How I got started in IT without a CS degree

I wrote something a while back for another site on this - it got archived, so I grabbed it off of the "Wayback Machine" and am re-posting it here (with some modifications/updates), as it's a pretty common topic and has gained some new attention with Twitter conversations around whether someone in IT is "valid" without …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 152 – VMworld 2018 Preview + NetApp HCI Update

Welcome to the Episode 152, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, VMworld 2018 is fast approaching! Join me and a group of NetApp’s finest virtualization experts to discuss what’s in store for NetApp at VMworld 2018, as well as what we can expect for NetApp HCI (https://www.netapp.com/us/products/converged-systems/hyper-converged-infrastructure.aspx). On this episode: Doug Chamberlain (@dacmba), …

Docker + NFS + FlexGroup volumes = Magic!

A couple of years ago, I wrote up a blog on using NFS with Docker as I was tooling around with containers, in an attempt to wrap my head around them. Then, I never really touched them again and that blog got a bit... stale. Why stale? Well, in that blog, I had to create …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 150 – Tech Career Advancement Advice

Welcome to the Episode 150, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we change it up a bit and bring in VMware Global Executive Content Strategist, Tech LevelUp founder, Sunnyvale VMUG leader, Tech Village podcaster and all around community all-star, Yadin Porter de Leon (@porterdeleon) to talk about Tech Careers and how …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 148 – An Introduction to Cloud Volume Services

Welcome to the Episode 148, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we invited Eiki Hrafnsson (@EirikurH), Chief Architect, Data Fabric, and Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Cloud, Ingo Fuchs (@IngoFuchs) to give us the lowdown on what Cloud Volume Services are and where people are expected to use …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 145 – AI, Machine Learning and ONTAP with Santosh Rao

Welcome to the Episode 145, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp Senior Technical Director Santosh Rao (@santorao) joins us to talk about how NetApp and NVidia are partnering to enhance AI solutions with the DGX-1, ONTAP and FlexGroup volumes using NFS! You …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 135: Cattle, Pets and the Hive Mentality in Tech with Matt Watts

  Welcome to the Episode 135, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp Director of Technology and Strategy in EMEA, Matt Watts (@mtjwatts), joins us, to talk about his latest blog and how current technology is simply repeating the patterns in nature to better understand …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 125 – Machine Learning and ONTAP

Welcome to the Episode 125, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we invited Senior Technical Director Santosh Rao in to discuss his blog series on Machine Learning in ONTAP, as well as how NetApp is helping power the latest and greatest in …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 122 – Infrastructure as a Service

Welcome to the Episode 122, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we chat with a couple of NetApp’s cloud guys – Mark Beaupre (@Mark_Beaupre) and John Fullbright – about the latest way to consume ONTAP storage. Join us as we talk about …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 107 – NetApp Insight, GPDR & Data Fabric

Welcome to the Episode 107, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we get ready for Insight with a couple of interviews with some of the folks that will be attending the conference from NetApp and answering questions at Insight Central. Join us as we …