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68. The Houston-Italian-Stallion

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Pierluigi Stella Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Network Security and Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Networking. Strong information technology professional with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering – Summa cum laudae focused in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’​ Facolta’​ di Ingegneria. After 15 years at IBM, Pierluigi Stella co-founded Network Box USA (the American division of Network Box Corporation Ltd) in 2003. As CTO, he has extensive knowledge of security issues with emphases on the financial; banking; hospitality and travel; healthcare; and education sectors. Stella holds a Master’s Degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples, Polytechnic School of Engineering in Naples, Italy. He has received numerous industry recognitions for notable career achievements in addition to being the recipient of excellence awards for innovative design.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:15.2

And today, there's not much that we can do to avoid this subject.

0:20.7

But today we have Pierre Luigi

0:22.4

Stella on the line who lives in Houston, Texas right now, but has family and is Italian. So I think

0:31.4

that's a something that we can't really avoid talking about this, the coronavirus thing. And we had

0:37.0

planned today to talk about

0:38.9

migrating applications to the cloud and Pierre Luigi's CTO at Network Box here in the USA.

0:47.7

You know, and briefly, yeah, so just briefly before, we, you know, we were talking about how

0:51.9

the United States is, you know, from your

0:54.3

perspective, ahead of the curve when it comes to technology and migrating things to the

0:58.9

cloud. And so, which I think is interesting, because I think European countries in general

1:07.9

tend to be ahead of America, me being a telecom and internet guy,

1:11.6

we tend to be ahead behind the curve when it comes to infrastructure in delivering

1:17.2

internet services and IP services in a very efficient manner because we spent so much money

1:21.6

on infrastructure years ago. I mean, do you agree with that?

1:31.7

Yes, but you need to take the, you need to separate the two things. The US, if you go back to caller TV, the US was the first to adopt a caller

1:38.4

when we didn't even know what caller TV was. But by the time we finally got it,

1:44.6

my father got the first one in 1982

1:46.7

because of the World Cup of soccer,

1:49.4

we had systems that were working

1:52.0

with a much more advanced technology.

1:54.4

Which, by the way, just a side note,

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