Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

In this episode I talk with Dustin Milberg, Field CTO at InterVision. InterVision is strategic service provider focused on helping commercial and public sector organizations transform their technology strategy, improve risk management and gain a competitive edge. InterVision look to solve crucial IT challenges by delivering the right technology, deployed on the right premises and managed through the right service model. The specialize in datacenter and professional services around Resiliency, Cloud, Communications, Infrastructure and more. Dustin and I talk about the evolution of what it is to be a modern day Service Provider in a world where hybrid cloud rules and security and data protection is paramount to their clients. InterVision was founded in 1993 and is head quartered out of Santa Clara, California, United States. ☑️  But me a coffee? - https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Veeam, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Containers, Storage, Networking, DRaaS, BaaS, Security ☑️  Raw Talking Points: History and founding First 10 years + CAD begins Early days of hosting Transitioning through hosting to infrastructure to virtualisation to cloud Acquisitions - Bluelock Public Cloud Services AWS and Azure  Security and Ransomeware Managed vs Unmanaged Ransomware, backup and DR Optimizing workloads question Power of the Data Platforms ☑️  Web: https://intervision.com/ ☑️ Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️ Subscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Yan Ness, Chief Executive Officer at Verge.io. Verge.io is a single piece of hyper-converged virtualization software that makes it easy to use existing resources to create secure multi-tenant private clouds. Verge.io provides a simpler way to virtualize data centers and end IT infrastructure complexity. The company’s Verge OS software is the first and only fully integrated virtual cloud software stack to build, deploy and manage virtual data centers. Verge-OS delivers significant capital savings, increased operational efficiencies, reduced risk, and rapid scalability. Yan and I talk about the shift from traditional de-coupled platforms like VMware and how even the Public Cloud is overly complex. Through simplicity of the stack, Verge.io is able to allow service providers and organizations function without the hassles associated with standard hardware platforms. Verge.io was borne from YottaByte, founded in 2010 as a replacement for on-premises infrastructure. Eventually, YottaByte rebranded to Verge.io and is head quartered out of Greater Detroit Area, Great Lakes. ☑️  But me a coffee? - https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Veeam, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Containers, Storage, Networking ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Lead with the product Early years starting up... ISP/Dial Up to colo cloud - comparison Retirement Encapsulation of the datacenter above storage Art of simplcity Yottabyte Technology Virtualizing the Datacenter holistically Cost pressures of AWS/Azure Public cloud Verge.io Stack? Install? VMware replacement and Migrations Scale The Verge.io Recipe Engine Management and Dashboard and API MSP and SP space vs on-prem Modern Platforms Kubevirt Kubernetes Profile and impact of Verge.io ☑️  Web: https://verge.io ☑️  Sign up  for a 14 day Test Drive: https://www.verge.io/test-drive ☑️ Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️ Subscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Webb Brown, CEO and Co-Founder at Kubecost. Kubecost develops a cost monitoring platform to help companies manage their Kubernetes resources and costs. They provide direct integrations with Kubernetes cloud billing APIs leading to cost optimizations for key Kubernetes metrics. Webb and I talk about how Kubernetes relative complexity and scale driven by those that develop applications means that cost can blow outs will happen if you fly blind. Kubecost looks to embrace open-source via the CNCF providing the OpenCost.io project which forms the base for Kubecost. We also have a great discussion on the state of Kubernetes and how he sees adoption trending. Kubecost was founded in 2019 and is Head Quartered out of San Francisco, California. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Kubernetes, Containers, CNCF, AWS, S3, DevOps, PlatformOps ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Mass adoption of Kubernetes? Relative immaturity and complexity of Kubernetes at scale Why is cost and overspend an issue The patterns for overspending     Orphaned resources      Abandoned workloads     Rogue Deployments     Incorrect Usage Types      Over provisioning What is Kubecost solving What is opencost.io vs kubecost? opencost.io CNCF Project Definition of Team? Cost Allocation, Unified Cost Monitoring, Optimization Insights, Alerts and Governance Insights in Kubernetes spend and chargeback for teams Actionable Recommendations Cost Efficiency and Health scores and the gamification Time vs resources vs Cost Defining costs not in the Public Cloud Pricing based on nodes with Always Free plan AWS Marketplace Partnership AWS first party support optimized ☑️  Web: https://www.kubecost.com/ ☑️  OpenCost: https://www.opencost.io/ ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com ☑️  But me a coffee? - https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt

