eBPF is one of the most interesting emerging technologies in the area of observability, networking and security. On the 44th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, Moustafa Harbi (Sr. Technical Account Manager at Red Hat) and I have a chat about this technology and its use cases in today's enterprise IT industry. Show Notes: 00:00 - Intros 01:30 - W…

On the 43rd episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Sean Cavanaugh (Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation Platform, at Red Hat) and we discuss all things network automation. If you'd like to hear about main use cases, common obstacles and the solution you need (spoiler alert: Ansible :)), this episode is for …

On the 42th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Gil Hoffer (co-founder & CTO at Salto) and we discuss about their solution of automating the configuration of SaaS applications, which they describe as company-as-code. Can we manage and operate our business applications the same way as our CI/CD pipelines and IT infrastructure? Answers ar…

On the 41st episode, Nick Barcet (Sr. Director Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Red Hat) joins me on the show we talk about MicroShift, an open source project of optimizing OpenShift for edge/small form factor use cases. We also talk about how Red Hat looks into emerging technology projects. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Ap…

Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a 10 months long hiatus! On the 40th episode of the show, I'm joined by a fellow Red Hatter and the co-host of the The Cloudcast, Brian Gracely. With Brian, we look into several technology trends such as cloud computing, web3, security then we discuss what to expect in 2022 and beyond. Virtual Stack is available …

Chris Love and Jay Vyas's book "Core Kubernetes" is about to hit the shelves around July this year via Manning Publications. Chris joined me on the 39th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast and we discussed about all things Kubernetes: learning, common challenges of running in production and the exciting future of K8S. I have free eBook codes for t…

Learning Kubernetes can be a great boost for your career, and you might be wondering where to start and what resources to use. Elton Stoneman joined me on the 38th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast and talked about his new book "Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches", his journey of learning K8S and his views about the future of K8S. I have free eB…

Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a long break! On the 37th episode of the show, I'm joined by the authors of the book "AI as a Service", Peter Elger (CEO, fourTheorem) and Eoin Shanaghy (CTO, fourTheorem). No need to mention the importance of the role that AI/ML play in digital transformation. With the incredible speed of evolution of cloud comp…

vSphere Bitfusion delivers elastic infrastructure for AI/ML workloads by creating pools of hardware accelerator resources, such as GPUs. VMware has acquired Bitfusion in late-2019 and it has been recently announced that Bitfusion will be an integrated feature of vSphere 7.0. On the 36th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Mike Adams (Sr…

On the 35th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by David Burton (Director, Colleague Experience & Technology - EMEA at VMware) and we discuss about how VMware uses its own technologies to create the best employee experience. We also touch base on the new definition of workplace in enterprises after the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual Stack …

Virtual Stack podcast is back with its 34th episode! On this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (Sr. Technical Marketing Architect at VMware) and we dive into the newest features of vRealize Network Insight, such as flow-based app discovery, support for VeloCloud SD-WAN, AWS, Azure and more. Martijn's book, "vRealize Network Insight Cookbook" will…

On the 33rd episode of Virtual Stack, I’m joined by Dylan Shields (Software Engineer at Google) and we talk about his upcoming book called AWS Security. In our discussion, we touch on many points; such as the security governance on public clouds, security services on AWS, best practices for networking/VPC, IAM and continuous monitoring. Dylan’s boo…

On the 32nd episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kenneth Reilly (CTO at LevelUP) and we talk about Low-Code Development. Low-Code (often referred to as No-Code) development platforms provide an environment where programmers create their application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional comput…

Digital Workspace is increasingly becoming a strategic IT priority for enterprises, since it's directly related to employee experience and productivity. On the other hand, security and privacy are becoming even more important in parallel with BYOD and mobile working. On the 31st episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Adam Matthews, Digital…

Back in August 2019, Pat Gelsinger and Joe Beda were on stage at VMworld US to announce VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific, the products and solutions that are designed to change the way customers build, run and manage their Kubernetes based applications. On the 30th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Scott Lowe (Staff Kubernetes Arc…

