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Re:Invent 2019 Part 1

Re:Invent 2019 Part 1

Chris Brandt
AWS, Cloud, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

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.

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Instana and Infinidat

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Instana and Infinidat

Chris Brandt
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, AWS, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

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. 

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Fivetran and Perimeter81

AWS Re:Invent 2019 Interviews - Fivetran and Perimeter81

Chris Brandt
AWS, Cloud, Shows, AWS Re:Invent

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.

NetApp Insight 2019 Part 2: Interview with Igneous and Cleondris

NetApp Insight 2019 Part 2: Interview with Igneous and Cleondris

Chris Brandt
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Compliance, Shows, Storage

A lot of the show floor was taken up by NetApp itself. The show floor was divided into different sections. Some for the Partner community, some focusing on their products and some focusing on specific use cases. And there were areas devoted to play and areas to relax.

Like other shows this year, there has been a focus on Social Media, which mostly involves tracking Twitter feeds talking about the company and show. I probably need to get plugged in with these folk a bit more.

NetApp Insight 2019: Part 1

NetApp Insight 2019: Part 1

Chris Brandt
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Shows, Workplace, Storage

NetApp held their annual Insight conference in Las Vegas again this year. There is always a lot going on in Vegas, and there were several shows in town. There was a Crypto Currency conference happening in my hotel. I can only imagine what kind of shenanigans a bunch of risk taking crypto math geeks could get up to in this town.

There were not a lot of new product announcements this year, it seemed to be more focused on delivering of promises previously made. This is not a bad thing. This is an opportunity to refocus on the fundamentals of the business and realizing their multi-could/hybrid-cloud data fabric story.

Pure Storage's Accelerate 2019 Conference Part 2

Pure Storage's Accelerate 2019 Conference Part 2

Chris Brandt
Cloud, Pure Accelerate, Shows, Storage

Hi welcome back to Part 2 of Pure Accelerate conference coverage. 

By the Book
One of the things that came with the swag bag at the show was this book, “Flash Was Only The Beginning. The creators of Pure Storage who reimagined data storage and built the fastest growing enterprise technology company in history.

It walks through the history of Pure. Probably really for the extreme fanboy crowd, but I did enjoy the pictures. They highlight a lot of the folks who were there in the early days and have some pictures and a little blurb.

HPE's Little d

HPE's Little d

Chris Brandt
HCI, Marketing, Shows

HPE Discover 2019 was taking place in Las Vegas this week, and they made a lot of announcements, but I want to talk about their announcement of an additional hyperconverged product in their lineup, the Nimble dHCI.

SXSW 2019 Interview with BYGmusic

SXSW 2019 Interview with BYGmusic

Chris Brandt
SXSW, Marketing

One of the big themes at SXSW this year was the importance of Influencers, and in particular Micro-Influencers. BygMusic is a company founder by Krish Sharma, a Grammy winner, and Mike Alden. The idea is to source bands with a following and connect them to advertisers who see value in their fan base. This helps the Marketers reach audiences that have been challenging to access and it gives musicians a way to monetize their music.

SXSW Part 1 Activatons

SXSW Part 1 Activatons

Chris Brandt
Cool Tech, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Shows, SXSW, Video Briefing

I am trying to catch up on all of the video I have from SXSW. Here is part 1 which focuses on the SXSW scene and “Activations.” For those unfamiliar with the term, “Activation” this is what they call branded experiences that companies put together. They take over businesses, empty buildings, parking lots, and parks. They transform these spaces into all manner of intriguing experiences.

SXSW 2019: A Talk With Access Partnership

SXSW 2019: A Talk With Access Partnership

Chris Brandt
law, SXSW, Video Briefing, Compliance

Every time I go to a website these days, I always have to click on that, "I agree to using cookies",” button. It is fairly silly as pretty much every site I have gone to for the last ten years has used cookies. I would be shocked if I got a pop up that said, “this site doesn’t use any cookies at all,” because then I would be wondering, how do they pull that off? This behavior is being driven by attempts to conform to GDPR requirements.

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