Speaking in Tech
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpeaking in Tech: "Where Enterprise Tech meets Consumer Tech...". Speaking in Tech is hosted by Peter Smallbone, Josh Atwell and Melissa Gurney Greene. Topics include popular tech, data storage, cloud computing, networking, storage virtualization, server virtualization, backup, disaster recovery and anything else interesting in the tech world.
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Speaking in Tech #360 - Turning it Around
February 17, 2021 05:26 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MBOn this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) mull over cat-like lawyers on Zoom; possible trouble at Nominet; acquisitions and innovations at Hyundai; Sunway's exascale supercomputer; Veeam's great set of figures; VMware's new security guide for vSphere; President Biden's bid to end a chip shortage; and more! 00:00 Dogs, schools and lockdowns 03:45 May it please the cat 09:01 U ok, .uk? 12:56 Change or die thinks Hyundai 16:51 Sunway has too many flops 2...
Speaking in Tech #359 - Old Wounds
February 17, 2021 05:23 - 48 minutes - 49.8 MBIn this episode, Peter and Melissa go back in time and cover the tech news from the week before the US Presidential Inauguration.
Speaking in Tech #358 - Storing Up
December 10, 2020 05:38 - 42 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) are joined by Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Weka (weka.io). The trio talk about James Corden's star turn at a Salesforce bash; AWS's entry into the rent-a-Mac market; Google Street View opening up to self-submitted photos; payments app PhonePe snagging a $700m investment; some new fashion choices for Christmas (all in a good cause); Weka's parallel file system; and more! 00:00 (Not so) lockdown ...
Speaking in Tech #357 - Vintage >> Innovation
November 25, 2020 07:55 - 39 minutes - 39.1 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest, Ron Rock (@rrockrr) with @Microshareio . Together, they discuss Dell's multi-million dollar laptop error, Virtual Veteranarians, the LAPD's facial recognition blunder and more. 00:00 - Welcome Ron! 03:30 - Dell's millionaire mint 05:15 - VMWare gets original 09:15 - Virtual Vets 12:30 - LAPD gets naughty with your face 16:30 - Microshare IOT & data ownership 18:30 - Needs-based business model adaptation 24:00 - Clean = Safe ...
Speaking in Tech #356 - Free no more
November 17, 2020 03:14 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBOn this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) talk about some proposed redundances at IBM; HP Inc sunsetting 'free ink for life'; new limits on storage in Google Photos; robots changing hard drives in Alibaba's data centres; China's president reportedly blocking a tech IPO; WeChat's owner Tencent reporting a bumper set of figures; PayPal getting further into the cryptocurrency game; the rise of the Parler social media platform; and more! 00:00 Lockdow...
Speaking in Tech #355 - Understatement
October 20, 2020 05:45 - 29 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about British Airway’s fine restructuring, QQAAZZ arrests, Tesla’s autopilot bug, Datto’s IPO, Oracle’s play to keep your database forever and more. 00:00 – The Tooth is Out There 04:00 – BA carrying a lighter load in fines 09:00 – Money Laundering as a Service goes down 12:00 – “Making it look like an accident” as a Service 16:30 – Datto looks to IPO 20:00 – Oracle is your obessive ex, but for your Databases 27:00 – What’s next?
Speaking in Tech #354 - Unfiltered
October 07, 2020 01:21 - 49 minutes - 44.4 MBOn this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about the US Senate subpoena of Twitter's, Facebook's and Google's CEOs; Facebook banning ads that delegitimise election outcomes; Snapchat's role in voter participation; Google's mental health concerns with photo filters on Pixel phones; GCHQ discovering a 'nationally significant' vulnerability in Huawei equipment; how the NHS in England is promoting their contact tracing app with Deloitte and Salesfor...
Speaking in Tech #353 - Big Moves
September 22, 2020 05:49 - 54 minutes - 55.1 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Dr. Matthias Farwick, CEO and Co-founder of Txture and Thomas Trojer, CTO and Co-founder of Txture. Together, they talk about Tik Tok’s fate, Snowflake’s IPO, Uber backs out of China a bit, Alicloud’s next move, Txture (https://txture.io/en) and more! 00:00 – Life in the Clouds 04:20 – Trump reviews TikTok bid 09:30 – IPSnow 13:00 – Uber’s latest sale 15:50 – Yet another new Cloud Operating System 21:30 – Belarus drying out 25:30 – Ransomwar...
Speaking in Tech #352 - What do I call you? or Everything Sucks
September 08, 2020 06:35 - 38 minutes - 37.1 MBIn this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Apple, privacy and bag searches; Facebook's new approach to political ads as well as their AR glasses and impressive results for Watch; Microsoft tackling deepfakes; Samsung's new $2,000 folding phone; Qualcomm's new power-efficient processor; Intel's rebrand; and more! 00:00 Bank holidays and back to school 03:33 Apple's got your back... or do they 10:21 Apple's got your bag... or do they 13:19 Facebook...
Speaking in Tech #351 - Horrific Terrific
September 02, 2020 07:05 - 38 minutes - 36.6 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss the latest on the Tik Tok acquisition, Twitter's new approach to copy/paste, Amazon's new offerings and more! 00:00 – Yep, Everything still sucks 02:00 – Tiking time bomb 17:00 – Twitter shuts down the twits 21:00 – Netapp pulls the rip cord on legacy 23:00 – Expanding web based security signal, Fastly 26:00 – Google gets anti-trusted 31:00 – Amazon’s “fresh” grocery store idea 34:30 – A Halo, but with horns and hooks
Speaking in Tech #350 - Tik'd Off
August 11, 2020 02:59 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok; Donald Trump's efforts to ban it in the US; TikTok opening a data centre in Ireland; the end of Google Play Music (Pete: sob!); a great set of results for Western Digital; Uber's acquisition of UK-based firm Autocab; GDPR transgressors in the UK getting their fines reduced; penetration testers getting arrested for doing a penetration test; and more! 00:00 Zeppelins, confer...
Speaking in Tech #349 - Lobbyrated
July 23, 2020 03:50 - 51 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa join forces to cover the new Twitter scam, TikTok's lobbying effort, the CIA's new bag, ARM's overreach and more. 00:00 – Travel 05:00 – The latest hoax on Twitter 11:30 – TikTok gets into politics 21:00 – CIA gets more hax 29:00 – Apple fights with the Irish 33:30 - ARM’s customers jacked 37:00 – Dude claims some things hard for women 45:00 – Amazon’s work from home plans
Speaking in Tech #348 - Bailing Out
July 10, 2020 06:58 - 33 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about Dell’s potential VMware spinoff, Facebook’s plans to ditch Oculus Go, Segway ending production, Amazon’s new dev offering and more. 00:00 – Happy Treason Day 03:00 – Dell taking VMware for a spin 10:00 – Facebook yeets “affordable” VR 14:20 – Segway going away 18:15 – Using bots to fight the endless cancellation hold 23:00 – China’s independent GPS 25:30 – Hate to code? Amazon has honey for you 28:00 – Digital Transformation fin...
Speaking in Tech #347 - Now You See Me
June 16, 2020 04:42 - 35 minutes - 33.7 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about YouTube’s $100m to support Black contributors and users; Google’s countersuit against Sonos; Facebook’s misstep on Workplace; Twitter’s takedown of accounts supporting the Chinese government; Microsoft, IBM and Amazon on facial recognition technology; Kahoot’s success; an investigation into Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy; and more! 00:00 Seattle vs England 03:09 YouTube gets generous 08:17 Google vs Sonos: like T...
