In this week’s podcast Brian and Patrick Kennedy from STH go to war, as two enemy tech websites collide in the squared circle. Actually not quite, we’re friends and spend ten minutes talking smoking meats. From there we get into tech; Patrick talks Intel and AMD server CPUs (of course, massive nerd alert). The guys

In this week’s podcast Brian interviews Lee Caswell, aka The vSAN guy. Lee covers a lot of ground, starting with a conversation about the momentum of VCF. Of those customers, 80% are net new to vSAN. On the vSAN front, adoption remains strong as VMware is adding 100 customers a week on vSAN. This is

In this week’s podcast Brian talks with Tom Butler from Lenovo. Tom starts out by giving an update on Lenovo’s latest ThinkPads and talks about the evolution of end user computing in the modern era. The guys then turn to the importance of a good display then dive into tower workstations and the value that

If Intel’s diminutive PCs weren’t big enough already, today’s conditions have driven even more interest in Intel NUCs. In fact, our recent piece on installing ESXi on an Intel NUC 9 was a top 10 article for May. To help satiate your hunger for more info on Intel NUCs, this podcast with Kristin Brown covers a

In this week’s podcast Brian sits down with Kris Moore from iXsystems. Kris gives an update on the progress of merging FreeNAS and the TrueNAS code bases together, which eventually turns FreeNAS into TrueNAS CORE. CORE is the same software and feature set, with a fancy new name. Kris also gives an update on an

In this week’s podcast, Brian sits down with our end-user computing specialist, Tom Fenton. Tom and Brian have a little bourbon talk, with a hot tip on how to blow off steam during events at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The guys eventually dive into a number of issues like the variety of ways organizations

In this podcast Brian talks with Steve Searles, CTO of Zimcom, a public cloud service provider. Steve launched an effort to move to an all-flash datacenter a few years back and as of last year, successfully made that transition. Zimcom is also a big believer in OpenStack as a cloud management platform, they’ve managed to

David Tuhy, amongst other things, is the GM – Data Center Optane Storage Division, at Intel. In this podcast Brian and David discuss the modern data center and the impact of Optane SSDs on these architectures. Some of the new use cases include traditional architectures like Dell EMC PowerStore, which is using dual-ported Optane NVMe

Caitlin Gordon joins Brian on this podcast to talk all things Dell EMC PowerStore with a little Brady/Gronk mixed in. PowerStore is an entirely new platform for Dell EMC that is intended to take over as the lead product in the all-flash midmarket space. The clean sheet design allowed Dell EMC to take the best