Latest Vsa Podcast Episodes
#079 - vSphere and vSAN 8.0 Update 3 with Tech Marketing Architect's Feidhlim, Jason, and Pete!
Unexplored Territory - July 07, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsVMware recently released vSphere and vSAN 8.0 Update 3, and of course, we had to invite Feidhlim, Jason, and Pete back on the show to discuss what's new in these releases. There's awesome new functionality released and some great enhancements, so make sure to listen to the full episode. Key Ta...
#078 - Going through the Tanzu Platform announcements with Keith Lee
Unexplored Territory - June 24, 2024 01:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSummary The conversation explores the features and benefits of the Tanzu Platform, which accelerates application delivery and simplifies the development process. The platform abstracts the complexities of Kubernetes, allowing developers to focus on writing code and creating business value. It o...
#077 - Introducing Data Services Manager 2.0 featuring Cormac Hogan
Unexplored Territory - June 09, 2024 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this conversation, Duncan and Cormac Hogan discuss VMware's Data Services Manager (DSM) and its role in offering data services in a full-stack private cloud. They cover topics such as the use cases for DSM, the integration with Kubernetes, the support for different databases, the automation c...
Simplifying the Mainframe with Marcel Mitran
Terminal Talk - June 05, 2024 13:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsRunning the systems that run the world... nobody expects it to be as simple as flipping a light switch, but there are certainly some areas where advancement means simplification. In this episode, we hear from Marcel Mitran about how this is achievable on everyone's favorite computing platform.
Infrastructure as Code - Christopher Byrnes, Marie Mader, Stefan Schmitt
Terminal Talk - May 28, 2024 12:58 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBeing able to work with the infrastructure of IBM Z as an evolving set of code, which can be reviewed, updated, iterated, and managed the same as a traditional software project opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. It's a task easier said than done, thankfully there are some wonderful peo...
#076 - AI Roles Demystified: A Guide for Infrastructure Admins with Myles Gray
Unexplored Territory - May 26, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this conversation, Myles Gray discusses the AI workflow and its personas, the responsibilities of data scientists and developers in deploying AI models, the role of infrastructure administrators, and the challenges of deploying models at the edge. He also explains the concept of quantization ...
076 - AI Roles Demystified: A Guide for Infrastructure Admins with Myles Gray
Unexplored Territory - May 26, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this conversation, Myles Gray discusses the AI workflow and its personas, the responsibilities of data scientists and developers in deploying AI models, the role of infrastructure administrators, and the challenges of deploying models at the edge. He also explains the concept of quantization ...
#075 - Newsflash - VMware Workstation and Fusion licensing changes! (Did I hear free?)
Unexplored Territory - May 14, 2024 15:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSummary For this special edition of the podcast Duncan invited Michael Roy to discuss the latest VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion announcements. VMware Workstation and Fusion are desktop hypervisor products that allow users to run virtual machines on their PC or Mac. Starting today, Workstat...
#074 - Exploring the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with William Rizzo
Unexplored Territory - May 13, 2024 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this conversation, Johan van Amersfoort interviews William Rizzo about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and its impact on cloud computing and modern infrastructure. They discuss the role of the CNCF in making cloud native technology ubiquitous and the support it provides to cloud ...
#073 - What was announced for vSAN in the last month? Featuring Pete Koehler!
Unexplored Territory - April 28, 2024 23:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 073 Duncan and Pete discuss various updates and changes related to vSAN, including ReadyNode configurations, licensing, vSAN Max, capacity reporting, and compression ratios. They highlight the improvements in compression ratios with vSAN ESA, which can result in significant space effi...
#072 - Chris Gully and the rise of Small Language Models
Unexplored Territory - April 14, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSummary Chris Gully discusses his current role in the new Broadcom organization and highlights of his career. He emphasizes the importance of staying relevant in the technology industry and the value of working with cool and smart people. The conversation then shifts to the topic of small langua...
#071 - Developer Experience & Spring with DaShaun Carter
Unexplored Territory - April 01, 2024 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this new episode of the Unexplored Territory Podcast, DaShaun Carter, a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu and Broadcom, discusses his career highlights, his home lab setup, and his passion for Spring. He explains the concept of developer experience and how Spring and Tanzu contribute ...
#070 - vSAN performance with Patryk Wolsza (Intel)
Unexplored Territory - March 18, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 070, we spoke with Patryk Wolsza about vSAN performance. Patryk wrote some great whitepapers on the topic of vSAN OSA vs ESA, vSAN on AMD vs vSAN on Intel, and vSAN with RDMA and 100GbE. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of ESA, Intel CPUs, and RDMA/100GbE. Some links to topic...
