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In this important career focused episode, Keith and Mark talk with Eric Lee about IT burn out. Eric wrote a timely and very important blog post on IT Burnout. Eric helps workers identify symptoms of burnout and how to get help and live a balanced life.

Rubrik Technical Marketing Engineer Rebecca Fitzhugh joins the Sphere. Rebecca shares her experience starting her career as a 17-year old in the military to running her consultancy and eventually joining Rubrik. Rebecca has a unique perspective as someone willing to mop the floor or design a data to accomplish the mission while finding enjoyment along the way.

John and Kat Troyer share their experience of running a business as both business partners and a married couple. In this raw conversation, Keith and Mark probe for input on topics ranging from money, stress, and trust. Thanks to John and Kat for a very honest conversation. You can find more about their businesses on https://techreckoning.com

Welcome back to podcasting on the VirtualizedGeek. We’ve rebooted the channel to a career-focused podcast. In this first return episode, Amy Lewis of the Geek Whisperers joins the podcast to talk about her transformation from working in publishing to a director at a large enterprise IT software company.

Show Notes

04:00 – Yes and? Amy’s first transformation

05:00 – Posterchild for women in tech (CloudCast Podcast Episode)

09:00 – Getting that full-time or getting fired

13:30 – Why pivot a 2nd time?

17:00 – The value of mentorship

22:30 – The importance of doing what drives you

 

 

 

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I struggled to find the killer application for Software-Defined Networking. The PacketPushers who are the geekiest of networking geeks don’t feel Cisco ACI or VMware NSX are mature enough for the average enterprise. I am however intrigued by SD WAN. One of the use cases I’ve mentioned for SD-WAN is saving on circuit costs while improving network service levels. Another use case is segmentation which is what I talk about in this episode.

 

I never brought the idea that VMware is doubling down on virtualization. It didn’t make sense to me. While VMware itself was going well, I didn’t see vSphere as a blockbuster solution anymore. A few years later the diversity we see in VMware’s portfolio bears this out. No one I’ve talked to is knocking down doors to upgrade to vSphere 6.0. I’ve followed VMware since VMware ESX 3.5. I haven’t experienced this lack of excitement over a major release in years. vSphere 5.5 maybe VMware’s Windows 7. It’s good enough to not be compelled to upgrade.

So, where does that leave VMware? How will they support the growth that The Street expects? Listen to the podcast to get my thoughts on the future of virtualization and VMware.

Show Notes

My Post over on TechRepublic – Why VMware may fall victim to virtualization cost cutting

After my very public job search last year, I’ve consistently gotten the question why take a job as a SAP Infrastructure Architect? What in the world does SAP have to do with virtualization and new cloud based IT? It doesn’t compute on the surface. In this episode of VirtualizedGeek.com TechTalk I break down the why.

Interesting edition of The Reckoning newsletter last night. One of the topics was alternative forms of blogging and the rise of podcasting. Obviously, I’ve already adopted podcasting. I’ve settled on a 3 episode a week release schedule. The format is a micro-podcast lasting from 4 to 7 mins on wide ranging topics around enterprise tech. One day may be storage, the next network and another career water cooler conversations.

What does this mean for blogging? I think there are topics best served by long form text. One it’s better for SEO and discoverability. The other is that deep topics are easier to parse and organize via written word. However, I’ll be adjusting. I’m shifting to a living page format that is more of a running blog post that changes as my information and the industry changes. Unlike a blog post where we never delete information, information may get deleted in this new format.

The first page is VMware Competition which is geared toward understanding existing VMware products and their competition.

Nutanix CEO’s response to VMware’s vSphere support concerns is interesting.

One of the more interesting battles in enterprise tech has been the back and forth between Nutanix and VMware. Most recently VMware had gotten a dig in on Nutanix’ end user license agreement that prevents publishing of benchmarks without the written permission of Nutanix. As noted VMware in the post, VMware has a similar statement that is a little less onerous.

Nutanix’ response was that a better solution would be to commission an independent 3rd party to perform a proper comparison. According Nutanix’ VMware declined. Not sure why they would decline. I’d assume for the same reasons Nutanix doesn’t want end users to publish performance results – performance comparisons suck.

Another topic is the whole decision for Nutanix to not OEM vSphere. On theCube, Nutanix CEO mentioned Nutanix doesn’t want to compete with the channel. Additionally, he claimed that Nutanix is just an application that rides atop of vSphere and an application shouldn’t OEM the hypervisor. I found application statement to be interesting and dig deeper on the podcast. I call BS. Nutanix is a platform, and that’s why they introduced a new hypervisor. It’s not just an application that rides up top the hypervisor.

I know Nutanix CEO Nheeraj Pandey would disagree but hey…

 

I don’t ask the question but flat out make an argument that engineers need to attend work social events but should. I guess I’d ask the question if you don’t like your co-workers enough to have drinks with them maybe it’s time for a move?