SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) is a hot topic these days. On this episode, I give a brief overview of what SD-WAN is. I also talk about the challenges seen on branch networking today and how SD-WAN can help us.

Check this free e-book: http://www.velocloud.com/sd-wan-resources/white-papers/software-defined-wan-for-dummies.

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Today on this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (@smitmartijn) and we discuss about why network engineers should invest their time in honing their software development and scripting skills. Then we go into discussing what are the tools and methods for doing this.

Here are the links to the resources we mentioned on the show:

Udacity - Learn to Code (Nanodegree program)

PowerShell: Getting Started (by Michael Bender)

PowerNSX

Using Ansible for Network Automation (YouTube)

Ansible IOS_Config Module: Part 1 Configuring Cisco Routers with simple commands (YouTube)

VMware {code}

Network to Code

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On this episode, I talked about some of the interesting announcements at VMworld US that took place in August 26-30 in Las Vegas.

I focused mainly on the NSBU (Network and Security Business Unit) news, such as, new updates on NSX-T, NSX Cloud, vRNI, but also the collaboration with Arista. There has also been a few interesting "Tech Preview" announcements, and I've briefly talked about them.

Here are some of the links where you can find more information on announcements that I've talked about:

What's New at VMworld 2018

NSX Portfolio Realizing the Virtual Cloud Network for Customers

Arista Introduces Secure Cloud Networking

Adaptive Micro-segmentation – Built-in Application Security from the Network to the Workload

VMware NSX Helps Customers Build a Virtual Cloud Network to Connect and Protect Apps, Data, and Users Across Cloud Environments

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a Global Platform for Multi-Cloud Operations

Taking Innovation to New and Unexpected Levels at VMworld 2018

VMware has edge, AI, blockchain ambitions

VMware Hands on Labs (HOL)

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Here is the 1st episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast!

This short episode includes a quick introduction of myself, why am I making this podcast and what my content is going to be.

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