Unexplored Territory

In episode 028 we talk to Christos Karamonolis, the godfather of vSAN and VMware Fellow Engineer, about two new projects that he is involved with, VMware Data Services Manager and Project Moneta!Make sure to follow Christos on Twitter. Also, check the following resources for more details on Project Moneta and VMware Data Services Manager:VMware Explore Session: https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video-landing.html?sessionid=1652129704560001cqVB&videoId=6311653142112Blog po...

A lot of announcements were made at VMware Explore around VMware's end-user computing platform. We decided to invite Graeme Gordon to go over the Horizon Cloud Next Gen offering with us, and Johan also managed to grab VMware's EUC CTO Shawn Bass at the event and asked him to elaborate on some of the other announcements. Make sure to follow Shawn and Graeme on twitter. Also, check out the below resources for more information on Horizon Cloud Next Gen!https://techzone.vmware.com/blog/announcing...

This is one of those episodes where we dive right into it. Pete Koehler talks about all things vSAN 8 and primarily focuses on the new architecture introduced, which is called vSAN Express Storage Architecture, or vSAN ESA for short. If you want to know everything about vSAN ESA, then make sure to listen to every minute of this episode!Make sure to follow Pete on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmpete) to keep up to date with his adventures, and check out the VMware website for more documents an...

At VMware Explore vSphere 8.0 was announced, and of course, that means we need to dedicate at least one episode of the Unexplored Territory Podcast to it. We invited VMware's vSphere Tech Marketing guru Feidhlim O'Leary to talk us through all the new exciting features and enhancements.Make sure to read Feidhlim's material and blogs on core.vmware.com, and also check the mentioned references in this podcast episode below:https://core.vmware.com/users/feidhlim-oleary"Continous vCenter Availabil...

In this special episode of the Unexplored Territory Podcast Frank and Duncan share the conversations they had with special guests like Kit Colbert, Chris Wolf, Sazzala Reddy, Stephen Foskett, and many more. Follow us on Twitter for updates and news about upcoming episodes: https://twitter.com/UnexploredPod. Last, but not least, make sure to hit that subscribe button, rate where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!Disclaimer: The thoughts and opini...

In episode 024 we talk to Jad El-Zein, Technology Director in the Office of the CTO at VMware. Jad introduces us to Project Ensemble, now known as VMware Aria Hub, and explains how it enables you to manage all your multi-cloud entities. Jad also discusses various other brand new R&D projects in the multi-cloud management and automation space, this is a must-listen episode!Make sure to follow Jad on Twitter. Also, check the following resources Project Ensemble resources for more details on...

In episode 023 we talk to Richard Garsthagen, Director Cloud Business Development at Oracle. Our discussion was all about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. What is unique about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution compared to other solutions? Why does Richard believe this is a platform everyone should consider when you are exploring public cloud offerings.Make sure to follow Richard on Twitter, and check his blog for regular articles on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Also, check the following resources Ri...

In episode 022 we talk to Michael Roy, Product Management at VMware responsible for VMware Workstation and Fusion. We discussed the history of VMware's desktop products, what was released over the past years, and more importantly, what will be released in the near future!Make sure to follow Michael on Twitter, and check the Workstation Blog or the Fusion Blog regularly as they often have great discounts and provide great insights into what has or will be released and will contain details on t...

In episode 021 we talk to Jason Massae, Tech Marketing Architect at VMware responsible for core storage (vVols, VMFS, NFS etc). We talk about the various features introduced in vSphere 7, like NVMe over Fabrics, vVols enhancements, and much more!Make sure to follow Jason on Twitter, and make sure to read his material on NVMeOF and vVols, also make sure to check his podcast with Cody Hostermann on all things storage!http://www.readsandwritespodcasthttps://core.vmware.com/resource/nvmeof-resour...

We have a very special episode today as VMware just announced vSphere+ and vSAN+, formerly known as Project Arctic. We invited Himanshu Singh to the podcast to give us a quick introduction and go over the most important aspects of this announcement. Himanshu discusses why vSphere+ is should be interesting for all customers from an operational perspective, how it brings cloud and developer services on-prem, and also how it will help with things like vCenter Server upgrades. Last but not least,...