On-Premise IT Podcast
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It’s Time for Private 5G in the Enterprise
June 18, 2024 14:00Wi-Fi has changed the way we work in the office but it’s not the only wireless technology. Challenging environments require new solutions like private 5G. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Mark Houtz and Shaun Neal as they discuss the rise of private LTE/5G technologies outside of the carrier space. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: It’s Time for Private 5G in the Enterprise
Cloud Native is Just a Marketing Term
June 11, 2024 14:00Software developers used to use the term cloud native to describe applications that are designed for the cloud, but today it seems to be more of a term for containerized applications. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded ahead of Cloud Field Day 20, includes Guy Currier, Jack Poller, Ziv Levy, and Stephen Foskett discussing the true meaning of cloud native today. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Cloud Native is Just a Marketing Term
AI is the New Blockchain
June 04, 2024 14:00AI is at the top of the hype cycle and it feels unstoppable. Once upon a time blockchain was in the same place. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Evan Mintzer and Jody Lemoine. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: AI is the New Blockchain
Application Modernization Requires Good Security Practices
May 28, 2024 14:00As application development and modernization moves forward, security has never been more important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast introduces AppDev Field Day with a discussion of the importance of DevSecOps featuring Paul Nashawaty, Mitch Ashley, Michael Levan, and Stephen Foskett. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Application Modernization Requires Good Security Practices
Platform Engineering Is the Revenge of IT Operations
May 21, 2024 14:00The rise of platform engineering demonstrates how difficult it has been to balance DevOps between developers and operations. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features a discussion of platform engineering with Mitch Ashley and Mike Vizard of Techstrong Group and Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Platform Engineering Is the Revenge of IT Operations
Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Enough For Future Wireless Needs
May 14, 2024 14:00New technology standards can’t anticipate how users will consume content and applications and revisions to the standards will be adopted to meet their needs. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Ron Westfall, Drew Lentz, and Rocky Gregory as they discuss where Wi-Fi 7 falls short. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Enough For Future Wireless Needs
Data Quality is More Important Than Ever in an AI World with Qlik
May 07, 2024 14:00In our AI-dominated world, data quality is the key to building useful tools. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Drew Clarke from Qlik discussing best practiced for integrating data sources with AI models with Joey D'Antoni, Gina Rosenthal, and Stephen Foskett before Qlik Connect in Orlando. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Data Quality is More Important Than Ever in an AI World with Qlik
Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge
April 30, 2024 14:00Modern applications are widely deployed in the cloud, but they're coming at the edge as well. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Alastair Cooke and Paul Nashawaty from The Futurum Group, Erik Nordmark from ZEDEDA, and host Stephen Foskett discussing the intersection of application modernization and edge computing. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge
Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good
April 23, 2024 14:00Security audits are painful and often required for compliance but they aren’t adversarial unless you have a bad auditor or bad policy compliance. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Teren Bryson, Skye Fugate, and Ben Story to discuss the nuances of audits. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good
AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer
April 16, 2024 14:00Recent advances in AI for IT have shown the huge potential for changing the way that we do work. However, AI can’t replace everyone in the workforce. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Rita Younger, Josh Warcop, and Rob Coote as they look at how the hype surrounding AI must inevitably be reconciled with the reality of real people doing work. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer
Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection
April 09, 2024 14:00Cyber Resiliency is a term that encompasses much more than simply protecting data. This episode features Tom Hollingsworth joined by Krista Macomber and Max Mortillaro discussing the additional features in a cyber resiliency solution and the need to understand how data needs to be safeguarded from destruction or exploitation. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection
Credible Content From the Community is More Important than Ever
April 02, 2024 14:00There is a hazardous amount of AI-generated and SEO-oriented content being generated, and the solution is real stories from real communities. In the first episode of Tech Field Podcast, recorded on-site at AI Field Day, Stephen Foskett chats with Frederic Van Haren, Gina Rosenthal and Colleen Coll about confronting inauthentic content. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Credible Content From the Community is More Important than Ever
Reintroducing the Tech Field Day Podcast
March 26, 2024 14:00The Tech Field Day Podcast returns! The name may change but the content and format are still the same. Read on to learn more about the history of the podcast and focus going forward with our new episodes. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Reintroducing the Tech Field Day Podcast
AI Demands a New Storage Architecture with Hammerspace
March 19, 2024 14:00Hammerspace unveiled a new storage architecture called Hyperscale NAS that addresses the needs of AI and GPU computing. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Hammerspace, is focused on the extreme requirements of high-performance multi-node computing. Eric Bassier of Hammerspace joins Chris Grundemann, Frederic Van Haren, and Stephen Foskett to consider the characteristics that define this new storage architecture. Hammerspace leverages parallel NFS and flexible file layout...