Finding the perfect balance between work and life has always been a trouble, especially for those in the IT sector. IT and many other industries adore productivity, tie your work output to your salary and even your professional status. In the race of maintaining a good work output, we occasionally forget having interests outside of work, our famili…

Analytics in the data centre can be challenge since many solutions tend to send extensive packet data and telemetry to disparate centralised engines, which can increase cost and complexity. NSX Intelligence is a new solution that has been announced with NSX-T 2.5 and it’s designed to remediate this challenge. It is a distributed analytics engine th…

On the 27th episode of the show, I’m joined by Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Technical Product Manager at VMware. Distributed IPS/IDS (Intrusion Prevention and Detection System) on NSX-T was one of the biggest announcements at VMworld 2019 Europe. Stijn is the Technical Product Manager behind this feature and he took the time to explain us what VMwar…

On the 26th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kelly Goolsby, Director of Enterprise Sales and Solution Architecture at Liquid Web and we talk about a variety of topics; cloud computing, hybrid-clouds, migrating to cloud and Liquid Web's services in this domain. Liquid Web is a company focusing on managed hosting as well as managed VMw…

On the 25th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Martijn Baecke, Cloud Management Technologist at VMware, and we discuss the Journey to Multi-cloud Management. We tried to fit this big topic in less than one hour and we touched on many points, such as the evolution towards SDDC and Private Clouds, the rise of Public Clouds, cloud native …

On the 24th episode of the show, I'm joined by Rohan Naggi Sr. Technical Product Manager at VMware, and we discuss about VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud. SD-WAN is a booming market and it's promising to solve many challenges of traditional WAN solutions. There are tens of vendors in this market and VeloCloud has been one of the noteworthy ones since the…

Virtual Stack Podcast is 1 year old! Thanks for your interest and support so far. Here’s to many many years and episodes! On the 23rd episode of the show, I’m joined by Matt Wallace, CTO of Faction. Faction is a multi-cloud platform as a service provider and one of the first partners of VMware around the VMware Cloud on AWS solution. You should see…

I’m back with the 22nd episode of Virtual Stack after a long break. This will be a solo flight without any guests and I’ll be talking about the news and announcements from the VMworld US 2019 that took place this week. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. Hope you enjoy the show. F…

VMware Cloud on AWS has proven that IT infrastructure with VMware SDDC stack atop can be ordered as a cloud service; in a scalable, smooth and agile manner. But what about the scenarios where you need to have that compute power on-premises? Enter VMware Cloud on Dell EMC! On the 21st episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Adam Bohle (Lead Cloud Speciali…

On the 20th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Martijn Smit and we geek out on the recently announced vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 4.1. This release brings lots of new features, such as, Container Visibility and Security, Application Discovery and Visibility and many more! You can reach out to Martijn via Twitter (@smitmartijn). You…

AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning) and DL (Deep Learning) are some of the hottest IT buzzwords of our time. If you’re working in tech industry, chances are that you hear or read something about them almost every day. It looks like they are the answer to every question, and the solution to every problem, including wars and global hu…

Do you ever get stressed about giving speech, even though you know the subject by heart? Or have hard time expressing your knowledge and delivering your message effectively on a blog post? The answer is yes for many people, including me. Good news; all of these are skills that you can develop with some practice and attention. Amy Lewis, Director of…

On the 17th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timuralp (NSX Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware) and we take on the challenge of squeezing all the new features of NSX-T 2.4 into a 45-minute podcast! NSX is VMware’s flagship software-defined data center networking and security solution. I was already surprised by the amount of new fea…

On the 16th episode of the Virtual Stack podcast, I’m joined by Karl Childs, Sr. Manager in the VMware Certification Development team. We start our conversation talking about the latest VMware announcement on re-certification, then we talk about the present and future of VMware certifications. You can reach out to Karl via Twitter (@karlchilds). Ho…

With the rise of cloud-native architectures built on containers distributed microservices, developers are encountering challenges with visibility, management, and control of these new applications. The Service Mesh concept was created to address and overcome these challenges. On the 15th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Mark Schw…

