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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.
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Each week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast dives into all-things NetApp, including storage, public & private cloud, and much more. The team will also be interviewing subject-matter experts from across the industry and detailing various best practices for getting the most out of your datacenter.
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CDW Canada Tech Talks: Discussing the Latest Technology Innovations Experts from CDW and our partners tackle hot topics including generative AI, FinOps, the new cybersecurity landscape and more.
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The Cloud Pod is your one-stop-shop for all things Public, Hybrid, Multi-cloud, and private cloud. Cloud providers continue to accelerate with new features, capabilities, and changes to their APIs. Let Justin, Jonathan, Ryan and Peter help navigate you through this changing cloud landscape via our weekly podcast.
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The Unexplored Territory Podcast takes you deep into the world of datacenters and cloud (native) tech, with a special spotlight on VMware, Broadcom, and everything happening in the ecosystem. Hosted by Duncan Epping, blogger at Yellow-Bricks.com, and co-author of the vSphere Clustering and vSAN Deep Dive books! Each episode brings on top industry experts to unpack the latest trends, share real-world insights, and talk about what’s next in the world of enterprise IT.
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Discussion with cloud computing industry leaders on topics including public, private and hybrid clouds and related technologies and services. Moderated by cloud computing expert Paul Burns, president of cloud research firm Neovise.
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Welcome to AB Cloud in this episode the basics of cloud technology will be covered. Starting with Amazon Web Services. EC2 elastic cloud compute, S3 simple storage service, and VPC Virtual private cloud.
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Vibing in the Cloud with Natina Michelle on Cloud Sesh Podcast. If you’re looking to transition your career into IT, Cyber, or Cloud Computing start your journey here! Our main focus is AWS Cloud for beginners. Learn, Study, & Build with us. If you are new to AWS or to IT in general this is the podcast for you.
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Techno Talk aims to educate it’s audience about the advancements in Technology and related fields.
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Managing large amounts of data can be challenging, especially when you also have to manage the storage system where the data lives. So to make life easier for storage administrators, NetApp offers a data ops toolkit that can offload some of the work associated with storage management. On this Tech ONTAP Podcast episode, we welcome the creator of th…
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316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software)
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Welcome to episode 316 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got earnings (with sound effects, obviously) as well as news from DeepSeek, DocumentDB, DigitalOcean, and a bunch of GPU news. Justin and Matt are here to lead you through all of it, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: Lake Sentinel…
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This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sat down with networking experts Varun Santosh and Thomas Vignon to unpack what’s new with NSX in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0. The conversation dives into the evolution of networking in VCF, with a spotlight on Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)—a game-changing feature tha…
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315: EC2's New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug
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Welcome to episode 315 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Your hosts, Justin and Matt, are here to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including news about AI from the White House, the newest hacker exploits, and news from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE – plus so much more. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with …
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Sustainability in Technology: A New Era
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In this episode, host KJ Burke speaks with Frances Edmonds, head of sustainable impact at HP Canada, about the intersection of sustainability and technology. They discuss the importance of a circular economy, the role of procurement in sustainability, and the challenges organizations face in implementing sustainable practices. Frances shares insigh…
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#101 - Discussing VCF 9.0 and Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA enhancements with Frank Denneman!
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It was time to get Frank Denneman back on the show to discuss the enhancements introduced in VCF 9 and Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Frank goes over all new functionality and all the enhancements like Agent Builder zysakjh. Frank also mentioned various must attend sessions at Explore, register now, as these will fill up fast: Chris Wolf, keyno…
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314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3's New AI Storage Play
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Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin’s absence and bringing what’s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We’ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos – but n…
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VCF 9.0 APIs, SDKs, and PowerCLI Enhancements
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In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson are joined by Jatin Purohit and Angel Petrov to explore what’s new with APIs, SDKs, and PowerCLI in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. The discussion dives into major innovations designed to simplify automation and integration for VCF users, including: A unified VCF S…
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In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Raakhee Mistry from VMware Cloud Foundation and field CTO Mitesh Pancholy to discuss why many organizations are hitting the reset button on their cloud strategies. Drawing from the new Private Cloud Outlook 2025 study—based on insights from 1,800 g…
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313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose
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Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we’ve got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We’ve got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud…
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#100 - What is the Google Cloud VMware Engine all about? Featuring Sai Gopalan and Ken Bocchino
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Episode 100, YESSSS! Finally, we managed to get there. For this episode, I invited two Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) product managers to explain what GCVE is all about. We had Dr. Wade Holmes on the show, 84 episodes ago, to introduce GCVE, so it was time to re-introduce GCVE and discuss the current solution, and the benefits it brings with for…
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312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)
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Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We’ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you! Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Git Ha…
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In this episode of Virtually Speaking, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson are joined by VMware legend Cormac Hogan to unpack everything you need to know about Data Services Manager (DSM). They explore how DSM delivers on-premises database services for platforms like PostgreSQL and MySQL—while solving a big problem for VI admins: database sprawl. Cormac…
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311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
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Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow. This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’…
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The NetApp Customer Proof of Concept lab is a place where prospective NetApp customers can "kick the tires" on real NetApp hardware, with their own workloads, before purchasing. This try and buy approach is a game changer for anyone looking to move to a new storage platform. This week, the CPOC team tells us all about how they do things in this ina…
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Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news. Literally. All of it. This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, …
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Exploring BTEX 2025: Insights and Innovations
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In this episode, KJ discusses the insights and experiences shared by various presenters at CDW Canada's Business Technology Expo (BTEX) 2025, highlighting the significance of the event in showcasing technological advancements and strategies for businesses. Key themes include the transition to Windows 11, the importance of cybersecurity, the evoluti…
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In this episode of Virtually Speaking, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson are joined by Harshad Colte and Feidhlim O’Leary to break down the latest vSphere enhancements in VMware Cloud Foundation 9. They explore how vSphere is evolving to support both traditional VM workloads and modern container-based applications—all while improving operational…
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309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL
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Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we’re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google’s little hiccup, and updates to SQL – plus so m…
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In this episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson are joined by Pete Koehler to dive into the latest vSAN innovations in VMware Cloud Foundation 9. They explore key updates like global deduplication, improved network traffic separation, vSAN-to-vSAN replication with VMware Live Recovery, and stretch cluster enhancements. From boosting performance and…
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#099 - Introducing vSAN 9.0 featuring Pete Koehler!
