Fresh off of the IBM Innovate event, this episode shares some of the event highlights and also explores the value and power of the customer story.  This the the "Why?" of any technology solution. 

Join Yadin Porter de Leon and Eric Wright for a discussion on VMworld, the vTrailMap initiative, how to get the most out of your VMworld visit and much more. 

Join Simon Law of Oracle Ravello (@RavelloSystems) as we discuss the interesting ways in which IT evolution triggered the value of the Oracle Ravello platform plus a great discussion on progression and growth in IT careers thanks to learning and automation.  

A personal podcast that asks you what brings you joy, and how I find joy with three very simple questions in my work and life.  Big thanks to Alastair Cooke for his post on this subject http://demitasse.co.nz/2018/07/what-brings-you-joy-do-more-of-that/ and to Ray Dalio for his phenomenal book and work around Principles of Life and Work http://principles.com 

Joe Emison, aptly named a serial technical co-founder, shares some great insights into the art of paying it forward, sharing knowledge, and much more.  This one will leave you thinking and offers some solid foresight into what the next generation of startup founders and disruptors is going to be.  

GC On-Demand is back and we have a run of new content coming!  Join host Eric Wright for a discussion on mentoring, and a new program being developed to advance the mentoring community through work at RapidMatter.io 

Rene Van Den Bedem and I unpack the key announcements from VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas. Listen in as we explore very interesting industry and field experience around the private cloud and container ecosystem and our thoughts on the VMware Cloud on AWS offering as well as the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which was announced at the event. 

Join Melissa (@vmiss33), VCDX236, in a discussion about the journey to become an IT architect and exploring her new book available at http://itarchitectjourney.com geared towards helping IT practitioners make the leap to becoming IT architects. 

Find out why we are calling for the death of configuration management in this very informative and important chat with Rob Hirschfeld.  The shift in thinking about infrastructure at all layers is changing the way we do Ops...for good reason. 

This fun chat expands on what we started talking about in episode 42 (http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/ep-42-spiraling-ops-debt-sre-solutions-and-rackn-chat-with-rob-hirschfeld-zehicle/) as we dive into the challenges and potential solutions for thinking and acting with the SRE approach. Big thansk to Rob Hirschfeld from @RackN for sharing his thoughts and experiences from the field on this very exciting subject.