Data Center Therapy

We're doubling down on networking to address all those questions hanging out there: What are good practices for setting up ESXi and vSphere networking? Should I put management vmkernel ports on Standard or Distributed virtual switches? Nexus or Catalyst switching? ...and much more – have a listen to find out!

Learn more at ivoxy.com/networking-on-vsphere 

If you're a part of a small to medium-sized organization, listen up! Jeremy spends some time talking with the guys about networking best practices for SMBs – specifically discussing some products & features that can really help secure servers & systems from diabolical attachers and feckless users alike. 

As discussed on this episode, if everything in your network is on the default VLAN (VLAN1), it might just be the right time to have a chat with your friends here at IVOXY; we’re eager to help you out!

Learn more at ivoxy.com/networking-and-security-safari.

2020 is off to a roaring start! Our intrepid hosts balance the demands of delivering services, refreshing our internal IVOXY lab infrastructure and helping the team get ready for our upcoming Kubernetes classes.

Listeners get a chance to overhear the staging discussion and learn more about how the lab will be rebuilt with Infrastructure-as-Code, the trials and tribulations of bootstrapping a development environment, and how our engineers have to shift their mental gears to get into scripting and coding when plain old system administration is their true comfort zone.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/the-great-lab-rebuild.

Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.

We’ve hit a milestone, the big two five, heck our podcast can finally rent a car! So we thought it’d be a good chance to catch up with our co-founder, Alec, to share a bit about our virtualization-driven genesis, 14 years of evolution, and where we believe IT is headed next.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/the-ivoxy-origin-story.

Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.

IaC borrows a methodology from developers and applies it to infrastructure. This week Matt & Matt make a New Year's resolution to work smarter, not harder by harnessing the efficiencies of Infrastructure as Code.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/infrastructure-as-code.

Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.

It’s well known that the Home Automation space is very fragmented with all the competing ecosystems and technologies out there, so this week our intrepid technology sherpas thought it'd be fun to break down the possible options & integrations for our listeners who already spend the bulk of their day supporting the tech at their organization.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/how-to-home-automate-like-a-boss.

Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.

Matt & Matt open up their toolboxes to share their favorite widgets, dongles, and gear that help them get their dirty data center jobs done right.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/tools_of_the_information_technology_trade.

Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: https://ivoxy.co/containers_training.

We welcome our good friend & NetApp Technical Partner Manager, Jeff Hicks, to dive into the revelations shared from the mothership at NetApp INSIGHT 2019 – held at the surprisingly cold Las Vegas strip a couple of weeks ago. The conucopia of topics include disaggregated HCI, NetApp's Data Fabric vision, new hardware products like the AFF A400 array, and of course what we mean by "Developers are the new Kingmakers" and how we feel about it.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/insight-2019-recap

Oh, and by the way – NetApp is offering a free 3-minute assessment to help find the right data management solution for your business: explore.netapp.com/ivoxy

Here comes a deep dive discussion that should prove informative and entertaining to all IT pros – container-savvy or not! Whether you’re interested in repeatability, scalability, or orchestration, there are some neat advantages containers have versus “we’ve always done it this way” deployment practices.

Learn more: https://www.ivoxy.com/can-you-even-contain-yourself

The guys just got back from the Pure//Accelerate conference in Austin + the Rubrik Tech Summit in Denver, and they have everything you need to know. Oh, plus they've got first-hand accounts of high-speed electric scootering and some TV show tips.

Learn more at ivoxy.com/changes-in-primary-storage-and-data-protection