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#061 - RVTools and Live Optics featuring Sam Kirchoff

Unexplored Territory - November 13, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Recently Dell announced they acquired RVTools. RVTools is one of the most used free tools in the VMware community, created and maintained by a single person, Rob de Veij. In this episode, we discuss with Sam Kirchoff what RVTools is, why Dell acquired it, and how it complements Live Optics, and ...

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Ep 62 - Empowering our Veterans in the Digital Age

Conf T with your SE - November 08, 2023 11:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Show Notes: Episode 62 - Empowering Veterans in the Digital Age   - Guest Introduction:    - Guests from Tech4Troops, an organization providing free computers and education programs to veterans.    - Guests share their military backgrounds, highlighting their experiences and challenges. ...

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Ep. 141 - Fintech trends, futures and Money 20/20

Next in Tech - November 07, 2023 18:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
There’s been rapid expansion in financial technologies and its adoption. Research director Jordan McKee joins host Eric Hanselman to look at trends and highlights from the Money 20/20 conference. Where cryptocurrencies played an outsized role in previous years, practical uses of blockchain capab...

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A Day in the Life of: Senior Security Engineer

2GT Tech Chats - November 07, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This episode is all about what it's like being a Senior Security Engineer for a living.  If you're interested in a career in #cybersecurity and want to know some of the inside scoop on what Rich does on a typical day, here's your chance! Also, if you enjoyed this particular episode, please let u...

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Ep. 140 - The Great Data Migration

Next in Tech - October 31, 2023 13:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
With the ebb and flow of workloads to and from cloud, data doesn’t get the attention it should as a critical resource. Research director Henry Baltazar joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss the need for better data intelligence and results from the recent Voice of the Enterprise study. Gaps betwe...

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Ep 61 - Tales from the De-Crypt

Conf T with your SE - October 31, 2023 13:01 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this Halloween-themed episode, the hosts share several spooky and comical IT horror stories submitted by listeners. One mishap involved a prank wav file being mistakenly played on thousands of households. Another incident recounted a technician's struggle to fix power outages amid a tropical ...

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#060 - Cyber Secure Storage with Sazzala Reddy

Unexplored Territory - October 30, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
In our second episode we had Sazzala on the show to talk about Ransomware Recovery as a Service, and today we invited him back on the show to talk about the Cyber Secure Storage announcement done at VMware Explore. Sazzala explains what Cyber Secure Storage is, discusses the use cases, and goes ...

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Ep. 139 - 5G in IoT

Next in Tech - October 25, 2023 14:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The excitement for 5G has waned after its initial rollout, but there is great promise that many of its capabilities will be put to work in Internet of Things applications. Rich Karpinski joins host Eric Hanselman to explore insights from the 5G Americas conference and look at impacts in the 5G a...

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#090 - Azure Virtual Desktops with Ryan Grelck and Aaron Hagman

Data Center Therapy - October 20, 2023 13:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Welcome back, loyal Data Center Therapy listeners!  As summer gives way to fall, we’re dropping another fresh and topical episode onto the hot podcast grill for your informational delight (with a dash of fun thrown in for good measure.)  Your host, Mr. Matt “My Stack Overflowed” Cozzolino joins ...

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Ep. 138 - Technology in depth

Next in Tech - October 19, 2023 15:13 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
So many of our perspectives on technology are driven by end user studies and numbers can be informative, but there can be much more to the story. The in-depth interviews that are part of much of the study work we do can offer nuance and Amy Hedrick, who manages this process, discusses the insigh...

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Molly Rose Speed

Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - October 19, 2023 13:51 - 21 minutes
10.19.23 Meet Molly Rose Speed, an advocate and champion helping #militaryspouses gain remote work with training.  Molly discusses her own journey and the programs she has created to help military spouses enter the workforce as virtual assistants creating employment opportunties regardless of lo...

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#059 - Introducing VMware vSAN Max with Kalyan Krishnaswamy

Unexplored Territory - October 16, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
At VMware Explore in Las Vegas VMware announced a new vSAN offering called VMware vSAN Max. To discuss this announcement we invited Kalyan Krishnaswamy to the show. Kalyan is the product manager for VMware vSAN Max and has been involved with vSAN for many years. Follow us on Twitter for updates...

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Ep. 137 - Impressions of AI in Society

Next in Tech - October 12, 2023 15:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
While the surge of interest in the last few months around generative AI might make this all seem new, we’ve been tracking attitudes about AI for a number of years and see interesting transitions in thoughts and perceptions of respondents. Sheryl Kingstone and Alex Johnston return to the podcast ...

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Ep 60 - Safeguarding Bytes with Fortinet

Conf T with your SE - October 11, 2023 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this episode of Conf T with your SE, host Bryan Young welcomes special guest Steve Staurovsky from Fortinet. They start by discussing their previous meeting at the CT NUG event and the wide range of products in Fortinet's portfolio. The importance of interoperability and collaboration with ot...

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Taking your #Homelab to Production - Tech Chats

2GT Tech Chats - October 09, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The genesis of this podcast came from a question posed by one of the members of our Discord server (you really should join it!) In this podcast, Rich and Branden talk about what it takes to elevate your #Homelab infrastructure to a production state!  Would you rather watch the video podcast? Fi...