#069 - AI on CPUs with Earl Ruby
Unexplored Territory - March 04, 2024 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 69, we spoke with Earl Ruby on running AI and ML workloads on CPUs. Earl is an R&D engineer at VMware by Broadcom focusing on AI/ML accelerators. He provides us with an overview of the do's and don't of successful deployments of AI-enabled applications on CPUs. Some links to topics d...
#068 - Diving into the VMC on AWS announcements with Niels Hagoort
Unexplored Territory - February 19, 2024 03:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 067, we invited Niels Hagoort back to the show to talk about the latest VMC on AWS announcements. Topics we discussed: The new M7i instance, including its use cases and specs The Cloud Management Add-on for VMC on AWS and how Aria can add value The differences between the M7i inst...
#067 - Securing the worlds data with Rubrik featuring Jerry Rijnbeek
Unexplored Territory - February 05, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 067, we spoke with Jerry Rijnbeek on the topic of Rubrik, and how Rubrik enables customers to secure their data against natural disasters as well as ransomware, but more importantly, also helps customers to develop a data security posture. Follow us on X for updates and news about up...
#067 - Securing the world's data with Rubrik featuring Jerry Rijnbeek
Unexplored Territory - February 05, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 067, we spoke with Jerry Rijnbeek on the topic of Rubrik, and how Rubrik enables customers to secure their data against natural disasters as well as ransomware, but more importantly, also helps customers to develop a data security posture. Follow us on X for updates and news about up...
#066 - Data Platforms for AI/ML workload with Vaughn Stewart
Unexplored Territory - January 22, 2024 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 66, we spoke with Vaughn Stewart on data platforms for AI and ML workloads. Vaughn is the VP of Systems Engineering at VAST Data. He provides us with an overview of the needs and requirements of a data platform for successful deployments of AI-enabled applications. Some links to topi...
#065 - Oracle Cloud VMware Solution update featuring Jatin Purohit!
Unexplored Territory - January 08, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn episode 65 we spoke with Jatin Purohit on the topic of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Jatin is the Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware by Broadcom for this solution and provides us an overview of what the benefits are of the solution and what was introduced since episode 23 where we...
#064 - Homelabs for AI featuring William Lam
Unexplored Territory - December 25, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this final episode of the year, Frank and Johan have a conversation with William Lam about home labs and how to run AI workloads on them. We discuss the different hardware options and go through some of the content that William has created. You can find William's blog articles here: Blog abo...
A Moving Tale of a Datacenter Move w/ Marianne Serra
Terminal Talk - December 19, 2023 14:02 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsDatacenters grow, and every so often, they need to move, which is quite possibly the clearest definition of "Easier Said than Done." Now make it 23 datacenters around the world with an IBM Z presence, consolidated down to 4. In this episode, Marianne Serra talks us through how to even start thi...
#063 - A conversation about EUC and VMware Explore with Spencer Pitts
Unexplored Territory - December 11, 2023 02:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsVMware EUC continues to innovate, with a lot of announcements being done at VMware Explore in Barcelona. In this episode, Johan had a conversation with Spencer Pitts, Chief Technologist Digital Workspace at VMware, to dive into the major announcements and explain what the new features entail and...
#062 - Private AI with Chris Wolf
Unexplored Territory - November 27, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, Frank has a conversation with Chris Wolf about Private AU and how Private AI Foundation can help accelerate organizations to develop their Gen-AI-enabled application efficiently and securely. We discuss foundation models, infrastructure requirements, and future developments. Chr...
Automating z/VM with Ansible - Jay Brenneman, Dan Jast, Bryant Panyarachun
Terminal Talk - November 13, 2023 19:09 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWe had a packed studio for this one, and there is much to discuss. It's time to get an update into the latest Ansible news, plus some deep diving into some work being led by Jay in the area of automation on z/VM using Ansible. An episode to delight, educate, and inspire anyone interested in work...
#061 - RVTools and Live Optics featuring Sam Kirchoff
Unexplored Territory - November 13, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRecently 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 ...
#060 - Cyber Secure Storage with Sazzala Reddy
Unexplored Territory - October 30, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn 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 ...
#059 - Introducing VMware vSAN Max with Kalyan Krishnaswamy
Unexplored Territory - October 16, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAt 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...
Anthony Giorgio - ZOAU Update
Terminal Talk - October 12, 2023 19:43 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIf you know how to do it, you're probably looking to do it faster. ZOAU is a great set of tools which exists to make many common z/OS system tasks happen with less friction and more user friendliness. In this episode. Anthony Giorgio gives us the info on what we can find, and what we may hope to...
#058 - Introducing Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution with Cody Hosterman
Unexplored Territory - October 01, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRecently 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...
#057 - VMware Explore 2023 US EUC Announcements with Bharath Rangarajan
Unexplored Territory - September 18, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAt 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...