Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

podcast

Unexplored Territory: recovering from a ransomware attack /w Sazzala Reddy!

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There we go, episode 002 of the Unexplored Territory Podcast was just published. In this episode we talk to Sazzala Reddy. Sazzala is a Chief Technologist at VMware who joined via the Datrium acquisition, where he was the CTO. Before founding Datrium, he was at Dell/EMC, where he came in via the DataDomain acquisition. I think it is fair to say that Sazzala has a heavy data/storage DNA. We discuss Sazzala’s career path, why better is sometimes worse, and we extensively discuss VCDR and the new cloud file system that is being developed. I think it is a very interesting episode and would encourage everyone to give it a listen!

Make sure to follow Sazzala on twitter (https://twitter.com/sazzala) and read his blog post on the VCDR filesystem: https://bit.ly/3CiQoav.

Listen now via Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2ZOziDx, Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3BEkFja, Google: https://bit.ly/3Cy3ssF, Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+zyG9k_hks, Website: https://bit.ly/3w70FnV.

Unexplored Territory: A conversation with Kit Colbert, VMware’s new CTO

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One of my goals for this year was starting the Unexplored Territory Podcast. A podcast however is only relevant when people bother to listen to it, as such I figured I would use my blog to promote the podcast for now. As you can imagine, we are hoping to grow our audience fast, and we can use all the help we can get. If you enjoyed the podcast, make sure to subscribe, like, and share the episode on all social platforms, and preferably with your colleagues and friends. You can find the podcast in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Unexplored Territory, or simply click one of the following links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Stitcher, or Amazon Music. You can also listen to the episode by hitting play in the embedded player below.

In this episode, we talk to Kit Colbert. Kit was recently promoted to CTO within VMware. Kit talks about how he started as an intern and managed to find his way through the company to ultimately become the CTO. We also discuss various projects that were introduced at VMworld like Project Monterey, Project Capitola, and Project Santa Cruz. I hope you will enjoy this episode as much as we did recording it.

Announcing the Unexplored Territory Podcast!

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Frank, Johan, and I have been working on this for a few months already, but today I can finally share that a brand new podcast series will be out soon. This bi-weekly podcast (released on Monday) is titled “Unexplored Territory“. We will be discussing topics such as public cloud, virtualization, cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, end-user computing, storage, business continuity, and important (VMware-based) emerging technologies with industry/subject matter experts.

You may wonder, where you will be able to find it/us? Well of course we have a website: UnexploredTerritory.Tech. You can find us on Twitter on @UnexploredPod. You can listen to the podcast via any of your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Pocket Cast. Or use the RSS Feed to add the podcast to your favorite podcast player.

Make sure to subscribe and download the episodes automatically! Our very first guest will be a very special one, we invited VMware’s brand new CTO Kit Colbert to join us, and this episode will be available on Monday the 18th of October! We created a short teaser for the podcast, you can find it in your podcast app or check it out below via the embedded player. We hope everyone will enjoy the podcast, we are looking forward to many great conversations!

There’s a new podcast in town, but it is in Dutch!

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I wanted to inform the Yellow-Bricks readers that I started a podcast recently with Frank Denneman and Johan van Amersfoort. The name of the podcast is “In de aap gelogeerd” and that may already reveal that it is not in English, but it is in Dutch. Some may wonder why, well I guess that is easy to explain, all three of us are Dutch. Yes, we know, the podcast would have a bigger reach in English, and we may consider starting an additional podcast over time in English, but for now… just in Dutch. (For now… we are considering a podcast in English as well, but more on that later!)

For those who are Dutch-speaking, we will have a guest every episode starting with the second episode and we will publish a ~ 45-minute episode once every two weeks on Tuesday. The first episode, which just launched, is an introduction to the podcast. The second episode will feature Pim van de Vis (VMware), the third will feature Luc Dekens (retired IT professional), and the fourth will feature Bouke Groenescheij (independent contractor). With each of them, we will be discussing different topics. Of course we have much more planned, but we are not going to reveal that just yet!

If you are interested, you can find the links to find the podcast on any podcast app here, or simply search for “in de aap gelogeerd” in your podcast app of choice! You can also subscribe on youtube here, or follow our podcast account on twitter for the latest news.

Please subscribe, give it a try, and if you have any feedback or like to hear from a particular guest, drop us a note on twitter!