The Hot Aisle – Re-Architecting the Storage Stack with DSSD’s Mike Shapiro – Episode 35

Mike Shapiro, Vice President and Co-Founder of EMC’s DSSD (@EMCDSSD) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about a new twist on deploying Flash – Specifically NVMe – in new and different ways.  Block?  Sure Thing.  Object?  Yup.  Hadoop / HDFS?  Gots.  Oh, and don’t forget the Flood API.  What’s a flood you say?  Well, sit down with your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) to learn all about how DSSD thinks they’re impacting infrastructure and business results simultaneously with a new platform for storing your data of all shapes and sizes.  Grab a firehose and get ready for the throughput as Mike opens the floodgates and unleashes his inner nerd for you.

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The Hot Aisle – Cloud Native Starter Dough with James Watters – Episode 34

James Watters (@wattersjames) SVP, Products for Pivotal (@pivotal) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about SpringBoot, Pivotal Labs, Pair Programming “Starter Dough”, and what Pivotal Cloud Foundry is up to these days.  We learn a bit about how CloudFoundry came to where it is today and what Pivotal’s charter is as they go out and take on the business world. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get an education on the evolution of java development, talk about cloud native applications and the issues around vendor-lock in, and the evolution of consumption and the needs to shift businesses to tightly align with these cultural shifts. Get out your bucket of frozen yogurt and your most comfy blanket – sit on the couch – and tune in as we get you through this trough of disillusionment and bring you out on the other side fully enlightened – and Cloud Native.

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The Hot Aisle – Fast Data and the Citizen Data Scientist with John Thompson – Episode 33

John K. Thompson (@johnkthompson60) General Manager of Advanced Analytics for Dell (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Analytics, Big Data, & IoT so that we can get our brains wrapped around these evolving topics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what the Analytics landscape looks like from Dell’s perspective, why Small Data is a thing, and the intersection of Analytics on the Edge and the Core … Go get your slide rules and your books on assembly code – because you’ll want some kindling for our fireside chat!

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The Hot Aisle – Can You Smell What Chef Has Cooking? with Chris Webber – Episode 32

Chris Webber (@cwebber), Engineering Manager for Chef Software (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Configuration Management & treating Infrastructure as Code.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what Chef is, how its working to change the game, and why the Chef Community is the best on the block…oh, and the fact that Brent and Chris have an affinity for 4-letter words   So lower your sensitivities in order to heighten your sensibilities in the ever changing world of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code. 

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The Hot Aisle – Stick it in your Pipeline with Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Episode 31

Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) creator of Jenkins and CTO of Cloud Bees (@CloudBees) – (not Code Bees, lol) – joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment (The other CD) – and why working in a circle is a good thing – with the right tools. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the business processes, user experiences, and all of the benefits that CI:CD bring to a development team and the resulting impact on business responsiveness. We must have done something right, because Kohsuke even drops some knowledge regarding Jenkins 2.0 Preview! That’s some Alpha Bits you’re gunna wanna gobble up right there.

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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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