No One Wants To Be A Network Engineer Any More
March 12, 2024 14:00The job market is more competitive than ever but the desire to fill network engineering roles is lower than before. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Ryan Lambert, Dakota Snow, and David Varnum for an examination of why network design and implementation isn’t a hot career path. They look at the rise of cloud as a discipline as well as the reduction of complexity in modern roles with help from software an automation shifts. They also discuss how entry level professionals can adj...
Real World AI Looks a Lot Different From the Movies
March 05, 2024 15:00 - 31 minutes - 36.3 MBMost people envision AI as a cool and orderly datacenter activity, but this technology will soon be everywhere. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast contrasts the AI-based greenhouses of Nature Fresh Farms, as presented by guest Keith Bradley at AI Field Day, with the massive GPU-bound infrastructure many people imagine. Allyson Klein, Frederic Van Haren, and Stephen Foskett attended AI Field Day and were intrigued by the ways AI can process data from cameras and other sensors in a gree...
The Future of AI Needs Ethernet
February 27, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBThe development of AI networking is moving forward and Ethernet is taking a prime role in how workloads will communicate. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Drew Conry-Murray and Jordan Martin as well as J Metz, the chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, to discuss the progress being made by the UEC to develop Ethernet to meet the needs of AI. They discuss the roadmap for adoption of technologies as well as the drivers for the additions to the protocol and how people can get in...
Generative AI is Developing Applications
February 20, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutes - 31.5 MBGenerative AI is becoming a key tool for software developers, and businesses are embracing it as well. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings Paul Nashawaty of The Futurum Group, data expert Karen Lopez, and Stephen Foskett together to discuss how AI is impacting application development. Generative AI is incredibly compelling, rapidly producing credible output. that it's hard to put a stop to it. Rather than trying to stand in the way, companies are looking for better quality tools...
Hardware Can’t Keep Up With Software
February 13, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutes - 32 MBModern 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 recorded on the premises of the Cloud Field Day event in California, host Stephen Foskett is joined by Thomas LaRock, Shala Warner, and Jim Czuprynski from the IT world, to talk about innovation in hardware. The discussion addresses the burning question of whether investing in more specialized hardware solves the problem. Hear the panel explain h...
We Need AI to Enable Everything
February 06, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes - 29.3 MBThe 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 Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Zoë Rose and Dominik Pickhardt to discuss why everyone is so excited about AI. They also focus on issues with opaque algorithms and how AI can actually be useful in helping professionals with their daily work. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: We Need AI to Enable Everything
Platform Engineering Isn’t Just DevOps Renamed
January 30, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes - 26.6 MBPlatform engineering has been happening for a long time, but today's implication is quite different. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings platform engineering expert Michael Levan, industry analyst Steven Dickens, and host Stephen Foskett to consider what platform engineering is today. Building a platform for self service in the cloud has more in common with product development than the platforms delivered historically by IT infrastructure teams. One of the drivers for the DevOps...
Cloud Repatriation is Really Happening
January 23, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBNow that businesses have deployed modern applications in the cloud they are starting to ask whether it might be more attractive to run these on-premises. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast features Jason Benedicic, Camberley Bates, and Ian Sanderson discussing the pros and cons of cloud repatriation with Stephen Foskett. A recent blog post by 37 Signals got the Tech Field Day delegates talking about the reality of running modern applications in enterprise-owned clouds, whether in the ...