Speaking in Tech #346 - Looking for Sunshine
June 04, 2020 03:29 - 34 minutes - 32.7 MBThis week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Amazon hiring, Google's pending search changes, a few lawsuits, Apple's latest acquisition and more. 00:00 – Restrictions and Resumptions 04:00 – Amazon FT hiring boom 06:30 – Google quietly judges your search for UX 12:00 – Google faces a suit from Arizona 15:00 – Apple messes with the wrong accountant 17:00 – Apple acquires more ML for Siri 22:30 – 6Eating your WiFi 26:00 – Autonomous drug delivery kicks off 30:00 – Birthday!
Speaking in Tech #345 - Killing Time
May 26, 2020 16:30 - 36 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week, Melissa (@soltiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss retrocomputing; Google and Apple’s COVID-19 contact tracing system; opposition to the UK’s own equivalent; Amazon entering the hot food delivery market in India; Intel’s acquisition of Killer Networking; Microsoft’s acquisition of Softomotive; the resurgence of the drive-in movie; Samsung’s new military phone; Facebook’s war on fake profiles; Netflix giving lapsed users their money back; and more! 00:00 Lockdowning, Zoo...
Speaking In Tech #344 - No Surprises
April 28, 2020 03:51 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBOn this week's @SPEAKINGinTECH, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) discuss the new version of Zoom; Telegram's MAU milestone; a buoyant set of figures for Citrix; another nail in Adobe Flash's coffin; good news for Intel; an alleged hacking attempt by Vietnam on China; a new home for IBM Watson; a look back at a funny news story from 2012; and more! 00:00 What we did last week (surprise, surprise)... 03:26 Zoom versions up - is it a good thing? 06:57 Telegram just not ...
Speaking in Tech #343 - Staying Home
March 24, 2020 18:04 - 37 minutes - 36.5 MBThe week's tech news stories are dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, although Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) do manage to find some other stories out there too. The pair talk about Everlywell's new coronavirus test that you can do at home; Elon Musk's offer to make ventilators; Microsoft's success with Teams; NASA's misstep on cloud egress charges; IBM mainframe and Chinese server sales on the up; ransomware crooks not targetting healthcare; the iPad Pro getting tooled u...
Speaking in Tech #342 - Too Much Sick
March 10, 2020 06:06 - 31 minutes - 32.7 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa get together to talk about Waymo's latest funding round, Atrium's shut down, Let's Encrypt's bug fix, Honeywell's quantum computing play, SETI's pause on new data and more! 00:00 – Peter has nearly caught them all 05:00 – Conferences got it 08:00 – Waymo is too busy getting paid 13:30 – Atrium kicks it 19:25 – Let’s Encrypt catches a bug 22:00 – Honeywell’s new cure-all 27:30 – SETI calling in
Speaking in Tech #341 - Caught in a Web
February 21, 2020 07:06 - 37 minutes - 34 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Jerry Vasquez of Liquid Web (@LiquidWeb). The trio talk Mac vs Windows on malware; Google removing the ToTok messaging app from its Play store; Russia banning Tutanota secure email; what's happening with enterprise SSD and HDD sales; the latest on Xerox's attempted acquisition of HP Inc; and more! 00:00 AWOL in Seattle 02:02 Jerry joins in 03:20 Mac beats Windows... on malware 07:14 ToTok gets the chop 09:45...
Speaking in Tech #340 - Bricked
January 08, 2020 17:15 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Tara Kelly (@TKtechnow), CEO and Founder of Splice Software (@SPLICESoftware). The trio talk about Google's tax woes, Amazon's initiatives to help homeless people in Seattle - as well as the startup scene in that city, Sonos's controversial new trade-in process, using AI for breast cancer diagnosis, LibreOffice's first decade, how Splice Software can help customers and more! 00:00 Christmas, waxworks and Star Wa...
Speaking in Tech #339 - Must have more Disruption
December 24, 2019 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBIn the second of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Please note this is a live event recoring and audio quality will be affected by that. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:10 Innovative apps for NASA and others with Charlie Regis (@CharlieRegis), Co-Founder, Styliff Tech (@stylifftech / https://styliff.com) 00:06:19 Wearable technology to prevent industrial injuries with Matthew Hart, Founder, S...
