Tech Field Day Podcast
Episodes
2. Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber Resiliency is a term that encompasses much more than simply protecting data. This episode features Tom Hollingsworth joined by Krista Macomber a...
1. Credible Content From the Community is More Important than Ever
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities. In the f...
0. Reintroducing the Tech Field Day Podcast
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are once again returning to the Tech Field Day name for our weekly podcast. In this episode, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth delve into the h...
AI Demands a New Storage Architecture with Hammerspace
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hammerspace unveiled a new storage architecture called Hyperscale NAS that addresses the needs of AI and GPU computing. This episode of the On-Premise...
No One Wants To Be A Network Engineer Any More
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The job market is more competitive than ever but the desire to fill network engineering roles is lower than before. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth...
Real World AI Looks a Lot Different From the Movies
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people envision AI as a cool and orderly datacenter activity, but this technology will soon be everywhere. This episode of the On-Premise IT podc...
The Future of AI Needs Ethernet
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The development of AI networking is moving forward and Ethernet is taking a prime role in how workloads will communicate. In this episode, Tom Hollin...
Generative AI is Developing Applications
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI is becoming a key tool for software developers, and businesses are embracing it as well. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brin...
Hardware Can’t Keep Up With Software
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern workloads are overloading hardware systems, and the CPUs in the market today aren’t up to the task. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast...
We Need AI to Enable Everything
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The IT world is obsessed with AI but the desire to put AI into every product creates confusion and uncertainty. In this episode of the On-Premise Pod...
Platform Engineering Isn’t Just DevOps Renamed
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Platform engineering has been happening for a long time, but today’s implication is quite different. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast ...
Cloud Repatriation is Really Happening
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Now that businesses have deployed modern applications in the cloud they are starting to ask whether it might be more attractive to run these on-premi...
Ethernet Won’t Replace InfiniBand for AI Networking in 2024
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
InfiniBand is the king of AI networking today. Ethernet is making a big leap to take some of that market share but it’s not going to dethrone...
AI Is Going To Make Malware Worse
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is going to accelerate development of malware everywhere from code to prompts for social engineering. But tools can be used for defense as w...
It’s Always the Wi-Fi
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Users are always going to blame the connectivity medium for issues and we just have to accept it. In this episode, Sam Clements, Troy Martin, a...
WebAssembly Will Displace Containers For Web-Scale Applications
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Containerization of applications is only a small step forward from virtualization, but WebAssembly promises a real revolution. This episode of the On...
Identity Management is Tweaking our Neuroses
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of identity management has become increasingly complex and challenging due to the purely digital nature of modern identity. This ep...
Cybersecurity is a C-Suite Problem
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As ransomware continues to pose a significant threat to enterprises, C-level executives must collaborate and communicate with IT. This episode ...
You Are Afraid of the Vendor Switch
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Changing or upgrading hardware and software is a scary proposition on the best of days. In this episode, join Tom Hollingsworth along with Keit...
Edge is the Third Great Tech Revolution
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tech is a field full of revolutions and Edge is something special. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Jim Czuprynski, Gina Rosenthal, and ...
Licensing is Ruining Networking
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Software licensing is making networking much more complex and causing networking professionals to be very confused about the state of their disciplin...
Mind the Gap Between Hyperscale and Enterprise IT
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hyperscale-inspired technology is everywhere in enterprise IT, from Kubernetes to S3 to OCP, but these technologies may not be applicable. This...
No One Talks About Edge Backup
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Backing up data at the edge is fraught with challenges concerning the importance of the data and the limitations of the hardware at your disposal. In...
Edge Innovation is Coming from All Directions
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we’ve discussed all season on Utilizing Edge, innovation is coming from all directions, including hardware, software, and applications. This...
No One Understands Storage Anymore
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although modern-day storage products let us do more with less, and is more capable than ever before, they are also way more complex, and often uninte...
