Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago -Great Things with Great Tech Podcast is aimed at highlighting technology companies doing great things with great technology. In each episode we will talk with technical leads of companies that leverage great tech to build and productize innovative solutions and market leading products.
GTwGT is hosted by Anthony Spiteri
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Episodes
Episode 41 - Cloudian
February 17, 2022 12:54 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBIn this episode I talk with Gary Ogasawara, CTO of Cloudian. Cloudian simplifies enterprise storage with limitlessly scalable storage that consolidates massive data sets to a single, easily managed environment. Cloudian brings the flexibility and simplicity of public cloud storage into our customers data centers. Gary and I talk about how Cloudian’s fully native interoperability with S3 ensures investment protection for developers and datacenter managers who rely on modern S3-enabled applica...
Episode 40 - Filebase
December 30, 2021 04:37 - 45 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode I talk with Joshua Noble, CEO and Co-Founder at Filebase. Filebase aim to make decentralized storage accessible and easy to use for everyone. They are doing this by building a scalable, secure and performant access layer to various decentralized storage networks, with a familiar S3-compatible interface. Josh and I talk about how Filebase is bridging storage platforms between traditional S3 based offerings and the decentralized world of Blockchain Storage. There is a reason wh...
Episode 39 - Debunking Decentralized Blockchain Storage with Zac Cohen from FileBase
December 20, 2021 05:54 - 45 minutes - 34 MBIn this special episode of GTwGT, I speak with Zac Cohen (COO and founder at FileBase) about a topic that many think is still far away from being a reality... some that think is a science experiment... and others think is an out and out scam. That topic is decentralized storage leveraging Web3 and Blockchain technology. Zac and I talk about how mass adoption is a matter of when, not if... and more importantly, for those that want to understand what it is and isn't, we talk about what makes t...
Episode 38 - Tanks! For Playing
November 12, 2021 08:49 - 51 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this episode I talk with Aaron Alderman, Director and Founder at Tanks! For Playing. Tanks! For Playing aims to revolutionise the blockchain gaming space with a novel concept where gameplay is based around social connection and strategy that is fuelled by the ambition to win cash prizes in tournaments. #Tanks ☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: #Blockchain, #Web3, Web2.0, NodeJS, Amazon, Kubernetes, React, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polymatic, Solidity, EVM, Uniswap, Q...
Episode 37 - Civo
October 11, 2021 05:15 - 52 minutes - 38.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Mark Boost, CEO and co-founder at Civo. Civo is a company who's vision, is to create a flexible cloud platform featuring, but not limited to Kubernetes, created by developers, for developers. A company that thinks you should spend less of your time managing environments and hosting platforms, and instead, spend more time coding. Mark and I talk about the foundations of launching a pure play cloud native hosting company which us underpinned by Kubernetes end to end...
Episode 36 - LAB3
September 09, 2021 01:53 - 40 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode I talk with Lachlan White, General Manager of Technology at LAB3. LAB3 is a company that empowers ambitious organisations to modernise, transform and grow fearlessly through controlled, automated, and scalable cloud technology. Lachlan and I talk about how LAB3 have found success powered by Code and driven by Innovation. We also talk about the reality of what it is to be a born in the cloud native IT practitioner and how DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and any automation chall...
Episode 35 - WhiteCanyon Software
August 31, 2021 08:30 - 32 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode I talk with Paul katzoff, CEO of WhiteCanyon. WhiteCanyon is a company leading the area of permanent deletion technology for data on HDDs, SSDs and NVMe drives. The company is engaged in the development, sales, and support of Drive Sanitization. Paul and I talk about how WhiteCanyon's flagship product, WipeDrive, has become a world leader for erasing hard drives. Government agencies, US Military, and Fortune 500 companies across the world are using WipeDrive to permanently er...
Episode 34 - SoftIron
August 11, 2021 14:35 - 40 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Phil Straw, CEO and Co-founder of SoftIron. SoftIron creates superior appliances for scale-out datacenters, private and public cloud, and enterprise scale facilities. The appliances improves industry-standard performance on all critical metrics including density, efficiency, capacity, speed, and heat emission. Phil and I talk about how SoftIron has gone about designing and manufacturing their own appliances end to end and leverage Ceph to offer a truly open-source...
