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Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Episode 2 - vBridge

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5.04 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk to Ben Young (Development Manager) at vBridge.  vBridge is a cloud service provider based out of Christchurch, New Zealand with a secondary hosting presence in Auckland. Ben and I chat about how natural disasters helped shape the companies direction and how they built their own cloud management platform with a reseller first mentality which has made it one of the most powerful and unique in the IaaS world.

Technology Partners Mentioned

VMware, Veeam, Juniper, DELL|EMC, HPE, Pure Storage and Cloudian

Web: https://vbridge.co.nz
Services: https://vbridge.co.nz/business-solutions/hosting-infrastructure-as-a-service
Ben's Blog: https://benyoung.blog

Music: https://www.bensound.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, hello and welcome to Great Things with Great Tech episode two.

0:16.0

My name is Anthony Skateri and this podcast is all about highlighting companies doing great

0:21.7

things with great tech.

0:23.1

And this episode, we're talking to Ben Young from Vibridge.

0:26.3

Welcome, Ben.

0:28.8

Hello, how you going?

0:29.8

Thank you very much for having me.

0:31.4

No worries, mate.

0:32.2

So you and I know each other pretty well, but you just want to quickly introduce yourself

0:35.9

and what your role at Veebridge is.

0:38.9

Yeah, so I'm Ben Young. I'm from Christchurch, New Zealand. I'm our in-house developer

0:44.8

for our infrastructure service and related sort of services. Excellent, good stuff. So Vbridge,

0:51.2

it's an interesting company, and I think kind of one that flies under

0:54.9

the radar for me in the infrastructure space and the hosting space in A&Z, but a really great

1:00.6

example of, I think, leveraging great technology to do great things. And that's why I wanted to have

1:05.2

you guys and you on personally in episode two. But yeah, let's dig into the history a little bit because I think it's

1:12.0

got a little bit of an interesting history in terms of where you guys came from. Like every sort

1:16.7

of great company, there's a great story behind it. And I think it's also about the relationships

1:21.5

that form the companies. And you guys are a service provider, like you said, based out of Christchurch.

1:27.0

And that's a relevant sort of topic in this whole company history because Christchurch

1:33.3

in itself over the last 10 years has seen some challenges, which I think has helped you guys

1:38.9

grow as a company.

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