The Hot Aisle

Mark Thiele (@mthiele10) CIO & Chief Strategy Officer for Apcera (@Apcera) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Container Management and infrastructure architecture at scale. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the enabling technologies of the data center in regards to containers, and how workload composition […]

Tom Phelan (@tapbluedata), Co-Founder & Chief Architect for BlueData (@BlueData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the future of Big Data architectures and how consolidation, disaggregation, and automating are changing the Big Data landscape. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the latest innovations in Big […]

Barry “The Colonel” Hensley, Chief Threat Intelligence Officer at Secureworks (@Secureworks), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about cyber-security.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down FBI statistics on Ransomware, GDPR impact, the use of Machine Learning in cyber-crime, and how organized crime is making a business […]

David “Gonzo” Gonzales (@datagonzo) CEO and Co-Founder of Ziff, Inc. (ziff.ai) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the principles and frameworks used to locate patterns in data and how those can be applied to deliver business insights. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Artificial Intelligence, […]

Steven Hillion, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer for Alpine Data (@AlpineDataLabs) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about approachable and accessible analytics and how they're bridging business the business to their data. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how organizations' mission to capture analytic outcomes and […]

Brian Rutledge (@scarabeetle) Principal Security Engineer for Spanning (@spanningbackup) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Security Awareness and the need for heightened awareness in today's climate. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) are all over the map as they break down security threats and education, GDPR and […]

Michael Ducy (@mfdii) Director of Product Marketing at Chef (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the the launch of Habitat Builder, which enables organizations build, control, and manage its' apps.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) Work to understand how Chef is helping organizations bridge the […]

Rob Zuber (@z00b) Chief Technology Officer for CircleCI (@CircleCI) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Continuous Integration & Continuous Development (CI/CD) and fundamental ideas about how to break down monoliths and improve development processes through tools. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how CircleCI is […]

Greg Warden (@usmile1) VP of Engineering at DigitalOcean (@DigialOcean) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about delivering a reliable massively scalable service. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Greg and the team at DigitalOcean are managing the complexities of being one of the largest hyperscalers […]

Tim Armandpour (@TimArmandpour) Senior Vice President for Pager Duty (@PagerDuty) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about instrumenting companies' digital operations signals across their entire stack and how they are helping provide situational and contextual awareness to customers for their alerts and events.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]

Chris Knoch (@cknoch) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Big Squid (@Big_Squid) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about improving the signal to noise ratio on your data and how they're impacting the world of predictive analytics.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down predictive analytics for executive […]

Brian Carmody (@initzero) CTO for Infinidat (@infinidat) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about seeing thru the fog and where long term technology trends are headed. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Infinidat intends to be the answer for yet unsolved storage problems, the real […]

Justin Erenkrantz (@jerenkrantz) Head of Compute Architecture for Bloomberg (@TechAtBloomberg) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the delicate balancing act between developers and operations, and how to achieve the best velicoty, flexibility, and their desired outcomes. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how modular architectures […]

This week we are joined by two guests from DataTorrent (@DataTorrent) – Guy Churchward (@GuyChurchward) President & CEO and Phu Hoang, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer.  They joined us on The Hot Aisle to talk about Real Time Streaming Platforms and analytics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how batch […]

Josh Gwyther (@joshuagwyther) Google Cloud Platform Agent of Innovation for Google (@google) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about hyperscale public clouds and how GCP's technology is keenly positioned to support their customer's line of business applications. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the cost and […]

Paul Galjan (@PaulGaljan) Sr. Director, Microsoft Hybrid Cloud at Dell EMC (@DellEMC) joins us live on Day 4 of Dell EMC World in Las Vegas for an extra immersive recording The Hot Aisle to talk about the latest announcement around the partnership between Microsoft and Dell EMC for a turnkey delivery of Azure Stack and […]

Stathy Touloumis (@stathyinc), Technology Director at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us live on The Hot Aisle during Day 3 of Dell EMC World 2017 to talk Mesosphere DC/OS, REX-Ray from {code} by Dell EMC (@codeDellEMC), and Dell EMC ScaleIO Ready Nodes as a reference architecture for your next generation data center.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) […]

