Hanson Ho (@bidetofevil) is an Android Architect at Embrace, the mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace began as a proprietary platform but went open-source at the end of 2023. Hanson shares about how the project is still at the beginning of its open-source journey and why his team is committed to collaborative developm…

Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Steph…

Our guest this episode is Aaron Hibbard, Solution Architect with Veeam's Technical Programs group. We discuss the Veeam Ready program, and how partners can use it to help with component selection when designing solutions, and how vendors can get their solutions verified in the Veeam Ready program. Lots of great info to help with your customer solut…

Jason Buffington joins the podcast to discuss the newly released Veeam Ransomware Trends Report for 2024. He offers some great insights that partners can use immediately to start conversations with customers, and some great ideas for services to help keep the attackers at bay. A can't miss episode for sure!…

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

Our guest this episode is Chris Reily, Director of Systems Engineering at ExaGrid. We discsuss how the ExaGrid solution works, the security and ransomware protections the solutions provide, and how partners can win deals and make money selling Veeam and ExaGrid together.

Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

Jason Buffington, VP of Market Strategy for Veeam, joins the podcast to discuss the new Data Protection Trends Report for 2024. Jason offers tons of insight into the findings and provides some great ideas around how to use the report when prospecting or when trying to help customers sell solutions up the management chain. Whether you're in a sales …

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

Joining the podcast this episode is Jon Belcher, Veeam's Senior Director for US Channel Sales. We discuss recent changes to Veeam's channel model in the US, and how these changes will benefit partners of all sizes. Lots of valuable on the state of the Veeam partner program in this episode!

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

Joining the podcast this episode is Mark Brunstad, the Global Customer Success and Enablement Director for Veeam. We discuss the vision for Veeam education moving forward, and how it impacts partners. A great conversation with terrific insights into where Veeam is headed with training and certification!…

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

This episode's guest Edwin Weijdema, EMEA Field CTO at Veeam, joins us to discuss security in Veeam solutions, especially as it relates to the upcoming 23H2 release. If you want to know more about Veeam's security story, this is the episode for you!

Jeanne Krull , Sr. Director of Public Cloud Solutions at Veeam is our guest to talk about Veeam's exciting new acquisition, Cirrus. Learn how the new offering works, how to present it to customers, and how to sell it using multiple methods. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested selling Veeam's new first-party BaaS offering.…

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

Drew Schwartz, one of the architects of our Americas Hands-On Labs (HOL) and a member of the channel team at Veeam, joins me to discuss the evolution of the HOL program, and how partners can leverage it to create opportunities and shorten sales cycles. Great info for sales and SE's in ths one!

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

Madalina Cristil, Senior Community Analyst at Veeam, joins us this episode to talk about the Veeam Community, including Veeam Vanguard, Veeam Legends and VeeaMVPs. Find out the benefits of being involved in the community and how it can help grow your partnership.

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

Michael Cade, Veeam Global Field CTO for Cloud Native Solutions, joins us to discuss containers, Kubernetes and K10 by Kasten. We cover why partners should be interested in this conversation, and who you should be talking to when prospecting. Some good advice around getting started in the world of K8s is shared as well.…

Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTo…

Yes, there is an Object Storage solution built specifically for Veeam, but it isn't by Veeam. In this episode, Matt Price and Anthony Cusimano from Object First discuss why partners should be teaming with Object First for on-prem object storage for backup and recovery solutions. If you want to know what OOTBI is, you'll have to listen!…

On this episode, Jason Buffington and Dave Russell join me to discuss Veeam's 2023 edition of the Data Protection Report. We review how partners can use it to gain insights into customer buying trends, and how to better engage with prospects and existing customers.

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…

Joining me on this episode are Chris Sprague, Field Solutions Architect, and Zane Allyn, Principal Technologist at Pure Storage. We discuss how Veeam and Pure work together, and why partners should be looking into selling solutions based on this "better together" story.

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and develo…

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Liam Randall (@Hectaman) and Bailey Hayes (@baihay) of Cosmonic, the platform-as-a-service environment for building cloud-native applications using WebAssembly. Bailey is also on the steering committee for the Bytecode Alliance, which stewards WebAssembly. In 2021, Cosmonic donated their WebAssemb…

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Milos Rusic (@rusic_milos) to discuss Haystack, the open-source NLP framework for leveraging Transformer models and building intelligent search systems. Milos and his colleagues at deepset were early contributors to Hugging Face’s Transformer models, and began building pipelines for searching large document …

Joining me this episode are members of our Product Strategy team to discuss their favorite features in version 12 of our flagship product, Veeam Backup and Replication, and in VeeamONE. Some great insights and some cool Easter Eggs (I know that's not Valentine's Day related) are shared.

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks with Artyom Keydunov (@keydunov) about Cube, the semantic layer for building data applications. Cube helps engineers bridge data warehouses and data experiences, and provides access control, security, caching, and more helpful features. The project began in open-source and has evolved quite a lot over the last few …

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Erika Hokanson (@erikawh0) remember the life of Jeff Meyerson, creator of the influential podcast Software Engineering Daily. He passed during the summer of 2022. Still, his work lives on - thousands of episodes, talks, music, a book, and a community of dedicated listeners and engineers whose lives were touched by Je…

Brock Bruner and Joe Ghio of the Veeam channel team join me to offer thoughts and insights from our recently completed sales kickoff, Veeam Launchpad 2023, and what it means for partners.

We’re kicking off the new year with a conversation between Eric Anderson (@ericmander), Sergei Egorov (@bsideup) and Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner). Sergei and Eli founded AtomicJar to maintain Testcontainers, the family of open-source libraries that allow developers to write and run integration tests locally, and treat them as unit tests. Testcontainers …

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Nate Rush (@naterush1997) and Aaron Diamond-Reivich (@_aaronDR) to talk about Mito, the open-source spreadsheet that generates Python code for data analysts. Mito is a Python library and acts as an extension to a Jupyter Notebook. Tune in to find out how the Mito team is bridging the gap in data science betw…

Drew Schlussel, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Wasabi joins us this episode to discuss cloud object storage, and the ways that the use of it are changing in VBR v12. Learn why Wasabi is a great option for public cloud storage and for Veeam solutions.

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Simba Khadder (@simba_khadder) explore Featureform, the “virtual” feature store platform that aims to standardize data pipelines for machine learning. Contributor is no stranger to feature stores, but Simba has a broader definition than most. Join us to learn how Featureform enables data scientists and machine learni…

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) hosts Ben Haynes (@benhaynes), CEO and co-founder of Directus. Directus is an open-source data platform that layers on SQL databases to provide an instant API, and includes a no-code data studio interface. Listen in to find out how Directus is aiming to democratize the modern data stack for everyone. Subscribe to Contrib…

Van "The Vanimal" Flowers joins me to discuss object storage with Cloudian and Veeam, why we need to stop thinking of object storage as cloud storage, and how to win bigger with Veeam and Cloudian.

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) chats with Toni de la Fuente (@ToniBlyx) about how he created Prowler, an open source security tool for AWS. Toni talks about taking Prowler from a nights-and-weekends project to his current full-time job, managing a team of four. They discuss transitioning from primarily coding to primarily managing tickets and users, a…