Since its debut in March of 2014, VMware has a long and consistent history of turning innovative ideas into product features in vSAN.  But nothing may be bigger than what is introduced with vSAN 8.  The announcement of the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ or ESA for short, represents a massive step forward in the capabilities of the solution, and the benefits to VMware customers.  This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Staff Technical Marketing Architect Pete Koehler to discuss the new ESA and other new features in vSAN 8. Read more

VMware’s new vSphere offering is an industry-leading workload platform, that allows current and new on-premises infrastructures to be cloud connected while shifting to an OpEx-based consumption model with pay-as-you-grow subscription. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Ken Werneburg and Dave Morera to discuss the details of this new offering. Read more 

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Joshua Lory to discuss the details of VMware Blockchain. Read more 

More organizations are embracing the cloud as a cost-effective business solution that provides many competitive advantages such as revenue growth and faster data recovery. While these advantages are compelling, it's important to asses all aspects of the migration. Companies like House of Brick focus on helping clients find cost effective ways to handle both the technical and licensing challenges of migrating application stacks backed by commercial database engines, such as Oracle or MS SQL Server, into AWS. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome House of Brick's Nick Walter to discuss some of the details of his many migrations to VMware Cloud. Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware Data Cloud CTO Sazzala Redding to discuss cloud storage, file systems, and much more. Read more

VMware is a company that thrives on profound reinvention. With a hyper-focus on customer innovation, they are defining a new market category—with apps and multi-cloud at the center of everything. This transformation communicates that VMware is a strategic leader in multi-cloud, shaping its future, from public to private to edge. To help effectively express that, the VMworld experience needs to be revolutionized as the center of the multi-cloud universe—VMware Explore. Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Google's Kelsey Hightower to discuss Kubernetes, Cloud, and so much more. This is part 2 in a 2-part series. Read more 

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Google's Kelsey Hightower to discuss Kubernetes, Cloud, and so much more. This is part 1 in a 2-part series. Read more 

While there are no specific or credible cyber threats to the U.S. at this time, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has involved cyber-attacks on Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure organizations, could impact organizations both within and beyond the region. Every organization - large and small - must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware's head of Security Strategy to discuss the latest security threats and threat actors. Read More

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Deji Akomolafe and Charles Lee to discuss a new way of automating the deployment of Clustered MS SQL Server on Linux.  Read more