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Latest Episodes
Battling IT Burnout
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
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.
CTO Advisor Chat Episode 1 – SD-WAN The killer SDN app
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
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?
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
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
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
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