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vSpeaking Podcast Ep 135: Expert Panel

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Last week at VMworld Europe the vSpeaking Podcast welcomed the Expert Panel (Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman, William Lam and Ken Werneburg) to discuss the shifting IT landscape. Topics discussed 1. ROBO aka “the edge” is being redefined 2. Kubernetes for everyone? 3. What are the customer conversations these days? Links Mentioned Video: Intro from VMware COO Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast ep 133: VMworld Conversations

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This week the Virtually Speaking Podcast is heading to Barcelona for VMworld 2019 and we hope to see you there. Whether you’re going or not we think you will enjoy this compilation of great conversations we had at VMworld US a few weeks back. In this episode we discuss BitFusion with Niels Hagoort and Justin Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast ep 132: Designing and Sizing HCI

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions have been all the rage in the datacenter but when it comes to design and sizing, it’s easy to make some of the same mistakes when moving from physical to virtual. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware’s Matt Northam to help us understand how to assess your Read more...

How to Persuade Your Boss

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IT organizations are faced with a tantalizing array of options when it comes to hardware and software solutions but long before anything can ever be deployed, it has to be purchased, which means at some point it had to be approved. Sometimes deploying a solution can be the easy part compared to getting approval. So Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 130: Pure Accelerate 2019

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As a VMware Elite Technology Alliance Partner, Pure Storage has been working with VMware to help customers derive the greatest value for their virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware. Last week the Virtually Speaking Podcast attended Pure Accelerate 2019 for a few days of technology, networking, and of course some delicious Texas BBQ. On this episode we Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 129: Project Pacific

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One of the big announcements at VMworld was a technology preview called Project Pacific. Project Pacific is a re-architecture of vSphere with Kubernetes as its control plane. To a developer, Project Pacific looks like a Kubernetes cluster where they can use Kubernetes declarative syntax to manage cloud resources like virtual machines, disks and networks. To the Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 128: The Future of IT – How will you fit in?

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This VMworld Virtually Speaking recorded a live podcast discussing the future of IT and how we all fit in. This breakout session\live podcast included an esteemed panel of experts (William Lam, Frank Denneman, Duncan Epping and Ken Werneburg) and input from various attendees. Enjoy! Links Mentioned Video: Intro from VMware COO Sanjay Poonen Video: Moscone Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 127: VMworld 2019 US Recap

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VMworld 2019 US is a wrap. With so many key announcements made this week, it was great to catch up with Dell CEO Michael Dell and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. You may also remember back in episode 91 Vijay Banga, technical fellow at FedEx Services, and VMware’s David Boone discussed their vSAN Proof of Concept and finding “the Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 126: vSAN 6.7 Update 3

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This week VMware announced the upcoming release of the industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure software, VMware vSAN. vSAN 6.7 Update 3 primarily focusses on unified management, intelligent operations and enhanced performance. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Koehler to walk us through the details of this new release. Links Mentioned What’s New in Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 125: HCX

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VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) is probably one of the coolest VMware products that you’ve never heard of. At its core, it enables customers to seamlessly migrate workloads between public and private cloud environments, without any application or configuration modifications. This week VMware announced the latest release of VMware HCX that now accelerates large-scale live Read more...