On-Premise IT Podcast
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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...
Silos Are Sabotaging Your Security Strategy
June 27, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes - 28.8 MBIT 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 teams. When you need information and visibility the walls insulating your other teams become a barrier. How can we address this in the security space? And what does the CIO need to know to make everyone more effective? In this episode, join Alex Neihaus, Karen Lopez, and Bruno Wollmann as we explore the impact that siloes have on our security strat...
Constant Rebranding is Ruining Your Sales Cycle
June 20, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 22.8 MBYou may be intimately familiar with brands and their products for some lines but not everything is iconic. Companies rebrand products all the time in order to get rid of per performers or try to increase sales. In the world of enterprise IT does that mean it’s more difficult to figure out what you’ve bought? Or how best to support it? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Zoe Rose, Eric Steward, and Josh Warcop discuss the challenges faced in constant rebranding and how your efforts ...
Machine Learning is Best Suited for Security
June 13, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 33.6 MBAlthough artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and large language models, is in the news, it isn’t very useful in enterprise IT. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Karen Lopez, W. Curtis Preston, Michael Levan, and Stephen Foskett discuss the use case for AI in security. The panel acknowledges that machine learning can be beneficial in identifying anomalies and patterns that humans may overlook. It can assist in generating policies, templates, and rule sets, as we...
Predictive Site Surveys Don’t Work
June 06, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes - 29.2 MBCan a remote predictive wireless survey achieve the same results as something on-site? Can the current generation of modeling give you the assurances that your design is going to work? And does the coming future of AI-driven development offer any additional capabilities that we don’t see today? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Kerry Kulp, Peter Mackenzie, and Mohammad Ali discuss the trends of predictive surveys and how we can improve overall design satisfaction. © Gestalt IT, ...
Cloud Workload Repatriation is a Real Problem
May 30, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 43.8 MBEnterprise IT is constantly oscillating between centralized and distributed, and we're currently in a period of repatriation of workloads from the cloud. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast features three delegates from Cloud Field Day 17, Joey D'Andoni, Eric Wright, and Jason Benecicic, discussing the reality of repatriation of cloud applications with Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT. Pundits constantly tout the money they save by repatriating from public cloud, but this might not be the...
QLC SSDs Are Ready for Mainstream with Solidigm
May 23, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 38.5 MBAs NAND flash memory technology has evolved, MLC, TLC, and QLC has been perceived to compromise both reliability and performance. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, we confront the reality of Quad-Level Cell (QLC) SSDs, shedding light on their capabilities and suitability for today’s workloads. Roger Corell of Solidigm, who sponsored this episode, discuss QLC SSD with Karen Lopez, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett. The industry is increasingly embracing the benefits of QLC SSDs ...
We Gave Away Too Much To Get Wi-Fi 6E
May 16, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 34.1 MBThe industry is excited to implement Wi-Fi 6E with all the new devices coming out. Even with regulatory challenges the world is ready for faster connectivity and more reliable signal. But those same regulatory challenges are just part of the myriad of issues. Standards bodies, marketing teams, and even users themselves are asking why it’s taking so long to implement Wi-Fi 6E even after it has been brought to market faster than any Wi-Fi standard in the past. Is that because we gave up too ma...
Don’t Just Store Your Data, Make It Useful with Hammerspace Orchestration
May 09, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 36.3 MBThere 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 episode of On-Premise IT Podcast presented to you by Hammerspace, delegates Justin Warren and Chris Evans get together with Hammerspace’s Head of Global Marketing, Molly Presley, to drill into the pains of managing unstructured data, and learn how Hammperspace addresses them with data orchestration. Data orchestration takes the one-dimensional approach ...