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 was recently launched, and that means vSAN 9.0 is also available. There's many new features introduced in 9.0, so a perfect time to ask Pete Koehler to join the podcast once again and go over some of these key enhancements. Below you can find the links we discussed during the episode! Blog - Network Traffic Separation Bl…
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In this final episode of the VMware Cloud Foundation 9 series, Paul Lembo, CTO for Americas Strategic at Broadcom, discusses "The Sum is Greater than the Parts", emphasizing how VCF 9's integrated capabilities create more value than individual technological components. Key Highlights: Holistic Cloud Strategy: - Integrated improvements in compute, s…
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Welcome to the eighth episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson explore "VMware Cloud Foundation for ALL" with James LeFort, Director of Americas Solutions Architects at Broadcom. In this episode, James dismantles the perception that VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is only for …
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Unpacked: A Technical Breakdown
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Welcome to the seventh episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson unpack VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with William Lam, Distinguished Platform Engineer at Broadcom. Key Highlights: Complete re-architecture of the software stack Core Platform Innovations: - Compute: Support for VM…
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Momentum Shift: Private AI in the Enterprise
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Welcome to the sixth episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson explore "Momentum Shift: Private AI in the Enterprise" with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services. Key Highlights: VMware's explosive momentum in Private AI services Key AI use cases for enterprises:…
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Welcome to the fifth episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson explore "VCF Automation and Fleet Management" with Chandra Prathuri, Senior Director of Product Management. Key Highlights: Fleet management capabilities inspired by hyperscaler operations Seamless integration wit…
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Welcome to the fourth episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson explore "Building a Cyber Resilient Private Cloud" with Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Senior Director of Product Management for Cloud Storage & Data. Key Highlights: vSAN's evolution as the #1 storage platform for VMware…
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Welcome to the third episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VCF 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson dive deep into the core infrastructure innovations of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with Core Infrastructure Product Lead Vijay Ramachandran. Key Highlights: Advanced memory tiering technology reducing infrastructure …
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308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
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Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the house today to tell us all about the latest and greatest from FinOps and SnowFlake conferences, plus updates from Security Command Center, OpenAI, and even a new AWS Region. All this and more, today in the cloud! Titles we almost went wit…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Modern, Unified, and Secure Platform
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Welcome to the second episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VMware Cloud Foundation 9 series! In this installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson continue their deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation 9 with Director of VCF Product Marketing Rick Walsworth. Key Highlights: Simplified deployment as a single, unified platform Enhanced user…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Vision and Strategy
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Welcome to the first episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast's VMware Cloud Foundation 9 series! In this inaugural installment, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Paul Turner, Broadcom’s leader of VCF product management, to kick off an in-depth exploration of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. This series will dive deep into the platform'…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 is now Generally Available! For the next several days we will be releasing several episodes in our series titled Exploring VMware Cloud Foundation 9. This series takes you behind the scenes with the product experts, engineers, and visionaries driving the VCF 9 transformation. Whether you’re an infrastructure architect, I…
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307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
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Welcome to episode 307 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Who else is at a conference? Justin is coming to us this week from sunny San Diego where he’s attending FinOps – so we have that news to look forward to for next week. Matt and Ryan are also on hand today to share the latest news from Kubernetes, Salesforce acquisitions,…
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306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover
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Welcome to episode 306 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we have a bunch of announcements concerning the newest offering from Anthropic – Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, plus container security, Azure MySQL Maintenance, Vertex AI, and Mistral AI. Plus, we’ve got a Cloud Journey installment AND an aftershow – so get comf…
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