Virtually Speaking Podcast

The vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) is an optional, alternative architecture in VMware vSAN 8 that’s designed to achieve all-new levels of efficiency, scalability and performance. It features a single-tier architecture optimized for high-performance NVMe-based TLC flash devices for both on-premises environments and hyperscale public clouds. Johannes Weidacher, an IT Specialist for Storage and Datacenter Virtualization is one of the many vSAN customers who recently discovered the performance, capacity and security improvements of vSAN ESA. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak to Johannes about his recent experience moving from vSAN OSA to ESA.

On this kick off episode of our VMware Explore Barcelona coverage, Pete and John discuss the event, sessions and activities planned for the week.

VMware Explore is VMware's flagship event for all things multi-cloud and the most anticipated event in the virtualization and cloud computing industry. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John preview Explore Barcelona and give a sneak peek into some of the content you can expect to see in the coming days. Read more

On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Matt Mancini to discuss a Homelab project he orchestrated, putting dozens of Intel Optane drives in the hands of the VMware vExpert Community to use in their home labs. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Last month at VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the latest updates to vSphere 8. This includes not only Version 8 Update 2 of VMware's enterprise workload platform, but also includes a new cloud service to which users of vSphere+ will soon have access. These updates will help enhance the operational efficiencies of IT admins, supercharge the performance of demanding workloads, and accelerate the pace of innovation for DevOps engineers, developers, and anyone else that can benefit from self-service access to infrastructure services. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome vSphere Senior Technical Marketing Architect, Féidhlim O'Leary to walk through the details of this release. Read more

For more than a decade, Pure Storage has been a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, collaborating with VMware to help customers realize the greatest value from their virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware. This year at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Pure Storage is introducing Azure VMware Solution Powered by Pure Cloud Block Store.  Cloud Block Store is a software-only block storage offering in the public cloud. It combines enterprise-grade data services from Purity Operating Environment with Azure storage. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to Pure Storage Sr. Director of Product Management, Cody Hosterman about this new announcement, vVols, and much more.  Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Technology is a crucial component of operations at New Belgium Brewing, the 4th largest craft brewer in the US. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome New Belgium Brewing Head of Enterprise Security, Adam Little to discuss how they use VMware vSAN in their operations. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

Veeam and VMware are long-time strategic partners, bringing the power of 24/7/365 availability to virtualized environments. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John catch up with Veeam Regional CTO APJ, Anthony Spiteri and get a sneak peek into Veeam Data Platform v12a. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

At VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the tech preview of new generative-AI assisted capabilities that can reduce the complexity associated with managing multi-cloud environments. VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist is a large language model capability that enables you to complete management tasks (such as those mentioned above) in less time with reduced friction that is often associated with these tasks. These capabilities will enable searching and exploring all of the resources across your environment and will later expand to more complex use cases such as generating and executing infrastructure as code based on your requirements. On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak with Technology Director, Jad El-Zein about VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist and AI in the cloud. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes

What if you could go beyond just extending your VMware environment to AWS? What if you could integrate VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS native services to improve your cloud performance, reduce costs, and unlock even more value? On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Osama Masfary and Hitendar Sethi to share the latest announcements for VMware Cloud on AWS and discuss this how customers are leveraging the service to achieve their business objectives. Watch the video of this episode Watch all VMware Explore Recap episodes