Primary Storage is Becoming Secondary Storage
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The storage industry is increasingly focused on memory rather than traditional storage, and this reflects an architectural shift in the compute stack...
AI Infrastructure Disrupts Enterprise IT with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As enterprises try to deploy infrastructure to support AI applications they generally discover that the demands of this application can disrupt their...
Once Again, Snapshots Are Not Backups
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Snapshots are still not backups but the nature of data storage means care must be taken to determine data retention requirements. In this episode of ...
VMware Should Focus on the Hypervisor and Networking
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into VMware Explore US 2023, we are forced to consider the company’s strategy once again. Wouldn’t it be better if VMware focused on t...
Low Code and No Code Aren’t The Magic Solution
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Low Code and No Code automation solutions have been gaining significant popularity. Organizations are embracing them to kickstart or continue a...
Startups are Tech Trailblazers for the Giants
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As tech giants struggle to adapt to changing business conditions, startups are quick to blaze new trails. This episode of On-Premise IT, hosted...
Hybrid Environments Require Cloud DR
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most attractive use cases for VMware was disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud infrastructure enhances this use case. That̵...
Network-as-a-Service is the End of Network Engineering Roles
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Network-as-a-Service is a new concept. Or is it? The ideas behind having someone else working on your network infrastructure are as old as the ...
Network Testing Is Critical
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of testing cannot be understated. Network testing is more than just working bandwidth or certifying network components. Applicat...
Security is not Privacy
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern information security teams have a need for visibility to ensure user safety. Traffic flows and patterns are analyzed for anomalies and polices...
Hardware Doesn’t Matter Anymore
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this age of software, cloud, and platforms, custom hardware seems to be a lost art. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Joep Piscaer, Ma...
Silos Are Sabotaging Your Security Strategy
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IT is full of siloes. They help ensure that experts are working on the areas they are best suited for. However, siloes are a problem for security tea...
Constant Rebranding is Ruining Your Sales Cycle
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may be intimately familiar with brands and their products for some lines but not everything is iconic. Companies rebrand products all the time in...
Machine Learning is Best Suited for Security
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and large language models, is in the news, it isn’t very useful in enterprise IT. I...
Predictive Site Surveys Don’t Work
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can a remote predictive wireless survey achieve the same results as something on-site? Can the current generation of modeling give you the assu...
Cloud Workload Repatriation is a Real Problem
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise IT is constantly oscillating between centralized and distributed, and we’re currently in a period of repatriation of workloads from ...
QLC SSDs Are Ready for Mainstream with Solidigm
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As NAND flash memory technology has evolved, MLC, TLC, and QLC has been perceived to compromise both reliability and performance. In this episo...
We Gave Away Too Much To Get Wi-Fi 6E
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The industry is excited to implement Wi-Fi 6E with all the new devices coming out. Even with regulatory challenges the world is ready for faste...
Don’t Just Store Your Data, Make It Useful with Hammerspace Orchestration
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a wide gap between storing data and making it useful, and it is getting worse with the growing volume of unstructured data. In this ep...
Private 5G Can’t Be Simplified For Enterprises
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Private 5G is coming to the enterprise near you. Deploying this hot new wireless and mobility technology is a great way to overcome challenges ...
The Edge is a Real Place
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although the Utilizing Edge podcast dives deep into the topic of edge computing, it’s worth considering the topic from other perspectives...
Lock In Is The Enemy
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The term “lock in” gets thrown around a lot in IT. It’s the reason why we spend so much time engineering solutions that don’t make us d...
APIs Are Ruining Networking
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every piece of software has an API now. If you want to interact with the program you’re going to need to write a program of your own. Are you...
Databases and Storage Systems Are Converging
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Storage systems and databases are becoming increasingly alike. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast recorded at the recent Storage Field Da...
Enterprises Need Security Specialists to Succeed with Fortinet
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The prevailing cybersecurity skills shortage has impacted security teams around the world and their ability to protect against today’s threat...
