So that is Day 1 of the Seattle Tech Field Day out of the way and what a day it has been. We’ve been out to Microsoft Redmond HQ, or “the temple” as John Obeto calls it. We saw some new products from Veeam and were privileged enough to be the first port of call for a new and very exciting storage start-up, Nimble Storage.
SolarWinds Orion fanboy Ethan talks to the Head Geek at SolarWinds, Josh Stephens. The discussion is around Orion Network Performance Monitor v.10. If you haven’t checked out Orion in a few years, it’s all grown up now. Ethan’s implementing Orion NPM and loving it, and had a nice chat with Josh about the core Orion features.
Presentation #3 was by F5 networks at the F5 Technology Center. Compellent presented to the Tech Field Day delegation about their automated storage solution which they call “Fluid Data”. View Compellent’s introductory video. The final Tech Field Day presentation was from NEC, on their HYDRAstor storage array.
Josh O’Brien, who consults in the world of Data Center 3.0 and blogs at staticnat.com, joins the Prime Pushers for the podcast. In this show, we go off on the week’s more interesting news, and discover a bit of technology that Greg actually likes! (He went on so long, we blushed and had to look away.)
Unless you’re “in the know”, terms like “layer 2″ can seem mysterious, making it all the more plausible when someone touts the benefits. It seems logical: “Bare-metal” communication must be better, faster, and cheaper than higher-level “everything over IP” approaches, right? But it’s not quite that simple.
Dan is down with the flu, so Greg and Ethan bring Brandon Carroll on board to discuss the news of the week in an abbreviated program.
Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and possibly even interesting.
Chuck has just written a blog which was very similar to a blog that I was working and I agree with a lot of what he says but I’d take it a lot further and there are some interesting conclusions and potentials along the way which could open the market for interesting innovation going forward.
Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and hard hitting.
This week we’re joined by Aaron Conaway of ‘Aaron’s worthless Words’ fame, while we did our usual chit chat about a few things, the main subject was a conversation about career progression.
