Podcast

When working in a geographically diverse environment, delivering face-to-face presentations in likely not efficient or realistic. That is where webinars and online meetings come into play and make it possible to deliver information to an audience that is spread across multiple geographies.
Delivering information through webinars and online meetings is obviously not the same as delivering [...]

Richard and I talk to the illustrious Kim Tripp in a rare interview without her husband Paul Randal. The conversation delves deep into the wonders of indexes in SQL Server, including the value of clustered indexes, their impact on non-clustered indexes and a huge number of details on why some indexes rock and other suck. [...]

Richard and I talk to Brian Randell about what the IT Pro needs to know around virtualization for developers. The topics range from automating (and limiting) the creation of virtual machines for developers, licensing issues, testing, using virtualization to control IP and work the remote developers.
Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, [...]

Last week we published an interview that Richard and I did on RunAs Radio with my friend and former co-worker, Simon Goldstein. Simon’s a real pro and is good at explaining complicated business relationships and processes.
We cover risk management for IT professionals: What is it, what do you need to know, and why does it [...]

Richard and I talk to Allan Hirt about using virtualization with SQL Server. Allan digs into where virtualization makes sense for SQL Server and when it doesn’t. And yes, its true, sometimes virtualizing SQL Server really does make sense!
Allan Hirt has been using SQL Server in various guises since 1992. For the past ten years, [...]

IPv6 has been around for something on the order of 15 years, yet it has yet to see widespread adoption. It was recently enabled on Internet core DNS infrastructure, and had been adopted in some network like those operated by certain mobile carriers. The current IP addressing and allocation scheme, dubbed IPv4, will eventually run [...]

Richard and I had a good conversation with Scott Kveton, OpenID personality extraordinaire, on the RunAs Radio podcast this week. Scott is chairman of the OpenID Foundation.
OpenID is a cool and upcoming technology and has seen significant attention in the past few weeks especially as Yahoo! became an OpenID provider, immediately followed by an announcement [...]

Richard and I spent about 30 minutes the other day chatting with Bil Simser, all-around good guy and MS SharePoint MVP since 2004. SharePoint is a set of technologies I have been involved with since before day one, if that’s even possible. I remember vividly deploying SharePoint Portal Server 2001 as a secure extranet site [...]

Get expert guidance on how to achieve business continuity. Listen to this informative 20 minute podcast on System i business continuity that brings you up to speed on the best strategies for reducing downtime.
This podcast offers expert-level guidance from IBM’s Steve Finnes on how System i environments can achieve easy, reliable business continuity. If downtime [...]

Explore the evolving industry of data warehousing with the Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM.
A data warehouse appliance that’s both dynamic and balanced sure sounds good, but what exactly do those terms mean? Talk to Big Blue, and it’ll tell you that the Balanced Warehouse is the hub of its dynamic warehousing strategy. [...]