The Data Center Insiders Podcast: Virtualization | Cloud Computing | Enterprise IT | VMware | EMC

I speak with Jim Sanzone (EMC Solutions Technical Marketing Director), to discuss Hybrid Cloud and EMC’s new Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) solution.

With Hybrid Cloud gaining more traction, and with more vendors starting to come to market with increasingly robust Hybrid Cloud offerings, this seemed like a good opportunity to find out more, and get some details around what the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud has to offer.

In this show we discuss and cover the following topics:

- What is Hybrid Cloud?

- EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) overview

- EHC use cases

- How do I get EHC?

Alex Almeida is the Senior Technical Manager from EMC’s Backup & Recovery Systems Division, and a backup guy from way-back. With the recent big announcements from EMC around most of its backup and recovery products I thought this would be an excellent time to get Alex on the podcast to talk through some of the new features and enhancements from the announcement.

We also cover the topics of how EMC has stayed ahead of the curve regarding backup and recover over the years, along with the increasing trend and benefits in moving the ability to backup and restore at the application level, and empowering end users and application administrators.

The importance of backup and recovery has traditionally been overlooked by many in the industry, though luckily this has changed in recent years, and with the introduction of many exciting new backup and recovery technologies on the market has made this area a far cry from the days of old where working with backups were just plain boring and uncool.

I speak with the one and only Virtual Geek, Chad Sakac. As always I enjoy my conversations with Chad and his excellent knowledge of technology and the IT industry on the whole.

We cover a wide range of topics including:

- Life after creating the vSpecialist organization: Chad talks about his new role as EMC’s Senior Vice President of the Global SEs, and the challenges in scaling the concept of a “Tribe”.

- Software Defined x: Chad runs through his take on the current state of play around the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), and the various aspects and considerations for some of the software defined components/devices.

- Lab time excellent! I find out what Chad is running in his famous home lab these days

- And finally, will we see any more Chad’s Worlds webcasts or live events?

I am joined by EMC Senior Social Engagement Manager, Matthew Brender (Twitter: @mjbrender). In the podcast we cover the topics of what Matthew’s role entails, EMC Elect, what does “Social Engagement” mean and finally what is the best approach to ensure success, acceptance, and importantly, how companies should look at adding value in the world of social media.

I speak with Matthew Yeager, EMC VMAX Cloud Edition Team Lead (EMEA), about the recent EMC VMAX Cloud Edition storage offering. We discuss what the VMAX Cloud Edition is, it’s high level functionality, how it differs from the standard EMC VMAX, it’s use cases and where the VMAX Cloud Edition is positioned in the market.

I speak with Mark Twomey (EMC Office of the CTO, Backup & Recovery) to discuss the current state of Backups in relation to the mass of data now produced, Virtualization & Cloud Computing.

We are joined by Jeramiah Dooley (VCE Office of the CTO) to discuss things Vblock, VCE and Converged Infrastructure. Want to find out more with what and where VCE are doing in the industry at present? Then this is the episode for you.

We are joined by Scott Lowe (EMC Technologist, author and blogger), where we talk about the OpenStack Cloud and associated projects, and Scott's involvement with them.

We are joined by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis - EMC Global Marketing CTO). Those of you who are an avid reader of leading IT blogs will no doubt be familiar with Chuck and his blog (“Chuck’s Blog”), where he writes many engaging and thought provoking posts around IT trends, new technologies and customer challenges. Chuck has some great insight into many of the IT challenges currently facing businesses, some of which he discusses with us along with the subject of the ‘Software Defined Data Center’.