Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

In this episode I talk with Phil Straw, CEO and Co-founder of SoftIron. SoftIron creates superior appliances for scale-out datacenters, private and public cloud, and enterprise scale facilities. The appliances improves industry-standard performance on all critical metrics including density, efficiency, capacity, speed, and heat emission. Phil and I talk about how SoftIron has gone about designing and manufacturing their own appliances end to end and leverage Ceph to offer a truly open-source solution that scales with performance and without lock-in that has been delivered as a true software defined solution... and it's just the start for them! SoftIron was founded in 2012 and is head quartered out of the London, UK. Web: https://softiron.com/ 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 Lawrence Crowther, Head of Solution Engineering APJ at Snyk. Snyk are the cloud native application security leader,  enabling 2.2 million developers to build securely, with a vision to empower every modern developer in the world to develop fast and stay secure. They provides a platform to secure all of the critical components of today's cloud native application development including the code, open source libraries, container infrastructure and infrastructure as code. Lawrence and I talk about how Snyk has boomed into the market leader in this relatively new space being driven by open source software, cloud native development and infrastructure as code built first for developers as a dev tooling company ... so now you know! Snyk was founded in 2015 and is head quartered out of the London, UK. Web: https://snyk.io/ Getting Started: https://snyk.io/what-is-snyk/ 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 Nathan Golden, Owner at Managecast Technologies. Managecast are 100% focused around the cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity space, managing over 1 Petabyte of customer data and have customers across virtually every industry vertical. Nathan and I talk about how Managecast pivoted away from IT consultancy to help their customers improve their data protection strategies. Along the way, the decision to specialise in backups paid dividends as Nathan was able to scale the business with the help of resellers and a strong web portal that was built from the ground up with multi-tenancy in mind.  Managecast was founded in 2000 and is head quartered out of the Cincinnati, Ohio. Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Veeam, Asigra, Zerto, NetApp, 3Par Web: https://www.managecast.com Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com Could always do with a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/anthonyspiteri

In this episode I talk with Giles Sirett, CEO and Founder at ShapeBlue. ShapeBlue is the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies globally. They design and build complex cloud, network and storage infrastructure with globally leading skills in Apache CloudStack. Their technical team are all active contributors to the Apache CloudStack project and a good percentage are also project committers. Giles and I talk about how ShapeBlue provides consulting, integration, training and infrastructure support for enterprises, telcos, IaaS and MSPs which allows them to deliver true, utility-based IaaS to theirs customers that is platform and hyper-visor agnostic. ShapeBlue was founded in 2012 and is head quartered out of the London, United Kingdom. Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: CloudStack, Containers, Kubernetes, VMware, VMware Cloud Director, vSphere, AWS, OpenStack, RedHat, KVM Web: https://www.shapeblue.com Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com Could always do with a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/anthonyspiteri

In this episode I talk with David Siles, CEO at VOYR. VOYR is one of the first decentralized content platforms for creators, artists, musicians, celebrities, and fans. It integrates blockchain functionality into a comprehensive ecosystem with unique interactive features and monetizing tools for the creators. Dave and I talk about the ability to tap into the innovative new world of decentralized finance (DeFI), Web3 and the Binance SmartChain where the $VOYRME token is available. This new world opens up a ton of possibilities for this new social media platform looking to disrupt the market while leveraging new technical innovations from which to deliver the platform. VOYR was founded in 2021 and sits under Voyager Media Group, Inc and is head quartered out of Tampa, Florida. Web: https://yoyr.me | https://www.voyagermedia.group $VOYRME Token Whitepaper: https://docs.voyr.me $VOYRME Token Info: https://pancakeswap.info/token/0x33a887cf76383be39dc51786e8f641c9d6665d84 Discord: https://discord.gg/FHs6qCFQJ2 Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder and CEO at Rafay. Rafay enables developers to automate the distribution, operations, scaling and lifecycle management of containerized microservices across public and private clouds, and service provider networks. Rafay’s Managed Kubernetes platform is built around foundational elements that together deliver an optimal abstraction layer across disparate infrastructure, making it easy for developers to scale and operate applications across any number of locations or regions. Haseeb and I talk about how Rafay’s platform significantly simplifies the deployment of containerized apps anywhere and how organizations can achieve desired levels of reliability, availability and performance with any combination of public cloud environments through a dev friendly SaaS offering. Rafay was founded in 2017 and is head quartered out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley. Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Containers, Kubernetes, VMware, vSphere, AWS, KubeVirt, RedHat, OpenShift Web: https://rafay.co Start for Free: https://rafay.co/start Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Guy C. Holmes, President and CEO at Tape Ark. Tape Ark pride themselves on being the global experts in Tape to Cloud Migration. Guy and I talk about how he saw an opportunity with the early emergence of cloud computing to drive an innovative approach to data storage and management, which would enable organizations to liberate their data from legacy media to the cloud en masse. This is a fascinating discussion around global data that was locked away in tape (and paper archives) and the ability to re-activate data for innovative new use cases, or help find new discoveries previously locked away. Tape Ark was founded in 2018 and is head quartered out of Perth, Australia. Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Amazon Web Services, Tape, LTO, S3, Glacier, Azure, Google Cloud, Wasabi Web: https://www.tapeark.com/ The Maverick Mindset: https://www.tapeark.com/data-driven-mavericks/ NASA Moon Data Story: https://techboard.com.au/announcement/tape-ark-appointed-custodian-of-historical-nasa-data/ Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Paul Butcher, Co-Founder at HostedBizz. HostedBizz is a 100% Canadian-based and 100% Canadian-hosted integrated technology service provider. Born out of a need to offer VDI, they now offer managed services spanning Infrastructure, Backup, DR, Storage as a Service and more. Paul and I talk about how HostedBizz removes the burden of technology management and reduces cost of ownership to a predictable monthly expense turning your technology costs into investments. They have focused on the channel and enabling them offer HostedBizz services at scale with streamlines billing options. HostedBizz was founded in 2012 and is head quartered out of Ottawa, Canada. Web: http://www.hostedbizz.com/ Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Jeff Denworth, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder at VAST Data. VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Jeff and I talk about how VAST Data is a radically different architecture built upon disaggregation and shared everything compute and storage leveraging containers, Optane 3D Xpoint-based memory, NVMe-OF and QLC based SSDs for fast storage no matter what the workload...with vast amount of usable space that scales and is highly resilient. VAST Data was founded in 2016 and is head quartered out of New York. Web: https://vastdata.com Economics: https://vastdata.com/economics Storage Field Day Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1iG03PCRvE Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com

In this episode I talk with Clinton Keeler, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Found at Zella DC. Zella DC is a next-generation datacenter provider disrupting traditional server rooms and enabling the Edge. Born from the need to service challenging remote sites plus solving the problems related with the explosion of data at the edge, Zella DC offer micro datacentres that replace traditional onsite facilities. Clinton and I talk about how Zella DC's Micro Data centers are built for high levels of resiliency, security and mobility all done with automations and monitoring technologies.   Zella DC started operations in 2010. The company is headquartered in the Perth, Australia Web: https://www.zelladc.com/ Products: http://zelladc.com/products The Zella Fort is an instant edge computing micro data centre with cooling, security and monitoring - an all-in-one solution perfect for army battle groups that is easily deployed just about anywhere Interested in being on #GTwGT? https://launch.gtwgt.com Music: https://www.bensound.com