10 On Tech

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, James Green from ActualTech Media interviewed Andrew Sullivan and Brendan Wolfe from NetApp. In this interview, you’ll hear from our guests about: - Why enterprise technology vendors invest in open source projects for the benefit of their customers - How strategic committment from vendors to certain open source projects gives customers a sense of security - NetApp’s “Trident” storage provisioner for Kubernetes

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, David Davis of ActualTechMedia interviews Ady Degany, CTO of Velostrata about cloud migration. In this interview, you’ll learn about: - Why hybrid cloud migration is important for companies of all sizes - How hybrid cloud helps enterprise IT Pros to be more efficient and enterprises to save money - How Velostrata makes cloud migrations easy - https://velostrata.com/resources/velostrata-in-3-minutes/ You’ll also benefit from: - Ady's personal growth recommendations on how to keep up with rapidly changing technology - Why APIs, AI, machine learning, GPUs, and spot instances are leading to the democratization of technology - Why you should apply innovative technology to your daily activities and processes Links from the show: - Full House (the original series) - https://www.netflix.com/title/70155617 - Velostrata Resources - https://velostrata.com/resources/ - Ady Degany on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adydegany/

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, David David from ActualTech Media interviewed Mike Foley from VMware. In this interview, you’ll hear from our guest about: - Virtualization security challenges and solutions - How to secure / harden your vSphere infrastructure - And learn about something called "security snowflakes" You’ll also benefit from: - Personal growth recommendations from Mike - Mike's advice on career advancement - Mike's top tips for getting what you want out of life (and a very cool story about dinner with Kevin Mitnick) Links from the show: The vSphere 6.5 Security Configuration Guide - https://www.yelof.com/2017/04/14/vsphere-6-5-security-configuration-guide-now-available/ vSphere Security and Compliance Blog - https://blogs.vmware.com/security VMware vSphere Security Hardening Guides - https://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html Blog: A Dinner With Infamy (Dinner with Kevin Mitnik) - https://www.yelof.com/2011/09/03/a-dinner-with-infamy/ Hypervisor Security Whitepaper -

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, David Davis and James Green from ActualTech Media interviewed Jase McCarty from VMware. In this interview, you’ll hear from our guest about: The state of hyperconvergence IoT and the future of consumer technology The outstanding features of VMware VSAN You’ll also benefit from: Personal growth recommendations from Jase Jase’s thoughts on career advancement His top tips for getting what you want out of life Links from the show: http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/ https://storagehub.vmware.com/ https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/ https://twitter.com/jasemccarty https://twitter.com/obiwanmccarty

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, James Green from ActualTech Media interviewed Gregg Holzrichter from Big Switch Networks. Apologies for the background noise in this episode; it was recorded smack in the middle of OpenStack Summit this past week in Boston! In this interview, you’ll hear from our guest about: -The state of Software-Defined Networking -The fundamental issues with traditional networking -How to get started learning about SDN You’ll also benefit from: -A great book recommendation from Gregg -How Gregg keeps growing in his career -A fun story about how Gregg went from exporting wine to practicing I.T. Enjoy!

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast (which has curiously creeped to 25 minutes! Yikes!), ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green interviewed Andrew Miller of Rubrik about great topics like: - Cloud Data Management - The challenges associated with data protection today - Continued learning in an IT career You'll also benefit from: - Great book recommendations from Andrew - Andrew's best advice on what NOT to do - Thoughts on the "next big thing" in IT in the years to come

In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, David David from ActualTech Media interviewed Ryan Johnson from VMware. In this interview, you’ll hear from our guest about: The State of the Private Cloud from Ryan's unique perspective VMware Cloud Foundation Unified Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) The VMware Cloud Foundation Quick Reference Guide at - vmwa.re/vcf You’ll also benefit from: Personal growth recommendations from Ryan Ryans thoughts on career advancement His top tips for getting what you want out of life Links from the show: VMware Cloud Foundation DEMOCAST with Ryan Johnson - https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2017/05/07/vmware-cloud-foundation-actualtech-media-democast/ VMware Hands-On Labs - https://www.vmware.com/il/try-vmware/try-hands-on-labs.html Pluralsight VMware and Virtualization Video Training - https://app.pluralsight.com/library/search?q=virtualization How It's Made - https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/ Legion TV Show - http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/le

Mat Gruen joins ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green to talk about Software-Defined Storage through the lens of a storage veteran. Mat is the SE Director for Hedvig - a company that offers a really interesting SDS platform. In this episode: - SDS as a part of hyperconvergence vs. standalone-SDS - How Mat is seeing SDS transform organizations - Where and how to learn more about SDS - Why Mat loves "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative"

In this exciting episode, ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green interview Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame to find out how Hashicorp came to be, understand the way Mitchell sees the data center evolving, and hear about what's in the works at Hashicorp!

A big portion of the incredible storage performance that we enjoy today and that necessitates projects like Intel's SPDK is NVMe. Being that we've lived in a SCSI world for such a long time, it's hard for many people to grasp exactly what NVMe is and begin thinking about storage access this way. To help us understand it better, I'm excited to bring to the show J Metz (@drjmetz) who is possibly the most well-dress storage guy you will ever meet. He's also an academic, researcher, and general force of nature in the office of the CTO at Cisco; his focus is on storage and storage networking. He's currently serving a term on the board of directors (called Promoters) for NVM Express, Inc, which is the organization driving development and awareness of NVMe. I would be hard pressed to find someone more appropriate to discuss NVMe with than J, so this is a very exciting episode, and I'm kicking myself for creating a show where we only got to spend 10 minutes with J. This could easily have been a 60 minute show that I

On this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Dennis Zimmer (@vmachine_de)- friend of the IT community and CEO of Opvisor. In his current capacity, Dennis talks to a lot of IT professionals about the monitoring and troubleshooting issues they have, particularly in vSphere environments. We talked about some common misconfigurations or issues that many users experience, as well as how Opvisor is helping users identify and rectify those issues. It was a fun chat and I enjoyed getting to reflect on some of the sillier things I encountered as a consultant in a past life.

VMware has been pushing hard for the adoption of the vCenter Server Appliance over the original Windows-based deployment model for a few major releases of the product. As of recently, the VCSA has reached feature parity with the Windows version and there are many very good reasons to adopt a VCSA-based vCenter design. Once of the many challenges with adoption has been that brownfield migration from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA is challenging at best. I'm pleased to have a longer-than-normal episode with Emad Younis to discuss this important announcement: Emad blogged about a week and a half ago on the VMware blog about the release of vSphere 6.0 Update 2m « the 'm' stands for "migration." Update 2m provides a supported, GUI-based method of migrating from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA while everything remains intact - the basics like inventory and policies, but also historic performance and alarm data if you'd like! This is exciting for many customers, so I decided to waive the 10-minute episod

This week I'm joined by James Brown (@jbcompvm), who is currently a consultant with Nutanix's professional services division. He's helping customers evaluate and deploy hyperconverged infrastructure all the time. James spends most of his time where the rubber meets the road - when customers go from discussing hyperconvergence as a concept to deploying some equipment in their own data center. As such, James has a unique perspective on the adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure and insight into what adopters really experience. Enjoy!

ActualTech Media partners James Green (@jdgreen)and David Davis (@davidmdavis) review VMworld 2016 and provide resources for continuing learning after the event.

Consultant and Pluralsight author Wes Higbee is on the show to discuss the prognosis for Virtual Machines. In light of containerization and serverless architectures, what will become of our beloved VMs?

David Klee (@kleegeek) joins ActualTech Media to discuss the difficulties with moving to the cloud. David's professional services organization, Heraflux Technologies, helps customers evaluate and perform things like a cloud migration, and David has a unique perspective on what makes it work or not work, and what makes it worth it or not worth it.

Trevor Pott (@cakeis_not_alie) is on the show to discuss the changing face of the IT conference landscape.

David M. Davis, Partner at ActualTech Media co-hosts the show with James Green to discuss tips for attending VMworld. The event is coming up in a few weeks, to be held in Las Vegas due to construction at the usual venue. Tips are discussed for first-timers and veterans alike.

Jonathan Frappier is on the show to talk about his experience with Ansible and how configuration management and orchestration changes the way we work.

Eric Wright (@discoposse) is on the show to discuss the way Root Cause Analysis as a practice is changing in the data center.