TechTalks – Virtualized Geek

In this important career focused episode, Keith and Mark talk with Eric Lee about IT burn out. Eric wrote a timely and very important blog post on IT Burnout. Eric helps workers identify symptoms of burnout and how to get help and live a balanced life.

Rubrik Technical Marketing Engineer Rebecca Fitzhugh joins the Sphere. Rebecca shares her experience starting her career as a 17-year old in the military to running her consultancy and eventually joining Rubrik. Rebecca has a unique perspective as someone willing to mop the floor or design a data to accomplish the mission while finding enjoyment alongContinue reading "The Sphere – Mission Accomplished w/Rebecca Fitzhugh"

John and Kat Troyer share their experience of running a business as both business partners and a married couple. In this raw conversation, Keith and Mark probe for input on topics ranging from money, stress, and trust. Thanks to John and Kat for a very honest conversation. You can find more about their businesses on https://techreckoning.com

Welcome back to podcasting on the VirtualizedGeek. We’ve rebooted the channel to a career-focused podcast. In this first return episode, Amy Lewis of the Geek Whisperers joins the podcast to talk about her transformation from working in publishing to a director at a large enterprise IT software company. Show Notes 04:00 – Yes and? Amy’s firstContinue reading "Quietly Judging with Amy Lewis – VirtualizedGeek Podcast"

I struggled to find the killer application for Software-Defined Networking. The PacketPushers who are the geekiest of networking geeks don’t feel Cisco ACI or VMware NSX are mature enough for the average enterprise. I am however intrigued by SD WAN. One of the use cases I’ve mentioned for SD-WAN is saving on circuit costs whileContinue reading "CTO Advisor Chat Episode 1 – SD-WAN The killer SDN app"

I never brought the idea that VMware is doubling down on virtualization. It didn’t make sense to me. While VMware itself was going well, I didn’t see vSphere as a blockbuster solution anymore. A few years later the diversity we see in VMware’s portfolio bears this out. No one I’ve talked to is knocking downContinue reading "Tech Talk 27: The hypervisor no longer matters"

After my very public job search last year, I’ve consistently gotten the question why take a job as a SAP Infrastructure Architect? What in the world does SAP have to do with virtualization and new cloud based IT? It doesn’t compute on the surface. In this episode of VirtualizedGeek.com TechTalk I break down the why.

Interesting edition of The Reckoning newsletter last night. One of the topics was alternative forms of blogging and the rise of podcasting. Obviously, I’ve already adopted podcasting. I’ve settled on a 3 episode a week release schedule. The format is a micro-podcast lasting from 4 to 7 mins on wide ranging topics around enterprise tech.Continue reading "TT 25: The end of blogging"

Nutanix CEO’s response to VMware’s vSphere support concerns is interesting. One of the more interesting battles in enterprise tech has been the back and forth between Nutanix and VMware. Most recently VMware had gotten a dig in on Nutanix’ end user license agreement that prevents publishing of benchmarks without the written permission of Nutanix. AsContinue reading "TT 24: Nutanix isn’t an application"

I don’t ask the question but flat out make an argument that engineers need to attend work social events but should. I guess I’d ask the question if you don’t like your co-workers enough to have drinks with them maybe it’s time for a move?  

After 3 days of intense CoffeeTalks with HP executives and engineers, here are my closing thoughts. – HP is big and maybe too big in contrast to a company such as EMC – HP Networking is formidable My thoughts on HP Storage

Day 2 of HP Discover, I had the opportunity to sit down with HP Technical Services. HP Technical Services is the technology consulting arm of HP Enterprise. These are the consultants you go and have wide-ranging conversations with about business

Day 1 of HP Discover. I mentioned how big HP is as an organization. I got a sense how complex and hard it is to present everything that is going on in HP. I sat through presentations from HP Storage,

I'm headed to HP Discover wearing my blogger hat and wanted to share why I decided to spend another two days in Las Vegas. More importantly, why enterprise customers still take HP seriously. HP is more than just a big company, they are innovating in many areas. Show Notes HP Discover Website  Invited Blogger list Enrico Signoretti's Blog and HP Sponsored CrowdChat