Veeam Community Podcast

Episode 88 Software Defined Madness

veeam — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:35 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Nigel Poulton. Nigel blogs at the Nigel Poulton.com and is an IT pro based in the UK. Rick and Nigel talk about all of the possible software defined options today! VSAs, Software Defined storage, servers, networking, power, datacenter, security and more!

Nigel also mentions an easy to use Openstack .ISO. Is that a great way to get started? Tune in to see.

Episode 87 Wearable Computing in the Workplace

veeam — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:17:08 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Jason Perlow. Jason writes the Tech Broiler blog and is on Twitter @JPerlow. Jason and Rick talk about Google Glass and it’s use cases for business technologies, complicating the trend of consumerization of IT to wearable computing devices. Jason is outspoken and is clearly not a fan of Google Glass and soon to be like technologies; Rick tries to normalize him a bit and find the use cases for business technology situations.

Episode 86 Career value of education, certification and experience

veeam — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:29:27 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes Patrick Kremer. Patrick is a Senior Consulting Engineer in Chicago, and blogs at PatrickKremer.com. Patrick is also on Twitter at: @KremerPatrick. Rick and Patrick talk at length about the testing and certification process, including recent test center errors in the process that Patrick blogged about, and how this impacts the virtualization professionals career path. Rick also reminds everyone to check out Backup Academy, free training and certification for IT pros.

Episode 85 vSphere 5.1 upgrades: Tips along the way

veeam — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:55:23 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Greg Stuart. Greg blogs at vDestination.com and also organizes the annual VMworld giveaway, which sends one lucky winner to VMworld for a trip to the popular conference that includes airfare, hotel and conference registration. Rick and Greg talk about vSphere 5.1 new features and the upgrade process in this podcast episode.

Episode 84 Hyper-V What to back up?

veeam — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:20:16 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again welcomes Simone Bennett (On Twitter at @Simone_AU). Rick and Simone (attempt) to tackle a tough topic: What to backup for a Hyper-V cluster? Not the VMs, but the infrastructure itself. What in Failover Cluster Manager needs protection, and what is the best way to do it?

This in fact was a tough question, and we had to pull in an expert. Microsoft expert Joachim Nässlander gave some insight to the situation on using node eviction as well as the how-to on Failover Cluster Backup. Joachim gave some good insight, featured in this Backup Academy blogpost.

Episode 83 Prioritizing things in a virtual world

veeam — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:43:58 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Lauren Malhoit. Lauren is a systems engineer at Network Storage, Inc. based in Indianapolis. Lauren is a blogger at TechRepublic and the host of the Adapting IT Podcast. Lauren and Rick talk about some of the challenges associated with virtualization, chances are everyone wants it all: entirely virtualized, lowest cost, highest performance.

Episode 82 Tech blogs we like

veeam — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:29:11 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts with Simone Bennett as co-host. Our guest today is Paul Cunningham. Paul is an Exchange Server MVP based in Australia and blogs at the Microsoft Exchange Server Pro blog. Paul also is on Twitter at @ExchServPro. Rick, Simone and Paul talk at length about what blogs provide to virtualization and IT pros in general.

Episode 81 End-user computing for the virtual era

veeam — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:40:46 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Simon Bramfitt. Simon blogs at http://blog.simonbramfitt.com/and also is a partner at Entelechy Associates. Simon is based in Northern California, but is originally from the United Kingdom. Rick and Simon talk at length about technologies for computing experiences and how virtualization has impacted these practices over time.

Episode 80 Platform wars: Mobile device edition

veeam — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:26:03 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Jason Perlow. Jason is a writer and editor for the Tech Broiler blog at ZDNet. Rick and Jason also had a record number of issues on Skype for this call! Jason also has taken on a new role at Microsoft, which is explained in this episode. Rick and Jason talk at length about Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone and Apple products and their impact in the larger technology landscape.

Episode 79 Troubleshooting things in a virtual world

veeam — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:02:08 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again welcomes Derek Schauland. Derek is a Microsoft MVP and an IT pro based in Wisconsin. Derek writes the Technically Speaking blog at: http://techhelp.cybercreations.net/. Derek also blogs at sites such as TechRepublic.

Derek and Rick talk about specific techniques when it comes to troubleshooting issues in a virtual world. This includes connectivity, performance, applications and the people side of the equation.