John Bass (@JohnGBass) Founder & CEO at Hashed Health (@HashedHealth) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Blockchain in general and specifically how it applies in the healthcare world. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into the differences of Bitcoin, blockchain, hyper-ledger, and Etherium; why John believes […]

Matt Mccormack Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer for Virtustream (@Virtustream) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to demystify the subject of Cloud Security and the constantly changing role of the Chief Information Security Officer. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) discuss best practices for a modern data center […]

Ron Bianchini (@RonBianchini) CEO of Avere Systems (@AvereSystems) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about solving NAS problems at scale.  There are architectural implications to the way modern applications and data centers are being deployed – and your critical infrastructure services need to keep up. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and […]

Bobby Johnson (@InteranaBobby) CTO & Founder at Interana (@InteranaCorp) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Interactive Analytics and how companies can break down barriers of putting valuable insights right into their employees' hands. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down where Hadoop works & doesn't and […]

Patrick Lin, VP of Products & Marketing at SignalFX (@SignalFX), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about monitoring the Billions and Trillions of streaming events that happen in a modern Cloud Native application architecture. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down why capturing these real-time events is […]

Tom Lyon (@aka_pugs) Chief Scientist and Founder at DriveScale (@DriveScale_Inc) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about making a Private Cloud for Big Data using composable rack-scale infrastructure. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dive into how a UNIX kernel developer goes on to create a cool startup […]

Alex Hertel, CEO for Xperiel (@xperiel), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Experiential Marketing and how any organization can leverage Augmented Reality and Internet of Things to interact with consumers. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down complexity theory, pebbling, and using modern technology to trigger […]

Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky) Co-Founder and VP of Product at Platform9 Systems (@Platform9sys) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Cloud Managed Infrastructure, overcoming risk, and providing the trust enterprises need to adopt agile infrastructure. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the value propositions of well managed […]

Steven Silva, Chief Technology Officer for Cypherpath (@cypherpath), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Secure Infrastructure Containers and how the market is demanding security driven architectures. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what exactly Cypherpath means by Infrastructure-as-a-File, how Infrastructure containers differentiate, and explore the […]

Mike Gualtieri (@mgualtieri) VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (@forrester) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about evolving and emerging analytics technologies. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down topics like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, and Advanced Analytics.  Grab your friend Sarah Connor […]

Ray O'Farrell (@ray_ofarrell) CTO & Chief Development Officer at VMware (@VMware) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about VMware announcements form VMworld. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) have Ray break down Cross-Cloud Architecture, the new VMware Cloud Foundation with IBM & AWS, integrations with Virtustream, how NSX […]

Gareth Rushgrove (@garethr) Senior Software Engineer at Puppet (@puppetize) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about leveraging a thriving community to drive incremental value in Open Source. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Project Blueshift and how Puppet is using it to build better code and community in the Enterprise […]

Sandeepan Banerjee SVP Engineering and Operations for ClusterHQ (@ClusterHQ) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about storage persistence in an ephemeral world and what he thinks the challenges and how his teams plan to solve them. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the container persistence market […]

Jeremy Burton (@jburton) CMO for Dell Technologies (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the largest merger in tech history between Dell & EMC (now Dell EMC) – and what it means for the future of both companies and the industry as a whole. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]

Hitesh Patel (@F5Hitesh) Solutions Architect for F5 (@F5Networks) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about how F5 is evolving for and fully embracing the new “Cloud” model. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into  building a 250K+ person community with DevCentral, how Open Source & GitHub have […]

Our guest list is strong this episode – in order of appearance: Joshua Bernstein (@quityourjoshing) VP of Technology for EMC Code (@emccode), Grant Martin (@grantkmartin) Product Manager for Avegant (@avegant) Glyph, and Nelson Aquino (@kruelx) FPV Racer, Race Organizer, and more – all join us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Open Source Software, the […]

Shannon Williams (@smw355) & Sheng Liang (@shengliang), Co-Founders of Rancher Labs (@Rancher_Labs) join us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about some more of that hot hot hot container stuff and how Rancher integrates your Docker ecosystem with automated deployments of Swarm, Kubernetes, and Mesosphere. Public cloud? Private Cloud? Don't care – they gots! […]

Kelsey Hightower (@KelseyHightower) Software Engineer for Google's (@google) Kubernetes (@kubernetesio) and the Samuel L. Jackson of Tech Conferences, joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the 1 year old birthday kid, Kubernetes. We'll learn how Kubernetes is ready for production use with your containerized applications; and your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) […]

