Tech Interviews

In this episode I'm joined by Pete Flecha, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware, as we discuss VVOL's. VMware's new approach to delivering storage to virtual infrastructures. VVOL's look to address many of the problems traditional SAN based storage presents to Virtual infrastructures. Pete provides an intro to the problems VVOL's look to address, how they go about it and what we can expect from the recent vSphere 6.5 release that brings us VVOL's v2.0... enjoy. Show notes are here http://wp.me/p4IvtA-z2

In this episode I speak to Michael Cade of Veeam. We discuss if it's fair to say that Veeam are much more than just a virutalisation backup company, what's new and interesting in the data protection industry, how public cloud providers and are providing new an interesting methods for protecting our data. There is also a bonus, thanks to the NetApp TechONTAP podcast team, who provided me with some additional material from Michael's recent appearance on their show, about what's new in Veeam Availiability 9.5. Hope you enjoy the episode, if you did, then please subscribe.

The technology industry loves a conference, we all get invited to so many of them, however, are they worth going? - I caught up with three people at the end of the NetApp Insight conference 2016 in Berlin, to get their thoughts, this is what they said.. For show notes check out here... http://wp.me/p4IvtA-uN

November 1st 2016 was a big day of NetApp announcements, all of which hugely enhanced their Hybrid cloud strategy - in this Interview I speak with NetApp's Mike Andrews as we discuss the technical and strategic benefits of these wide ranging announcements.

A chat with Mike England of Tech UG, talking about the importance of the IT professional community, how it helps us to do a better job and develop our IT careers.

In this interview I speak with Marcus Robinson of Microsoft, as we discuss the addition of support for Docker Containers in Windows Server 2016, and the effect this will have on container adoption in the enterprise.

A short interview with Veeam UK SE Michael Cade - discussing the impact of cloud service on data protection, upcoming Microsoft technologies and how Veeam provides modern data protection