Episode 78 Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V chit chat

veeam — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:28:32 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts the one and only Aidan Finn! Aidan is a Hyper-V MVP based in Ireland and is one of the foremost Hyper-V experts in the world. Aidan also writes the AidanFinn.com blog. The topic of this podcast include features related to Hyper-V and a great discussion on how to install Hyper-V (Windows Core or not, Hyper-V Server or Windows Role, etc.).

This is Aidan’s first appearance on the podcast and he is in the hotseat for “Three Views from You.”

Episode 77 Creating disaster recovery plans - Down under

veeam — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:57:34 +0000

In this episode, Simone Bennet (@Simone_AU) co-hosts with Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) and our guest is Hayden McManus (@HJMcManus). Hayden is a leader of the TechHeads AU group as well as an IT professional based in Australia.

Hayden, Simone and Rick explain what cricket is as well as how to go about creating a disaster recovery plan for virtualized environments.

Episode 76 TechEd Australia Recap

veeam — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:53:29 +0000

In this episode, Simone Bennet and Rick Vanover host James Bannan. James is System Center Configuration Manager MVP and is based in Melbourne, Australia. James also blogs at: http://www.jamesbannanit.com/. Rick, James and Simone talk at length about TechEd Australia, Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012.

This is the first visit on the podcast for James, and he is in the hot seat for “Three Views from You.”

Episode 75 - Opportunities with Veeam

veeam — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:46:14 +0000

Rick Vanover hosts Julie Miller. Julie works in Human Resources for Veeam, and is recruiting a number of positions in North America. Some of the positions that are currently open are highlighted in this episode. Julie posts the North American positions that she recruits for at the Veeam LinkedIn page. Each market globally recruits differently, and for the global listing of sites be sure to visit the Veeam Careers page.

If you are interested in positions listed, you can inquire via email by sending to job@veeam.com.

Episode 74 Pre-VMworld Episode

veeam — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:42:32 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Stacy Carter. Stacy is the winner of the vDestination contest for a free trip to VMworld! This includes travel, hotel and a VMworld pass. Veeam was happy to be a sponsor of this event and enjoy VMworld Stacy!

Also, Rick Vanover goes through a number of points that Veeam are engaged in for VMworld. Details about the party, sessions and booth swag are discussed. Check the Veeam at VMworld InfoGraphic for more information as well.

Episode 73 Big data in little places

veeam — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:09:41 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Vanessa Alvarez (Twitter @VanessaAlvarez1). Vanessa is a longtime analyst, with specializations in big data and storage. Rick and Vanessa talk about different topics related to Big Data, and how it can be found effectively everywhere. Further, Big Data means different things across different organizations.

This is Vanessa’s first appearance on the podcast, and she is in the hotseat for “Three views from you.”

Episode 72 Devices and operating systems for the future

veeam — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:27:06 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Jason Perlow. Jason writes the Tech Broiler blog and is an IT expert who has recently moved to Florida, which is part of the discussion in this episode. Rick and Jason talk about the many new Windows 8 options coming and what this really means for devices and operating systems in the future.

Episode 71 Labs at the big shows

veeam — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Simon Seagrave. Simon is a blogger at TechHead.co.uk and is on Twitter @Kiwi_Si. Rick and Simon talk about the many tactics and elements that go into showing technology at the large events, such as VMworld.

This is Simon’s first time on the podcast, and he is in the hotseat for “Three Views from You.”

Hyper-D and Hyper-T special episode from TechEd Europe

veeam — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:07:42 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Daniel van Soest (@dansaap) and Tony Krijnen (@tonykrij) in a live podcast recorded at TechEd Europe in Amsterdam. Daniel and Tony are both virtualization evangelists from Microsoft and are known as Hyper-D and Hyper-T. Tony and Daniel also contribute to the http://www.tonydaniel.ms blog; which is a community virtualization blog. Rick, Daniel and Tony talk about how to get started with the Microsoft virtualization community and technologies.

Veeam Community Podcast special episode from TechEd Europe

veeam — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:40:34 +0000

In this episode, Rick Vanover checks in with Dr. Thomas Shinder. Tom works at Microsoft in the Server and Cloud Division Information Experience (SCD iX) Solutions Team. His current focus is private cloud architecture, with a special focus on private cloud security and cloud infrastructure technologies. Tom also blogs at Microsoft. Tom and Rick talk about the private cloud and get the conversation started about security for the private cloud.

Rick and Tom also talk about a number of books that Tom has written and have planned for the future.