
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

Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Intelligent Assist in VMware Tanzu Hub
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
At VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware announced the tech preview of new generative-AI assisted capabilities that can reduce the complexity associated with managing multi-cloud environments. VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist is a large language model capability that enables you to complete management tasks (such as those mentioned above) in less time with reduced friction that is often associated with these tasks. These capabilities will enable searching and exploring all of the resources across your environment and will later expand to more complex use cases such as generating and executing infrastructure as code based on your requirements.
On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John speak with Technology Director, Jad El-Zein about VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist and AI in the cloud.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Leverage AWS Native Services with VMware Cloud on AWS
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
What if you could go beyond just extending your VMware environment to AWS? What if you could integrate VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS native services to improve your cloud performance, reduce costs, and unlock even more value?
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Osama Masfary and Hitendar Sethi to share the latest announcements for VMware Cloud on AWS and discuss this how customers are leveraging the service to achieve their business objectives.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Cloud on Equinix
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
With VMware Cloud, customers can choose the best cloud environment for their ever-evolving business and application needs because VMware’s multi-cloud architecture is extensible to a broad range of cloud endpoints. Case in point, Equinix Metal in prime metro locations around the world!
This year at Explore Las Vegas 2023, VMware announced that VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal (VMCE) is available as an Early Access Release.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
This week at VMware Explore Las Vegas, there was no shortage of exciting announcements, including VMware Private AI, vSAN Max, and NSX+ just to name a few. Interestingly, VMware Cloud Foundation is literally at the foundation of them all.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome Vice President of Engineering, Anu Kirpekar to share how VCF 5.0 provides reduced upgrade times, increased speed of operations, and greater scale.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VCDR and VMware Ransomeware Recovery Update
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Most ransomware attacks now employ fileless techniques that cannot be detected by scanning idle backups, posing a major threat to organizations. VMware Ransomware Recovery is an award-winning VMware Cloud service available today designed to recover from fileless attacks using behavioral analysis of powered-on VMs in cloud-based isolated recovery environments (IREs).
On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak with Belu De Arbelaiz and Yoomi Hong of VMware Product Marketing, to get all the updates for VCDR and VMware Ransomeware Recovery.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Introducing VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
At VMware Explore 2023 VMware announced the launch of VMware Private AI. This architectural approach for AI services enables privacy and control of corporate data, choice of open source and commercial AI solutions, quick time-to-value, and integrated security and management.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John Speak to Himashu Singh and Shobhit Bhutani about this announcement of VMware Private AI and VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Cloud Use Cases
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John speak to VP of Product Marketing, Prashanth Shenoy about evolution of VMware Cloud and uses cases like Ransomware Recovery.

Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Explore: Project Keswick
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Project Keswick is the easy button for Edge, taking care of infrastructure deployment, security, and scale issues – so that developers can concentrate on innovating and quickly deploy to hundreds or even thousands of edge locations.
On this episode of The Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome VMware Sr Product Line Manager, Alan Renouf to share the details of this xLabs project.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Data Services Manager
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Data Services Manager is a software solution that provides the same convenience as a public cloud-based DBaaS platform, but it is installed and managed on-premises eliminating the challenges of building a custom on-premises DBaaS platform. It helps enterprise IT team stays in control, automate day 2 operations to free up valuable DBA time and provide App developers with the agility they need.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast. Michael Gandy and Christos Karamanolis share the details on how VMware is helping customers to implement a DBaaS on vSphere and how it fits into the “Cloud Smart” strategy.
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Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
VMware Explore: Core Storage Update
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
vSphere 8 Update 2 introduces significant announcements, and the storage side is no exception. For example, there are now new vVols VASA specs, better performance and resilience, enhanced certificate management, and support for NVMeoF to name a few.
On this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete and John welcome Jason Massae and Naveen Krishnamurthy to discuss the details of the vSphere 8 Update 2 Core Storage announcements.
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