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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

On today's show, each of our roundtable panelists chose what was the hot ticket item of 2017. Tune in to hear their arguments why 2017 was the year of SD-WAN, HCI, Net Neutrality, or Data Management! © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: 2017 was the Year of… – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

On this episode, host Stephen Foskett talks with Mark May, Howard Marks, and Keith Townsend about what makes a failed startup. Are some concepts simply too early, or are there ideas whose time simply never arrives? They look at specific examples like Auspex Systems and Coho Data. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Failed Startups – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

Scale-out storage is great, but does it apply to all enterprise storage needs? The roundtable discusses the premise that all storage should be scale-out. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: All Storage Should Scale-Out – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

The roundtable discusses the premise that the CLI is dead, or at least terminally ill. They look at why this is the prevailing narrative in networking and the greater IT landscape. Is the death of the CLI a forgone conclusion, or merely a framing device for moving to better processes in IT? © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: The CLI is Dead – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

Security is a dumpster fire, or is it somehow worse? Our esteemed guests discuss whether it's actually many dumpster fires or some other form of refuse conflagration. It's an invaluable and inflammable discussion. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Security is a Dumpster Fire – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

In this episode, the roundtable discusses the idea of technical debt. They look into why technical debt occurs, why it isn't always a bad thing, and how to possibly optimize for when to incur it. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Technical Debt Really Isn’t All That Bad – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

On this episode, we’ll be talking about a hot topic in the networking space, automation. The panel discusses why organizations see automation as prohibitively complex, what exactly they mean by automation, and why it isn’t coming for their jobs. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: What Is Automation? The On-Premise IT Roundtable

On this episode, we take a look at how managed services have changed from the 90s to today. Why was something so essential and pervasive in IT today so hard to do a few decades ago? The panel has a wealth of industry experience from back then, and they share their stories from being on the front lines. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: Managed Services from the 90s to Now – The On-Premise IT Roundtable