Episode 33 - Snyk
August 05, 2021 04:17 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBIn this episode I talk with Lawrence Crowther, Head of Solution Engineering APJ at Snyk. Snyk are the cloud native application security leader, enabling 2.2 million developers to build securely, with a vision to empower every modern developer in the world to develop fast and stay secure. They provides a platform to secure all of the critical components of today's cloud native application development including the code, open source libraries, container infrastructure and infrastructure as co...
Episode 32 - Managecast
July 22, 2021 10:28 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIn this episode I talk with Nathan Golden, Owner at Managecast Technologies. Managecast are 100% focused around the cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity space, managing over 1 Petabyte of customer data and have customers across virtually every industry vertical. Nathan and I talk about how Managecast pivoted away from IT consultancy to help their customers improve their data protection strategies. Along the way, the decision to specialise in backups paid dividends as Natha...
Episode 31 - ShapeBlue
June 24, 2021 13:20 - 48 minutes - 43.7 MBIn this episode I talk with Giles Sirett, CEO and Founder at ShapeBlue. ShapeBlue is the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies globally. They design and build complex cloud, network and storage infrastructure with globally leading skills in Apache CloudStack. Their technical team are all active contributors to the Apache CloudStack project and a good percentage are also project committers. Giles and I talk about how ShapeBlue provides consulting, integration, training and...
Episode 30 - VOYR
June 17, 2021 03:53 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBIn this episode I talk with David Siles, CEO at VOYR. VOYR is one of the first decentralized content platforms for creators, artists, musicians, celebrities, and fans. It integrates blockchain functionality into a comprehensive ecosystem with unique interactive features and monetizing tools for the creators. Dave and I talk about the ability to tap into the innovative new world of decentralized finance (DeFI), Web3 and the Binance SmartChain where the $VOYRME token is available. This new wor...
Episode 29 - Rafay
June 10, 2021 04:48 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode I talk with Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO at Rafay. Rafay enables developers to automate the distribution, operations, scaling and lifecycle management of containerized microservices across public and private clouds, and service provider networks. Rafay’s Managed Kubernetes platform is built around foundational elements that together deliver an optimal abstraction layer across disparate infrastructure, making it easy for developers to scale and operate applications acros...
Episode 28 - Tape Ark
June 03, 2021 11:45 - 46 minutes - 41.7 MBIn this episode I talk with Guy C. Holmes, President and CEO at Tape Ark. Tape Ark pride themselves on being the global experts in Tape to Cloud Migration. Guy and I talk about how he saw an opportunity with the early emergence of cloud computing to drive an innovative approach to data storage and management, which would enable organizations to liberate their data from legacy media to the cloud en masse. This is a fascinating discussion around global data that was locked away in tape (and pa...
Episode 27 - HostedBizz
May 26, 2021 16:08 - 40 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Paul Butcher, Co-Founder at HostedBizz. HostedBizz is a 100% Canadian-based and 100% Canadian-hosted integrated technology service provider. Born out of a need to offer VDI, they now offer managed services spanning Infrastructure, Backup, DR, Storage as a Service and more. Paul and I talk about how HostedBizz removes the burden of technology management and reduces cost of ownership to a predictable monthly expense turning your technology costs into investments. Th...
Episode 26 - VAST Data
May 13, 2021 05:28 - 44 minutes - 99.9 MBIn this episode I talk with Jeff Denworth, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder at VAST Data. VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Jeff and I talk about how VAST Data is a radically different architecture built upon disaggregation and shared everything compute and storage leveraging containers, Optane 3D Xpoint-based memory, NVMe-OF and QLC based SSDs for fast storage no matter what the work...
Episode 25 - Zella DC
May 06, 2021 08:17 - 38 minutes - 84.4 MBIn this episode I talk with Clinton Keeler, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Found at Zella DC. Zella DC is a next-generation datacenter provider disrupting traditional server rooms and enabling the Edge. Born from the need to service challenging remote sites plus solving the problems related with the explosion of data at the edge, Zella DC offer micro datacentres that replace traditional onsite facilities. Clinton and I talk about how Zella DC's Micro Data centers are built for high levels o...
