Podcasts about ruairi mcbride

Modernisation is a buzzword across the IT industry, but it is more than just a technology subject, it is about changing the way you view and use technology, deliver services, products, deal with customers and drive innovation across all aspects of the enterprise and of course IT plays a part in that, but how? This week’s podcast was recorded at Microsoft’s Ignite Tour in London early in 2020 where I caught up with two of my friends from the IT industry, Ruairi McBride and Jason Benedicic to discuss modernisation across applications, datacentres and businesses and how technology providers like Microsoft are helping to enable this kind of transformational change. Amongst our topics, we discuss. *What we mean by modernisation *How and what is application modernisation *How the speed of development and delivery is key *What types of companies are investing in application modernisation *Who is modernising their datacentres? *Why it is much more than just technology refresh *Why “consumer” technology is driving enterprise thinking *Microsoft modernisation technologies *The “enterprise focussed” cloud *What is driving companies to modernise? I really enjoyed this chat and learned a lot about how and what is driving enterprises of all shapes and sizes to modernise their business practices and technologies. I hope you gain as much from the insights Ruairi and Jason provide as I did. Next week we take a fresh look at the changing face of the virtual desktop, to make sure you catch that show, why not subscribe? If you have an idea for a show or would like to appear as a guest on Tech Interviews then email me at podcast@techstringy.com Until next time, thanks for listening. Full show notes :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1K1

This episode Ruairi McBride @mcbride_ruairi is joined by Alun Griffiths @WelshMatador Matthew Kershaw @mkershaw1985 and Paul Stillitano all from Arrow ECS UK where they review this year’s NetApp Insight EMEA from Barcelona. We give our impression on the conference overall and what we did and didn’t like (which there isn’t much). We discuss the Key Notes including Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard Chief Future officer from the futures agency and the forward looking talk he gave. Kate Swanborg @KateSwanborg of Dreamworks Animation and the WuXi NextCODE Genome Sequence who are both now huge users of data; parts of the general session were also discussed. We also talked about MAX Data and the blazing speed at which is accelerating access to data. We discussed NFLEX MetroCluster over IP and improvements on the FlexPod technology. We delved into the importance of community and those that meet at insight including the NetApp A-Team and NetApp United. We chat about the Stackpoint acquisition NetApp Kubernetes Service and the launch of Cloud Insights.

This week we talk to DellEMC's Ross Porter and Ben Conquest about unstructured data and its purpose in the modern enterprise. We are also joined by regular guest host Ruairi McBride from Arrow ECS Ross Porter Ross leads the Dell EMC EMEA Isilon Unstructured Data and Analytics Presales team. He is focused on delivering innovative scale out, object, analytics and big data solutions to customers across multiple industries and geographies. He has held previous leadership positions in systems engineering management, global systems integrator technical alliances, as well as advisory and consultant roles. Ross has spoken on technology and change leadership at various global events, partner forums, and leadership conferences. https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/author/ross-porter/ Ben Conquest Developing Unstructured Data Solutions for Automated Driving and Genomics - scale-out and AI ready. https://www.linkedin.com/in/benconquest

I've spoken a bit recently about the world of Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) especially as the technology continues to mature, with both improved hardware stacks and software looking to take advantage of this hardware, it is becoming an ever more compelling prospect. How do these developments, an HCI version 2.0 if you like, manifest themselves? Recently I saw a good example in a series of blog posts and videos from friend of the show Ruairi McBride, which demonstrated really well both the practical deployment and look and feel of a modern HCI platform. The videos focussed on NetApp's new offering and covered the out of the box experience, how to physically cable together your HCI building blocks and how to take your build from delivery to deployment in really easy steps. With that in mind, I thought a chat with Ruairi about his experience with this particular HCI platform, how it goes together, how it is practically deployed and how it meets some of the demands of modern business would make an interesting podcast. So here it is! We discuss what HCI is and why it's simplicity of deployment is useful, we also look at the pro's and cons of the HCI approach. We look at the benefit of a single vendor approach within our infrastructure and how the modern business technology landscape and desire for a more "cloud like" experience within our on-premises datacentres is driving interest in HCI. We wrap up by looking at why as a business you'd consider HCI, what problems will it solve for you and what are the use cases that are a strong HCI fit and of course, it's important to remember that HCI isn't the answer to every question! Ruairi shares some great info and experience - so settle back and enjoy the show. Full show notes are here :-https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1z2