Big Storage Is Everywhere!
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since IBM introduced external storage in the mainframe age the concept of big storage keeps changing. This special episode of the On-Premi...
IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IP address management in the era of IoT and BYOD is a total torment, especially for growing organizations. In this episode of On-Premise IT Pod...
The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot of bad news coming out of the IT industry, especially large service providers and suppliers, but overall things aren’...
Is Encrypted Traffic Monitoring Worth It?
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the race to make our users safer, have we reduced our visibility? Encrypting traffic with TLS everywhere means that our users can use online...
Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even though most of the technologies and infrastructure elements are the same, the nature of edge comping is entirely different. This episode of On-P...
Stop Building Snowflakes
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Uniqueness is the enemy of consistency. We spend our time building custom environments and then find our efforts to automate them fail. In this episo...
Is XDR Only for Security Teams?
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
XDR is the latest exciting solution that will fix all of your security woes. It will break down siloes in your organization and reduce response time ...
Storage as a Service is More Than Financial Engineering with Pure Storage
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although the move from capital to operational expenses is important, many organizations expect more than financial engineering from their stora...
It’s Time to Repatriate Applications from the Cloud
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although the definition of hybrid cloud is loose, it’s inescapable that organizations are getting smarter about locating applications on-premis...
Enterprise IT Doesn’t Care About A Recession
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is enterprise IT capable of weathering a recession better than any other area of business? The vendors of the technology would have you believe that ...
Hybrid Cloud is Evolving Into the Multicloud with NetApp
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The whole concept of the cloud is evolving, from traditional datacenter to cloud-native applications to the next generation of hybrid cloud. This epi...
Flash Memory Won’t Replace Disk Drives, Let Alone Tape
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flash maybe the shiny new toy that enterprises are beguiled with, but it’d be wrong to prophesy that flash would put older technologies like disk a...
The Edge is Real This Time
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edge computing is getting more real every day. What emerged as a viable architecture to support distributed computing has now taken center stage. So,...
Security Isn’t The WiFi’s Fault
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wireless is the new edge. Almost every client out there, whether a laptop or phone or IoT sensor, uses Wi-Fi to connect to the network. What happens ...
Enterprises Should Be Looking for CloudOps Devs
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A major hurdle in the path to deploying cloud-based technologies is skill shortage. It’s a crisis many organizations are struggling with, and it is...
The Initial Journey to the Cloud is Over with NetApp
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly two decades since the first use of cloud computing in modern IT, organizations have completed the first phase of their journey into clou...
It’s Too Hard to Collaborate in Automation
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ineffective collaboration between teams in automation leads to lack of clarity that translates to pointlessly doing the same work over and over again...
Hybrid Work has Vastly Increased the Enterprise Threat Surface
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The threat surface of our enterprise has increased dramatically because our enterprise now includes remote workers. In this episode of the On-Premise...
Security has to be Integrated into the Entire IT Stack
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern storage systems increasingly have data security capabilities, but these need to be part of a complete security solution to be effective. This ...
Where Have All The Objects Gone?
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although object storage goes back decades in the enterprise datacenter, it’s nowhere near as dominant as it is in the cloud. That’s the q...
Subscription Services are Strangling Enterprise IT
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subscriptions have moved up from meal kits and streaming services to all of technology. In just a few short years, enterprise IT has transitioned int...
The Future of Datacenter is Serverless
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite all the hardware and software changes that have come to the datacenter, the server has remained the primary unit. But new technologies, from ...
Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The network has moved from the edge to the core and on to the cloud. We have added intelligence throughout and tried to make things easier for profes...
You Don’t Need Wi Fi 6E Today
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world of wireless is advancing quickly and new protocols and hardware are coming into the market. Manufacturers are pushing the latest and greate...
It’s The End of VMworld as We Know IT
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To the IT community, the VMworld is an Ops conference like no other. But things are about to change. The in-person VMworld events stopped with the pa...
