Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

In this episode I talk with Will Baccich, Co-founder and CEO at Global Data Vault. Global Data Vault is a leader in cloud-based Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), and the backup for Microsoft 365 space. GDV strives to add the most value to their customers based on their guiding principals of Data Quality, Proactive Monitoring, Transparency and straight forward pricing. Will and and I talk about how how GDV was founded in the early era of file based offsite backup and how their innovative approach to abstracting more out of their core platforms for the customers led them to focus on a single backup vendor to offer industry leading backup and disaster recovery services. Global Data Vault was founded in 2002 and is head quartered out of the Dallas, Texas.  ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Veeam, Platespin, Falconstor, Novastor, VMware, Service Provider ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Perth connection What's in the name Hosted desktops Buying GDV in 2006  Slightly different view to other providers much more managed service company responsibility to the protection of the environment Cost effective high service 2 Datacenter Locations Point of differentiation DRaaS / BaaS / Microsoft 365 Backup Current State of DRaaS/BaaS/SaaS Backup 2004 file backup business - Novastore 2007 backup no enough DR solutions Falconstore, Platespin and Storagecraft Working towards workable DR solution 2014 Veeam - Best technology and partnership VeeamON 2015 - 5 launch partners 2016 sold GDV and kept the Veeam Business Late 2021 Acquisition Ransomeware - Insider Protection Full DR from CC 10PB of storage held ☑️ Web: https://www.globaldatavault.com/ ☑️ Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or go to https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️ Music: https://www.bensound.com Could always do with a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/anthonyspiteri

