This week on the podcast, we bring in Dr. Desktop, Chris Gebhardt and Virtualization TME/NetApp A-Team member Steven Cortez to talk about what’s going on at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, what sessions to attend and what’s new in Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 7.0.

It’s the 100th episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast!

To help us celebrate, we brought in the XCP team. Join XCP developer Bogdan Minciu and Product Manager Joshey Lazer as we discuss the super-fast migration/reporting tool and to give us a preview of CIFS/SMB support with XCP, as well as coming up with some creative new uses for the tool – even to fill the gaps left by discontinued products like OSSV and File SRM. You can find XCP and use it for free at: http://xcp.netapp.com

This week on the podcast, we brought in NetApp’s Oracle expert, Jeff Steiner to talk about how he’s using Docker containers to deploy Oracle applications and implementing Databases as a Service.

This week on the podcast, we check in with SnapCenter TME John Spinks to find out what’s in SnapCenter 3.0 – just in time for its release.

This week on the podcast, we’re talking ONTAP Analytics in the cloud and the new OATS product with a crew of performance folks including Greg Keller, Sr. Director, Performance Engineering, Matt Hambrick, Director of Performance Engineering, and Fred Peiffer, Performance Characterization Engineer/Architect. Find out how OATS is using existing performance data and machine learning to teach a system how to analyze and resolve performance issues, as well as how you can use OATS for your environment.

This week on the podcast, we invite the Storage Janitor, Andy Banta and Developer Advocate, Josh Atwell to speak with us about the role of the storage and server admin in today’s next generation data centers. We also touch on VVols and where they stand in the hierarchy of storage management.

This week on the podcast, we kick off a series of quarterly security update episodes to reflect the ever-changing security and vulnerability landscape. We cover WannaCry, Petya/NotPetya and basic security best practices you can follow to help protect against threats. We join some of the NetApp security team, including Kevin Ryan from PSIRT at NetApp

and Security TME Andrae Middleton, as well as esteemed NetApp A-Team member, Paul Stringfellow. Paul is the technical director at Gardner Systems in the UK. You can find his blog and podcast at https://techstringy.wordpress.com/.

This week on the podcast, we discuss the latest NetApp converged offering, FlexPod with SolidFire, also known as FlexPod SF! Join us as we welcome FlexPod TME Melissa Palmer and NetApp SolidFire Product Manager Brett Siclair to talk about what FlexPod SF is and what it means for your next generation datacenter.

This week on the podcast, we chat with a few of NetApp’s Women in Tech about the Women in Tech program. In October, 2009, NetApp launched the Women in Technology group. Their mission is to support and foster the development of NetApp’s women by providing a forum for mentoring, networking, communication, and professional development. WIT is active in volunteer activities supporting women in our community, encouraging girls to study STEM, and helping those in need. There are currently over 900 members of WIT worldwide.

This week on the podcast, we bring in the FabricPool lifeguard, John Lantz, to give us the nuts and bolts behind the new ONTAP 9.2 feature. Also joining us this week is the Senior Vice President of the ONTAP Systems Group, Octavian Tanase, as well as ONTAP Chief Architect, Ravi Kavuri. If you have any questions about FabricPool, reach out to the DL at [email protected].