Speaking in Tech #338 - Disruption as a Service
December 18, 2019 20:41 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBIn the first of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Due to the nature of live recordings, this recording will have background noise. 00:00:00 This might be a very short podcast… 00:01:16 A brain/computer interface with Daniëlle Tump, Software Developer and Product Manager, MindAffect (@mindaffect_bci / https://www.mindaffect.nl) 00:08:41 Social media for entrepreneurial minded studen...
Speaking in Tech #337 - All the Clouds
December 10, 2019 16:18 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss a record breaking Cyber Monday, the latest on Xerox's attempted takover of HP, leadership changes at Google, AWS's moves into Quantum computing, KPMG getting into Microsoft 365, US Department of Homeland Security increasing the reach of their facial recognition technology, Sprint's cybersecurity woes and more! 00:00 Peter has a job... finally 02:12 Christmas shopping tales 03:30 Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday ...
Speaking in Tech #336 - Nope
November 19, 2019 06:06 - 27 minutes - 26.4 MBThis week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Mirantis taking on Docker Enterprise, Google getting into banking, Political attacks going cyber, politicians endorsing the opposition, Instagram’s new no-like test and more. 00:00 – Husky 02:00 – Kubernetes, more than 3 times fast 06:00 – Docker pulls an enterprise tea party 10:00 – Google Checking 15:00 – Labor keeps plugging through cyber attack 17:15 – Fake AI Friends 20:00 – Insta-nope
Speaking in Tech #335 - Responsibility
November 12, 2019 03:00 - 55 minutes - 57.2 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Rick Fox, VP of Agency Associations and Networks at Vertafore (@Vertafore). Together they talk insurance tech, Xerox’s potential acquisition of HP, Uber Eats running Ads while Uber ignores jaywalking as a thing, Ring’s vulnerability and more. 00:00 – Aston Villa disappoints the kids 04:30 – The minnow swallowing the bass 10:30 – Ads: It’s what’s for dinner 16:10 - Uberbad design 22:50 – Autonomous minions 28:30 – Ring share...
Speaking In Tech #334 - JEDI Masters
November 05, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) is joined by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher), editor-at-large at TechCrunch (@TechCrunch). The pair discuss the Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract, WhatsApp suing NSO, a new Slack competitor, Twitter dumping paid-for political ads, the unintended consequences of Facebook allowing politicians to lie and of course the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event. 00:00 Intros 02:02 Microsoft's the JEDI master 07:02 NSOh-no 11:26 Slack overload...
Speaking in Tech #333 - Becoming Superman
October 17, 2019 17:20 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week, Melissa and Peter discuss Libra's troubles, seeing through walls with Wi-Fi, Apple's u-turn over Hong Kong, Dyson's ditching of its electric car, Nobel prizes for batteries and more! 00:00 - Colds, conferences and certifications 08:10 - PayPal's a Libra leaver 12:03 - BoE's a Libra legislator 16:55 - Walls have eyes 20:55 - App tha Police 26:20 - Dyson pulls the plug on its electric car 30:29 - Prizes all round 33:12 - What next week holds
Speaking in Tech #331- Drive-thru Johnny5
September 25, 2019 06:04 - 34 minutes - 33.2 MBThis week Peter and Melissa sync up to discuss Ransomware in New Bedford, Uber Layoffs, McDonald’s new AI related acquisition, Robot grocery store use cases, loot box legislation and more! 00:00 – Slinging Rockets 05:00 – Riding out the Hack 09:15 – Uber takes a dump 13:15 – The robot army comes for your kids 21:00 – Robo-finders 24:45 – Lucky Dips
Speaking in Tech #330 - Acquired Movers
September 10, 2019 15:01 - 31 minutes - 9.82 MBThis week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss facial recognition in court, YouTube targeting kids, VMware's latest moves, Microsoft's acquisition of Movere, the latest AWS outage, falling server sales, a $14,000 gaming chair and more! 00:00 HashiConf is a-comin' to your town 02:27 All your face are belong to us 08:54 YouTube gets fined $170m... by a COPPA 15:43 VMware gets into Carbon Black and Kubernetes 19:13 You say 'Moov-eer' and I say 'Moov-air-eh' 23:0...
