Unexplored Territory

In this episode, we have a conversation with Niels Hagoort, Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. Niels guides us through the concept of Cloud Migration and dives into the solutions that VMware offers to make the migration as smooth as possible. Niels is also quite commonly known as a demo rockstar, so we also asked him about the secret sauce behind his demos.

In episode 038, we talk to Anthony Spiteri, Regional CTO APJ at Veeam. Anthony talks about the journey of becoming a CTO and guides us through the massive list of enhancements of the new v12 release of Veaam Backup and Replication software.

In episode 037 we talk to Kristopher Groh, Direct Product Management at VMware responsible for various storage projects. Kris introduces us to Cloud Flex Storage and discusses the implementation in-depth. Kris also explains the different use cases for Cloud Flex Storage versus vSAN within VMware Cloud on AWS.

In episode 036 we welcome back Jason Massae, Tech Marketing Architect at VMware, responsible for core storage (vVols, VMFS, NFS etc). We talk about the various enhancements and features introduced in vSphere 8 for NVMe over Fabrics, vVols NFS, and much more!

In episode 035 we talk to Jeff Ulatoski about Published Apps on-demand, which is a solution created with App Volumes 4, the integration with Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), and the innovations happening in the infrastructure stack from VMware.Jeff spoke about the basics of VMware App Volumes, the added value of DEM, and the differences between App Volumes 2.X and App Volumes 4. He also covered what the impact is to architecture, sizing and scaling an application pool...

In episode 034, we have William Lam as a second-time guest discussing everything home labs! William has been writing about home labs for over a decade, probably. We could not imagine a better person to discuss this topic with. Considering at the time of publication, it is almost Christmas. We decided to ask William what his top 10 home lab gifts would be.

In episode 033 we talk to Nabil Quadri about the Ransomware Recovery as a Service solution that VMware recently announced. Nabil discusses how common ransomware attacks are these days, and how customers are struggling to recover from them. He then goes on to explain how VMware Ransomware Recovery is built on the foundation of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, and he goes over the details of the offering and implementation.

In this special episode, we talk to Edward Green (Head of Commercial Technology, McLaren Racing) and Joe Baguley (CTO EMEA, VMware) about VMware's partnership with McLaren Racing. Joe talks about his passion for motorsports, and how VMware got involved with McLaren. Edward dives deep into what IT means for McLaren Racing. What does their data center look like at the track? What kind of datasets are collected? How does McLaren Racing provide fantastic experiences through its Paddock Club?

In episode 031 we talk to Marilyn Basanta about VMware Edge Compute Stack. Marilyn explains what VMware Edge Compute Stack looks like, what customer use cases she encounters in the field, and how VMware Edge Compute Stack can help you run and deploy applications securely and efficiently in remote, and sometimes strange locations.

In episode 030 we talk to our good friend Alan Renouf about Project Keswick. Project Keswick was featured in various VMware Explore sessions and is all about simplifying deployments of infrastructure and applications at the edge. In the episode Alan dives deep into the use cases and how VMware is looking to enable this!