On the 14th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Christoph Buschbeck from VMware and we talk about AppDefense, VMware’s data centre endpoint security solution that embeds threat detection and response into the virtualisation layer. We look into the Enterprise IT Security landscape of today, what’s working well, what can be improved, and …

On the 13th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Dimitar (Mitko) Vasilev joined me to talk about his journey from a Network Engineer to a Startup CEO. On this slightly longer episode, Mitko explains his journey starting from university, Cisco, his first startup - OA Digital, and his current endeavour - Data Mining Platform. We talked about several per…

Happy new year! On the 12th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Martijn (@smitmartijn) and I will be talking about vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) version 4.0. vRNI 4.0 has been released on December 20th and it’s full of cool new features and enhancements. This is not a vRNI 101 episode, but in a nutshell, vRNI is VMware’s security and network visibi…

If you're working in networking, or Enterprise IT in general, chances are that you are pursuing or have pursued at least one technical certification track. Almost every leading vendor has certifications tracks, so does VMware. Today on the 11th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, we will discuss about the top-tier certification of VMware: VMware Cert…

On the 10th episode of Virtual Stack, Stijn Depril (@sdepril - vSAN Specialist SE Benelux at VMware) and I talk about vSAN, VMware's Software Defined Storage (or as some will call, hyper-converged) solution. Stijn is active on social media, and don't forget to check his blog at vmuskeeters.com and YouTube channel. Some important links that we menti…

In today's Enterprise IT world, most of the organisations use services of at least one public cloud provider. This brings many advantages like agility, but it creates new challenges such as loss of visibility across clouds and inconsistent network and security policies. NSX Cloud is the tool that can help you to achieve operational consistency in a…

VMworld Europe 2018 was a blast. On this brief episode, I talk about the highlights of the event from my perspective. Here are the links to some of the stuff I talk about on the show: VMware Blog - Event Recap: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/11/vmworld-2018-europe-recap.html Day 1: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/11/vmworld-2018-europe…

On this show, Gilles Chekroun and I talk about VMware Cloud on AWS. Gilles is a Lead SE for VMC on AWS in VMware and he has tons knowledge and experience on cloud and networking in general. But on this short episode, we dip our feet in the use cases for hybrid cloud and why VMC on AWS can be a good solution the enterprises. Follow the show because …

Martijn (@smitmartijn, and soon: @vnetworkguy) is my first repeat host, and on this episode we talk about the VMware vExpert program. VMware vExpert is an honorary title that VMware grants to individuals for advocating the VMware's products and solutions. With Martijn, we discuss the program in detail, what the benefits are, what you need to do to …

Security is a hot topic in Enterprise IT and it will always stay like that. There are several new methods and approaches to optimise security and micro-segmentation is one of those. On this episode, I'm joined by Robert Kloosterhuis (@thefluffysysop, http://thefluffyadmin.net/) and we enter the world of micro-segmentation. We talk about distributed…

SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) is a hot topic these days. On this episode, I give a brief overview of what SD-WAN is. I also talk about the challenges seen on branch networking today and how SD-WAN can help us. Check this free e-book: http://www.velocloud.com/sd-wan-resources/white-papers/software-defined-wan-for-dummies. Hope you enjo…

Today on this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (@smitmartijn) and we discuss about why network engineers should invest their time in honing their software development and scripting skills. Then we go into discussing what are the tools and methods for doing this. Here are the links to the resources we mentioned on the show: Udacity - Learn to Cod…

On this episode, I talked about some of the interesting announcements at VMworld US that took place in August 26-30 in Las Vegas. I focused mainly on the NSBU (Network and Security Business Unit) news, such as, new updates on NSX-T, NSX Cloud, vRNI, but also the collaboration with Arista. There has also been a few interesting "Tech Preview" announc…

Here is the 1st episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast! This short episode includes a quick introduction of myself, why am I making this podcast and what my content is going to be. Enjoy! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emregirici/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/emregiriciBy Emre Girici