In this exclusive VMblog interview from NerdioCon 2025 in Palm Springs, California, we speak with Chris Hamm, CTO of Premier One, a specialized IT services provider focused on the title insurance industry. With approximately 50 employees spread throughout the United States, Premier One distinguishes itself in the MSP space through its deep industry specialization.

In this exclusive interview from NerdioCon 2025 in Palm Springs, California, VMblog speaks with Eric Torres, VP of Channel and Community Engagement at Pax8. Torres provides insights into how Pax8 serves as a comprehensive cloud marketplace for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), offering a one-stop solution for SaaS licensing needs across 140+ MSP-friendly vendors.

In this exclusive VMblog interview from NerdioCon 2025 in Palm Springs, California, VMblog speaks with Jeremy Young, Community Growth Strategist at Huntress, about their comprehensive security offerings and strategic collaboration with Nerdio in the Microsoft ecosystem.

In this exclusive VMblog interview from NerdioCon 2025 in Palm Springs, California, VMblog speaks with Andy Whiteside, President, CEO, and Founder of XenTegra, about their approach to client partnerships and strategic collaboration with Nerdio and Microsoft.

In this VMblog Q&A ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025, Ari Weil, VP of Product Marketing at Akamai, delivers a compelling vision for the future of cloud-native technologies. Moving beyond the traditional centralized hyperscaler model, Akamai is pioneering a distributed cloud approach that promises to revolutionize how businesses deploy AI, manage Kubernetes workloads, and control cloud computing costs. With the launch of groundbreaking solutions like Akamai Cloud Inference and Accelerated Compute Instances, the company is challenging industry norms by offering infrastructure that's faster, more cost-efficient, and strategically positioned closer to users and data sources.

Discover the cutting-edge cloud native solutions showcased at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London.

This spotlight series features four innovative companies revolutionizing cloud infrastructure, security, and development:

• Akamai - Platinum CNCF Sponsor with Cloud Odyssey Hackathon 
• Aviatrix - Cloud Network Security for AI-Ready Enterprises 
• EnterpriseDB - Postgres and Kubernetes Innovation 
• Heroku - Simplified Developer Platforms and Cloud Native Experiences 

Who's solving the most critical challenges in cloud native technologies? Watch now and find out!

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon prepares to take over London in 2025, Heroku's leadership is zeroing in on the transformative potential of AI and cloud-native technologies. In this interview with VMblog, Betty Junod, Heroku's CMO and strategic voice, reveals how the platform is addressing the critical challenges of modern software development: accelerating time-to-market, reducing operational complexity, and enabling teams to focus on delivering value through innovative AI-powered solutions.

Join David Marshall and Brian Ducharme from VMblog as they interview Gabriele Bartolini, VP, Chief Architect, Kubernetes at EnterpriseDB (EDB), ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. In this insightful conversation, Gabriele shares how EDB is bridging the gap between PostgreSQL and Kubernetes with their innovative solutions.As a leading company in PostgreSQL development, EDB has been contributing to the open-source project for over 15 years, accounting for approximately 30% of the PostgreSQL codebase. Their focus has expanded to include EDB Postgres AI, an enterprise-ready platform supporting transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across hybrid environments.

In this exclusive VMblog interview from IGEL Now & Next 2025 in Miami, James Millington, VP of Industry Solutions and Product Marketing, breaks down IGEL's groundbreaking approach to enterprise endpoint security.

Dive into the future of enterprise computing with Patrick Toner, senior account manager from LG!

In this on-site VMblog interview from IGEL Now & Next 2025 in Miami, Dave Fiske, Lead EUC Strategist at Nerdio, unveils how the company is transforming cloud desktop experiences.

In this on-site VMblog interview from IGEL Now & Next 2025 in Miami, Lenovo's Senior Solutions Manager Andy Nieto unveils groundbreaking innovations transforming the digital workspace.

Discover Lenovo's latest thin client technology - the V100 Q, priced under $200 with cutting-edge features, and gain insights into how the tech giant is addressing modern enterprise challenges like Windows 10 end-of-life, workforce diversity, and the evolving AI landscape.

Key highlights include:

• First look at Lenovo's new V100 Q thin client 
• Innovative approach to solving complex business problems 
• Unique perspectives on AI's current potential
• Strategies for managing digital workspaces and changing workforce dynamics 

Get a look into Lenovo's forward-thinking solutions for today's rapidly changing technological environment.