Barak Michener (@barakmich) Software Engineer for CoreOS (@CoreOSlinux) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Torus, their take on the modern distributed storage system. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Torus approaches software defined storage, why distributed storage is the right fit for containerized workloads, […]

Stephen Pope (@StephenGPope) Partner & Software Engineer for Project Ricochet (@ProjectRicochet) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Application Development, platform rationalization, and why customers are leveraging Containers to deploy their new apps.  Fresh off a trip to the house that Starbucks built – or “Seattle” as it's sometimes known – he […]

Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) Founder and CEO of IOPipe (@iopipes) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Serverless and help define what it is, and what it isn't. What did we learn? Serverless != Server Less! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into subjects like Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), how serverless scales and […]

Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz) R&D Engineer for the Office of the CTO at Cisco (@cisco) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle and expertly educates us on a number of storage (and not-so-storage) related topics including but not limited to: Fibre Channel, FCoE, Ethernet, iSCSI, PCIe, NVMe, NVMf, iSCSI, RDMA over Ethernet, and More! […]

David Estes (@davydotcom) VP of Engineering at Morpheus Data (@MorpheusData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Multi-Cloud Automation and Orchestration from your P2 (Traditional) and P3 (Cloud Native) Application Stacks.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how the Morpheus Platform enables companies to provision Bare […]

Andy Rhodes (@andrewmrhodes) Executive Director of IoT for Dell (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the Internet of Things (IoT). Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what IoT is, why it's become such a popular topic, and how companies are leveraging it.  We're learn […]

Live from EMC World 2016!!! Our first trifecta of guests on the Podcast this go round: Brian Gallagher (@bgallagher32) – President of EMC's Cloud Platform Team, Brian Roche (@brianrochebos) – Sr. Dir. of Engineering & Cloud Platforms for the Team, and Idit Levine @Idit_Levine – their CTO.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]

Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny) Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for Rackspace (@rackspace) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about OpenStack and all the hotness that was revealed at OpenStack Summit 2016 . Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down where OpenStack is winning & losing, the different consumption models […]

Mike Shapiro, Vice President and Co-Founder of EMC's DSSD (@EMCDSSD) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about a new twist on deploying Flash – Specifically NVMe – in new and different ways.  Block?  Sure Thing.  Object?  Yup.  Hadoop / HDFS?  Gots.  Oh, and don't forget the Flood API.  What's a flood […]

James Watters (@wattersjames) SVP, Products for Pivotal (@pivotal) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about SpringBoot, Pivotal Labs, Pair Programming “Starter Dough”, and what Pivotal Cloud Foundry is up to these days.  We learn a bit about how CloudFoundry came to where it is today and what Pivotal's charter is as […]

John K. Thompson (@johnkthompson60) General Manager of Advanced Analytics for Dell (@Dell) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Analytics, Big Data, & IoT so that we can get our brains wrapped around these evolving topics. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what the Analytics landscape […]

Chris Webber (@cwebber), Engineering Manager for Chef Software (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Configuration Management & treating Infrastructure as Code.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down what Chef is, how its working to change the game, and why the Chef Community is the best […]

Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) creator of Jenkins and CTO of Cloud Bees (@CloudBees) – (not Code Bees, lol) – joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment (The other CD) – and why working in a circle is a good thing – with the right […]

Thomas Rampelberg, Project Manager at Mesosphere (@mesosphere) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Mesosphere's Data Center Operating System (DCOS) and how it was created to enable your Public & Private Cloud to be more efficient, resilient, and automated. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down Apache Mesos (@ApacheMesos), […]

Chris Sexsmith (@VirtualMittens) Sr. Manager of Field Enablement | Cloud-Native Apps at VMware (@VMware) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about VMware's Cloud Native Application strategy and platforms (@cloudnativeapps) and share the greatness that they bring to the table with us and our listeners. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian […]

Chad Sakac (@sakacc) Newly anointed President of VCE (@VCE) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about his new Converged world, his first 30 days on the job, how a life fueled by RedBull and 5 Hour Energy can accomplish so much, and a not-so-secret product reveal on February 16th, 2016. Your […]