All in Cloud
There are some people in IT who become quite notable for always being at the center of great things. They enable others with their knowledge, and by doing so, they rise to legendary status within the community. Today we have just such a person, Duncan Epping.
In 2008, Veritas employees Jaspreet Singh and Milind Borate got together to create the data protection company Druva. Fun Fact: In Sanskrit, "Druva" translates to "North Star".
For years they built the business around endpoint data protection, but the product evolved over into a more enterprise focused cloud data management company. Last year they completed a series E for $130M with a valuation north of a billion dollars.
I am really excited about today’s guest, as he has been a friend and advisor to Sandesh and I for a while now and I can’t tell you how much I genuinely value his guidance and wisdom.
Bipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist with more than 20 years of experience building billion-dollar companies - including his current company Rubrik where he is CEO. In addition, Bipul is the Board Chairman & Co-Founder of Confluera as well as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed.
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. Today we have with us some very special guests.
John Thompson started off his career at IBM back in the 70s as a salesman. He rose through the ranks to become General Manager of IBM Americas, but after 28 years at IBM in 1999 he was lured away to become CEO of Symantec building it into a true enterprise focused company. In 2014, John Stepped into the role of Chairman of the Board of Microsoft Corporation following Bill Gates’ departure. John has been an active investor and in 2018 he became a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and has put together a portfolio of truly impressive companies. One of those companies is the cyber security company Confluera, which we are really excited to talk to him about today.
Hey everybody welcome back. Today I have with me Joe Ferguson, who has made an appearance here before demonstrating Clumio. With the Coronavirus outbreak, SaaS has become incredibly important. I thought it would be great to catch up with Joe and get an update on what is going on with Clumio, a born in the cloud pure play SaaS data protection product, to talk about the importance of SaaS while companies rapidly transform their to adapt to the new environment we find ourselves in.
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. This is part 2 of our Interview with Phil Johanet where we talk about the world of sales in technology.
I have known phil for some time, and if the topic of all-time greatest sales people in the business comes up, Phil’s name is always at the top. Phil brings a sensibility and intelligence to the game that you rarely see. He is the perfect balance of getting it done and fun. I’m super excited to talk with him, Welcome Phil.
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. Today we are going to talk about the world of sales in technology, and we have a great guest that I am very excited to introduce, Phil Johanet.
I have known phil for some time, and if the topic of all-time greatest sales people in the business comes up, Phil’s name is always at the top. Phil brings a sensibility and intelligence to the game that you rarely see. He is the perfect balance of getting it done and fun. I’m super excited to talk with him, Welcome Phil.
Hi everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. This is part 2 of our interview with Dave Czeszewski. If you haven't seen part 1, check it out here
Today we have Dave Czeszewski who is CIO of Perdoceo education Corporation, formerly Career Education Corporation, an educational services company focusing on online education. I am really excited to have Dave here today, because not only does he bring the CIO’s perspective, Dave is particularly interesting, because he is one of the most transformational CIOs I have seen out there. So I’m excited to hear what the secret is to staying ahead in the technology game.
Hi everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. This is part 1 of our interview with Dave Czeszewski. Today we have Dave Czeszewski who is CIO of Perdoceo education Corporation, formerly Career Education Corporation, an educational services company focusing on online education. I am really excited to have Dave here today, because not only does he bring the CIO’s perspective, Dave is particularly interesting, because he is one of the most transformational CIOs I have seen out there. So I’m excited to hear what the secret is to staying ahead in the technology game.
Are you picking a data center? Unsure of what you should be looking for? Can’t figure out what makes one data center provider better than another? Well, you came to the right place.
In the last video I talked about building your own vs. leasing colo space (spoiler don’t build your own), and we talked about what the different tier levels mean and we talked about redundancy factors as well as some frequently used terms. So, if you didn’t see part 1 of this series, check it out here, I’ll wait.
As many of you may know, in my past life I was a CTO of a company that built high security mission critical data center facilities as well as owing and operating data center facilities.
I often talk with clients who are struggling with choosing data center space, so I wanted to give you a few tips when you are on the market looking. I have seen companies make a lot of mistakes over the years.
As I mentioned in Part 1, attendance was high. Now in its 8th year, Re:Invent had the capacity for 65,000 with over 3,000 sessions.
This year, “Transformation” was the main theme. The main take away was that you should be moving more aggressively to the cloud. Andy Jassy in his keynote kept coming back to this theme, and much of it was aimed at senior leadership. He laid out some key points to accelerating the journey.
Hi Everyone, this is Chris Brandt with another AWS Re:Invent update. Before I get started I just wanted to say, if you enjoy these videos, please like and subscribe, click the bell to get notifications when I post new content. I usually do that at the end, so I thought I would try it up front for a change.
AWS Re:Invent was held once again in Las Vegas Nevada. This show has grown so large, there are few cities that can house it. Re:Invent this year had capacity for 65,000 attendees, and by all accounts they were pretty close to maximum capacity. The show spanned 6 properties in Las Vegas, and rumors have it that they are going to be adding in Mandalay Bay next year in an attempt to hit 80,000 in attendance which is absolutely mind-blowing.
Managing complex environments has always been tricky, and having good tools to provide you with actionable information is invaluable. When you start talking about cloud native applications and micro services, this challenge is magnified.
I have always felt that Application Performance Monitoring tools are very under deployed. They can be such an invaluable tool to IT, but the value proposition has often been hard to translate up the chain to CFOs. While there isn’t a direct line to greater profits, reducing the time to resolution or proactively addressing problems can have enormous value. In a micro services world, having some sort of APM in place is simply a requirement.
We all know the story that data is a strategic asset and this is causing companies to become IT organizations at their core. Companies are also increasingly leveraging SaaS applications. Companies now often have hundreds of SaaS vendors. With all of this comes data sprawl.
Since data is critical to organizations now, collecting and analyzing that data is key, but that can be a challenge when the data lives on many different platforms in many different forms, so bringing all of it together into a data warehouse can be hard.
