Docker and Kubernetes, leverage Mesos, and much more on your existing VMware infrastructure and expertise – as well as exposing a different and beneficial way to round up your sprawling flock of containers.  Is VMware the new border collie of the container herding business?  Super Hot Topics? We Spit That! Knowledge For Days, We Produce That!

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The Hot Aisle – Transition, Stabilize, and Execute with Chad Sakac – Episode 28

Chad Sakac (@sakacc) Newly anointed President of VCE (@VCE) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about his new Converged world, his first 30 days on the job, how a life fueled by RedBull and 5 Hour Energy can accomplish so much, and a not-so-secret product reveal on February 16th, 2016. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down why customers are leaning into “Buy vs. Build”, the consumption of various CI/HCI Taxonomies, and what the Dell | EMC merger could mean once the deal closes.  So, grab your dumbbells and start curling, because what we’re dropping you definitely want to pick up.

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The Hot Aisle – ChatOps is the New Normal with Jason Hand – Episode 27

Jason Hand (@jasonhand) DevOps Evangelist for VictorOps (@VictorOps) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about ChatOps and the benefit it has on a well oiled DevOps teams’ overall function. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get the details on how ChatOps became a thing, Who is using it, Why they’re using it, and What it’s good for.  We ask hard hitting questions like: “what does it mean to make on-call suck less?” – There’s nothing to see here, unless you like being on-call and like long outages.  Find out what teams are doing to take collaboration, troubleshooting, and infrastructure / application management to a whole new level – and how they get nerds to talk to each other.  Grab your 32oz bladder buster thermos, get into the nearest papasan chair, and get ready.

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The Hot Aisle – Talking SMACK about Cassandra with Patrick McFadin – Episode 26

Patrick McFadin (@patrickmcfadin) Chief Evangelist at DataStax (@Datastax) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on NoSQL, Cassandra, Apache Spark, and so much more.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to learn a bit about how Cassandra got here (Thanks Facebook!), the inspirations behind Cassandra (like theDynamo Paper), and how businesses are leveraging Cassandra.  We learn about ACID vs. BASE – and no, it’s not a chemistry quiz.  Patrick gives us a primer on SMACK stack as well Since he’s got a little bit of free time.  So, keep your eyes on the road and your ears open because The Hot Aisle is coming back into 2016 with style.  You don’t like it? Fine. But NoSQL for you!!!

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The Hot Aisle – How REX-Ray Delivers Persistence for Containers with Clint Kitson – Episode 25

Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson) from EMC{code} (@EMCcode) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on containers and infrastructure portability.  Specifically your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to peel back the onion on the subject of container persistence vs. ephemerality and why this is becoming a large issue to solve. As a solution to the problem, we learn how Project REX-Ray provides persistence along with a vendor agnostic storage orchestration engine, and the continuing roadmap for EMC’s foray into the world of Open Source Software. Join in as we learn about Clint, delivering and consuming EMC’s Infrastructure as Code, and much more – grab a seat, you don’t want to miss our 25th Episode!

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The Hot Aisle – Open Source Your Holidays with Matt Brender – Episode 24

Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) operating in his new capacity as Developer Advocate atIntel joins us this week on The Hot Aisle!  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get into the holiday spirit and talk about building open source communities and how to get people to engage, interact, and more.  We also cover Matt’s fun program on helping drive community by engaging on GitHub with the 30 days @Commitmas. In the context of his role as a Developer Advocate – we talk about what Advocacy means as we also work to define telemetry as it pertains to Intel’s newly open sourced Snap project designed to help organizations gain better visibility into and drive efficiencies in their cloud infrastructure.  Grab a seat, settle in with your favorite holiday beverage, and join us!

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