Speaking in Tech #328 - Chasing the Tail
August 20, 2019 21:46 - 36 minutes - 35.9 MBThis week Peter and Melissa discuss Microsoft's new Skype and Cortana policy, VMware's potential acquisition, another major security breech, Politicians killing facial recognition and more. 00:00 - Changes 02:15 - Human overlords for AI 09:15 - Your biometrics - pwned 17:00 - Politician profiling 21:15 - The snake eats itself 28:00 - These clicks are jacked!
Speaking in Tech #327 - Slackin
August 14, 2019 07:51 - 42 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week Peter and Melissa discuss Lyft's stock volatility, Instagram's latest scandal, VMware's cloud announcement, patents for AI and more! 00:00 - Trying new things 05:00 - Lyft off... and on 07:30 - Spygram 13:35 - VMwhere? 21:55 - The new humungous app load 25:50 - AI invents 31:20 - Bye Felicia... er… MSDN 34:00 - Slack takes out some slack
Speaking in Tech #326 - Foolin
April 04, 2019 05:19 - 34 minutes - 17.3 MBThis week, Josh and Peter discuss GMail's anniversary, VMWare's latest vulnerability, Apple's announcements. Lyft's IPO and Mark Zuckerberg's government call to action. 00:00 - It's April, and we are the only fools 02:35 - GMail gets a learner's permit 07:05 - VMWare's vulnerable 10:20 - Apple's a-YAWN-ments 19:10 - Death by $10 cuts 21:40 - Heavy Lyfting 25:00 - Zuckerberg: The next 2-face 33:05 - Brexin
Speaking in Tech #325 - Out to Launch
March 06, 2019 06:23 - 48 minutes - 47 MBThis week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Tesla’s change in sales strategy, the Dragon Launch, a new solar farm concept in China, Lyft’s IPOs, a Brexit update, and RSA conf’s diversity struggles. 00:00 – Wifi Messssss(h) 06:00 – Tesla’s moving out 14:20 – Launching Dummies 17:20 – Space Pandas 22:40 – IP-Uh-oh time to pay rent 27:20 – Someone’s getting rich 32:51 – Melissa’s worst nightmare, LIVE 45:00 – Josh’s dream
Speaking in Tech #324 - 90s Cover Bands
February 05, 2019 03:25 - 43 minutes - 46.2 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Brynne Kennedy, @BrynneSpeak, Founder and CEO of Topia. Together, they discuss Facebook’s latest challenge, Foxconn’s withdrawal from Wisconsin, supply chain challenges, Oracle’s latest suit, another data breach and more! 00:00 - Loser’s dinner w/ Chelsea 03:30 - Rooting: for the kids 07:30 – Protect Ya Neck (next time) 10:17 - What I (don’t) got 14:13 - Suing in the name of 17:30 - Widespread Nervousness 20:30 - Road Trippin All Star 26:0...
Speaking in Tech #322 - Crystal Balls
January 07, 2019 08:06 - 43 minutes - 45.3 MBThis week, Josh, Peter and Melissa get together to discuss parrots that order dinner for themselves, Tesla's new board members, the top 10 venture rounds of 2018, Old prediction stats, new predictions and more! 00:00 - Sacrifical Lambs 07:00 - Pinky and the Brain + Alexa 09:27 - Musk v Ellison Celebrity Death Match 11:00 - Epic FUNding 22:00 - Fitness as a Service 24:00 - Last year's prediction winners and losers 37:00 - This year's gems
Speaking in Tech #321 - Bank Blocks
December 23, 2018 05:00 - 49 minutes - 97.3 MBThe second and final part of Peter Smallbone's (@petersmallbone) LIVE interviews from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 00:00 – How to find like-minded gamer friends w/ John Uke of GameTree (@gametreeapp / 🎮🌲.WS) 08:04 – A new way to check for code vulnerabilities with Joe Noll (@noljoh) of AppGuard (App-Guard.io) 14:46 – Smart navigation for visually impaired people with Gustavo Madico (@elgus) of Aiserve Technologies (@AiServe_tech / aiserve.co) 22:33 – A new BlockChain-based bank account wi...
