The Hot Aisle

This week on The Hot Aisle, your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) get beaten senseless with heaps of converged & hyper-converged goodness.  We learn from EMC’s Sr. Director of Converged Infrastructure & ‘closeted VCDX’, Brad Maltz (@bmaltz),  about “how”, “why”, and “what” the whole Converged Infrastructure + Hyper-Converged Infrastructure + Disaggregated Hardware movement is […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  Joining us this Episode is John Appleby (@applebyj) of Bluefin Solutions – a global consultancy focused on SAP, SAP HANA, digitization, analytics, mobile, and more.  John joins us as renown SAP HANA expert, keynote speaker, and SAP Mentor.  We discuss the rapidly evolving subject of […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  Joining us this Episode is Steve Francia (@spf13) of SPF13.Com and recently of @docker fame (as their Chief of Operations, Open Source).  Steve joins us as a well known mentor, and highly respected member of the Open Source community as a whole, to give insight […]

This week on The Hot Aisle, your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) converse yet again with someone that dwarfs their collective intellect.  With the mind of a mathematician, the spirit on an entrepreneur, the goal to automate everything, and the the ability to make infrastructure interact like code – our guest Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) […]

Storage Paparazzi, or their proper name – Storage Industry Journalists / Analysts have the unique role of watching the marketplace from the outside in (and sometimes inside out!). The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC). Together with us this week, Chris Mellor (@chris_mellor) of The Register (@TheRegister) joins us to discuss his […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  Joining us this Episode is Randy Bias (@randybias), VP of Technology for EMC in their Emerging Technology Division and Director in the OpenStack Foundation.  Randy helps us navigate through our questions on how customers are either starting out in Platform 3 or Mode 2 […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  This Episode’s guest is none other than Ashley McNamara (@ashleymcnamara) Developer Advocate for Object Rocket (a Rackspace company) to educate us on the role & rise of the Developer Advocate as well as how one can break into the world of code.  Aside from resources on […]

The Hot Aisle is hosted by Brent Piatti (@brentpiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC).  This Episode’s guest is none other than Fred Nix (@nixfred) Systems Engineering Manager for EMC in the South.  Fred comes to us specifically to talk about v0dgeball 2015 @ VMworld and its origins and charity The Wounded Warrior Project, but leaves us […]

Our 10th Episode is here!  We’re on a roll and you can’t stop us.  This is our first remote recording, done with none other than POPS – Chad Sakac (@sakacc) while we got him to sit still for almost an hour at the mothership in Hopkinton.  We get Chad to give us *concise* answers on […]

Welcome back!  This week Senior Vice President of EMC’s Advanced Software Division (ASD) Manuvir Das joins us on The Hot Aisle to discuss all things Object Storage, Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Why he’s choosing to embrace Open Source for various product offerings, and he also opens the Kimono a bit to talk about Project […]

The goal of this week’s episode is to educate our listeners on EMC Ventures and their activities around funding startups, merging with, and/or acquiring existing businesses for the improvement of the “Federation”.  Bringing fun and interesting things about venture capitalism to the broader community.  Scott Darling, President of EMC Corporate Development and Ventures joins us from […]

You’ve made it to Episode 7 and we’re proud of you!  We’re proud of us too!  The list of guests is already slotted out thru Episode 11, and our invites list is even longer!  Thanks for joining us.  TELL YOUR FRIENDS!  This episode we have Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland) of EMCCode (@EMCCode) fame giving us the […]

For our sixth podcast we asked Matt Cowger @mcowger (VCDX #52!) to pick something relevant about Cloud Native applications that might be of the beaten path a bit.  Matt suggested that we discuss NoSQL, SQL, Message Queues and how they fit into modern application structures.  We cover a wide list of technology such as Redis, RIAK, […]

Welcome to Episode #5 of The HOT Aisle, this train is rollin’ and we don’t want to get off!  On this episode we have EMC’s VP of Technical Strategy (ETD), of Apple Siri fame and drone flyin’ (racing) machine, Joshua Bernstein.  We’ll get lost in the sauce on all things DevOps, Open Source, EMC Code, Containers (Persistence) and […]

Happy Friday! Episode 4 of The Hot Aisle is in the books.  Our guest this week was none other than Sean Jennings (@VCDX17), one of the co-founders of Virtustream!  Sean walks us thru the Virtustream story from drawing board to fully functioning IaaS platform.  You’ll get to hear information around xStream, their Cloud Advisory tools, […]