Episode 24 - AUCloud
April 22, 2021 13:47 - 38 minutes - 85 MBIn this episode I talk with Brad Bastow, Chief Operating Officer at AUCloud. AUCloud provides highly secure, standards based, sovereign cloud IaaS to Australian Government and Critical National Industry communities. This includes Federal, State and Local Governments and CNI organisations such as telecommunications, electricity, energy, financial services and similar utility providers. With high levels of certified services hosted out of IRAP rated facilities, I talk with Brad about how AUClo...
Episode 23 - PhoenixNAP
April 15, 2021 08:24 - 40 minutes - 90.9 MBIn this episode I talk with William Bell, EVP of Products at PhoenixNAP. PhoenixNAP was evolved from the need to consolidate network connectivity and offer colocation and cloud to Phoenix. From there it grew world wide by offering scalable, secure, and reliable, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. PhoenixNAP uses a custom portal and their own set of APIs to enable the rapid creation of cloud services. Strong in IaaS, Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service, I talk with William ab...
Episode 22 - Platform9
April 01, 2021 04:33 - 50 minutes - 113 MBIn this episode I talk with Sirish Raghuram, , CEO and Co-Founder at Platform9. Platform9 provides SaaS based Managed Kubernetes, Openstack and Serverless for public, private and edge platforms. They deliver cloud-native technologies with SaaS simplicity that are easy to install, operate and scale, while supporting broad cloud capabilities that run on any infrastructure. Sirish and I talk about his early days working as one of the early VMware Engineers and how the paradigm of what cloud was...
Episode 21 - Mechanical Rock
March 18, 2021 04:45 - 46 minutes - 105 MBIn this episode I talk with Hamish Tedeschi, CEO and Founder at Mechanical Rock. Mechanical Rock's mission is to deliver better software, faster while helping clients transform the way they deliver. Their methodology is based on DevOps, modern code-driven infrastructure and test first development. DevOps is what they do. Hamish and I talk about what DevOps really is all about and how he saw a space in the market around modern application development focused on public cloud platforms and a do...
Episode 20 - DCTwo
March 04, 2021 09:30 - 38 minutes - 86.3 MBIn this episode I talk with Justin Thomas, Managing Director and Founder of DCTwo. DCTwo offer world class cloud and hosting services, delivered from their own custom designing and built datacentres. They have recently had a successful IPO on the Australian Stock Market and have started making waves in the Modular, eco-friendly renewable DC space. Through partners and resellers they offer a suite of managed and vertically integrated cloud services delivered from their datacentres. Justin is ...
Episode 19 - env0
February 24, 2021 14:34 - 31 minutes - 70.9 MBIn this episode I talk with Tim Davis, Developer Advocate at env0. env0 does awesome stuff with awesome automation tools! They develop a SaaS based Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management platform that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Tim and I discuss how the env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control while offering separation and ...
Episode 18 - Elbaite
February 11, 2021 02:37 - 41 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this episode I talk with Samira Tollo, Chief Technology Officer at Elbaite. Elbaite do crypto different! They are the worlds most advanced and comprehensive P2P digital assets marketplace, allowing buyers and sellers to trade without ever risking their cryptocurrency with a central exchange wallet. Samira and I talk about how inherent mistrust in current Crypto Exchange platforms drove Elbaite to come up with a more secure way to trade digital currency... starting with Elbaite hosting no ...
Episode 17 - Nebulon
February 04, 2021 11:12 - 32 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Clint Wyckoff, Principal Tech Marketing Engineer at Nebulon. Nebulon is a recently out stealth startup redefining storage for Hybrid IT. The company is developing and providing a new and unique approach to storage. Clint and I talk about how their Cloud-Defined Storage looks to compete with SAN arrays and HCI and how a focus on APIs delivers a self-service, cloud managed, server-based approach to storage for critical applications. Nebulon was founded in 2018 wit...
Episode 16 - Virtual Systems
February 04, 2021 07:29 - 38 minutes - 70.2 MBIn this episode I talk with Dirk Arends, President at Virtual Systems. Virtual Systems has evolved as a group of problem solvers, who believe in leaving the world better than we found it. While their first priority is creating a new standard for delivering great technology, they stand for more than that. Dirk and I talk about how Virtual Systems specialized in VDI and Application delivery in the early days and how having a Backup and Disaster Recovery plan has become something insurance com...