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Ep. 136 - AI and datacenter challenges at HCTS

Next in Tech - October 03, 2023 22:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Generative AI is creating many challenges in the infrastructure that supports it. Nick Patience and Dan Thompson return to discuss these impacts and what they’ll be talking about at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit with host Eric Hanselman. Significant increases in power demand are cr...

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#058 - Introducing Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution with Cody Hosterman

Unexplored Territory - October 01, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Recently Pure Storage announced the availability of Cloud Block Store (CBS) for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS). Duncan invited Cody Hosterman of Pure Storage to talk us through the announcement! Make sure to follow Cody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codyhosterman. Also, make sure to bo...

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Ep. 135 - Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit is back!

Next in Tech - September 29, 2023 10:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
For over 15 years, the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit has been a forum for sorting out the complexities of digital infrastructure and this year it’s back in person and in New York City on October 10th. Brian Partridge and Kelly Morgan join host Eric Hanselman to talk about the latest in...

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Ep 59 - Redefining Storage with Pure Storage

Conf T with your SE - September 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Show Notes: Episode 59 - Redefining Storage with Pure Storage | Conf T with your SE Overview In this episode of Conf T with your SE, Bryan Young welcomes Chandler Bassett from Pure Storage. Together, they explore the groundbreaking world of affordable SSD storage and discuss the history and e...

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Ep. 134 - Observability and new operational models

Next in Tech - September 19, 2023 19:22 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Managing complex application environments successfully requires not only insights into both application behavior and the infrastructure that’s supporting them but also the ability to correlate all of that data. Analyst Mike Fratto returns to the podcast to explore observability, an approach to e...

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#057 - VMware Explore 2023 US EUC Announcements with Bharath Rangarajan

Unexplored Territory - September 18, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
At this year's VMware Explore in Las Vegas, there were tons of announcements in the End-User Computing or Hybrid Workforce track. In this episode, we are joined by Bharath Rangarajan (VP Products for VMware EUC) to talk about the biggest announcements and what they bring to customers. Technologi...

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Ep 58 - Demystifying NaaS with Nile Secure

Conf T with your SE - September 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
**Show Notes:** In this episode, Bryan sits down with experts Austin Hawthorne and Michael Kowal from Nile to unpack the intriguing topic of networking as a service. Dive into the discussions that span from defining the technology to its market implications and challenges. **Topics Covered:*...

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Celina Berglund She-E-O Brogav Solutions

Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - September 12, 2023 20:35 - 26 minutes
9.12.23 Celina Berglund, CEO (She-E-O) of Brogav Solutions, discusses starting her own tech business, challenges, finding her niche, and being graciously aggressive on your way to success. BROGAV provides new, surplus, and refurbished products for within the data center, along with installation ...

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Ep. 133 - Digital infrastructure roundup

Next in Tech - September 12, 2023 16:54 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The last month has seen larger players in digital infrastructure make the case for their views on how it should be built and what’s needed to embrace generative AI. Jean Atelsek, Melanie Posey and Henry Baltazar return to the podcast to look at what was pitched at VMware Explore, Google Cloud Ne...

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Your company is spying on you! - Tech Chats

2GT Tech Chats - September 11, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Rich and Branden tackle companies' abilities to spy on their employees, the tools and methods at their disposal to spy, and the steps you can take to protect yourself. Gone are the days of needing specialized corporate spyware to monitor employees. These days, practically every security tool pro...

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Ep. 132 - Are AI datacenters a thing?

Next in Tech - September 05, 2023 21:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The explosion of interest in generative AI is impacting many things, including datacenters, with some identifying a new beast in the AI datacenter. Analyst Dan Thompson returns to sort out what’s real and what’s “AI washing”. There are increasing demands being placed by AI and power densities in...

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#056 - What's new for vSphere+ with Dave Morera

Unexplored Territory - September 03, 2023 23:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
At VMware Explore there were various announcements around vSphere+. Considering vSphere+ is still a relatively new offering we wanted to make sure that we would not only  cover the basics but also got to hear all of the intricate details from an expert like Dave Morera! Make sure to follow Dave...

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Ep. 131 - Mixed up M&A markets

Next in Tech - August 30, 2023 20:09 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The last few quarters of the merger and acquisition markets have not been great, but the few green shoots of spring have turned into a blossom or two. The winds are blowing both hot and cold and analyst Melissa Incera returns to explore what these lumpy conditions are creating with host Eric Han...

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#055 - VMware Explore 2023 US Special featuring Raghu Raghuram, Chris Wolf, Amanda Blevins, and many others!

Unexplored Territory - August 29, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Another VMware Explore Conference is in the books. Our hosts were in Las Vegas to present, attend, and enjoy the conference, but also to let you experience some of the buzz that was going on. In a packed episode, we have 6 different guests to talk about the biggest VMware conference in the world...

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Ep. 130 - Has cloud gotten boring?

Next in Tech - August 22, 2023 18:20 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
As the idea of cloud moves into its third decade, do we still need to be thinking about cloud as a special concept in technology infrastructure? On the one hand, cloud technologies have become better understood and might even be considered boring, but it’s also the place where the latest technol...