Uptime Punks

EP27 Part 1 (EN) - Karsten Samaschke - The Politics of Open Source & why Big Tech would join (or infiltrate?) GAIA - X

Double Episode! (PART 1)

The politics of Open Source & why Big Tech would want to join (or infiltrate?) GAIA-X.

We talk business, tech and history with Cloud Entrepreneur & critical thinker Karsten Samaschke who once was surveyed by the Stasi. Now, he says, your smartphone does the job.

No offense given, no offense taken. 

Hosted by Paul Hammer & Tim Schorno 

 

 

 

EP 25 (EN) - Sunita Bottse - Rising Data Centre Market in Thailand

The weekly roundup & uptime punks talk with Sunita Bottse, CEO SuperNap on the rising data centre market in Thailand.

Key topics

• Going hyperscale in Thailand
• The Digital Economy initiative & Thailand 4.0
• The growth of Thailand’s digital infrastructure
• The work with SE & iMasons
• Two big important topics – Sustainability & Diversity

Hosted by Paul Hammer & Kash Hasan 

EP 24 (EN) - Archna Haylock - The Rise of Tech & the vision of the Open Compute Project

The Uptime Punks are back for another episode from the Sunny California with the honorable guest Archna Haylock, Community Director of the Open Compute Project.

We speak with Archna about her career in Tech and how she has seen young businesses, like Cisco & IBM, rise to become key players in the industry. 

She shares the vision with us as well as the day to day tasks she faces at OCP.

Tim gets recognized as the David Letterman of Tech - while Paul & Archna get carried away speaking about Vegan & Vegeterian Baking Treats

 

Hosted by Paul Hammer & Tim Schorno

EP23 (EN) - Mark Monroe - Hydrogen and the deep blue sea - Carbon Negative Data Centres

 

Hydrogen and the deep blue sea – how Data Centres become carbon negative

 

We´re back at the core debate of the data centre space with our friend and honorary Co-Host Susanna Kass.

 

Along she brings a special Guest, Microsoft´s Mark Monroe. Tune in and listen how he and his team are working to fulfil the 2030 carbon negative pledge.

 

Hosted by Susanna Kass; Paul Hammer; Tim Schorno

EP22 (EN) - Sebastian Wain & Valeria Caracciola - The Bitcoin Bullrun and all about Coinfabrik

The #Bitcoin Bullrun seems over (for now?)

But we had great fun with @Valeria Caracciolo and @Sebastian Wain from CoinFabrik.

Tracing Bitcoin back to it’s origins, we were also speculating about Satoshi’s lost wallet and what Kim-Jong Un could have to do with all this.

 

hosted by Paul Hammer & Tim Schorno 

EP21 (EN) - Andreas Weiss - All the updates about Gaia - X that you should know

Gaia X – Round two

Andreas Weiss from eco is back!

The first returning guest of the uptime punks introduces our English speaking listeners to Gaia X, its Roadmap and use cases.

We also get to talk about Cloud as a toolbox, reversibility and portability of the Cloud.

Hosted by Paul Hammer; Tim Schorno 

EP20 (EN) - Roman Bansen - Bitkom - Data Centre Sustainability &Efficiency

After Susanna Kass and Ali Fenn, Roman Bansen is our third expert on the topic of Data Centre Sustainability.

 

Physicist by training, Roman is now advocating for the advancement of sustainable and efficient IT Infrastructure at Bitkom. His analytical mindset and explanations helped us to better understand the issues and solutions around Data Centre Efficiency.

 

Tune in to another episode of the Punks

 

Hosted by Paul Hammer; Tim Schorno

EP19 (EN) - Michael Tobin - Raising the floor & Always embracing opportunities in Life

The Uptime Punks not only had the first Author with Michael on the podcast but also someone that ran 40 Marathon in 40 days & and once more doesn't take anyone's crap "apart from his own to the south-pole" we speak to Michael's about his new book raising the floor which is a must read!!! 

Hosted by Paul Hammer; Tim Schorno 

EP18 (EN) - Volker Seidel - Infrastructure will always remain at the heart of the enterprise

Another great Episode of the punks From Logistics to Data Centres – what do the sectors have in common? Perhaps that both are not about storage only, but about dynamic ever-changing environment.

Volker Seidel from Dell explains us how he navigates this World, and how he believes that infrastructure will always remain at the heart of the enterprise.

Host by Paul Hammer & Tim Schorno 

EP17 (EN) - Sunil Gupta - CEO of Yotta Data Centre's & how India thinks ahead of the growing DC demand

The Uptime Punks travel all the way to India to meet Sunil Gupta CEO & Founder of Yotta Data Centre’s - he shares his knowledge and insides of the market. 

We explore all of the challenges the industry faces and how they are already thinking ahead of time with green IT and how to make data centres more efficient, so that energy providers can keep up with the growing demand.

Hosted by Paul Hammer ; Kash Hasan