As we become more data-driven in our organisations and ever more used to the way big public cloud providers deliver our services, it is putting more pressure on internal IT to deliver infrastructure that provides this data focussed, cloud like experience, but where do you start in designing this next-generation of datacentre. That's the subject of this week's podcast, the last of the shows recorded at NetApp Insight in Berlin, where I catch up with two members of a fascinating panel discussion I attended at the event, Ruairi McBride and Jason Benedicic, they were part of a panel hosted by the NetApp A-Team which consisted of people who were not theorists but had practical experience of deploying next-generation technologies and working practices and as I know many listeners to this show are involved in developing their own next-generation strategy, I thought it would make an interesting episode. We cover a range of topics and begin by looking to define what we mean by next-gen the types of technology and methodologies involved. We discuss what is driving the move to next-generation datacentres and how businesses who wish to maintain a competitive edge and improve the service to their customers need to look at this next generation approach. We wrap up by looking at how next-gen datacenters are not about technology alone and is as much about philosophy and working practice, while Jason and Ruairi share ideas about the type of building blocks you need and the help and support that the technology community can bring as you look to deliver a next-generation strategy to your organisation. This is the last show of 2017, for all who have listened this year, thanks for your support and Tech Interviews will be back in the new year with a whole host of new interviews exploring a range of technology topics. To make sure you catch next years shows then why not subscribe in all of the usual places. For all of you who have enjoyed the show in 2017 – thanks for listening. For full show notes :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1wX

There is no doubt that the amount of data we have, manage, control and analyse continues to grow ever more rapidly and increasingly this is unstructured data, documents, images, engineering drawings, data that often needs to be stored in one place and be easily accessible. However, this presents problems, how do you get all of this data in one place when it's not just TB's it 100's of TB's and made up of billions of files that need to be accessed quickly, how on earth do you build that kind of capacity and deliver the performance you need? Well, scale-out NAS may be the answer, in a world where we have these ever growing massive unstructured data repositories scaling out our NAS services makes perfect sense, delivering not only massive capacity but also taking advantage of scaled-out compute to give us the ability to process the billions of transactions that come with a huge repository. So for Episode 50 of the Tech Interviews podcast, it seemed apt to celebrate the big five-oh talking about big data storage. To discuss this evolution of NAS storage I'm joined by a returning guest, Justin Parisi to discuss NetApp's approach to this challenge, FlexGroups. We discuss what a FlexGroup is and why you may want to use them and how it's about more than just capacity, as we discuss the performance benefits of spreading our single storage volume across multiple controllers. We explore the importance of simplification, and how NetApp has made sure that the complexity of scale-out NAS is hidden away from the user by presenting a simple, intuitive and quick to deploy technology that allows users to have the capacity without the need to rearchitect or relearn their existing solutions. FlexGroups is a really smart technology designed to simply address this ever-growing capacity and performance problem encountered by our traditional approach to file services and if you are looking at scale-out NAS and file services, it's a technology well worth reviewing. Next week It's the last show of the year as I'm joined by Jason Benedicic and Ruairi Mcbride to discuss the future of datacentre architecture as we talk next gen technologies. To catch that show why not subscribe in any of the usual podcast places. Hope you enjoyed Episode 50 – here's to the next 50! Thanks for listening. For full show notes - https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1wP

This week Arrow's Vince Payne and Ruairi McBride take over Arrow Bandwidth and give their reflections from VMworld 2017. They also catch up with Trend Micro, NetApp, IBM Cloud and Arista and hear the latest from their perspective. In this episode: - Building on Platforms and the journey to the cloud - The future of software as a service - Containerisation - Cloud Economics - Partnerships within the VMware ecosystem - App defense with Palo Alto Networks and CheckPoint Hosts: Vince Payne - Arrow LeadSolutions Architect Ruairi McBride - Arrow Technical Account Manager Guests: Trend Micro - David Byrne NetApp - Philippe Wackers IBM Cloud - Raleigh Melancon Arista - Stuart Steele Join in the conversation by using #ArrowBandwidth.

This week Arrow Bandwidth has been taken over by the NetApp A-Team. Like-minded and outspoken in their passion for all things NetApp, the NetApp A-Team members leverage social media to tell their stories – what worked, what didn’t, what they like, and what they think NetApp and other IT vendors can be doing better. Guests include: Ruairi McBride, Arrow ECS UK Technical Account Manager (@mcbride_ruairi), Mark Carlton, Concorde Technology Technical Lead (@mcarlton1983), Ed Morgan, Snr Solutions Architect (@mo6020), Michael Cade, Tech Evangelist Veeam Software (@MichaelCade1), Paul Stringfellow IT Director Gardner Systems (@techstringy) Join in the conversation by using #ArrowBandwidth.