The Sound of Tech To Come... A Veeam Podcast

Episode 54 Sorting through application requirements, the real way

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts John Walsh. John works at Northwestern University where he manages a cyberinfrastructure team, providing virtualized applications and services on a large scale. John is on Twitter at @Jwalsh2 and blogs at http://drydenhouse.net/. Rick and John talk at length about sorting through requests for services and placement as well as a few practice points on how to provide virtualized services without all of the required information. This is John's first appearance on the podcast, and he is in the hotseat for "Three Views from You."

Episode 53 – Sorting through all the vendor storage FUD

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Hans DeLeenheer. Hans works for Ferranti in Belgium as a team lead for all areas of server, storage and virtualization. Hans is on Twitter and blogs at: http://hansdeleenheer.blogspot.com/. Hans and Rick discuss some of the challenges facing IT pros when it comes to purchasing storage.

Hans in in the hot seat for “Three Views from You.”

Episode 52 – Practical tips for making a technical presentation

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes Chris Dearden and Mike Beevor. Chris and Mike both work for Veeam in the United Kingdom. Chris hosts the vSoup podcast and blogs at JFVI. Mike is on Twitter @MikeBeevor and blogs occasionally on the Veeam blog. Mike and Chris share their tips on making presentations on technical topics, including how to handle when things go wrong.

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

Episode 51 – Making the case for a new technology

In this episode, Rick Vanover co-hosts again with Simone Bennett to welcome back Michael (Mick) Huxley. Mick is an IT professional based in Australia working on a large infrastructure project. Mick also blogs at http://www.mickhuxley.com/. Mick, Simone and Rick shares their experiences around the process of identifying how a new solution is brought into an IT environment and some of the organizational requirements to get things done.

Episode 50 - What is the Dell Tech Center?

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes Kong Yang. Kong works for Dell at the Dell TechCenter as an evangelist. Rick and Kong talk at length about what the Dell TechCenter does, how they operate and a bit about the vCenter plug-in for Dell servers running vSphere. You can follow Kong on Twitter @KongYang and the Dell TechCenter @DellTechCenter. This is Kong’s first appearance on the podcast, and he is in the hotseat for “Three Views from You."

Episode 49 – Storage for virtaulization, never too much attention

Rick Vanover welcomes back co-host Doug Carson to talk storage with virtualization expert Jason Boche. Jason Blogs at Boche.net and is one of the few VCDX’s in the world. Jason is a storage and virtualization professional based in Minnesota. In this episode storage is the topic. A number of planning points are discussed as well as frequent mistakes regarding storage and virtualization.

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

Episode 48 – vSphere 5 upgrades: Thinking out loud

Episode 48 – vSphere 5 Upgrades: Thinking out loud

In this episode Rick Vanover welcomes Simone Bennett to co-host with Paul Woodward as a returning guest on the podcast. Paul is an IT and virtualization professional based in Australia and blogs at the Running VM blog. Paul, Simone and Rick discuss how to go about the vSphere 5 upgrade process. Resources from VMware such as the vSphere 5 upgrade guide, experience from the field and gotchas to watch out for are discussed.

Episode 47 – vCSA: Let’s talk about it

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Mike Preston. Mike is a virtualization administrator for a school system based in Canada. Mike also blogs at blog.wpreston.net and is on Twitter at @MWPreston. Mike and Rick talk about the gotchas and opportunities of the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA).

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