Introducing The Pivotal Vanguard Stories Podcast

Guest: Brian Chang, Principal Technologist for the Pivotal Vanguard super user community
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In this podcast, we are excited to announce a new and somewhat controversial series we affectionately refer to as Pivotal Vanguard Stories. Hear from Courtney McShane and Brian Chang discuss who the Pivotal Vanguards are and why this series will be valuable to anyone who wants to hear raw and honest feedback from some of Pivotal's top customers. 

Coming up next in the Pivotal Vanguard Series! We have a podcast with Shuchi Mittai, Director of Cloud Enablement at Fiserv and Olaf Gradin, Principal Platform Architect at Fiserv. 

Interviewed by: Courtney McShane, Pivotal Program Director
For Dell Tech sales support visit: Pivotal.io/PivotalPulse
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About the Pivotal Vanguard Community: 
The Pivotal Vanguard is a select group of active customers, cloud users, and practitioners that are passionate about Pivotal’s products and services. They openly share their experiences and knowledge with the community, the industry, and Pivotal. For more information check out https://pivotal.io/vanguard

Introducing The Pivotal Vanguard Stories Series

Title: Dev & Ops Duke it Out with Fiserv’s Shuchi Mittal and Olaf Gradin

Guests:
Shuchi Mittal, Director, Cloud Enablement, Fiserv
Olaf Gradin, Principal Platform Architect, Fiserv 
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This episode of Pivotal Pulse features Pivotal Vanguard Members Shuchi Mittai, Director of Cloud Enablement, and Olaf Gradin, Principal Platform Architect, both at Fiserv. 

Fiserv is a Fortune 100 market leader in financial services technology and both a customer and partner of Pivotal as a Global System Integrator–helping their financial clients build and run modern apps at scale. You can learn more on our website Pivotal.io/Customers_fiserv which includes a presentation on ‘Changing the Tires at 100mph: and how Pivotal Cloud Foundry helped them change development languages without missing a beat.

In this podcast, we will be focusing kubernetes, specifically, Pivotal Container Service also known as VMware PKS. Focusing on PKS in production, both Shuchi Mittal and Olaf Gradin are experts in their respected Dev and Ops fields, passionate about supporting their teams and knowledgeable about the intricate challenges represented by each division. This podcast highlights the value of having Dev and Ops teams working together as partners in an effort to bring the best value and innovative tech to the customers of Fiserv.

Coming up next in the Pivotal Vanguard Series! We have a podcast with Vanguard members from Garmin, BCBSIL, & TD Ameritrade focusing on production loads in multiple foundations 

Interviewed by: Courtney McShane, Pivotal Program Director
For Dell Tech sales support visit: Pivotal.io/PivotalPulse

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For more on Fiserv’s platform journey be sure to check out these amazing stories below:

-Me too! Pivotal Changed MY Life - Olaf from Fiserv, Customer Interview
Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-606338988/me-too-pivotal-changed-my-life-olaf-from-fiserv/s-J8O9h

-SDLC for Pivotal Platform, Powered by Spring Initializr, Concourse, and Spinnaker, SpringOne, October 2019 
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_2vopQq0Yw 

-Putting Pivotal Platform to the Hybrid Cloud Test: Azure, SpringOne, October 2019
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxBYcKRFBSk 

-It's a Mob! How We Gained Shared Knowledge and Delivered Value with Quality Faster, CF Summit Europe, September 2018
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BqLXc0kmWCM&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9ivmL2suycVIgySW_Vw4Rl&t=0s&index=80 

-From Inception to Production – Migrating .NET Applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SpringOne, September 2018 
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbdjszhgwYY&t=0s&list=PLAdzTan_eSPQsR_aqYBQxpYTEQZnjhTN6&index=99
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About the Pivotal Vanguard Community: 
The Pivotal Vanguard is a select group of active customers, cloud users, and practitioners that are passionate about Pivotal’s products and services. They openly share their experiences and knowledge with the community, the industry, and Pivotal. For more information check out https://pivotal.io/vanguard

Dev & Ops Duke it Out. PKS debate with Fiserv’s Shuchi Mittal and Olaf Gradin, Vanguard Stories

Title:  The Magic of Tech in Multiple Foundations across Public Clouds, Vanguard Stories

Guests:  
Paul Pelafas - Sr. Manager Digital Solutions, Health Care Insurance
Jonathan Regehr - Platform Architect, Electronics Manufacturer
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Pivotal Vanguard Members Paul Pelafas and Jonathan Regehr share their Pivotal Platform journey,  the glorious simplicity of the ‘end state’ and what it takes to get to that end state with a special focus on Production Loads in Multiple Foundations, across multiple public cloud providers - hybrid/on prem/public cloud and the types of issues that crop up from data replication, networking and management.

Jonathan talks about the magic of tech… and how it’s not truly magic, it’s a lot of hard work and smart people, but certainly not magic.  And Paul leaves us with analogies that we will all want to steal to spruce up our next team meeting. 

At the tail end, these Vanguards discuss life as a Pivotal Vanguard and the lessons learned while being a part of this community.

Interviewed by: Courtney McShane, Pivotal Program Director
For Dell Tech sales support visit: Pivotal.io/PivotalPulse

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About the Pivotal Vanguard Community:
The Pivotal Vanguard is a select group of active customers, cloud users, and practitioners that are passionate about Pivotal’s products and services. They openly share their experiences and knowledge with the community, the industry, and Pivotal. For more information check out pivotal.io/vanguard

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