Ethernet Won’t Replace InfiniBand for AI Networking in 2024
January 16, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutes - 30 MBInfiniBand 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 the incumbent any time soon. In this episode, join Jody Lemoine, David Peñaloza, and Chris Grundemann along with Tom Hollingsworth as they debate the merits of using Ethernet in place of InfiniBand. They discuss the paradigm shift as well as the suitability of the protocols to the workloads as well as how Ultra Ethernet is similar to another shift in c...
AI Is Going To Make Malware Worse
January 09, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes - 27.5 MBAI is going to accelerate development of malware everywhere from code to prompts for social engineering. But tools can be used for defense as well as offense. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Girard Kavalines, Ziv Levy, and Matt Tyrer as they debate the impact that AI will have on malware development in 2024 and beyond. Hear how AI can drive automation on both sides of the security spectrum as well as how we can better prepare to face an onslaught ...
Your IT Security Policy Needs to Be Followed
January 02, 2024 13:00IT security policies are aspirational goals because they have so many exceptions. The difference between being hacked and being safe could come down to one employee. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Jasper Bongertz and Brian Knudtson to talk about how security polices are inherently fragile and can cause people to have more faith in them than they should. Also discussed is how people are not always the problem in these situations and how companies can do a better job of craf...
It’s Always the Wi-Fi
December 19, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 28.5 MBUsers are always going to blame the connectivity medium for issues and we just have to accept it. In this episode, Sam Clements, Shannon Cranko, and join Tom Hollingsworth to discuss why users are adamant that the wireless is the problem when it’s always something else. They discuss why IT professionals should focus less on blame shifting and more on creating an environment that provides resolution even if it’s not their problem. The episode wraps up with suggestions for professionals to cr...
Not Everyone Needs Automation
December 12, 2023 13:00Automation is a very complicated subject that requires a lot of thought and planning before implementation. It’s not something that every organization needs to implement. In this episode, Tim Bertino, Jake Khuon, and Jordan Villarreal discuss the challenges inherent in automation of networks and systems. They also clarify the differences between scripting, orchestration, and real automation. In the end they give tips and questions to ask when you feel like it is time to start your journey to...
WebAssembly Will Displace Containers For Web-Scale Applications
December 05, 2023 13:00 - 18 minutes - 21.1 MBContainerization of applications is only a small step forward from virtualization, but WebAssembly promises a real revolution. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, recorded live at KubeCon 2023 in Chicago, features Nigel Poulton, Ned Bellavance, Justin Warren, and Stephen Foskett discussing the prospects for WebAssembly. WebAssembly (WASM) is lauded for its potential to be faster, smaller, and more secure than its predecessors. But skepticism surrounds its long-term adoption and develo...
Identity Management is Tweaking our Neuroses
November 28, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 31 MBThe concept of identity management has become increasingly complex and challenging due to the purely digital nature of modern identity. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, recorded on-premises at ISS in Cleveland, features Bob Kalka of IBM, Leon Adato of Kentik, and Stephen Foskett discussing the various ways identity management tweaks our neuroses. As organizations grapple with this issue, they face the daunting task of merging elements such as identity, passkeys, passwords, and AI i...
Cybersecurity is a C-Suite Problem
November 21, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 30.6 MBAs ransomware continues to pose a significant threat to enterprises, C-level executives must collaborate and communicate with IT. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, brought to you by Commvault and recorded live in New York at their Shift event, features Thomas Bryant of Commvault along with Gina Rosenthal, Eric Wright, and Stephen Foskett. The discussion focused on the crucial need to bridge departmental gaps so IT and executive management can work together. The panel also emphasized...
You Are Afraid of the Vendor Switch
November 14, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutes - 32.2 MBChanging or upgrading hardware and software is a scary proposition on the best of days. In this episode, join Tom Hollingsworth along with Keith Parsons, Mike Bolitho, and Lee Badman as they talk about moving from one vendor to another. There is a lot of planning that goes into the decision to upgrade or replace something. It’s even more frightening when you’re removing one vendor’s equipment for another. Learn what to look for and how to make the transition as easy as possible. © Gestalt I...
