Podcast: Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Non-visceral IT decision/direction: Are you waiting for nodes to die?
SAN controllers, multiple compute hosts, networking fabrics, top rack switching, flattening things down into series of nodes, storage architecture, data architecture, all the important…

The Houston-Italian-Stallion (Pierluigi Stella) came here in 1999 and after cursing his son for leaving the house and making him quarantine himself we have an amazing conversation about:
The reality of the Coronavirus and what is apparent
The world cup, …

1/3 of Americans DO NOT take their vacation days… look at us now!
I did this show with Michael Horn pre-apocalypse
We talked about mandatory Vacations and how they prevent Collusion
So I have a few questions,
Has working from home revealed any holes in…

My wife (aka end-user) looked up at the ceiling last night and said, “What’s that?”
We were standing in my home office where the ceiling had just been repainted.
For years it was like most ceilings…
Smudges here and there
Never been tended to in years….

The Coronavirus Episodes are Coming, but first
Let’s talk about a millennial accountant turned to Security
A real life cinderella story without the old CISO crones
… so clearly there must be some value in security
There must be some money worth spendin…

If you don’t want to hear our childhood stories fast forward to “Offensive IT” at 11 minutes in… otherwise marry young enough that your wife doesn’t know what a boot-disk is.

Space camp with space shuttle and mission control

What does IT childhood l…

Joe Scott: IT Manager at BMT
End-User Lurkers
Gaming circumvented his History Teacher Career
Cyrix P1 166
Blowing stuff up with C4
Fixing Systems in the Marine Core
Hyper focused delegation
Trusting people and handing off tasks
Helpdesk Frameworks
What’s…

IT Leader Robert Liebsch speaks about Dissecting the Budget
Speak the proper terms
but don’t sound cliche’
OPEX vs CAPEX
Depreciation
Selling to Executive Management
People of the Old School
Office 2016 is no more October 2020
Floods of inbound encrypted…

Special IT Lubrication…
 
ITs Not too small
 
ITs not too big
 
ITs mid-market IT
 
IT Specialist Geoff Beaune lubes the IT budget and tells the Selling to upper management story.
 
His company manufactures lubrication and was throwing money at everyth…

Anthon Encao… now IT manager at Amazon
Has years of high-level government security clearance
The last network he managed couldn’t even touch the public Internet.
His raw truths and advice start with, “It’s not easier it’s harder”
“Good IT costs more mone…