Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Roundtable

This week on the podcast, we have an interview with SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato, recorded on-premises from our lovely Hudson, Ohio offices. We discussed how Leon went from Theater major to working in tech education, what exactly a head geek does, and finishes with some great career advice. This episodes is sponsored by SolarWinds. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Leon Adato – IT Origins

The On-Premise IT Roundtable looks at the idea that IT burnout is inevitable. They discuss some of the underlying factors behind burnout, and why people attracted to IT might be susceptible. They also offer some insight into how they've coped with the issue, both from a self-employed consultant perspective, as well as working for a larger organization. Definitely an important discussion for any IT practitioner to consider. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: IT Burnout is Inevitable – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

For this bonus episode, enjoy our recent interview with Ted Dunning, Apache Software Foundation board member, and the Chief Application Architect at MapR. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Ted Dunning – IT Origins

Let's face it, AI gets thrown around a lot in the enterprise these days. It often gets conflated with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and neural networks. But does the term actually mean anything? Are there solutions out there that actually qualify as AI? The roundtable debates. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Enterprise AI Is Just a Buzzword – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

We recorded a great interview with Patric Palm of Favro and decided to put it in the podcast feed as a bonus episode. Enjoy! © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Patric Palm – IT Origins

The Premise: The efficiencies of network engineering will decimate engineering jobs. The panel debates if this is true. They look at if this will happen across the board, if engineers will just become programmers going forward, or if automation will actually benefit network engineers down the road. And if automation does eliminate all these jobs, does it then become a pernicious form of support lock-in? © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Automation Will Kill Engineering Jobs – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

On this episode, we're discussing Network Functions Virtualization, aka NFV. The roundtable discusses what exactly NFV is, how it differs from SDN, and if it's going to eat all specialized networking hardware. The discussion then turns into how changes in network design principles make NFV even more viable in the enterprise. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: All Your Networking Are Belong to NFV | The On-Premise IT Roundtable

An episode so nice, we share it twice. Throwing in a bonus episode to the feed. Had a great conversation with Karen Lopez for IT Origins. If you haven't already, be sure to listen to her appearance on the podcast with What is Big Data?  © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Karen Lopez – IT Origins

On this roundtable, we're getting cloudy. The panelists discuss why it matters where your SaaS apps live, and not just depend on an SLA. This can impact not just business continuity and customer experience, but security and compliance as well. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: You Should Care Where SaaS Lives | On-Premise IT Roundtable

Enjoy this bonus IT Origins interview episode with Zachary Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Packet. Our regularly schedule podcast will post April 10, 2018. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Zachary Smith – IT Origins

Let's face it, your alerts stink. If you're finding lifehacks to deal with the amount of notifications you're receiving, you've already lost the battle. On this episode of the podcast, the roundtable discusses why we're drowning in notifications, how to better approach it, and why can't we actually get actionable alerts. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Your Notifications Stink! The On-Premise IT Roundtable

The podcast that inspired it all! Today we're sharing the pilot episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable, looking at terrible IT language. Does the name of our podcast drive you nuts? Do you cringe when someone asks you to "double-click" in conversation? Do you have opinions on how to pronounce BPDU? This is the episode for you. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Painful IT Language – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

Bonus podcast episode! I had the privilege to talk to Dong Ngo, an IT consultant and writer at Dong Knows Tech. From 1999 through 2017, he was an Editor at CNET.com, covering the storage and networking beats. We talked about how his understanding of technology evolved since his childhood in Vietnam, to moving to San Francisco in the 1990s. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Dong Ngo – IT Origins

Do words mean things? It depends on who you ask. Often the more technically minded IT folks like hard and fast definitions, while marketing tends to lend to a more "generous" interpretation of words. Do we need to rigidly enforce definitions, or are we resigned to an infinite regress into mutual unintelligibility? We're no stranger to this debate on Gestalt IT, but the panel sheds new light and perspective on this often frustrating premise. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Words Don’t Mean Things After All! The On-Premise IT Roundtable

We dug back in the On-Premise IT Roundtable archives to bring you an episode originally recorded in 2016, but incredibly prescient today. The roundtable discusses how IT companies can differentiate in an age of increasing commoditization. They look at examples like DSSD, Kaminario, and SimpliVity as ways to differentiate hardware, albeit at a considerable expense of time and resources. They then turn to software, and discuss the wave of SDS products that turned out to be features. The discussion is fascinating because many of the trends identified in this discussion have now played out in one form or another. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The IT Differentiation Dilemma – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

Bonus podcast episode! I had the privilege to talk to Matt Leib about how he got his start in IT, how the industry has changed since his Radio Shack days, and why the hybrid cloud is here to stay. It was a great conversation, enjoy the audio! © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS: Matt Leib – IT Origins

In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth leads the roundtable in discussing the role of whitebox switching in enterprise networking. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Whitebox World – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

The On-Premise IT Roundtable has a bold premise for this episode: enterprise licensing models are interesting! The panel discusses why understanding licensing is vital for a modern data center as we move from CapEx to OpEx models. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Licensing Models Matter- The On-Premise IT Roundtable

Do you like bonus podcast content? How about an audio interview with podcaster, engineer, and IT pro Allison Sheridan? We had a really great conversations touching on how she got started in IT and podcasting. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: BONUS Interview Episode: Allison Sheridan – IT Origins

Intent-based networking is the new hotness, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, the panel discusses how it differs from older SDN ideas. IBN integrates an abstraction layer and orchestration into a system that identifies a single source of truth that isn't the network itself. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Intent-Based Networking Isn’t Just SDN – The On-Premise IT Roundtable