Virtually Speaking Podcast

On this kick off episode of our VMware Explore Barcelona coverage, Pete and John discuss the event, sessions and activities planned for the week.

VMware Explore is VMware's flagship event for all things multi-cloud and the most anticipated event in the virtualization and cloud computing industry. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John preview Explore Barcelona and give a sneak peek into some of the content you can expect to see in the coming days. Read more

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Matt Mancini to discuss a Homelab project he orchestrated, putting dozens of Intel Optane drives in the hands of the VMware vExpert Community to use in their home labs. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Last month at VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the latest updates to vSphere 8. This includes not only Version 8 Update 2 of VMware's enterprise workload platform, but also includes a new cloud service to which users of vSphere+ will soon have access. These updates will help enhance the operational efficiencies of IT admins, supercharge the performance of demanding workloads, and accelerate the pace of innovation for DevOps engineers, developers, and anyone else that can benefit from self-service access to infrastructure services. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome vSphere Senior Technical Marketing Architect, Féidhlim O'Leary to walk through the details of this release. Read more

For more than a decade, Pure Storage has been a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, collaborating with VMware to help customers realize the greatest value from their virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware. This year at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Pure Storage is introducing Azure VMware Solution Powered by Pure Cloud Block Store.  Cloud Block Store is a software-only block storage offering in the public cloud. It combines enterprise-grade data services from Purity Operating Environment with Azure storage. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to Pure Storage Sr. Director of Product Management, Cody Hosterman about this new announcement, vVols, and much more.  Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Technology is a crucial component of operations at New Belgium Brewing, the 4th largest craft brewer in the US. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome New Belgium Brewing Head of Enterprise Security, Adam Little to discuss how they use VMware vSAN in their operations. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Veeam and VMware are long-time strategic partners, bringing the power of 24/7/365 availability to virtualized environments. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John catch up with Veeam Regional CTO APJ, Anthony Spiteri and get a sneak peek into Veeam Data Platform v12a. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

At VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the tech preview of new generative-AI assisted capabilities that can reduce the complexity associated with managing multi-cloud environments. VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist is a large language model capability that enables you to complete management tasks (such as those mentioned above) in less time with reduced friction that is often associated with these tasks. These capabilities will enable searching and exploring all of the resources across your environment and will later expand to more complex use cases such as generating and executing infrastructure as code based on your requirements. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak with Technology Director, Jad El-Zein about VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist and AI in the cloud. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

What if you could go beyond just extending your VMware environment to AWS? What if you could integrate VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS native services to improve your cloud performance, reduce costs, and unlock even more value? On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Osama Masfary and Hitendar Sethi to share the latest announcements for VMware Cloud on AWS and discuss this how customers are leveraging the service to achieve their business objectives. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

With VMware Cloud, customers can choose the best cloud environment for their ever-evolving business and application needs because VMware’s multi-cloud architecture is extensible to a broad range of cloud endpoints. Case in point, Equinix Metal in prime metro locations around the world! This year at Explore Las Vegas 2023, VMware announced that VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal (VMCE) is available as an Early Access Release. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

This week at VMware Explore Las Vegas, there was no shortage of exciting announcements, including VMware Private AI, vSAN Max, and NSX+ just to name a few. Interestingly, VMware Cloud Foundation is literally at the foundation of them all. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome Vice President of Engineering, Anu Kirpekar to share how VCF 5.0 provides reduced upgrade times, increased speed of operations, and greater scale. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Most ransomware attacks now employ fileless techniques that cannot be detected by scanning idle backups, posing a major threat to organizations. VMware Ransomware Recovery is an award-winning VMware Cloud service available today designed to recover from fileless attacks using behavioral analysis of powered-on VMs in cloud-based isolated recovery environments (IREs). On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak with Belu De Arbelaiz and Yoomi Hong of VMware Product Marketing, to get all the updates for VCDR and VMware Ransomeware Recovery. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

At VMware Explore 2023 VMware announced the launch of VMware Private AI. This architectural approach for AI services enables privacy and control of corporate data, choice of open source and commercial AI solutions, quick time-to-value, and integrated security and management. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John Speak to Himashu Singh and Shobhit Bhutani about this announcement of VMware Private AI and VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to VP of Product Marketing, Prashanth Shenoy about evolution of VMware Cloud and uses cases like Ransomware Recovery. Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Project Keswick is the easy button for Edge, taking care of infrastructure deployment, security, and scale issues – so that developers can concentrate on innovating and quickly deploy to hundreds or even thousands of edge locations. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome VMware Sr Product Line Manager, Alan Renouf to share the details of this xLabs project. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

VMware Data Services Manager is a software solution that provides the same convenience as a public cloud-based DBaaS platform, but it is installed and managed on-premises eliminating the challenges of building a custom on-premises DBaaS platform. It helps enterprise IT team stays in control, automate day 2 operations to free up valuable DBA time and provide App developers with the agility they need. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast. Michael Gandy and Christos Karamanolis share the details on how VMware is helping customers to implement a DBaaS on vSphere and how it fits into the “Cloud Smart” strategy. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

vSphere 8 Update 2 introduces significant announcements, and the storage side is no exception. For example, there are now new vVols VASA specs, better performance and resilience, enhanced certificate management, and support for NVMeoF to name a few. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome Jason Massae and Naveen Krishnamurthy to discuss the details of the vSphere 8 Update 2 Core Storage announcements. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

You've no doubt heard about VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware's full-stack SDDC solution for implementing a modern private cloud. With the VCF Holodeck Toolkit toolkit, customers can quickly get fully functional nested VCF lab up and running and start getting hands-on with all aspects of the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

This week at VMware Explore Pete and John spoke with Chief Information Officer, Mark Fournier about US Senate Federal Credit Union's experience using vSAN ESA. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

This week VMware announced the next evolution of VMware Cloud, empowering customers with new editions and capabilities that will help them modernize, optimize, and better protect their organizations. With VMware Cloud, customers innovate faster, operate more efficiently, improve threat defenses, and more quickly recover from ransomware attacks. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and Rick Walsworth speak with VMware SVP Product Management and Marketing, who shares the latest announcements on VMware Cloud. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes