The Hot Aisle

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 […]

Jason Hand (@jasonhand) DevOps Evangelist for VictorOps (@VictorOps) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about ChatOps and the benefit it has on a well oiled DevOps teams’ overall function. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get the details on how ChatOps became a thing, Who is using it, […]

Patrick McFadin (@patrickmcfadin) Chief Evangelist at DataStax (@Datastax) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on NoSQL, Cassandra, Apache Spark, and so much more.  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to learn a bit about how Cassandra got here (Thanks Facebook!), the inspirations behind Cassandra (like the […]

Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson) from EMC{code} (@EMCcode) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to continue our education on containers and infrastructure portability.  Specifically your hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) look to peel back the onion on the subject of container persistence vs. ephemerality and why this is becoming a large issue to […]

Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) operating in his new capacity as Developer Advocate at Intel joins us this week on The Hot Aisle!  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get into the holiday spirit and talk about building open source communities and how to get people to engage, interact, and more.  We also cover Matt’s fun […]

Rob Peglar, (@peglarr) VP of Advanced Storage at Micron joins us this week on The Hot Aisle! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get Rob to take a quick breath in his busy schedule to educate us on all things flash (SSD, NAND, NOR, 3DNAND, 3DXPoint, NVDIMM, PCIe, NVMe, OH MY!), the applications for […]

Matt Baker (@mattwbaker), Executive Director of Strategy, Enterprise Solutions at Dell takes a seat in The Hot Aisle this week to expose the Innovations that Dell is delivering to their customers and the IT landscape as a whole.  Matt joins your co-hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) as we find out what Matt means in […]

Jeremy Edberg (@jedberg), Co-Founder of CloudNative (@CloudNativeIO) and well known for his Distributed Systems and Cloud Native Application Resiliency expertise joins us this week on The Hot Aisle.  Your co-hosts Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dive into Jeremy’s storied history as the 1st paid employee of Reddit and as a reliability and distributed systems architect […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  Joining us this Episode is Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) Co-Founder of Hashi Corp. – creators of super cool and open source projects like Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and more.  Learn about how they use Atlas to tie those projects together to better enable […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  Joining us this Episode is Bill Schmarzo (@schmarzo) the anointed #DeanofBigData, author of Big Data Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Current EMC Big Data CTO, former VP of Analytics for Yahoo & Business Objects.  Of course, he also somehow finds time to teach the […]