AI Won’t Fix Your Data Security Problems
November 07, 2023 13:00Data security is a complicated subject and AI is not a magic solution to fix all of the problems you will face with it. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Richard Kenyan, Matt Tyrer, and Chris Hayner as they discuss how AI has changed the landscape of security. They discuss the challenges of finding the right AI models to replicate how your systems look and behave as well as where there are blind spots with respect to user behaviors. They all talk about the ways that attackers a...
Edge is the Third Great Tech Revolution
October 31, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes - 29.3 MBTech 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 Brian Knudtson give their take on whether or not Edge is a fundamental shift in the status quo or mearly an evolution of other paradigm shifts like Cloud. The panel focuses on the way that Edge strategies are affecting the way we consume content and deploy applications as well as the impacts that Edge has on areas outside of technology. © Gesta...
Licensing is Ruining Networking
October 24, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 31.6 MBSoftware licensing is making networking much more complex and causing networking professionals to be very confused about the state of their discipline. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Nick Buraglio and Lindsay Hill as they discuss the way that software defined networking (SDN) has changed the feature set of network hardware. Also discussed is the shift in focus to developer assets as well as how to recognize revenue from incremental feature additions as well as deployment of ...
Mind the Gap Between Hyperscale and Enterprise IT
October 17, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 40.5 MBHyperscale-inspired technology is everywhere in enterprise IT, from Kubernetes to S3 to OCP, but these technologies may not be applicable. This episode of On-Premise IT features Cloud Field Day 18 delegates Allyson Klein, Eric Wright, and Nathan Bennett discussing the cloud gap with Stephen Foskett. Looking at AI, we see a very different deployment model in hyperscale cloud as opposed to enterprise cloud, with this gap in technology, implementation, and talent widening. One impact of the nee...
No One Talks About Edge Backup
October 10, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 26.3 MBBacking 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 this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Jody Lemoine, Ben Young, and Bart Heungens discuss how edge backup differs from traditional enterprise disaster recovery. They highlight the need to identify data retention requirements for edge systems as well as the pitfalls of using cloud solutions versus local options for disconnected devices or la...
Edge Innovation is Coming from All Directions
October 03, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 42.1 MBAs we've discussed all season on Utilizing Edge, innovation is coming from all directions, including hardware, software, and applications. This special crossover episode of the On-Premise IT and Utilizing Tech podcasts features Edge Field Day delegates Brian Knudtson, Ned Bellavance, and Jody Lemoine discussing their perspectives about edge innovation with Stephen Foskett. The primary drivers at the edge are integration, efficiency, and connectivity, as well as the unique needs of the applic...
No One Understands Storage Anymore
September 26, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 37.3 MBAlthough 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 unintelligible to the masses. Recorded at the recent Storage Field Day event, in this On-Premise IT podcast, Stephen Foskett asks the attending luminaries from the storage industry to define storage in simple terms. With innovation piling high, storage, in the recent years, has slipped away from the grasps of IT professionals, causing add-on stress an...
Primary Storage is Becoming Secondary Storage
September 19, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 39 MBThe storage industry is increasingly focused on memory rather than traditional storage, and this reflects an architectural shift in the compute stack. This episode of On-Premise IT focuses on the new storage stack, which now includes memory, with Andy Banta, Jim Jones, Vuong Pham, and Stephen Foskett, all of whom are attending Storage Field Day 26 and SNIA's Storage Developer Conference. The difference between memory and storage was historically based on the technology at hand, but these lin...
AI Infrastructure Disrupts Enterprise IT with Justin Emerson from Pure Storage
September 12, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBAs enterprises try to deploy infrastructure to support AI applications they generally discover that the demands of this application can disrupt their architecture plans. This episode of On-Premise IT, sponsored by Pure Storage, discusses the disruptive impact of AI on the enterprise with Justin Emerson, Allyson Klein, Keith Townsend, and Stephen Foskett. Heavy duty AI processing requires specialized hardware that more resembles High-Performance Computing (HPC) than conventional enterprise IT...
