Speaking in Tech: That’s going to look really bad on LinkedIn!

Plus: Rumour has it Dell's putting Perot Systems on the market

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Want to hear a funny wrap-up of everything important that happened in the tech world this week? Enterprise and consumer kit gurus Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela are here to discuss the SolidFire-NetApp rumours, Virtustream, VMware, whether “Personal conduct” could be a LinkedIn endorsement... and more. Their special guest this week is Mark Thiele, executive vice president at Switch.

The details...

• (1:30) Worthless predictions coming soon
• (4:05) Rumours: NetApp to snag up SolidFire
• (8:25) Legacy vendor acquisitions
• (12:27) Virtustream jumping out of VMware
• (17:38) Rumour 2: Dell putting Perot Systems on the market
• (20:30) LinkedIn skills: “Personal conduct matters”
• (22:48) FLASHBACK: Sony Betamax (1979)
• (23:10) Introducing Mark Thiele, Executive Vice President, Switch
• (26:30) Colocation with Switch and the technology ecosystem
• (30:45) The big pyramid data centre… in Grand Rapids
• (35:00) The über evangelist
• (36:50) Data centre management
• (48:12) Shameless M&A speculation

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