Private 5G Can’t Be Simplified For Enterprises
May 02, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes - 28 MBPrivate 5G is coming to the enterprise near you. Deploying this hot new wireless and mobility technology is a great way to overcome challenges with Wi-Fi and allow IoT devices to be provisioned quickly in remote locations. But with new technologies come new complexity. Can Wi-Fi engineers figure out how to make these two solutions co-exist? And does the complexity of 5G radio technology mean we have to choose between one or the other? In this episode, Avril Salter, Troy Martin, and Keith Par...
The Edge is a Real Place
April 25, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 38.2 MBAlthough the Utilizing Edge podcast dives deep into the topic of edge computing, it's worth considering the topic from other perspectives. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast features Andy Banta, Jim Jones, and Gina Rosenthal discussing the reality of edge with Stephen Foskett, host of Utilizing Edge. After a quick consideration of the various devices that could be considered edge, from mobile phones to 5G base stations to software to Intel NUCs, we discuss the requirements and demands...
Lock In Is The Enemy
April 18, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 50.5 MBThe 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 dependent on technologies. But does it really matter in the long run? Is the treatment for lock in really better in the end? Does it matter if it’s in the enterprise or in the cloud? And are we finding ourselves locked in slowly or all at once? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Jody Lemoine, Snehal Patel, and Steve Puluka join Tom Hollingsworth to ...
APIs Are Ruining Networking
April 11, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 33.7 MBEvery 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 ready to learn? Should companies still be expected to have a CLI available for the non-programmers? And does the ease of accessing a published API create more problems than it solves? In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth, Jody Lemoine, and Steve Puluka discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having easy access to everythi...
Databases and Storage Systems Are Converging
April 04, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 55.4 MBStorage systems and databases are becoming increasingly alike. In this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast recorded at the recent Storage Field Day event in California, delegates - Glenn Dekhayser, Jim Czuprynski and Denny Cherry, join host Stephen Foskett, to chew over this. In what ways are storage platforms and databases alike? Are they only different in the way they store data, or is the distinction purely based on the IT personas using them? Watch the panel explore the ins and outs of mode...
Enterprises Need Security Specialists to Succeed with Fortinet
March 28, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 34.3 MBIn this episode, brought to you by Fortinet, Melissa Palmer, Chris Grundemann, and Karin Shopen of Fortinet dive into the state of the modern enterprise and cybersecurity skills, and the solutions that can help security teams combat the talent shortage in the short and long term. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Enterprises Need Security Specialists to Succeed with Fortinet
Big Storage Is Everywhere!
March 21, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MBThis special episode of the On-Premise IT podcast includes Storage Field Day 25 delegates Ray Lucchesi, Andy Banta, and Rohan Puri considering the current state of enterprise storage, from the datacenter to the cloud. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Big Storage Is Everywhere!
IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network
March 14, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 53.6 MBIP address management in the era of IoT and BYOD is a total torment, especially for growing organizations. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: IP Address Management in a Modern Dynamic Network
The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems
March 07, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes - 38.4 MBThis episode of On-Premise IT features Andy Banta, Nico Stein, and Geoff Burke, who will be attending Tech Field Day this week, discussing the state of the industry with Stephen Foskett. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The IT Industry Is Doing Better Than It Seems
Is Encrypted Traffic Monitoring Worth It?
February 28, 2023 13:00 - 3 minutes - 6.32 MBIn this episode, Tom Hollingsworth, Jasper Bongertz, and Dominik Pickhardt discussed whether or not encrypted traffic monitoring is really worth it. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Is Encrypted Traffic Monitoring Worth It?
Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
February 21, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 34.7 MBEven though most of the technologies and infrastructure elements are the same, the nature of edge comping is entirely different. This episode of On-Premise IT features Edge Field Day delegates Enrico Signoretti, Allyson Klein, and Alastair Cooke discussing these differences with Stephen Foskett. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
Stop Building Snowflakes
February 14, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 49 MBIn this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, John Kilpatrick, Jody Lemoine, and Vince Schuele highlight all the reasons why we’ve spent our careers tailoring the needs of the infrastructure to the workload. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Stop Building Snowflakes
Is XDR Only for Security Teams?