In this episode I talk with Yawn Rong, Co-Founder of STEP'N. STEP'N is Web3 company that has built a Strava type lifestyle app with Game-Fi elements that is aiming to be the leading Web3 Health + Fitness application. Users are equipped with NFT Sneakers to walk, jog or run outdoors to earn tokens, which can then be used to level up sneaker attributes, mint new Sneakers or be converted to FIAT. Yawn and I talk about how the is play2earn industry that commands a 21 billion dollar market-cap and is ready for prime time through wider adoption by non-crypo natives. Hear how AI and Machine Learning data science have gone into creating an already successful eco-system as well as the STEP'N team having the ability to learn from past projects, pivot ideas and react to issues in rapid time... this is move2earn! STEP'N is a move-to-earn health and fitness application. Users equipped with sneaker NFTs can move outdoors to earn tokens and NFT rewards. STEPN has a built-in wallet, swap, marketplace, and rental system that allow non-crypto users to onboard STEPN STEP'N was founded in 2021 and is headquartered out of Australia. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Blockchain, Solana, Binanace, Web3, Web2.0, NFTs, IOS, Android, AI & ML ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Mechanics of the move2earn AI/ML, Movement, GPS Data Web3 landscape and breaking new ground Basing and learning off AXE and GameFi Space Community support, growth hacking and social impact  Social tools, prizes giveaways, Quiz, AMA and Twitter Space DAUs statistics Luck elements Governance vs Utility Token (GMT vs GST) Binanace IEO Solana first... BNB coming Attributes and levels Gems and Energy Levels Strategy and playing the game The tech behind the app The IOS and Android App  All in one wallet/app/marketplace/move2earn Roadmap, Rentals, Marathons/Games Cheating and Bots and Crypto fatigue ☑️  Web:  OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://stepn.com/ WHITEPAPER: https://whitepaper.stepn.com/ LITEPAPER: https://stepn.com/litePaper HOW TO PLAY: https://stepn.com/howToPlay MEDIUM: https://stepnofficial.medium.com/ LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/stepnofficial TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Stepnofficial DISCORD: https://discord.gg/stepn REDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/StepN/ ☑️  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 Miska Kaipiainen, VP Engineering, Strategy & Open Source Software at Mirantis. Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. They provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. Miska focuses in on Lens which empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability. We also cover the current state of Kubernetes adoption and how focusing on developers with Lens as a Kubernetes IDE has seen tremendous growth for the product, which is Open Source. Mirantis was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Kubernetes, Mesosphere, Docker Enterprise, Docker Swarm, OpenStack, Open Source ☑️  Raw Talking Points: Container Orchestration Kontena days Origin of Lens Mirantis Len acquisition Strong community support Operations vs Development Why is a Kubernetes IDE important Where is Kubernetes uptake today Enterprise Adoption OpenSource - Organic growth Community stop marketing Service and Support K0s DevOps Care Team Spaces Managed Dev Cluster Multi-Cluster manangement Multi-platform ☑️  Web: https://www.mirantis.com/ https://k8slens.dev/ ☑️  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 Gary Ogasawara, CTO of Cloudian. Cloudian simplifies enterprise storage with limitlessly scalable storage that consolidates massive data sets to a single, easily managed environment. Cloudian brings the flexibility and simplicity of public cloud storage into our customers data centers. Gary and I talk about how Cloudian’s fully native interoperability with S3 ensures investment protection for developers and datacenter managers who rely on modern S3-enabled applications and for use cases with an extensive partner ecosystem across multiple use cases. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and is Head Quartered out of the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Amazon, Kubernetes, Veeam, CommVault, Block Storage, S3, S3 Storage, S3 APIs, Hadoop, Pure Storage, Backup, Archive, Storage ☑️  Raw Talking Points:  Evolution of S3 from AWS to on-prem to Cloud to hybrid Future of S3 as primary storage target VCD Integration for Service Providers Veeam Partnership WEKA partnership VMware Partnerships The lowest TCO for scale-out enterprise storage Native S3 API Ransomware protection Speed of light problem  Data Gravity Storage as a Service Failure Management ☑️  Web: https://cloudian.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 Joshua Noble, CEO and Co-Founder at Filebase. Filebase aim to make decentralized storage accessible and easy to use for everyone. They are doing this by building a scalable, secure and performant access layer to various decentralized storage networks, with a familiar S3-compatible interface. Josh and I talk about how Filebase is bridging storage platforms between traditional S3 based offerings and the decentralized world of Blockchain Storage. There is a reason why Filebase has been listed as one of the 10 Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021 by CRN! Filebase was founded in 2018 and is Head Quartered out of Boston, USA. ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: #Blockchain, #Web3, Web2.0, Amazon, Kubernetes, Veeam, CommVault, Sia, Storj, SkyNet, Decentralized Storage ☑️  Raw Talking Points: * What is Decentralized Storage? * 3x Redundancy/Sharding/No SPOF * Backup Partnerships * How do you absorb/leverage market fluctuations? * How is this different from AWS/etc? • Pricing compared to AWS etc * Edge Layer Cache * Object Maps • Web3 Adoption / Usecases * AWS OUTAGE * Hackathon with Akash * Web2 vs Web3 - Bridging the two * SIA/Skynet/Storj ☑️  Web: https://filebase.com/ ☑️  Docs: https://docs.filebase.com/ ☑️  5GB Always Free Offer: https://filebase.com/signup ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this special episode of GTwGT, I speak with Zac Cohen (COO and founder at FileBase) about a topic that many think is still far away from being a reality... some that think is a science experiment... and others think is an out and out scam. That topic is decentralized storage leveraging Web3 and Blockchain technology. Zac and I talk about how mass adoption is a matter of when, not if... and more importantly, for those that want to understand what it is and isn't, we talk about what makes this exciting way of storing and accessing data function and what benefits it offers over traditional data storage platforms.  ☑️ "Decentralized storage offers a different way of thinking about how to store and access your information. Data is distributed across nodes geographically distributed and connected through a peer-to-peer network" ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast  ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Aaron Alderman, Director and Founder at Tanks! For Playing. Tanks! For Playing aims to revolutionise the blockchain gaming space with a novel concept where gameplay is based around social connection and strategy that is fuelled by the ambition to win cash prizes in tournaments. #Tanks  ☑️  Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: #Blockchain, #Web3, Web2.0, NodeJS, Amazon, Kubernetes, React, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polymatic, Solidity, EVM, Uniswap, Quickswap, Pancakeswap, Coin MarketCap, Coin Gecko, NFTs    ☑️  Raw Talking Points: * Blockchain gaming * Bootstrapping a new company through ICO ($441,755) * TANKS Token * Burns (what is burning) * Multi-chain * Web3 vs Web2 Technologies  * The Game Its self written in Unity (mobile or in browser) * Investors vs players ... target market * What does it mean for the game to be fully on-chain  * NFTs in Blockchain gaming * Hosting application/games for Web3 Technology behind that   ☑️  Web: https://tanksforplaying.io/ ☑️  Whitepaper: https://storage.googleapis.com/tanks-... ☑️  Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPHl... ☑️  Interested in being on #GTwGT? Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast ☑️  Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Mark Boost, CEO and co-founder at Civo. Civo is a company who's vision, is to create a flexible cloud platform featuring, but not limited to Kubernetes, created by developers, for developers. A company that thinks you should spend less of your time managing environments and hosting platforms, and instead, spend more time coding. Mark and I talk about the foundations of launching a pure play cloud native hosting company which us underpinned by Kubernetes end to end and how a focus on culture and community has resulted in a successful platform beta leading into GA launch at KubeCon 2021.  Civo was founded in 2016 and is head quartered out of the United Kingdom. Could always do with a coffee donation... https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt TALKING POINT NOTES Kubernetes Learning and Community Pricing k3s and any special engineering k3s cluster and instances control plane invisible Hardware platform Opencompute standardised design) OCP Kubevirt Instances API and CLI and Web - IaC Terraform Marketplace Culture how you are doing things differently General state of KaaS First pure play  Web: https://civo.com YouTube Launch Video and Platform Time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew-6jGDwQE4 Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Lachlan White, General Manager of Technology at LAB3. LAB3 is a company that empowers ambitious organisations to modernise, transform and grow fearlessly through controlled, automated, and scalable cloud technology. Lachlan and I talk about how LAB3 have found success powered by Code and driven by Innovation. We also talk about the reality of what it is to be a born in the cloud native IT practitioner and how DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and any automation challenges the previous generation of IT born in virtualization with a hint of the physical. Lachlan explains his approach to making both worlds work together to produce the right outcome for their customers... a must listen to anyone trying to work out modern platform operations. LAB3 was founded in 2017 and is head quartered out of the Melbourne, Australia. TALKING POINTS NOTES Agile technology services founding Azure Microsoft partnership Cloud & DevOps, Modern Workplace, Network, Security and Data, IoT & AI practices IaC generally Starting in automation and Cloud Native Lead into Terraform Next Generation Platforms  How does Lab3 take more traditional companies on this cloud native journey DevSecInfoOpsO OpenShift Kubernetes Web: https://www.lab3.com.au/ Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com Could always do with a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt

In this episode I talk with Paul katzoff, CEO of WhiteCanyon. WhiteCanyon is a company leading the area of permanent deletion technology for data on HDDs, SSDs and NVMe drives. The company is engaged in the development, sales, and support of Drive Sanitization. Paul and I talk about how WhiteCanyon's flagship product, WipeDrive, has become a world leader for erasing hard drives. Government agencies, US Military, and Fortune 500 companies across the world are using WipeDrive to permanently erase and wipe hard drive data. WhiteCanyon was founded in 1998 and is head quartered out of the American Fork, Utah, USA. Web: https://www.whitecanyon.com/ Software Timeline History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n81k8tu3Mw Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com Could always do with a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt