The Chinwag Reloaded! (Video Only): Recent Episodes
Michelle Laverick
In this podcast your host, Michelle Laverick will chat with folks in the community and vendors focused on the virtualization community, datacenter and cloud technologies.
Vendorwag is BACK! For my return I have the Desktop Transformation Company - Liquidware Labs. In this "Techknowledgy Demo" we get see ProfileUnity and FlexApp in action!
Vendorwag is BACK! For my return I have the Desktop Transformation Company - Liquidware Labs. In this "Product Lowdown" we get the technical view on what they do and how they do it.
Vendorwag is BACK! For my return I have the Desktop Transformation Company - Liquidware Labs. In this "Elevator Pitch" we get 1K view on what they do and how they do it.
This week's chinwaggie is Criag Water (@cswaters1). His day job is with Pure Storage. We talk again about whether convergence is leading to similar convergence in peoples IT skills, as well as talking about SSD is changing the way we do stuff in the DC.
Amy Lewis is a mini-legend in the vCommunity - having previously worked at Cisco and now at SolidFire - she's the lady behind all those bacon themed events at VMworld!!!
Amy Rauch-Manley is very much focused on VMware Orchestrator - she blogs over at http://virtualchick.com/
John Troyer is legend in the virtualization community, and until recently was in the employ of VMware, Inc. He's since left to start his own venture called "Tech Reckoning"
David Davis works as instructor for PluralSight (formerly TrainSignal). He talks about the PluralSight highlights for this year and next, and his view on what was hot this year & next
Nick Howell of NetApp talks about vVOLs, his views on "Software Defined Storage", NetApp storage in Amazon, NetApp Insight Conference and its relationship with the community; Engineers Unplugged...
The PowerCLI Product Manager about life as SysAdmin now as Product Manager - He talks about PowerActions; What's new in PowerCLI 5.8, and finally why has he stopped blogging! ;-)
There's only ONE Scott Lowe. Hang on, there's many! Okay only ONE Scott S Lowe. Currently in the employ of VMware, Inc. and focused on the world of Open Source technologies.
It's back! Chinwag returns with a podcast with Chad Sakac - VP of EMC. In this episode we talk about converged, hyper-converged, EMC's flavour of EVO:RAIL as well as dealing with that XtremIO upgrading issue...
Gurusimran Khalsa blogs at http://vbrowncoat.com/. We’ve known each for a while – met first at VMworld, and then a TechField Day event – and we’ve been chatting on and off via skype mainly talking about VMUGs, and his ideas for a podcast
Duncan works with VMware tech in a law firm in Leeds, UK. He recently won the "thinking big" award from VMware SMB in a campaign of theres. We talk Horizon workspace, VSAs, Virtual User Groups and selling solutions to the business
David Burton of Pittsburgh talks about use-cases for/against vCloud Director, Upgrading from vSphere5.0 to 5.1 with PowerCLI and lesson learned using SDRS and AutoDeploy
We talk about the politics/tech challenges of virtualising Microsoft SQL; What's the difference between scripting/automation/orchestration - and when does one become the other; lessons learned deploying SRM in the real world
Based in Dallas, Texas myself and Mike Brown discuss all things SRM, NetApp VSA and how to get ahead in IT…
In this chinwag myself and Angelo Luciani (VMUG Leader for Toronto) discuss my recent blogpost "vMugging" which had some suggestions for improving user or should I say "member" activity.
This week's chinwag is with Alastair Cooke who is based in New Zealand. Amongst his very many talents he is a Trainer, Consultant, Writer and Geek, and attained vExpert status in both 2011 & 2012.
This weeks VMwareWag is with David Hill. He works as VMware's Senior Solutions Architect within Services and Solutions Engineering. He tweets as @davehill99 and like many of us blogs at virtual-blog.com. We chat about vCloud Director!
This weeks chinwag is mashup of the chinwag with Craig Water's "vCatchup" - recorded at the Melbourne VMUG
Myself and Vinay Gaonkar talk about VMware's recent 1 Million IOPS to VM achievement, together with recent work that showed that VMFS/VMDK have equal performance with RDM…
This week I attend Eric's Sloof's Design course on vCloud Director - after the class we chatted about the course, vCloud Director & what Eric would like to see VMware do next...
Ed Grigson vExpert & blogger at vexperienced.co.uk talks about Oracle's 'stack' which superglues the app, virtualisation layer and hardware - ultimate throat to choke or nightmare vendor lock-in. Also he talks about vCloud Director in a test environment.
Chris Wahl is a VCDX. Apparently the 1st in Chicago. He talks about the recent HP Discover Event in Frankfurt, NFS on vSphere, and the new features of the DvSwitch in vSphere5.1
Follow Ken on twitter at @vmKen - and his blog output at http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/uptime - In this VMwareWag we talk about what's new VR with vSphere5.1; whether VR is really "just" an SMB technology.
This weeks inFRUSTructurewaggie is none other than Edward Haletky (@texiwill) (http://www.virtualizationpractice.com) we talk about whether the data has no centre….
In part three of my VMwareWag with Justin King we look at the new updates to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The SUSE Linux version of vCenter!
The legendary Stu Radnidge shares his own personal take on the software-defined datacenter
John White is a long term SMB customer of VMware's and in this podcast we talk about the options for "doing virtual DR" - and who VMware is doing its bit for smb-democracy by waterfalling and innovating new features...
This is the 1st part in a three part series all about vCenter5.1 - the first part covers core changes including the - New Single Sign On (SSO) Service, Inventory Service and Installation Routines
Lauren is active in our vCommunity, she regularly attends the VTMN Podcast & VMUGs. She writes pretty frequently over on TechRepublic. She's also on twitter and you can follow here at @Malhoit.
In the second part of my first ever "VMwareWag" since joining VMware I talk to Cormac Hogan about the changes and enhancements in vSphere5.1 centred around storage..
Josh Atwell is one of the organisers of the Raleigh Durham, NC VMUG and the vBrownBags too. We talk about restructuring in the inFRUSTucture and what this software-defined datacenter means to him!
In my first ever "VMwareWag" since joining VMware I talk to Cormac Hogan about the changes and enhancements in vSphere5.1 centred around storage.
In this SMB focused chinwag I talk to Wayne Sayers of Telius who talk about how the SMB/SME are adopting virtualization and how is company have plans to market a office-in-a-box solution including all the hardware, software and VMware needed.
One of the leaders of the Melbourne VMUG, Craig Waters - walks us through how the company he worked with frustrated with the existing infrustructure, restructured their infrastructure - with combo of converge hardware, and reorganisation of the IT team
In this podcast I talk about the Software Defined Datacenter - the tinyurl for the blogpost is: http://tinyurl.com/buakfhz. Blogwag is essentially a narrated version of some (not all) of my blogpost for those who prefer to listen rather than read…
VMworld Virgin, Craig Waters (Melbourne, Australia VMUG - @cswaters1) talks about his first time experience (good job it isn't Vegas!) and his favourite things in vSphere5.1.
In this miniwag Roger Lund (VMUG leader) talks about his ideas about the software-defined datacenter
In this miniwag I catch up with Alan Renouf of PowerCLI fame. He fills us in on the new improvements to be found in PowerCLI 5.1
In this miniwag I catch-up with Gabe your "PI" in virtualization. We talk about vRAM and virtual replication
In this miniwag Jonathan Medd (co-author of the PowerCLI reference guide) talks about the new developments in PowerCLI….
In this miniwag myself and Julian Wood discuss the bleeding edge technology sessions he's been attending….
In this miniwag myself and Mike Ellis talk about his VMworld and some of the sessions he's been attending… He's @v2mike on twitter and blogs on virtualcloffice.com
In this miniwag Josh tells us about his VMworld - we talk about vRAM and how VMware competes/cooperates with partners…
In this miniwag I chat to Eric Seibert about is VMworld experience and the software-defined datacenter
In this miniwag Cody Bunch tells us all about vBrownBags and the TechTalks taking place at VMwold US 2012...
This is just a quick hello. Told ya I wan't going away. In this podcast we will focus on the frustrations of infrastructure, and look at products from with the VMware Cloud Suite...