Watch this exclusive VMblog interview with Emilio Salvador, Vice President of Strategy and Developer Relations at GitLab, as he provides insight into the company's innovative approach to software development and AI at AWS re:Invent 2024.

Key Highlights:

• GitLab introduces GitLab Duo, an AI-powered platform transforming the software development lifecycle 
• Partnership with Amazon Q brings groundbreaking AI capabilities to developers 
• 78-80% of developers already using AI in their workflow 

Major Announcements:

• GitLab Duo with Amazon Q: A comprehensive AI solution for accelerating software development 
• New capability for self-hosted AI models in highly regulated industries (beta)

Industry Trends: 

• Shift from generative to agentic AI 
• Developers using up to 14 different tools, creating significant cognitive load
• Future of AI: More proactive, predictive, and specialized models 

Platform Unique Selling Points:

• Single, end-to-end development platform 
• Security and privacy-focused approach 
• Model-agnostic AI solutions 

Salvador predicts 2025 will see a significant transformation in AI's role, moving from reactive assistants to proactive problem-detection agents that seamlessly support developers.

Don't miss GitLab's booth at AWS re:Invent to see these cutting-edge AI capabilities in action!

At AWS re:Invent 2024, GitLab is showcasing its comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering enterprise technology leaders a glimpse into the future of software development.

In an exclusive interview with VMblog, Emilio Salvador, GitLab's Vice President of Strategy and Developer Relations, highlights the company's strategic approach to transforming software innovation, multi-cloud deployments, and the emerging role of AI in the development lifecycle. With multiple speaking sessions planned and an interactive booth experience, GitLab is set to demonstrate how organizations can streamline their software development processes, enhance security, and leverage cutting-edge AI technologies.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of AWS re:Invent 2024, the premier annual conference for cloud computing professionals, where thousands of technologists converge to explore cutting-edge cloud innovations, attend technical sessions, and discover the latest advancements from Amazon Web Services. At this massive event, industry leaders like Cohesity, Starburst, and Sumo Logic will showcase how they're transforming enterprise data strategies through cloud-native solutions.

These three companies share a critical commonality: they are data-driven technology companies that help organizations unlock the value of their data through innovative cloud and analytics platforms. Cohesity specializes in data management and security, Starburst revolutionizes data analytics with its distributed query engine, and Sumo Logic provides cloud-native observability and monitoring solutions. Together, they represent the forefront of enterprise data technologies that are reshaping how businesses leverage information in the cloud era.

In this video, you will learn about each company and why you should add them to your MUST SEE list at the show:

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easier to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data - across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.

Starburst, the Open Hybrid Lakehouse, is the leading end-to-end data platform to securely access, analyze, and share data for analytics and AI across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments. As the leaders in Trino, a modern open-source SQL engine, Starburst empowers the most data-intensive and security-conscious organizations like Comcast, Halliburton, Vectra, EMIS Health, and 7 of the top 10 global banks to democratize data access, enhance analytics performance, and improve architecture optionality. With the Open Hybrid Lakehouse from Starburst, enterprises globally can easily discover and use all their relevant business data to power new applications and analytics across risk mitigation, supply chain, customer experiences, product optimization, streaming, and more.

Sumo Logic, Inc. unifies and analyzes enterprise data, translating it into actionable insights through one AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform. This single source of truth enables Dev, Sec and Ops teams to simplify complexity, collaborate efficiently and accelerate data-driven decisions that drive business value. Customers around the world rely on the Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform for trusted insights to ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures.

More from AWS re:Invent: https://events.vmblog.com/aws-reinvent-2024.html

In an exclusive pre-event interview with VMblog, Manveer Sahota, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Starburst, offers a compelling preview of the company's cutting-edge data platform strategies for AWS re:Invent 2024.

Starburst is set to showcase its Open Hybrid Lakehouse platform, Starburst Galaxy, which promises to revolutionize data analytics by addressing critical challenges facing enterprises in 2024, including rising cloud costs, data silos, and the accelerating demand for AI-driven insights.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video during the SC24 event, with StorONE, an innovative company leading the way, and a must see in the HPC and supercomputing industry.

SC24 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. 

