Virtually Speaking Podcast

Democratizing Generative AI with Krish Prasad

Generative AI is one of the biggest trends that will transform enterprises in the next decade. The applications are diverse, including content creation, code generation, IT operations automation, and sophisticated chatbots for data generation.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John talk to Senior VP of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group Krish Prasad how VMware is democratizing generative AI and igniting innovation for all enterprises.

Innovations in Ransomware and Disaster Recovery

This week at Explore Barcelona, VMware introduced groundbreaking enhancements to VMware Cloud DR and VMware Ransomware Recovery including Intelligent Threat Detection and VMware Live Recovery.
On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Sr Director of Product Marketing Mark Chaung and Sr Director of Product Management Amit Sinha to discuss the details of these new features.

vVols updates in vSphere 8 Update 2

vSphere 8 Update 2 introduces several significant announcements to vVols such as new VASA specs, better performance and resilience, enhanced certificate management, and support for NVMeoF. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Jason Massae and Sudhir Balasubramanian to discuss the details of this release.

Top 5 vSAN Questions at Explore Barcelona

Pete Koehler is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware with a primary focus on vSAN. In addition to being our resident expert on Virtually Speaking, Pete spends his time creating technical vSAN content such as design and sizing, operations, performance, troubleshooting and integration with other products and platforms.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete (Flecha) and John welcome Pete (Koehler) to share the top 5 vSAN questions he's heard from customers about vSAN this week at VMware Explore Barcelona.

Switching from vSAN OSA to ESA

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.

VMware Explore Barcelona Day 0

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 Barcelona Preview Edition

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

VMware Explore 2023: Homelab Edition

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.
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