In this episode I talk with Dan Pearson, Chief Technology Officer and founder at CT4. CT4 has a vision to create and distribute world-class software products that control and protect data while also translating data into meaningful insights, clear actions and measurable outcomes for their clients. Dan and I talk about how CT4, like many, started out in traditional managed hosting of Virtual Machines, client desktops and alike. However, like most innovative companies today, CT4 have evolved into a data centric company with three products in market led by. Cirrus offers back up your Microsoft data protecting SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive and Teams from accidental deletion or ransomware. Dan and I also talk about their IoT offering Canopy and how data has become central to all offerings that CT4 do. CT4 was founded in 2009 and is Head Quartered out of Brisbane, Australia. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Veeam, Microsoft, VMware, Microsoft 365 ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Overly complex and overly expensive to use Trigger for moving away from traditional cloud Basing company success on a product vs overall brand Being at the cutting edge Being out of the box Evolution from Cloud Private to Data Protection Where is backup going Data management in general IBM , IoT and Canopy Partnering with Veeam Selling direct to online to marketplace Channel Growth distribution model Microsoft 365 Veeam Backup ☑️  Web: https://www.ct4.com/ ☑️  Cirrus Backup: https://cirrusbackup.com/ ☑️  Canopy Tools: https://www.canopytools.com/ ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with David Friend, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at Wasabi. Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and access an unlimited amount of data at a fraction of the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. David and I talk about his vision of making cloud storage affordable and accessible for all without compromising on performance, reliability and support. Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date to not only grow their global storage footprint, but also to embark on a campaign to educate the world that there is value beyond the public clouds. This is a great conversation about the state of data today, and how the mindset needs to shift to get more out of stored data as the cost of storage becomes almost irrelevant.  Wasabi was founded in 2015 and is Head Quartered out of Boston. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Object Storage, Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, DELL, AWS, Azure, Google, S3, Amazon S3 ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Cloud Scale and growth Elasticity Needs of the given moment instead of expectation of growth Value and Risk in cloud - supply chain systems analogy - what was needed DATA DATA DATE Data growth rates everything generating data Making Data Storage a Commodity 80% cost reduction No EGRES/API Fast S3 API compatible Durability 11 9s Immutable Buckets Cloud Storage as a Utility Simple Pricing State of data today and where is it going? Ease of consumption vs method of consumption Simple interface/control panel/APIs Trusted by 43,000+ Companies Worldwide! Partnerships how is it navigated in a competitive sense? ☑️  Web: https://wasabi.com/ ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Gregor Frimodt-Møller Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at any.cloud. Since 1998, any.cloud has been helping its customers originally starting servicing Apple customers. Over time they became the chosen provider of cloud services within Denmark while pivoting the business a couple of times... firstly to IaaS and Vitualization, and more recently to becoming specialists in data and security protection. Gregor and I talk about how keeping things simple (as an ethos) and choosing key partners has resulted in a focused business that has delivered innovative services built on IBM and Veeam technologies achieving world wide reach via strong automation and self service capabilities... all of which allow the delivery of their core Revirt and Retrust services at scale. any.cloud was founded in 1998 and is Head Quartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Apple, MacOS, Windows, Linux, IaaS, DRaaS, SaaS, IBM, VMware, Veeam, Object Storage ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Focused partnership Veeam and IBM Traditional Hosting IaaS and PaaS Pivoting away from core services Cloud Connect and how a technology that help helps Object Storage Platform Utilizing IBM cloud and how that works Data protection Trends Managed Services vs SaaS Distribution strategy End user/tenant control? Automation and UI Portals ☑️  Web: https://www.anycloud.dk/ ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Garima Kapoor Chief Operating Officer and co-founder at MinIO. MiniO has built a high performance distributed s3-compatible object storage solution that is software defined, hardware agnostic designed for large scale data infrastructure. Garima and I talk about how MinIO was built from scratch with the private cloud as it's target but has also become a defaco standard for home labs through a strong focus on community. MinIO also offers high-performance, Kubernetes-native object storage. Optimized for cloud-native workloads, and looks to deliver Enterprise and service provider usecases around ML/AI, analytics, backup and archival workloads. MinIO was founded in 2014 and is Head Quartered out of the San Francisco Bay Area. