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Latest Episodes

Battling IT Burnout
August 22, 2018

In this important career focused episode, Keith and Mark talk with Eric Lee about IT burn out. Eric wrote a timely and very important blog post on IT Burnout. Eric helps workers identify symptoms of burnout and how to get help

The Sphere – Mission Accomplished w/Rebecca Fitzhugh
August 14, 2018

Rubrik Technical Marketing Engineer Rebecca Fitzhugh joins the Sphere. Rebecca shares her experience starting her career as a 17-year old in the military to running her consultancy and eventually joining Rubrik.

Running a Business as a Couple – John & Kat Troyer
August 05, 2018

Running a Business as a couple

CTO Advisor Chat Episode 1 – SD-WAN The killer SDN app
June 22, 2015

I struggled to find the killer application for Software-Defined Networking. The PacketPushers who are the geekiest of networking geeks don’t feel Cisco ACI or VMware NSX are mature enough for the average enterprise. I am however intrigued by SD WAN.

Tech Talk 27: The hypervisor no longer matters
June 17, 2015

I never brought the idea that VMware is doubling down on virtualization. It didn’t make sense to me. While VMware itself was going well, I didn’t see vSphere as a blockbuster solution anymore. A few years later the diversity we

TT 26: Why a SAP Infrastructure Architect?
June 15, 2015

After my very public job search last year, I’ve consistently gotten the question why take a job as a SAP Infrastructure Architect? What in the world does SAP have to do with virtualization and new cloud based IT? It doesn’t

TT 25: The end of blogging
June 12, 2015

Interesting edition of The Reckoning newsletter last night. One of the topics was alternative forms of blogging and the rise of podcasting. Obviously, I’ve already adopted podcasting. I’ve settled on a 3 episode a week release schedule. The format is

TT 24: Nutanix isn’t an application
June 10, 2015

Nutanix CEO’s response to VMware’s vSphere support concerns is interesting. One of the more interesting battles in enterprise tech has been the back and forth between Nutanix and VMware. Most recently VMware had gotten a dig in on Nutanix’ end

TT 23: Geeks and getting social at work
June 08, 2015

I don’t ask the question but flat out make an argument that engineers need to attend work social events but should. I guess I’d ask the question if you don’t like your co-workers enough to have drinks with them maybe