Once Again, Snapshots Are Not Backups
September 05, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 30.7 MBSnapshots are still not backups but the nature of data storage means care must be taken to determine data retention requirements. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Brian Knudtson, Matt Tyrer, and Richard Kenyan discuss the nature of data protection and recovery point objectives. The rapid pace of cloud storage growth as well as the shift toward using microservices and serverless computing have added additional challenges to the definition of data that needs to be backed up. In ad...
Firewalls Need to Evolve with Fortinet
August 29, 2023 12:00Security is an ever-changing technology that requires constant vigilance. Traditional models face challenges in a modern world where bad actors have better tools and methods for avoiding detection. If security teams want to stay on top of threats today they need to be sure they’re using the latest solutions to address these challenges. In this episode, sponsored by Fortinet, Chris Grundemann, Michael Levan, and special guest Nirav Shah discuss the need for updated solutions and how Fortinet ...
VMware Should Focus on the Hypervisor and Networking
August 22, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 40.5 MBAs 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 the hypervisor and networking rather than continually exploring new products and markets? That’s the question posed by Stephen Foskett to Allyson Klein, Andy Banta, and Matt Tyrer in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast. Focus isn’t a bad strategy, especially given the slow pace of development for cloud-native applications in the enterprise. And...
Low Code and No Code Aren’t The Magic Solution
August 15, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 30.4 MBLow Code and No Code automation solutions have been gaining significant popularity. Organizations are embracing them to kickstart or continue automation projects. But are they the right fit for every company? There are considerations to discuss and sizing issues that need to be addressed. You also need to understand the potential impact of having a team dedicated to a solution and not a methodology. In this episode, Carl Fugate, John Osmon, and Girard Kavelines discuss where Low Code and No ...
Startups are Tech Trailblazers for the Giants
August 08, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 44.5 MBAs tech giants struggle to adapt to changing business conditions, startups are quick to blaze new trails. This episode of On-Premise IT, hosted by Stephen Foskett and featuring Rose Ross, Tim Crawford, and Justin Warren, compares the tech world to an environment where small, innovative startups are advancing while larger, traditional companies fight to keep their market dominance. Companies can only flourish if they are able to understand the evolving needs of the industry, while startups ca...
Hybrid Environments Require Cloud DR
August 01, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 59.1 MBOne of the most attractive use cases for VMware was disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud infrastructure enhances this use case. That's the topic of this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage. Cody Hosterman, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Ned Bellavance, and Stephen Foskett discuss the use case for disaster recovery in the cloud. Although each cloud platform has different virtual machine capabilities, most now have a storage platform like Pure Storage Cloud Bloc...
Network-as-a-Service is the End of Network Engineering Roles
July 25, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 30.5 MBNetwork-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 industry. With the advent of public cloud becoming the dominant form of IT consumption the industry is taking a second look at NaaS. In this podcast episode Drew Conry-Murray, Mohammad Ali, and Pat Allen discuss the definition of Network-as-a-Service, the various different kinds of adoption models that NaaS can take, and how enterprises small and larg...
Network Testing Is Critical
July 18, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 50 MBThe importance of testing cannot be understated. Network testing is more than just working bandwidth or certifying network components. Applications play an important role in determining how networks should operate. So too does the role of components integrated with each other at the unit and system level. The sponsor of this episode, Keysight, brings a wealth of knowledge to the discussion borne from years of experience in the networking testing space. Learn how Keysight uses that knowledge ...
Security is not Privacy
July 11, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 31.7 MBModern information security teams have a need for visibility to ensure user safety. Traffic flows and patterns are analyzed for anomalies and polices are put in place to ensure everyone is secure. However, protecting the data that you’ve collected is an even bigger task. Organizations need to ensure users have their identities and patterns hidden away from those that might use them for nefarious purposes. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Roy Chua, Karen Lopez, and Alex Neihaus j...
Hardware Doesn’t Matter Anymore
July 04, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBIn 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, Max Mortillaro, Steve McDowell, and Stephen Foskett consider whether hardware really matters anymore. Given that developers generally prioritize higher-level abstractions and platforms, they often ignoring the importance of hardware. But we can argue that optimizing hardware is crucial for efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. The im...