IT Infrastructure Companies Don’t Understand Developers
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise IT companies are fixated on developers as a new market for IT infrastructure products, but it seems like they don’t even know what t...
Storage Admins Aren’t Ready for Infrastructure as Code
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Storage has historically not been compatible with modern infrastructure as code concepts, so today’s administrators probably aren’t ready...
Observability Needs to Be Smarter
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the modern world of enterprise IT it’s important to keep an eye on your systems. But the amount of data that is being generated makes it very di...
Real Cloud Hybrid Storage Doesn’t Exist
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a long-standing dream of hybrid cloud that combines the best of datacenter and cloud architecture, but does this exist for storage? In this ...
EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VXLAN changed the way we use layer 2 networking in the data center and solved a lot of our multitenancy problems. Today it’s inexorably linked with...
Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The modern enterprise network is excited by the prospect of network automation. But is automation a new idea? Or is the enterprise finally catching u...
Wireless is Not Mission Critical
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world is more wireless now than ever. No matter where you go you’ll find some form of wireless connectivity. But what about those applications ...
Multi-Cloud is Inevitable
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What really is multi-cloud and why does it keep coming up so often in the context of enterprise cloud computing models? If you know anything about cl...
You’re Using the Word Site Survey Wrong
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In wireless we talk about doing site surveys but do we actually know what that means? Are we even talking about the same thing when we mention in as ...
The Future of Storage Isn’t Purely Hardware or Software
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The development of enterprise storage has historically oscillated between a focus on special-purpose hardware and optimized software. In this episode...
Consistent Security is Very Difficult
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Security is a hard job. We spend our time analyzing our environment and building controls to keep our users and their data safe. As hard as security ...
Networking is Too Complex
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The more advanced a technology becomes, the more complex it appears. Is that always the case? Or is the complexity in networking coming from somethin...
The Cloud is More Than Just an API
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pretty much every application today has an API and scales out using modern infrastructure approaches, but is it a cloud? That’s the question we...
Full Stack Engineering is a Joke
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You may have engineering talent on staff but how full are they? Because you must have a full stack engineer, or you’ll never get anything accomplis...
Does Enterprise IT Matter Anymore
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise IT has endured a significant number of changes in the past few years. The rise of the cloud coupled with a global pandemic forcing users t...
Sometimes the Best Storage is No Storage
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The line between storage and memory is blurring thanks to Intel Optane technology, and systems equipped with this might not need storage at all. Join...
IT is Always Reinventing the Wheel
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Companies are reinventing things all the time in IT. In their own fields, when venturing out to new ones, it seems that every company is trying to do...
People Don’t Realize How Insecure Their Storage Is
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most people assume that storage systems are secure, but security is not necessarily part of the design for most storage systems. In this episode, spo...
AI Needs Specialized Storage
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Given the announcements of just about every company in the industry, it appears that AI requires specialized storage to function. In this special epi...
VPNs Aren’t Required Anymore
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The technology behind VPNs is venerable. Heavy clients that create client networking issues coupled with key exchanges makes users want to throw thei...
Developer Advocacy Isn’t Exactly What We Think It Will Be
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many companies are trying to leverage DevOps to sell products through developer advocacy, but does it actually work? Just having open source or shari...
Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular?
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wireless is the new normal for endpoint connectivity. But does it solve all the problems we have with connecting lots of devices over a wide area? Ar...
Too Much Security is Just as Bad as No Security
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know how dangerous it is to have no security around your important IT assets. We need to keep the users safe and the infrastructure secure. Wh...
Storage is Insecure
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Storage is not secure, period. Storage has security weaknesses that can open doors to attackers to easily hack into sensitive data stores, and this i...
Firewalls Don’t Seem To Belong Everywhere
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The typical approach to security is to just put some firewalls in place and create a perimeter, right? While that might work well in very specific en...