ITR - IT Reality

ITR - IT Reality

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  • Welcome Caitlin Allison, Part 2

    Continuing from last week, Guest Co-Host Ariel Sanchez Mora, Richard Kenyan, and star guest Caitlin Allison explore personal brand on twitter and related...

    Topics discussed:

    • The power of Branding.
    • Giving advice when your not an Expert but you're immersed in it. Ie, why you should blog.

      • Links mentioned in this episode:

      • Join ITR Slack for great conversation and the opportunity to participate in the after show.
      • VMUG is awesome, get Involved & connected!
        • 42 min
      • Welcome Caitlin Allison from VMUG HQ.

        This week we welcome Guest Co-Host Ariel Sanchez Mora, Richard Kenyan, and star guest Caitlin Allison. Let’s delve into the mind of vCommunity Caitlin, and her travels in the US... Come with us… #vExpert #vCommunity #PizzaWars

        Topics discussed:

        • Do you even Twitter?
        • Creating relationships within a Community.
        • Working with VMUG Usercons
        • Rolling with the punches, when things go wrong you can't control.

          • Links mentioned in this episode:

          • Join ITR Slack for great conversation and the opportunity to participate in the after show.
          • VMUG is awesome, get Involved & connected!
            • 54 min
          • Apple iPhone 12 with Tim Davis

            This week, we welcome Tim Davis back again to reflect on the Apple announcements, Prime Day, And the 8 hours that lit up our lives in the vCommunity #TimCantTweet

            Topics discussed:

            1. Apple Announcements - Incremental updates at its best, also it’s a great big beautiful tomorrow!
            2. Prime Day - Why I’m poor again.
            3. TimCantTweet - Losing a bet may suck for you, but it brings a community together.

              4. Links mentioned in this episode:

              • Apple iPhone
              • Apple HomePod Mini
              • Event Stream
              • Rokform Coupon Code: BlockheadMoto25
              • Battlebots
              • Fully Desk

                • Join us in Slack!

                1 hr 1 min
              • Welcome Tim Davis X2

                This week, Nathan, Vince, and Tim Davis as well as OtherTimDavis discuss Tim's recent career move.

                Topics discussed:

                1. Tim Davis Intro
              • What is DevRel?
              • Career Changes and Risk
              • Env0
              • Mistakes and Learning from them

                • Join the ITR Slack Workspace.

                50 min
              • The COVID Funk & VMworld in 2020.

                This week, Nathan & Vince meet with Richard Kenyan and Tim Davis to discuss the COVID funk AKA mental fatigue that many are going through in the 2nd Half of 2020 and offer a break in the form of VMworld 2020 as well as the Social Community known as Orbital Jigsaw.

                Mentioned in this episode:

                • Mental State changes in a Pandemic world.
              • Pandemic Life affects everyone differently. Acknowledging this, a key thing to keep in mind is that we are all experiencing it.
              • COVID Funk affects many Industries/Companies/Individuals in ways none of us could have predicted, except Richard apparently.
              • “The New Normal” Many mention it, What will it look like? We don’t know but understand that this is something we are all trying to figure out.
              • How will the elimination of promo costs under quarantine change the future of groups like VMUG?
              • If you haven't joined us in the new Orbital Jigsaw Discord yet, please use this link. This is for VMworld Watch Parties as well as Watch Parties for other IT Industry Events. The community is growing, so come on over and join us =)
                • 1 hr 4 min
              • About Kubernetes...

                This week, Vince Wood and Nathan Bennett meet with Rachel Leekin to discuss Kubernetes.

                Topics discussed:

                1. What is Kubernetes?
              • Why Kubernetes?
              • Why should IT Pros Care?
              • Do we have to use Kubernetes?
              • League of Kubernetes
              • Alternatives?
              • OPA
              • VMworld & Kubecon

                • Links mentioned in this episode:

                • ITR Slack Space
              • OPA Rego, What?
              • Katacoda Training
              • VMware Hands -On Labs for Cloud Native
              • VMware KubeAcademy
              • How to get started with Kubernetes Part 1 by Rachel Leekin
              • How to get started with Kubernetes Part 2 by Rachel Leekin
                • 59 min
              • College Degrees for an IT Career, Worth it?

                Continuing the conversation with Kelby Mahoney, Nathan & Vince welcome back Al Rasheed to discuss the goals of post-primary school education. Should we really go into debt to learn more, with the hope of getting it back? Or is there a better way? If you have a child looking at college, or are looking at college yourself, we hope you can find some food for thought here.

                Join the ITR group in Slack!

                OR
                Join Orbital Jigsaw for the #VMworld watch Party.

                1 hr 2 min
              • Diversity & Inclusion Follow Up

                Back in Episode 30, we had a chat with Kelby Mahoney regarding her VMworld presentation on Diversity & Inclusion. We received some feedback and questions such that it made sense to ask Kelby to join us again to elaborate further.

                Links mentioned in this episode:

                • What white people can do for racial justice
              • Netflix "Explained" Season 1 "Why Women are paid less
                • IMDB about the Netflix episode
              • ITR Slack Space. Come engage with us!
                • 1 hr 8 min
              • Become Ansible by Josh Duffney

                This week, Vince Wood, Matt Crape and Josh Duffney discuss Josh's pandemic project. Josh has written a book titled Become Ansible where he assembled multiple years of learnings into 140 pages such that anyone with a technical background can learn to use Ansible.

                Links mentioned in this episode:

                • CloudSkills FM Book Episode - After listening to ITR, if you want more of Josh, check out his other recent podcast experience on the topic of his book.
              • Book Purchase link
              • Using Ansible in Containers
              • Secure Group Variables
              • Use Ansible like Powershell
                • 35 min
              • About Dealing with Failure

                This week, Amy Lewis & Vince Wood meet with Josh Atwell to discuss Dealing with Failure.

                Topics discussed:

                • How we feel when we make mistakes - and why we often get it wrong.
              • Re-adjust your thinking on “blame”
                • Why did the system or process allow the failure to occur?
              • Information is your friend
                • Focus on variables that you can control
              • Managing and understanding failure impact radius
              • Failure is a key teacher

                • Links mentioned in this episode:

                • Video Version of Josh's presentation
              • Will Smith on Failure
              • Join the ITR Slack space and share your point of view or volunteer for a future episode.
                • 56 min

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              ITR is a conversational podcast about IT beyond the Marketing / Sales pitch. Topics will be primarily, but not limited to, tech found within businesses. We will be sharing conversations with IT Pros…