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You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
On this episode, the roundtable discusses data protection policy. The premise is that most organizations are doing this wrong. There's a fundamental misalignment between what IT thinks it needs to be doing and what the business needs for operations and...
Bringing Yourself to Work – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Today's show discusses when you can bring your personal life into IT. We discuss if doing so is just a way to reduce burnout, or if there is legitimate business value to be found. We touch on how to approach supposed "third rail" topics and more.
The Cloud is Going to Disappear – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Today's episode considers if people want cloud, or what the cloud actually does. In this case, we're looking at if a focus on providing services will eventually make the cloud irrelevant, since people don't really care about it.
Network Analytics Is Too Expensive – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Thanks to the growth of software-defined networking, a lot of network information that used to be unknown, is now known. But in order to get that information out of the network, you have to spend a lot of money on specialized hardware, software,
Microsoft Is Done With Windows – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Declaring the Death of Windows is always a great way to drum up some clicks. But today, the roundtable discusses whether Windows is just kind of beside the point for a modern Microsoft. The debate whether this means the end of Windows,
Change Your Password All The Time – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Changing your passwords frequently is the best way to keep accounts secure, right? Or does frequently changing passwords cause users to lean on easily predictable patterns that ultimately make things less secure?
The Storage Array is Dead – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
The monolithic storage array used to be the standard of storage, but it's time has come and gone... or has it? The roundtable discusses what specifically we mean when we talk about storage arrays, why they are increasingly irrelevant,
You Need Sensors for Analytics – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Tom Hollingsworth leads a discussion around how important sensors are for analytics and data. Is network monitoring enough? What about something in software? Or is the added expense of a dedicated out-of-band physical sensor the price you have to pay?
5G will Replace Traditional Networks – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
In this episode, the roundtable discusses what impact 5G will have on traditional networking. They dig into why wireless is a more finite resource than wired networking, the difficulty of service degradation,
Composable Infrastructure is Just Blade Server 2.0 – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Stephen Foskett leads a discussion about how big of a change composable infrastructure is from the tried and true blade server.