2020 Wrapped and Reviewed
December 17, 2020 11:53 - 29 minutes - 53.3 MBIn this episode, I chat with special return guest Ben Young as we talk about the first 16 episodes of Great Things with Great Tech. We talk about our episode highlights as well and the topics, trends and narratives discussed through the season. A big thankyou to all my guests who featured in the first 16 episodes and looking forward to returning in 2021! For now, have a listen to the wrap-up and make sure to catch-up with existing episodes. A reminder to subscribe to Great Things with Gr...
Episode 15 - OnApp
November 26, 2020 05:47 - 36 minutes - 66 MBIn this episode I talk with Jim Freeman, Head of Solutions at OnApp. OnApp provides a complete Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform for hosting companies, cloud providers, managed service providers and telecoms companies. Service Providers can create a wide range of cloud, dedicated hosting, CDN, DNS and storage services on top of commodity datacenter infrastructure; automate them completely through a central control panel. Jim and I discuss the early days backing Xen as a c...
Episode 14 - Weka
November 19, 2020 03:31 - 35 minutes - 65 MBIn this episode I talk with Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO at Weka. Weka has built the world's fastest parallel file system, designed to solve the performance challenges in AI deep learning and technical computing. WekaFS delivers high performance, low latency storage. Weka provides a seamless hybrid cloud solution between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. With customers in several high performance markets including autonomous vehicle AI training, genomics, financial modeling,...
Episode 13 - Kasten
November 12, 2020 05:06 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBIn this episode I talk with Niraj Tolia, President, GM and Co-Founder at Kasten. Kasten simplifies the operational management of stateful cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. The K10 Platform for Kubernetes Backup and DR provides an enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications. Niraj and I talk through the brief but eventful history of Kasten leading up to and beyond the Veeam acqui...
Episode 12 - HyAlto
October 15, 2020 03:29 - 36 minutes - 67 MBIn this episode I talk with Alan Zurakowski, CEO at HyAlto. HyAlto delivers a revenue focused Cloud Management Platform designed for MSPs and CSPs focusing on VMware IaaS and BaaS platforms. Those in the VMware Service Provider space might remember them as AirVM who were an early innovator in the cloud market in 2008, delivering a white-label, IAAS cloud platform for resellers. As demand for cloud services grew, a strong pivot took place to developing SaaS based software to enable service pr...
Episode 11 - comdivision
October 08, 2020 01:40 - 39 minutes - 71.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Yves Sandfort, CEO and co-founder at comdivision. comdivision have built a strong reputation over the past 25 years as a leading Professional Services company, spanning architecture, design, implementation as well as education and enablement primarily with VMware Technologies. They enable enterprises and service providers to do great things with great technology with a strong focus on emerging technologies. Yves and I talk about current industry trends such as int...
Episode 10 - OffsiteDataSync
September 24, 2020 06:28 - 41 minutes - 75.6 MBIn this episode I talk with Brad Jervis, Senior Cloud Architect at OffsiteDataSync (ODS). OffsiteDataSync is a leading cloud services provider, recognized as a global provider of highly available and secure cloud data protection solutions, including Infrastructure (IaaS), Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) and Backup (BaaS). Brad an I talk about how the company was founded for break/fix but quickly filled a growing niche in becoming one of the first true backup and DR focused providers. Technology a...
Episode 9 - Functionly
September 16, 2020 09:12 - 42 minutes - 77.9 MBIn this episode I talk with Tim Brewer, Co-Founder and CEO of Functionly. Functionly is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company focused on delivering a real time intelligent Organizational Chart. Tim and I talk about how his prior experiences within organizations and as an advisor lead him to believe that there was a better way to do organizational mapping and charting leveraging web based technologies. This is a great story about looking to fill a gap in the market through SaaS based tooling...
Episode 8 - Portainer
September 02, 2020 13:19 - 39 minutes - 73.2 MBIn this episode I talk with Neil Cresswell, Co-Founder of Portainer. Portainer works by hiding the complexity that makes managing containers hard behind an easy to use GUI. By negating the need for users to use CLI, write YAML or understand manifests, Portainer makes deploying apps and troubleshooting problems simple. Neil and I talk about how he saw an opportunity with containers that was well ahead of the current Kubernetes wave and how he focused on reducing complexity around containers. ...