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Block Storage, Storage, NVMe, Object Storage, Kubernetes, VMware, S3, AWS, Azure, GCP, Software Defined Storage ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Community s3 API Millions of docker pulls PUT, GET, DELETE Opensource or Purchase Subscription Single Binary 34MB? Written in Go Lang CPU offloading Web Browser/Interface  Significance of GUI ACCESSABILTY Cluster with multiple nodes Scaling and Performance Resilience at scale  Consistency Unstructured Data Data growth and the move to Object Storage Kubernetes + CSIs ☑️  Web: https://min.io ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode i'm talking to Jacques Swanepoel (CTO and Co-Founder) at Seal Storage. Seal Storage are cloud storage and blockchain experts with over years of experience in enterprise data storage from the likes of Seagate, Oracle, Cisco, and more. By seamlessly stewarding their clients into decentralized cloud storage, there’re making Web3 an accessible reality for enterprises, research institutes, NFT and Web3 firms alike. Jacques and I talk about how, as part of the Filecoin ecosystem, they preserve and verify data to capture historical records, store NFTs, and combat misinformation. The case studies we talk about are real world, tangible use cases for Web3 and blockchain and the their mission is to bring enterprises to Web3 to yield its innovative benefits. Seal is Web3 Cloud Storage! Seal Storage was founded in 2021. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Blockchain, Web3, Web2.0, Storage, Filecoin, Green Tech ☑️  Web: OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.sealstorage.io Use Cases: https://www.sealstorage.io/home/#casestudies Press: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/uc-berkeley-engages-seal-storage-web3-technology-to-advance-innovative-neutrino-physics-research-883282087.html Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/seal-storage ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Boyan Krosnov Chief Product Officer and co-founder at StorPool. StorPool a market leading Software defined storage vendor, offering reliable and speedy storage platforms with a focus on low latency throughput... covering Public and private clouds platforms, servicing managed cloud and Service providers as well as enterprises, and SaaS vendors. Boyan an myself talk about how StorPool leverages an agnostic approach to hardware to allow StorPool to run across multiple hardware platforms and configurations while still maintaining reliable and speedy storage and how they have ridden the alternative new age IT stacks to success.  StorPool was founded in 2011 and is Head Quartered out of the Sofia, Bulgaria. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Block Storage, Storage, NVMe, Object Storage, Kubernetes, VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Cloudstack, Software Defined Storage ☑️  Raw Talking Points: MSP Angle Cloud Platforms SDS 2.0 Hows it designed and architected Filesystem? Object Storage Based? Pooling of capacity and performance Standard storage, storage and compute PERFORMANCE methodology IOPS/Latency/Storage Consumption Decreasing latency Proper Benchmarking Resiliency Failure domains/resolution Differential? Storage Protocols Distributed Storage? Running on any hardware Future of storage with public cloud and more managed data platforms Continuous Improvement process New-Age IT Stacks ☑️  Web: https://storpool.com/ ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode i'm talking to Kayvan Sadeghi (CEO and Co-Founder) and Ehsan Shariati (CTO and Co-Founder) from Functionland. Functionland is a Web3 startup that has attracted investments of USD 1.1M+ via a heavily oversubscribed early funding round, They are about to launch its first product which is a plug-and-play blockchain device that promises to free users from a range of online subscription services, including photo storage, file sync, secure password backups and more. Both Kayvan and Eshan talk about how this offering creates virtually limitless storage opportunities thanks to its “blockchain-attached storage” solution but unlike most Blockchain projects, there is an open-source physical platform element for storage, computing, and interconnecting with other devices. Functionland was founded in 2020 and is headquartered out of Toronto, Canada. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: #Blockchain,  Web3, Web2.0, Storage, Raspberry Pie, Opensource ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Islands of storage pay with cash Blockchain Attached Storage Web3 alternative to cloud subscriptions Backend and FileCoin/storage ... Web2/Web3 components replacing HTTP with P2P The BOX! Designer made, modular and upgradable (TOWERS) Module, PNP, dApp OpenSource dApp development Built on rPi FULA Network protocol token? - Mining token to pay for services open source monetizeation The BOX is mining FULA? Sustainable? Shared Storage and Computer Onboard developers and opensource apps monetize web3 technologies  Filecoin hackathon Competitive landscape? Crowdfunding on Indegogo Communities and growth hacking Security? Data etc Seed Funding 1.1 Million ☑️  Web: OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://fx.land/ WHITPAPER: https://fx.land/FulaWP.pdf IndeiGoGo: https://igg.me/at/functionland/x/28885449# DISCORD: https://discord.gg/k9UybUBdBB ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com