Virtually Speaking Podcast

Continuing our coverage of vSphere 6.5, this week we bring in VMware Product Manager Ben Meadowcroft to discuss Virtual Volumes and whats new in vSphere 6.5 aka VVol 2.0. In case you haven't heard, LUNs Suck.

Continuing our coverage of vSphere 6.5, the Virtually Speaking Podcast brings in Kit Colbert to discuss the Photon Platform and our announcement of integrated Kubernetes support, vSphere Integrated Containers.

Part 2 of our vSphere 6.5 series is all about HA and DRS. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we bring in VMWare Product Manager Brian Graf to walk us through the enhancements of vSphere HA and vSphere DRS. I promise you will be profoundly dumbfounded.

VMware recently announced vSphere 6.5, the latest version of its industry-leading virtualization platform. This new release of vSphere features a dramatically simplified experience, comprehensive built-in security, and a universal app platform for running any app. Because there is so much to cover in vSphere 6.5 we decided to break this into a multi-part series starting with vSphere Security. This week Mike Foley joins us to cover some of the security enhancements of 6.5 including VM encryption, Secure boot support for ESX and VMs and actionable logging. And if that isn't enough Mike even provided some musical entertainment for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

VMworld 2016 EMEA was packed with announcements around cross-cloud architecture with new releases of vSphere, vSAN, vRealize, and PowerCLI to name a few. This week we bring in VMware's Frank Denneman to help us recap the announcements and share some insight around VMware cloud and AWS.

More than 5,000 attendees participated in NetApp Insight 2016 in Las Vegas to hear whats new with both NetApp and SolidFire. In addition to the 13 announcements made last week I was really interested in hearing from both NetApp and SolidFire how they thought this acquisition was going. So I brought my handy dandy microphone and captured tons of "Insight" for your listening pleasure. Enjoy.

VMware recently announced the release of the vSphere 6.0 Update 2m (Migration) tool. vSphere 6.0 Update 2m is an automated end to end migration tool from a Windows vCenter Server 5.5 to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in VMware Sr. TME Emad Younis to walk us through details of using this new tool.

VMworld 2016 US is in the books! This week we bring back the VMworld preview cast (Ken Werneburg and Duncan Epping) for a special VMworld 2016 debrief episode. This episode is packed with session reviews, attendee interviews and even some star-studded Karaoke. Enjoy!

VMworld 2016 is upon us! This Sunday approximately 20,000 IT Professionals will travel to Las Vegas for technical training, education, networking and maybe even a little fun. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in VMware's Duncan Epping and Ken Werneburg to preview VMworld 2016 and share their own tips and tricks to help you make the most our of your VMworld experience.

The opening day of VMworld US 2016 is fast approaching. IT Professionals from all over the world will convene in Las Vegas for training, education, networking and maybe even a little fun. One of the many things to do while attending VMworld this year is the VMware {code} Hackathon. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Alan Renouf and William Lam to walk us through the community VMware {code} and this awesome event at VMworld called the VMware {code} Hackathon.

Last month NetApp released their latest operating system ONTAP® 9 which is a major advance in enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. This week we had the opportunity to catch up with our old friends from the Tech ONTAP podcast and walk through some of the new features of ONTAP 9.

This week for a community spotlight we bring in Eric Siebert from HPE to discuss his popular site vSphere-land, the top 100 vBloggers and VMworld.

We all know that VMware Virtual SAN is the #1 enterprise-class primary storage solution for hyperconverged infrastructure, now with over 5,000 customers. This week we bring in Rawlinson Rivera and Cohesity to discuss a joint white paper detailing how together, Virtual SAN and Cohesity bring the simplicity of scale-out hyperconverged solutions to both primary and secondary storage.

EMC Unity made a big splash at EMC World last month. In case you missed it, it’s the new midrange storage platform to delight EMC current and prospective customers in the mid-markets with emphasis on simplicity, flexibility, modern data services, and affordability. This week we bring in EMC Technical Marketing Manager for Unity, Daniel Chui to walk us through the details of this new platform. One thing for sure, this is not your father's VNX!

Earlier this year Veeam announced the release of it's latest enterprise and medium business product Veeam Availability Suite 9 which guarantees recovery time and recovery point objectives of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. This week we bring in Veeam Senior Product Strategy Manager Rick Vanover to discuss podcasts, the advocacy program Veeam Vanguard and Veeam Availability Suite 9.