Define Tomorrow - Enterprise Technology Podcast

In this episode we dive into the critical world of backup strategies. Join us as we explore the essentials of why every business needs a robust backup plan and how to create one that stands the test of time. We'll break down the core standards and elements of an effective backup strategy, including immutable backups and encryption, and the 3-2-1 Backup Rule. We'll also demystify the differences between backup and disaster recovery, showcasing why both are indispensable to your data protection arsenal. And with the tech landscape constantly evolving we'll discuss how these changes impact your backup approach and why staying adaptable is key. But wait, there's more! We'll highlight the crucial link between security and backup strategies, explaining why backups are a cornerstone of cyber recovery. Trust us, you won't want to miss this lively and insightful conversation that could transform the way you think about data protection and business continuity.

Ready to stay ahead of the curve? Tune in to this episode as we unpack the latest shifts in VMware following its exciting acquisition by Broadcom. We'll dive into crucial updates, like the EUC spin-off and revamped academic pricing, and what they mean for you. But that's not all – we'll break down the changes to your existing licenses and will discuss the potential impacts on support, updates, and subscriptions. More importantly, discover how these changes can be a game-changer for your IT strategy.  Get the insights you need to make informed decisions! Join us in this episode to fully understand these changes and discover their potential impacts on your business.

Tune in to our latest Define Tomorrow episode as we embark on a journey through the ever-evolving landscape of modern IT management. In this tech-packed conversation, we demystify the intricacies of modern management and unveil the power duo – Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot.   During this episode, hosts Barry, Oli and Andy demystify modern management and its significance in today's IT landscape. Together they jump into the core components and benefits of Intune and Autopilot, giving you a sneak peek into their transformative potential.   Throughout this episode, we cover: Deployment, onboarding, and device management tips. Our insights on device enrollment, policy control, security, and compliance. How to avoid common pitfalls User adoption and change management strategies.   Tune in for expert insights and actionable tips to breeze through the shift to modern management

Get ready to dive into the dynamic world of Microsoft hybrid cloud as hosts Barry, Ben and Jon lead the conversation on the latest episode of the Define Tomorrow podcast. Joined by special guest Kenny Lowe, Director of MultiCloud Evangelism at Dell, this episode is packed with invaluable insights and expert perspectives. Together, the panel explores the exciting Microsoft hybrid cloud announcements unveiled at Dell Technologies World 2023. Discover the game-changing potential of Dell APEX storage, block file and protection, as well as the Azure Cloud Platform. And gain a deeper understanding of the innovative solutions and advancements that Microsoft and Dell have brought to the hybrid cloud landscape, revolutionising how organisations harness the power of cloud technologies. Tune in now to stay at the forefront of the ever-evolving hybrid cloud world and drive your organisation's digital transformation journey. Stay tuned to Kenny's blog for exciting updates and exclusive insights. 

In this episode of the Define Tomorrow podcast, our experts dive into the exciting world of the hybrid cloud and explore what it means for your organisation. Learn as they share practical advice on how to plan, deploy, and manage a hybrid cloud environment. Plus, discover how to get started on your hybrid cloud journey and optimise performance and costs along the way.  Tune in now for all the expert tips and insights you need to succeed with the hybrid cloud.  

A Disaster Recovery Plan. No one wants to use it, but when you need it, you'll be glad you've got one. That's why creating a Disaster Recovery plan should be top of your company's priorities. Then your data and business are fully protected if you ever have an unexpected disaster.  With an important job like this, it would be a big help to get some free advice from disaster recovery experts. That's what our latest podcast is all about.  Whether you know a little about Disaster Recovery or nothing at all, this podcast will give you the right information to feed back to your colleagues. That's because we're covering absolutely everything you need to include in your Disaster Recovery plan.  So join ComputerWorld experts Barry, Jon, and Dan here and drill down into the world of disaster recovery in a modern business. Understand the importance of a service catalogue in our latest blog. 

In this episode of our podcast, our technologists have come together to help you get fully prepared for 2023. Tech specialists Barry, Anthony, Kam and Oli share their expert pearls of wisdom for the top trends IT teams should think about when creating their IT strategies over the next 12 months. The team also discuss what they're excited about seeing in 2023. From features and software that have already been announced and will be arriving soon, to new developments that they hope to see – but that haven't even been discussed yet! It's essential listening – so tune in here to set your IT strategy for 2023.

vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 are now generally available. So in this podcast we explore the new features that these latest versions have introduced. ComputerWorld's Barry, Kam and Jon discuss the features that caught their eye and their recommendations for upgrading.  The team also discuss the biggest announcements from last month's VMware Explore, the global multi-cloud industry event, and tell you what caught their eye.

Microsoft Ignite 2022 was filled with sessions, announcements, news, and more to help everyone ‘do more, with less'.  In this episode of the Define Tomorrow Podcast, Barry, Ben and Kam round up the biggest tech announcements from Microsoft Ignite and share their thoughts and opinions. They chat about how these announcements can improve flexibility, management, scale and cost savings when it comes to Azure and Microsoft 365.  Tune in to see if there are any gems to take back to your team.

In this podcast, Barry Coombs and Ben Evans discuss their top five tips to ensure your data protection strategy is robust and secure.  Throughout the session they refer to the importance of testing, considering your data protection practices, planning for recovery and much more. 

Our host, Barry Coombs is joined by data protection experts, Michael Cade, Sam Woodcock and Ben  Evans. In this episode, the panel discuss the key considerations businesses should be making in 2021 to ensure their business and data is secure and reliable.  The panel also answer live questions from the audience. 

Host Barry Coombs will be joined by leading experts in workspace, Spencer Pitts, Tom Hickling, Peter von Oven and Simon Townsend as they discuss the latest trends in workspace technologies, where the industry is heading and what this means for your organisation in 2021 and beyond.

In this episode, host Barry Coombs is joined by Strategic Alliances Lead at Poly, Murtuza Viramgamwala. Barry and Murtuza discuss how the need for video communications has grown exponentially recently and how these technologies will further shape the way people work in the future.  Together Barry and Murtuza also discuss how other tools are crucial for productivity and focus.   

In this episode of the Define Tomorrow Podcast, host Barry Coombs is joined by Digital Workspace Chief technologist for EMEA at VMware, Spencer Pitts.  Barry and Spencer discuss how digital transformation has changed recently due to Covid-19 and how organisations have had to adapt their technology to ensure they are still able to work effectively when working from home. Spencer also discusses how he believes this will further change in the future.   

In this episode, Barry Coombs interviews Michael Cade, Senior Global Technologist at Veeam, about the new features and functionality of Veeam's exciting new release of Veeam v10.  Michael and Barry discuss the many new features of Veeam v10 including:  NAS Backup  Multi-VM Instant Recovery  Cloud Tier Copy Mode Much more! 

In this episode, host Barry Coombs discusses the future of the workspace with Murtuza Viramgamwala. Barry and Murtuza discuss how the workspace is changing, what this means for management and for your business.  Murtuza discusses how applications such as Teams are driving adoption and removing the barriers to communication that many organisations face. 

In this episode, Amit Panchal is joined by Jenny Radcliffe, aka, the people hacker. Amit and Jenny discuss how IT security has changed over the years and how technologies such as AI are posing new threats. Jenny also discusses how the human element of security is a real threat for your business, now more than ever and how you should minimise these risks.   

In this episode, Amit Panchal is joined by ComputerWorld's own Barry Coombs. The pair discuss the focus and trends of the future regarding IT including user experiences, delivering the experience they want and one that is different. Barry discusses how using technologies like IoT and analytics can deliver the details you need to improve user experience.  Amit also challenges Barry o the future of IT in 2020.   

In this episode, host Amit Panchal and Droplet Computing CEO, Peter von Oven discuss all aspects of End User Computing.  Throughout the episode, Peter discusses how the App containerisation solution can help customers with management and of course with the end user experience.  Amit and Pete also discuss the trends of 2020, what is going to be the next big thing and what this could mean for businesess. 

In this episode, host Amit Panchal, interviews Alex Crowe and Nick Williams of iland. Throughout the episode, the iland team discuss how compliance is changing the needs of their customers and how they are innovating when it comes to Disaster Recovery in order to ensure their customers are secure. 

In this episode, host, Amit Panchal interviews Carl Watt-Boolsen, Dell EMC CTO about digital transformation, what this means to customers, the challenges they are facing and of course the trends Carl is seeing.  Amit and Carl also discuss security and cloud first strategies. 

