Friday, February 16, 2018

The Hot Aisle – Destroy the Status Quo for Enterprise IT with Mark Thiele of Apcera – Episode 78

Mark Thiele (@mthiele10) CIO & Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera (@Apcera) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Container Management and infrastructure architecture at scale. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the enabling technologies of the data center in regards to containers, and how workload composition impacts orchestration and deployment methodologies at scale.  Put on your best hoodie, pack up your favorite ping pong paddle, and stop by the local coffee shop for some single origin coffee – because we’re about to go build a startup inside your IT organization!


Friday, February 2, 2018

The Hot Aisle – Contain the Future of Big Data with Tom Phelan of Blue Data – Episode 77

Tom Phelan (@tapbluedata), Co-Founder & Chief Architect for BlueData (@BlueData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the future of Big Data architectures and how consolidation, disaggregation, and automating are changing the Big Data landscape. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the latest innovations in Big Data – combining Docker Containers and Hadoop, how networking has closed the gap in non-DAS workloads, and Big Data as a Service…Channel your inner Scarlett Johansson because we need a Zoo Keeper to contain all these wild technologies!