
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise.
Episodes

Friday Oct 14, 2022
Purdue University and VMware Greenplum
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Lead Data Scientist, Ian Pytlarz shares how Purdue University developed a system to help contain the spread of COVID-19, allowing them to continue operations in person from fall 2020 onward. This data-driven decision making system was built on VMware Greenplum. Read more

Friday Oct 07, 2022
ASX and VMware Blockchain
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John talk to ASX CIO Dan Chesterman about their DLT-as-a-service offering built on the VMware Blockchain platform, to help organizations accelerate development of new DLT apps across many industry use cases while reducing cost and complexity of deploying their own blockchain environment. Read more

Friday Sep 23, 2022
Introducing VMware vSphere 8
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
VMware vSphere 8, the enterprise workload platform, brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads, supercharges performance through DPUs and GPUs, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Féidhlim O'Leary to discuss the details of this release. Read more

Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
VMware Explore 2022 - VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John sit down with VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram to discuss the Multi-Cloud journey, VMware's transition to a SAAS model and much more. Read more

Monday Sep 12, 2022
VMware Explore 2022 Recap with Kit Colbert
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
VMware Explore 2022 is in the books and what a week it was. Pete and John captured dozens of interviews with VMware SMEs, execs, partners and customers and will be releasing them throughout the coming weeks.This week on The Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware CTO Kit Kolbert to discuss VMware's Multi-Cloud story, the latest innovations, much more. Read more

Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Introducing vSAN 8 - Express Storage Architecture
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Since its debut in March of 2014, VMware has a long and consistent history of turning innovative ideas into product features in vSAN. But nothing may be bigger than what is introduced with vSAN 8. The announcement of the VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ or ESA for short, represents a massive step forward in the capabilities of the solution, and the benefits to VMware customers. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Staff Technical Marketing Architect Pete Koehler to discuss the new ESA and other new features in vSAN 8. Read more

Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Introducing VMware vSphere+
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
VMware’s new vSphere offering is an industry-leading workload platform, that allows current and new on-premises infrastructures to be cloud connected while shifting to an OpEx-based consumption model with pay-as-you-grow subscription. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Ken Werneburg and Dave Morera to discuss the details of this new offering. Read more

Friday Jul 08, 2022
VMware Blockchain with Joshua Lory
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Joshua Lory to discuss the details of VMware Blockchain. Read more

Monday Jun 20, 2022
VMware Cloud Migration Stories
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
More organizations are embracing the cloud as a cost-effective business solution that provides many competitive advantages such as revenue growth and faster data recovery. While these advantages are compelling, it's important to asses all aspects of the migration. Companies like House of Brick focus on helping clients find cost effective ways to handle both the technical and licensing challenges of migrating application stacks backed by commercial database engines, such as Oracle or MS SQL Server, into AWS. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome House of Brick's Nick Walter to discuss some of the details of his many migrations to VMware Cloud. Read more

Friday Jun 10, 2022
Cloud Storage with Sazzala Reddy
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware Data Cloud CTO Sazzala Redding to discuss cloud storage, file systems, and much more. Read more