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 that provides detailed application topology visualisation, automated security policy recommendations, continuous monitoring of every flow, and an audit trail of security policies. On the 28th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timura ..read more

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 VMware Private Clouds, and Kelly has a lot of experience with cloud use cases, cloud TCO and migration to cloud. You can reach out to Kelly via Twitter (@kgool) and LinkedIn. Liquid Web's website is https://www.liquidweb.com.   Virt ..read more

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 beginning. VeloCloud has been acquired by VMware in 2017, and  it's currently part of the Network and Security Business Unit. We discuss many topics with Rohan, including the need for SD-WAN and why VeloCloud, then we look under the hood ..read more

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. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech. Links: What’s New at VMworld 2019 General Sessions at VMworld 2019 VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture Project Pacific: Kubernetes to the Cor ..read more

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 can also follow his work on his blog (lostdomain.org) and VMware Blogs. Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech. Show Notes: 01:30 - Intros 05:30 - Quick highlights of vRNI ..read more

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 Influence Marketing at VMware, joins me on the 18th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, and shares her knowledge and tips for improving communication skills for engineers. You can reach Amy on Twitter (@commsninja), and also don’t forget to check ..read more

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 - What's eBPF in a nutshell? 06:40 - What can eBPF offer us? 12:30 - In what language or on what framework do we write eBPF code? 14:20 - What are the use cases of eBPF in an enterprise setting? 21:30 - Do eBPF programs create any load on system ..read more

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 you.   Show notes: 01:00 - Intros 07:30 - Some of the biggest changes in networking in the last few years 18:30 - Main use cases for network automation 31:00 - Key benefits of Ansible 36:00 - Common obstacles on the journey to automation 41:30 ..read more

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). Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech   Show Notes: 00:10 - Intro 10:00 - What important announcement has been recently made by VMware, what was the reas ..read more

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 are on this episode.   Show notes: Intros: 00:00 What's Salto? 01:30 What can be automated by Salto on some typical applications? 06:00 How do you make sure Salto works with many SaaS applications and keep up with their changes? 14:00 ..read more