In this video, you will learn about StorONE: StorONE, the ONE Enterprise Storage Platform, offers a 100% enterprise software that abstracts hardware and software without any hardware dependency. Their unique technology is designed for high capacity with high-performance storage solutions. With an eight-year investment in completely rewriting the storage stack from the ground up, StorONE maximizes drive utilization, dramatically reducing the number of disks required and providing state-of-the-art data protection against security threats.

StorONE provides ONE software solution for all storage use cases, supporting any storage protocol, disk type, or location, whether on-premises or in the cloud. By integrating data integrity, retention, protection, replication, and security features into a single product, StorONE simplifies operations without requiring additional applications or payments.

In an era where artificial intelligence and quantum computing are making daily headlines, SC24 arrives at a crucial moment. The supercomputing landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by unprecedented demands from AI training, climate modeling, and scientific research. This year's conference theme, "Accelerating Innovation Through HPC," couldn't be more timely as organizations grapple with escalating computational needs and sustainability challenges.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of SC24, with Hammerspace and Peak:AIO, two innovative companies that are leading the way, and a must see in the HPC and supercomputing industry.

SC24 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. 

In this video, you will learn about each company:

Hammerspace is radically changing how unstructured data is used and preserved. Our Global Data Platform unifies unstructured data across edge, data centers, and clouds. It provides extreme parallel performance for AI, GPUs, and high-speed data analytics, and orchestrates data to any location and any storage system. This eliminates data silos and makes data an instantly accessible resource for users, applications, and compute clusters, no matter where they are located.

PEAK:AIO is a cutting-edge provider of software for the AI market, revolutionizing the way data is stored and processed for AI workloads. Through its innovative solutions, PEAK:AIO delivers unparalleled performance, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability, empowering organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives and achieve groundbreaking results.

In an era where artificial intelligence and quantum computing are making daily headlines, SC24 arrives at a crucial moment. The supercomputing landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by unprecedented demands from AI training, climate modeling, and scientific research. This year's conference theme, "Accelerating Innovation Through HPC," couldn't be more timely as organizations grapple with escalating computational needs and sustainability challenges.

At SC24, Hammerspace is set to demonstrate how its Global Data Platform is transforming unstructured data management for AI and GPU computing environments. Fresh from powering Meta's AI Research SuperCluster with 24,000 GPUs at 12.5TB per second, the company will highlight its standards-based parallel file system architecture that eliminates data silos across edge devices, data centers, and clouds.

Visitors to Booth #4723 can meet comic book legend Steve Gordon, who will be signing the latest volume of the company's "Data Dynamo" series, while technical experts showcase solutions that have recently achieved notable results in the MLPerf Storage Benchmark tests. The company's biggest presence yet at SC24 includes a cocktail reception, technology partner demonstrations, and participation in the Petaflop party at the College Football Hall of Fame.

Learn more in this VMblog Q&A with Molly Presley, SVP of Global Marketing, at Hammerspace.

Join us for a special VMblog spotlight video ahead of #SC24, with Graid Technology and Komprise, two innovative companies that are leading the way, and must see in the HPC and supercomputing industry.

SC24 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. 

In this video, you will learn about each company: Graid Technology is led by a dedicated team of experts with decades of experience in the SDS, ASIC, and storage industries, and continues to push boundaries in data storage innovation by protecting NVMe-based data from the desktop to the cloud. Cutting-edge SupremeRAID^TM GPU-based RAID removes the traditional RAID bottleneck to deliver maximum SSD performance without consuming CPU cycles or creating throughput bottlenecks, delivering unmatched flexibility, performance, and value. https://www.graidtech.com

Komprise is a provider of unstructured data management and mobility software that frees enterprises to easily analyze, mobilize, and monetize the right file and object data across clouds without shackling data to any vendor. With Komprise Intelligent Data Management, you can cut 70% of enterprise storage, backup and cloud costs while making data easily available to cloud-based data lakes, analytics and AI tools. https://www.komprise.com

In an era where artificial intelligence and quantum computing are making daily headlines, SC24 arrives at a crucial moment. The supercomputing landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by unprecedented demands from AI training, climate modeling, and scientific research. This year's conference theme, "Accelerating Innovation Through HPC," couldn't be more timely as organizations grapple with escalating computational needs and sustainability challenges.