February 07, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, Tom Hollingsworth, Zoë Rose, and Dominik Pickhardt discuss XDR and how it can be leveraged by the entire organization to help secure your assets and users. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Is XDR Only for Security Teams?
Storage as a Service is More Than Financial Engineering with Pure Storage
January 31, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes - 61 MBThis episode, sponsored by Pure Storage, is a discussion of the various ways storage can be delivered and consumed as a service with Taruna Gandhi of Pure Storage. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Storage as a Service is More Than Financial Engineering with Pure Storage
It’s Time to Repatriate Applications from the Cloud
January 24, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 54.8 MBIn this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Michael Levan and Jon Myer join Stephen Foskett to discuss on-premises IT. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: It’s Time to Repatriate Applications from the Cloud
Enterprise IT Doesn’t Care About A Recession
January 17, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 46.8 MBIn this episode, Tim Bertino, Ethan Banks, and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the various ways that investing in tech helps grow business but also the potential pitfalls of companies that think they’re bigger than the economic indicators. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Enterprise IT Doesn’t Care About A Recession
Hybrid Cloud is Evolving Into the Multicloud with NetApp
January 10, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 57 MBThis episode of On-Premise IT, sponsored by NetApp, features Arjan Timmerman, Vuong Pham, Stephen Foskett, and Phoebe Goh discussing the evolved cloud. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Hybrid Cloud is Evolving Into the Multicloud with NetApp
Flash Memory Won’t Replace Disk Drives, Let Alone Tape
January 03, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 54.9 MBIn this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast, host Stephen Foskett and the panel discuss the growing prominence of solid state drives and what it means for disk and tape. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Flash Memory Won’t Replace Disk Drives, Let Alone Tape
The Edge is Real This Time
December 20, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this On-Premise IT Podcast, Stephen Foskett, Voung Pham, Ken Nalbone, and Joey D-Antoni, answer all these intriguing questions about the edge making the concept hopefully a little bit clearer. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The Edge is Real This Time
Security Isn’t The WiFi’s Fault
December 13, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 53.4 MBIn this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and his panel of IT experts discuss if bad WiFi is really the cause of security breaches. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Security Isn’t The WiFi’s Fault
Enterprises Should Be Looking for CloudOps Devs
December 06, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 51.8 MBn this episode, Gina Rosenthal, Phoummala Schmitt and Becky Elliott put a finger on what precisely entails CloudOps and what skills enterprises should be looking for. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Enterprises Should Be Looking for CloudOps Devs
The Initial Journey to the Cloud is Over with NetApp
November 29, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 58 MBIn this episode of On-Premise IT podcast, brought to you by NetApp, host Stephen Foskett and panelists, Joey D’Antoni and Max Mortillaro, and Jeff Baxter from NetApp, discuss the unfolding of the cloud transition. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The Initial Journey to the Cloud is Over with NetApp
It’s Too Hard to Collaborate in Automation
November 22, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 60.3 MBIn this episode of On-Premise IT Podcast, presented by RackN, Stephen Foskett sits with Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Keith Townsend, and CEO Rob Hirschfeld to discuss collaboration and automation. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: It’s Too Hard to Collaborate in Automation
Hybrid Work has Vastly Increased the Enterprise Threat Surface
November 15, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 49.8 MBIn this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Jasper Bongertz, Jon Myer, and Evan Mintzer discuss the ways in which our organizations face increased challenges with securing workers that are outside our enterprise defenses. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Hybrid Work has Vastly Increased the Enterprise Threat Surface
Security has to be Integrated into the Entire IT Stack
November 08, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 59 MBJoin Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Pete Gerr of Dell Technologies, Enrico Signoretti, and Girard Kavelines as they consider the state of the art in security. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Security has to be Integrated into the Entire IT Stack
Where Have All The Objects Gone?
