Tech Field Day Podcast

Tech Field Day Podcast


Latest Episodes

You Should Roll Your Own Whitebox Storage
August 25, 2020

As enterprise storage moves to commodity hardware and software, has the time come for businesses to consider building their own storage systems? In this podcast, we discuss the pros and cons of packaged enterprise storage solutions and consider how the...

Wi-Fi Isn’t Always the Best Wireless Solution – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
August 11, 2020

In a highly-connected world, we rely on our technology to stay online at all times. Almost everything uses wireless today, right? But what kind of wireless does it use? You might be tempted to say Wi-Fi, but as it turns out,

IoT Doesn’t Need Wi-Fi 6E – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
July 28, 2020

The standards for faster wireless communications are being adopted much more quickly. We have faster speeds and different spectrum allocations to work with. However, the largest consumers of the wireless space in the coming years are the ones that won’...

Disaggregated Architecture Runs Best with Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
July 21, 2020

Pure Storage Spotlight: In this episode, we are taking on enterprise cloud architecture, and specifically, the move towards disaggregated infrastructure. As enterprises move towards cloud architecture, a lot of companies are jumping in.

A Single Source of Truth Can Bring Justice to the World
July 14, 2020

Continuing our effort to reconcile the perspective of enterprise IT nerds with the social upheaval happening all around us, the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast guests discuss the concept of a single source of truth. In IT analytics,

IT Observability Principles Can Help Bring Justice to the World
July 07, 2020

Technical people love clarity, facts, transparency, and data, but the world outside the datacenter is anything but. How can we in tech apply ourselves and our experience to promote justice and transparency in the real world? Why don’t governments,

AI Can’t Do Much for WiFi – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
June 30, 2020

Today’s world is driven by software. Applications rule the tech space and they are increasingly relying on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to make better, faster decisions. But there are some technologies that don’t really take f...

Orchestration is the Reason Enterprises Haven’t Adopted Containers – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
June 23, 2020

Pure Storage Spotlight: Orchestration is almost synonymous with containers nowadays. One popular opinion is that maybe the reason enterprises haven’t adopted containers quickly is that people are hungry for a way to orchestrate containers that fits int...

Encryption is Ruining Network Security – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
June 16, 2020

The world is encrypted today. Our traffic is being protected from beginning to end so our identities and data are safe. But how safe are we in reality? What about the traffic that we want to see? How can we protect against threats when everything is us...

Anomaly Detection is the Only Good ML in the Enterprise – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
June 02, 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are extending the capabilities of our technology at a rapid pace. Or so we have been led to believe. But what is ML really giving us? What good is it to our enterprise?