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

Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021
16 min

Last year at VMworld, VMware announced it was embarking on a hardware architecture rethinking to support modern apps running on VMware Cloud Foundation and called it Project Monterey. This year at VMworld there are several key updates to Project Monterey. On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome Niels Hagoort to share the details of this exciting project and unpack the updates announced this week at VMworld. Read more

Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
13 min

Day 2 of VMworld 2021 was filled with more announcements and lots of interaction on the VMworld slack channel. On this Virtually Speaking Podcast vChat episode, Pete and John welcome Frank Denneman to discuss NUMA, Machine Learning, Project Monterey and share some session recommendations you'll want to look out for. Read more

Oct 6, 2021

Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
16 min

This week at VMworld 2021 VMware announced Project Arctic and Project Cascade. Together these projects will address the needs of two distinct groups in a multi-cloud world: Project Arctic will address the needs of IT operators who need to deliver enterprise IT resources, and Project Cascade will address the needs of developers and DevOps professionals who need to rapidly develop and deploy modern applications. Read more

Oct 5, 2021
Oct 5, 2021
11 min

Day 1 of VMworld was filled with announcements and lots of interaction on the VMworld slack channel. On this vChat episode, Pete and John welcome Duncan Epping to share his thoughts on the announcements, share some session recommendations as well as information on a new project he is working on that you won't want to miss. Read more

Oct 5, 2021

Oct 5, 2021
Oct 5, 2021
14 min
This week at VMworld 2021 John and Pete had a chat with Srinath Alapati and Benjamin Gordy from Dell Technologies about VMware Cloud.

Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021
26 min

VMworld 2021 is upon us. If you haven't already, it's now time to build your schedule. Be sure to make time for the General Sessions, keynotes, hands-on labs, meet the experts, and of course the 1000+ on-demand sessions. This week we welcome Ken Werneburg to share his take on VMworld 2021. Read more

Sep 28, 2021

Sep 10, 2021
Sep 10, 2021
27 min

HCI Mesh is a unique, software-based approach for disaggregation of compute and storage resources. HCI Mesh brings together multiple independent vSAN clusters for a native, cross-cluster architecture that disaggregates resources and enables the utilization of stranded capacity. Simply, vSAN allows one or more vSAN clusters to remotely mount datastores from other vSAN clusters (servers) within vCenter inventory. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome David Boone to help unpack this vSAN feature. Read more



