Finding Gold with Nick Huedecker of Cribl

We have all been inundated with security breech after security breech, with no end in sight. With the highly distributed nature of infrastructure and applications these days, the amount of data that needs to be analyzed to identify threats and compromises is sometimes the biggest hurdle that security teams face. Today, we are going to be talking with a company that promises to streamline that data to make it more valuable.

High Octane SaaS with Octane founder Akash Khanolkar

Here at FUTRtech, we love startups, and today we are going to talk with an early stage company with an idea that could one day solve a big problem in the industry. We have talked about the massive shift to subscription and consumption based models before, but with that comes enormous challenges in managing all of those subscriptions. Today we are going to talk with a company that is building a platform to solve that problem

Your Portworx in a Storm, Solving the Database Challenge

Today we are going to be talking about Database as a Service and about some of the big announcements that just came from Pure Storage.

Hey everybody welcome to another FUTRtech video podcast. Today we are going to be talking with Michael Ferranti who is VP of Product and Corporate Marketing for Portworx, which is now a part of Pure Storage. He is here to tell us about all Portworx and their new Database as a service offering as well as fill us in on all of the great new stuff that Pure just announced.

Doing the Right Thing - B-Corps With Tim Frick

It seems like every day we see headlines about some public company behaving badly. Whether it is environmental disasters, abuse of workers, or just plain theft, companies often don’t have an overarching mission to do good. This shouldn’t be a surprise, because the main job description for the CEO of a public company is to maximize shareholder profits.

It's Not The Heat It's The Latency

There is a lot in the news about SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, and their ability to bring high speed connectivity to remote locations around the world.

While the promise of satellite broadband connections sounds great, they have typically fallen short of what you can get from a wired connection.

Think It Can't Happen To You, You're Wrong - Tech Support Scam's Near Disaster

I want to highlight a YouTuber you may or may not know about, Jim Browning. He has a very successful channel with 3.4 million subscribers where he reverse hacks some of these tech support scam call centers that bilk money out of vulnerable people.

In July, Jim ended up getting scammed into deleting his channel. This is not an unsophisticated individual. This is someone who is constantly on the lookout for scams, and is acutely aware of the way that they work. But, everyone can get complacent, and some scams are better crafted than others.In this case, the attacker utilized Google’s own domain to fool Jim.

No new interview this week - Ransomware, Security Roundup

Hey Everybody, no new interview this week, because I’ve got this kind of stuff going on. I’m getting a new roof put on and New siding on the house, so that made things a bit crazy.

I just want to take a moment to thank you for watching and if you like this channel, please think about subscribing. Most of the regular viewers of this channel are not subscribers, but subscribing can help us do more with the channel.

Everybody is fighting the Ransomware security battle, so I wanted to take a few minutes to highlight some of the interviews we have done that focus on that. I will add links up here and in the description and I will put together a playlist so you can find them easily.

Building Your Personal Brand With LinkedIn's John McGrath

Have you been wanting to know how to get more out of LinkedIn, but were afraid to ask? Well, you’ve come to the right place, because we are going to be talking about all things LinkedIn.

When John McGrath moved back to Dublin Ireland in the middle of a recession, it was difficult to find a job, and he leaned heavily on LinkedIn to make it all happen. From then on, he was hooked. For years he worked with LinkedIn as a customer of LinkedIn, but eventually, he got the chance to work for them, as a Global Customer Success Manager there.

The Future Is In Their Hands - Here Come The Millenials

We often forget that some of the technology we use every day begins life in the labs of Universities around the world, and many of those people doing the work will one day be the technology leaders we look to solve the worlds most challenging problems. Today we are going to be speaking to one of those future leaders.

Sandesh and I were recently talking with Kai Pederson, a young man Sandesh has known since he was a child. We heard his stories as a member of the Army National Guard working on Cyber Security, his work in chip manufacturing and his research on energy harvesting IOT devices.

Conversational AI Saves The Day with Aisera CEO Muddu Sudhakar

We have all had the dream that we could live in a world of automation, like George Jetson, just pushing a button. That dream has been slow to arrive, but now we are seeing the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistants. Companies that specialize in automating the mundane, and not so mundane task of people, have finally arrive to help drag us all into the future.

Building A Unicorn With VAST Data Founder Jeff Denworth

One of the things we don’t spend enough time talking about is how hard it is to build a business. Bringing an idea to market requires so many factors to align it can be mind-blowing. We are going to talk to someone who is a veteran of the startup space to tell us what it is really like.

Today we are talking with VAST Data CMO and co-founder Jeff Denworth about what it takes to bring a product to market in a competitive industry. We are going to talk about the challenges, compromises, tradeoffs and difficult decisions that go into it. We are also going to talk about the ingredients needed to not just build a great product, but a great company, and we are going to learn a bit about VAST Data and what makes it tick.