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Joining this week’s L8ist Sh9y Podcast is Zach Smith, CEO of Packet and long-time champion of bare metal hardware. Rob Hirschfeld and Zach discuss the trends in bare metal, the impact of AWS changing the way developers view infrastructure, and issues between networking and server groups in IT organizations.
Topic Time (Minutes.Seconds)
Introduction 0.0 – 0.43
History of Packet 0.43 – 1:38
Why Public Cloud Bare Metal 1.38 – 2.10
Price Points Metal vs VM 2.10 – 3.08
Intro Compute to Non-Data Center People 3.08 – 4:27
RackN early Customer 4.27 – 5.41
Managing non-Enterprise Hardware 5.41 – 7.45
Cloud has forever changed IT Ops 7.45 – 10.20
Making Hardware Easier 10.20 – 12.35
Continuous Integration (CI) 12.35 – 14.37
Customer Story w/ Terraform 14.47 – 16.08
SRE, DevOps and Engineering Thinking 16.08 – 16:49
Most extreme Metal Pipelines 16.49 – 18.02
Coolest New Hardware in Use 18.02 – 19.28
How order metal and add to data center 19.28 – 22.47
RackN and the Switch 22.47 – 24.39
Edge Computing Break Enterprise IT 24.39 – 25.16
DevOps Highlights for Today 25.16 – 27.01
Post Provision Control in Open Source 27.01 – 30.03
Data Centers in early 2000’s 30.03 – 31.27
Nov 1 in NYC: Cloud Native in DataCenter 31.27 – END
Podcast Guest: Zach Smith, CEO Packet
Zachary has spent his last 16 years building, running and fixing public cloud infrastructure platforms. As the CEO of Packet, Zachary is responsible for the company’s strategic product roadmap and is most passionate about helping customers and partners take advantage of fundamental compute and avoid vendor lockin. Prior to founding Packet, Zachary was an early member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company sold to Internap in 2011, that built software to automate all aspects of hosting datacenters. He lives in New York City with his wife and 2 young children. Twitter @zsmithnyc
