Episodes

In this episode I talk with Shauna O'Flaherty , Co-Founder and COO at Sushi Cloud. Sushi Cloud is a bare metal cloud computing company that aims to make the cloud more accessible, affordable, and understandable for everyone, with no hidden fees or agendas. The company was founded by Shauna O'Flaherty, who has a background in consulting and AI-driven fintech, and Aron Saether Jackson , a 20-year veteran in the hardware industry. Sushi Cloud aims to provide an alternative to the large hyperscale c...

In this episode I talk with Brian Smith , Co-Found and CTO at SpyderBat. Spyderbat delivers cloud native runtime security to customers with unprecedented precision in intrusion prevention and mitigation. They secure Linux VMs and Kubernetes clusters at runtime and block attacks against cloud native workloads. They are making threat prevention and security operation automation available with their SaaS platform and UI through the use of Nano Agents leveraging eBPF for early, accurate, and thoroug...

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, C...

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 deliver...

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 embra...

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...

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, rel...

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...

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-nat...

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 ...

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 ha...

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 Esh...

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 backu...

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 i...

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 als...

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 applicatio...