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Infrastructure MattersInfrastructure Matters on the road at Cloud Field Day - Infrastructure Matters, Episode 29In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, hosts Steven Dickens and Camberley Bates are joined by Stephen Foskett and Keith Townsend, to discuss the evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, focusing on innovation and challenges in the field.
2024-09-0531 min
Tech Field Day Podcast18. The Mainframe is Still Going StrongTech Field Day Extra at SHARE Kansas City 2024 Event Page
Despite the hype about modern applications, the mainframe remains central to enterprise IT and is rapidly adopting new technologies. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Steven Dickens, Geoffrey Decker, and Jon Hildebrand talking to Stephen Foskett about the modern mainframe prior to the SHARE conference. The modern datacenter is rapidly adopting technologies like containerization, orchestration, and artificial intelligence, and these are coming to the mainframe world as well. And the continued importance of mainframe applications, especially in finance and transportation, makes the mainframe more...
2024-07-3026 min
Futurum Tech WebcastInfrastructure Matters on the road at Cloud Field Day - Infrastructure Matters, Episode 29In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, host Steven Dickens, alongside esteemed guests Stephen Foskett and Keith Townsend and co-host Camberley Bates, navigates the evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, focusing on innovation and challenges in the field. Recorded during Cloud Field Day, this dialogue sheds light on emerging technologies and the dynamics of industry collaboration. The conversation delves into the specifics of three companies - SoftIron, NeuroBlade, and Platform9 - highlighting their unique contributions to the IT infrastructure domain. Key points discussed include: SoftIron's innovative approach to hyper-converged infrastructure, emphasizing its scalability and security. The company's...
2024-02-1231 min
Tech Field Day PodcastPlatform Engineering Isn’t Just DevOps Renamed
Platform engineering has been happening for a long time, but today’s implication is quite different. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings platform engineering expert Michael Levan, industry analyst Steven Dickens, and host Stephen Foskett to consider what platform engineering is today. Building a platform for self service in the cloud has more in common with product development than the platforms delivered historically by IT infrastructure teams. One of the drivers for the DevOps trend was the divergence of IT development and operations over the last few decades, but this was different in the mainframe world. In ma...
2024-01-3023 min
Tech Field Day PodcastPlatform Engineering Isn’t Just DevOps Renamed
Platform engineering has been happening for a long time, but today’s implication is quite different. This episode of the On-Premise IT podcast brings platform engineering expert Michael Levan, industry analyst Steven Dickens, and host Stephen Foskett to consider what platform engineering is today. Building a platform for self service in the cloud has more in common with product development than the platforms delivered historically by IT infrastructure teams. One of the drivers for the DevOps trend was the divergence of IT development and operations over the last few decades, but this was different in the mainframe world. In ma...
2024-01-3023 min
Tech Field Day News RundownElon Musk purchases Twitter and Does what Musk Does | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 2, 2022While not completely enterprise tech, we felt like it was necessary to cover the Twitter saga since so many of us use social media to share information and build our communities. The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk closed on Thursday after the market closed. From there the new owner of the platform fired the CEO, CFO, and chief legal counsel. He dismissed the board of directors this week to become the sole head of the company. He also brought in a number of engineers from Tesla and SpaceX to start interviewing Twitter developers and understand how the code...
2022-11-0236 min
Play Me Some of That! Classic!Play Me Some Of That Episode 29!Erik Voeks | She Loved Her Jangle Pop | So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away (2016)Fountains of Wayne | Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart | Sky Full of Holes (2011)Goodo | Ordinary Girl | Better Than Millions (2016)Jeffrey Foskett | Thru My Window | Stars In The Sand (2004)Martha Wainwright | Around The Bend | Goodnight City (2016)Michael Rupert | Pippin: Marking Time | Lost In Boston, Vol. 4 (1997)Reigning Sound | Your Love Is A Fine Thing | Too Much Guitar (2004)Relient K | Elephant Parade | Air for Free (2016)Steven Page | Linda Ronstadt In the 70s | Heal Thyself Pt. 1: Instinct (2016)The Style Council...
2022-10-2546 min
Technically ReligiousS3E04: Tech In Religion 02image credit: CWWally: http://www.threadless.com/@cwwally)
“Tech In Religion” is a running series under the Technically Religious umbrella. In these episodes, we look at technology - be it a website, a phone app, or a gadget - that somehow deepens, strengthens, or improves our experience of or connection to our faith (our religious, moral, and/or ethical point of view). This is a tech review lovingly wrapped in a through-line about faith in general and our experience of faith in particular. The goal is to uncover and promote tech you (our audience) might not have hear...
2021-03-0941 min