Speaking in Tech #320 - Crunchy
December 18, 2018 03:33 - 45 minutes - 89.9 MBIn the first of a special two-part LIVE episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 0:00:00 – In da club with Max Hatzold (@MaxHatzold) of Field Buzz (@field_buzz / field.buzz) 0:02:19 – Using BlockChain to get paid faster with Ryan Fife (@ryanpaulfyfe) of WorkChain.io (@workchain_io / workchain.io) 0:10:33 – The new in-game advertising revolution with Ben Fenster (@BenFenster) of Anzu (@Anzu_io / anzu.io) 0:20:39 – The smart way to match medical pr...
Speaking in Tech #319 - MTaaS
November 21, 2018 05:48 - 36 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Google's new leadership, a new Blackberry acquisition, Microsoft's VDI acquisition, Alexa's court order and more! 00:00 - New Phone Fails 09:00 - GOragle 17:00 - Blackberry's Billions 22:00 - Year of VDI 27:00 - Murder Testimony aaS
Speaking in Tech #318 - Kubed
November 07, 2018 09:47 - 35 minutes - 38.3 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa discuss Twitter's ineffective character bump, the new iPhone/IOS security bypass, Waymo's new driverless testing, Amazon's HQ2 update, SF's Airbnb-related lawsuits and VMWare's intended acquisition of Heptio. 00:00 - Sleep Class 06:15 - Not for Goldfish 09:45 - iSpy a Security Flaw 13:50 - WAY Mo Unmanned Vehicles 17:19 - HQ 2x2 22:10 - SF is Taking Your Bedroom Profits 25:05 - You get a Kubernetes & YOU get a Kubernetes 31:29 - PLEASE Hire Peter! 34:00...
Speaking in Tech #317 - Tricked Out
October 31, 2018 07:48 - 48 minutes - 48.7 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Robbie McKinstry (@bravenewprince), Research Engineer at HashiCorp. Together they discuss IBM’s plans to buy RedHat, NASA using remote reboots to fix hardware issues on the Hubble telescope, Twitter’s new debate strategy, Apple’s recent announcements, the latest Malware hit and more! 00:00 – Taco Twednesday 04:00 – Peter gets Fyred up 07:00 – Big Blue gets a Red Hat 07:01 – Now all they need is a purple feather 16:20 – Remote ga...
Speaking in Tech #316 - Open Box
October 30, 2018 03:17 - 37 minutes - 39 MBThis week Josh, Peter and Melissa travel back in time a bit to discuss IBM's JEDI Protest, Duck Duck Go's success, California's new password laws and Microsoft's big opening of patents. 00:00 - Melissa the fool 07:30 - NewOps Days 09:28 - IBM joins the Empire 16:01 - Duck, Duck, Growth! 24:00 - California hacking 31:15 - Microsoft opens Pandora's patent box 31:16 - …and all I got was an I <3 Linux t-shirt
Speaking in Tech #315 - Dominate & Deny
October 11, 2018 16:47 - 30 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK’s conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google’s search engine spend, Azure’s Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened. 00:00 – Peter gets snubbed 03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud 07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once 12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires 15:30 – How much is being #1 worth? 18:12 – L...
Speaking in Tech #314 - Epic Fails
October 03, 2018 14:25 - 46 minutes - 48.9 MBThis week, Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss MS Ignite, Sirius XM's acquisition plans for Pandora, the US government's JEDI program and AI takeovers in marketing. 00:00 - Gurney-Atwell Dance Off 05:15 - Ignition Failed 15:35 - Opening the Box on Sat Radio 21:25 - Jedi for sale, $10 Billion 28:00 - 70 is Pulling Out 33:40 - Face Creepers 38:25 - Deeply Learn-ed Advertising 43:35 - Boy Scout Popcorn
Speaking in Tech #313 - Turn Her Off!
September 26, 2018 06:08 - 51 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Elon Musk’s new rocket plan, Apple’s new product line, Amazon’s echo launch, Equifax’s new fines, a Netapp acquisition and more! 00:00 – New Intro 06:00 – Melissa throws everyone under the bus 08:00 – To the moon (ish), Elon! 12:00 – Flo 16:00 – MAX Mac’s? craziness 21:00 – Josh turns Alexa on 32:00 – Her Majesty gives Equifax a light spanking 36:00 – Netapp acquires hypetrain 45:00 – The buy more stuff game! 50:00 – Little Josh didn’t mak...
Speaking in Tech #312 - Stoned
September 18, 2018 06:07 - 47 minutes - 46.2 MBThis week, Ed, Peter and Melissa are joined by Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) with CloudBerry Lab. Together, they discuss more trouble for Tesla, Equifax's fall out a year after the breach, eBay's switch and more. Doug's Podcast- MSP Voice: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/msp-voice-podcast.aspx 00:00 - Hit by the life bus 05:00 - Take a toke, and all of my stocks... 12:20 - Equifree of consequences 16:00 - Microtik's new internet parasite 20:00 - Ebay dumps OpenStack for the hypetrain - auction...
Speaking in Tech #310 - Slackers
July 03, 2018 18:29 - 40 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Uber's return to London, Facebook's drone WiFi program, the latest in consumer tech manipulation, the hyperconverged state of the union and more! 00:00 - Slackers gotta slack 06:33 - Uber's British Invasion 12:40 - Facebook's WiFi faceplant 15:00 - Github ADD Sidebar 21:30 - Consumer tech <3's cheap tricks 26:00 - Hyperconverged: engage hyperdrive 35:20 - Doing nothing and crushing it
Speaking in Tech #309 - Death of Privacy
June 05, 2018 21:27 - 50 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Chris Weis (@ccweis), Global Practice Manager of Compute and Automation at World Wide Technology. Together they discuss Snapchat's hardware upgrade, updates from the Uber AV crash, Tintri's recent struggle, Amazon's facial recognition for government offering and lessons in iterating and automating at scale. 00:00 - Corn and Captain Kirk 04:37 - Spectacles++ 10:31 - AV Indecision 17:05 - AutNOPE-pilot 20:19 - More Storage on Life S...
Speaking in Tech #308 - Happy Clouds
May 28, 2018 19:27 - 36 minutes - 37.7 MBThis week Peter and Melissa are joined by Jason McGee (@jrmcgee), IBM Fellow, VP & CTO of IBM Cloud Platform. Together they discuss new options in AWS, HPe's new acquisition, AI creating jobs and cloud trends. 00:00 - Cast off Kinks 04:00 - AWS hops on the NVMe bandwagon 07:00 - HPe plugs their SDN hole 10:00 - Robot job creation 14:00 - Open Source and Cloud 20:00 - GDPR is everywhere 25:00 - Cloud futures 32:00 - AI strategy and ethics 35:00 - Yet Another Marketing Fail brought t...
Speaking in Tech #307 - False Positives
May 11, 2018 06:38 - 41 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss Comcast's attempt to swipe more content, Uber's fatal autonomous vehicle collision, Air taxis and Google's latest assistant demo. 00:00 - The guys got robbed 10:00 - Comcast tries to outdo the Mouse 16:00 - It's not a bug, it's a false positive 23:00 - Can't figure it out on the ground? put it in the air! 27:30 - AI takes another job you hated 38:00 - Who do you want to be next?