Episode 7 - OrionVM
August 24, 2020 12:02 - 47 minutes - 87.5 MBIn this episode I talk with Sheng Yeo, CEO and Co-Founder of OrionVM. OrionVM are a wholesale Cloud Service Provider who designed their cloud platform for speed and distributed resiliency leveraging the InfiniBand networking standard as the core of their architecture. They where doing Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) before HCI was a thing! Sheng gives us an insight into their founding and we go through what makes them unique as a IaaS provider doing great things differently, creating th...
Episode 6 - iland
August 13, 2020 04:38 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MBIn this episode I talk with Justin Giardina, (CTO) at iland. iland are one of the most innovative Cloud Service Providers in the world. This has been achieved by building their platform with usability and management as cornerstones. Justin and I talk about how iland's purpose built public API provides partners and customers with the ability to consume and manage their cloud services at scale with a focus on Infrastructure as Code. This API allows them to expose great technology platforms acr...
Short Take 1
August 07, 2020 09:37 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MBThis is Great Things with Great Tech Short Take 1. While we take a break from regular episodes, I spend a bit of time looking back at the first 5 episodes and talk a little bit about what sort of technology company I am looking forward to interviewing as the show grows. As mentioned, please have a listen to all the previous episodes and subscribe on YouTube and the Podcast platform of your choice. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGi-zNAjdtmILLDt0xH-8jg?sub_confirmation=1 Anchor: ...
Episode 5 - Webair
July 30, 2020 10:45 - 37 minutes - 69.2 MBIn this episode I talk with Sagi Brody, (CTO) at Webair. Webair has grown into one of the leading IT Infrastructure and Cloud solutions providers based out of New York, offering a wide selection of IT solutions including DRaaS, BaaS, Dedicated Private Cloud, Managed Security, IaaS and more. Sagi and I talk about the company history spanning 20+ years and how they grew from a small web hosting company finding its way in the 90s and 2000s to an innovative Service Provider leveraging automation...
Episode 4 - Runecast
July 22, 2020 14:02 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBIn this episode I talk with Stanimir Markov, (Founder and CEO) from Runecast. Runecast Analyzer’s patented AI engine converts industry sources of information into machine-readable data. The Runecast AI Knowledge Automation (RAIKA) technology gathers and parses information from publicly available sources of data, then uses Artificial Intelligence and human expertise to translate this into machine-usable data. Stanimir and I discuss his roots working in IBM where him and his co-founders saw a ...
Episode 3 - Probax
July 09, 2020 05:53 - 36 minutes - 67 MBIn this episode I talk with Kevin Allan, (Founder and CTO) from Probax. Probax offers a data protection platform for MSPs, offering intelligent and automated cloud solutions including Backup as a Service (BaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Archive as a Service (AaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) Protection for Dropbox, Microsoft Office 365 and more! Kevin and I discuss his roots in Perth where he saw a gap in the market that needed filling and how initial technology challenge...
Episode 2 - vBridge
July 01, 2020 07:56 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBIn this episode, I talk to Ben Young (Development Manager) at vBridge. vBridge is a cloud service provider based out of Christchurch, New Zealand with a secondary hosting presence in Auckland. Ben and I chat about how natural disasters helped shape the companies direction and how they built their own cloud management platform with a reseller first mentality which has made it one of the most powerful and unique in the IaaS world. Technology Partners Mentioned VMware, Veeam, Juniper, DELL|E...
Episode 1 - Zettagrid
June 25, 2020 04:11 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBIn this first episode, I talk to Nicki Pereira (CTO) of Zettagrid. Zettagrid are an Australian based Cloud Provider who have lead the way in the ANZ IaaS market for a decade now. Nicki and I chat about how Zettagrid came to be, and how technology platforms like VMware vCloud Director and Veeam where central in them innovating on core technologies and how that led to them leading the market on their way to APJ expansion. Technology Partners Mentioned VMware Veeam Zerto Juniper DELL Web...
Episode 0 - The Seed
June 19, 2020 09:35 - 6 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome to Great Things with Great Tech! Episode 0 In this seed episode I go through the idea behind #GTwGT and talk a little about how the idea for this came to be. I also give some initial thoughts on what it is to create great things on great technology and give an outline about how the show will be structured. I even drop a hint about who the first Episode will be with. Subscribe below, and also on the YouTube Channel. Website: gtwgt.com Twitter: @anthonyspiteri