November 01, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 65.5 MBAlthough object storage goes back decades in the enterprise datacenter, it's nowhere near as dominant as it is in the cloud. Stephen and his panel discuss. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Where Have All The Objects Gone?
Subscription Services are Strangling Enterprise IT
October 25, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this On-Premise IT podcast, Stephen Foskett, Andy Banta, Vuong Pham and Pete Robertson take the subscription revolution, one of IT’s biggest business trends and distill it to reveal the less-exciting side of it. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Subscription Services are Strangling Enterprise IT
The Future of Datacenter is Serverless
October 18, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 59.8 MBIn this episode, Craig Rodgers, Chris Reed, and Chris Hayner join Stephen Foskett to consider the end of the server itself. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The Future of Datacenter is Serverless
Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge
October 11, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes - 41.5 MBIn this podcast, Tom Hollingsworth and the panel discuss the idea that Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Network Access Can’t Be Controlled From The Edge
You Don’t Need Wi Fi 6E Today
October 04, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 53.5 MBIn this episode Tom and his panel of delegates debate the premise that You Don’t Need Wi-Fi 6E Today. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: You Don’t Need Wi Fi 6E Today
It’s The End of VMworld as We Know IT
September 27, 2022 12:00 - 23 minutes - 44 MBIn this episode, Brian Knudtson, Gina Rosenthal and Alastair Cooke join Stephen Foskett in this discussion that tries to define the ways in which VMworld has changed and what to expect from the future VMware Explore conferences. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: It’s The End of VMworld as We Know IT
IT Infrastructure Companies Don’t Understand Developers
September 20, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 53 MBThis episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings Joep Piscaer, Nathan Bennett, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker together with Stephen Foskett to talk about the new world of developer-focused enterprise tech. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: IT Infrastructure Companies Don’t Understand Developers
Storage Admins Aren’t Ready for Infrastructure as Code
September 13, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 52.2 MBIn this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, Larry Smith and Jim Czuprynski discuss the evolution of storage with Anthony Lai-Ferrario of Pure Storage and Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Storage Admins Aren’t Ready for Infrastructure as Code
Observability Needs to Be Smarter
September 06, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 55.8 MBCompanies are touting the latest advances in ML and AI to help solve the issue but does Observability Need to be Smarter? The panel discusses. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Observability Needs to Be Smarter
Real Cloud Hybrid Storage Doesn’t Exist
August 30, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 55.6 MBIn this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast presented by Hammerspace, Enrico Signoretti and Chris Evans join Head of Marketing Molly Presley of Hammerspace and Stephen Foskett to discuss the reality of hybrid cloud storage. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Real Cloud Hybrid Storage Doesn’t Exist
EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN
August 23, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes - 50.2 MBIn this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and his panel discuss the pros and cons behind how EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN
Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation
August 09, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 57.3 MBIn this episode featuring delegates from Networking Field Day: Service Provider, we discuss how Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation
Wireless is Not Mission Critical
July 26, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 50.5 MBOn this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and the panel discuss how the world is more wireless that ever and if it's reliable enough in critical situations. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Wireless is Not Mission Critical
Multi-Cloud is Inevitable
July 19, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 57.3 MBOn this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Stephen Foskett is joined by a panel of delegates who drill into these questions to bring clarity to the topic of multi-cloud and what the future looks like for this model. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Multi-Cloud is Inevitable
You’re Using the Word Site Survey Wrong
July 12, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes - 47.2 MBIn this episode, our group of wireless experts discuss the premise and whatever or not we are Using the Words Site Survey Wrong. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: You’re Using the Word Site Survey Wrong
The Future of Storage Isn’t Purely Hardware or Software
July 05, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 57.8 MBIn this episode, brought to you by Pure Storage, Justin Emerson, Justin Warren, and Marc Staimer join Stephen Foskett to discuss the push and pull of hardware and software based storage. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The Future of Storage Isn’t Purely Hardware or Software