In this podcast, host Amit Panchal interviews Ed Hoppitt, VMware Director about what he is seeing develop and progress from VMware. Ed discusses the future of containers, cloud becoming a platform rather than a place and the future through AI & ML.  Ed also talks about what the big technology in 2020 will be for IT managers!

In this podcast, Barry Coombs, Megan Warren, Ben Evans and Anthony Charman discuss what they are looking forward to at the upcoming VMworld event in Barcelona. The team also discuss their past VMworld experiences, their top tips for any first-time attendees and of course, how to make the most of an incredible and extremely busy event.

This episode was recorded live in Las Vegas at Dell Technologies World (DTW) with host, Barry Coombs and special guests Mike Orth and Paul Wynne of Dell EMC. Throughout the podcast, Barry, Mike and Paul discuss their experience of the show, the conversations Mike and Paul are having with customers while they man the 'Meet the experts' area as well as their roles within the Dell Solutions Centre in Limerick.   

In this podcast, VMware Chief Technologist for Digital Workspace and ComputerWorld’s Barry Coombs discuss Windows 10 Migrations and Modern Management. Topics discussed include the challenges business, and users are facing today and the need for IT to change the approach, they use to manage and enable users. The journey IT professionals will need to go on to fully embrace the new way of working and modern management and much more.

In this video Barry Coombs and Peter von Oven, Founder and CTO of Droplet Computing discuss the need for users to access any of their data and applications on any device and with any connection, whenever they need too. Peter explains how Droplet Computing are tackling these demands and are Enabling applications to be delivered across multi-platform devices, online and offline.

In this podcast, hosts Barry Coombs and Megan Warren are joined by special guest, Eva Helén, the founder and CEO of EQ Inspiration. Throughout the episode, the trio discuss not only the importance of encouraging more women to join the technology industry but also the role that men need to play in mentoring and sponsoring women throughout their careers in tech.  Eva discusses her approach to help men understand how and where they can help and the challenges she sets men to help the technology industry reach gender parity. 

In this episode, Barry Coombs is joined by Ross Laing of Bitdefender to discuss the consistent rise of cyber security threats, including user error and threat hunting. Barry and Ross also discuss how IoT devices, such as printers can create further security threats to a business and how Network Traffic Security Analytics (NTSA) can help solve these issues and overcome these threats.

In this episode, a 'gaggle' of vExperts came together to talk about what being part of the virtualisation community means to them, their experience of being part of the vExpert program and any top tips they have to help and encourage others to join the fantastic community we are all a part of.  On this podcast we are joined by the following vexperts; Megan Warren (@BizTechMeg), Barry Coombs (@VirtualisedReal), Ben Evans (@BenEvans101), Jane Rimmer (@Rimmergram), Mike Orth (@HCIDiver), Paul Wynne (@VDIAllStar), Simon Eady (@SimonEady) and Gareth Edwards (@GarethEdwards86). 

In this episode, VMware CTO Joe Baguley joins Jez Black of Compare the Cloud to discuss cloud technologies. Joe and Jez dive deep into what direction the industry is heading in when it comes to Cloud, including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and of course the traditional on premises solutions. 

In this episode, we welcome special guest, Mike Orth (@HCIDiver) of Dell EMC. Barry and Mike discuss hyper-converged infrastructure and the new Dell EMC SmartFabric integration between VxRail and their switching portfolio. 

In this episode of the Define Tomorrow podcast Barry Coombs talk to Jason Smith of Liquidware. They introduce the Liquidware technology and how it can deliver an end to end solution for workspace and user management. One topic of discussion was the particular problem a number of businesses are facing today in regards to the use of Microsoft Office 365 in conjunction with non persistant desktops, whether these are VDI, Session Based Computing or simply temporary desktops like in education. Profile Unity allows for Profile Disks (VHD's) to hold the local cache for Office 365 including email and OneDrive and then to be attached in a just in time fashion when the user logs into the desktop without delay. The result means a seemless user experience for the user when using Office 365 with non persistant desktops whilst being easy to manage and maintain for IT. Also discussed on the podcast is the just released ability for Profile Unity to hold user profile data in cloud based object storage such as AWS S3 and Microsoft Blob Storage.

In this episode, Barry, Ben and Oli from ComputerWorld discuss what considerations they believe business' should make before moving to the cloud.  With many businesses now starting this journey, Barry, Ben and Oli discuss what steps you could take to make the journey easier, such as starting with moving your SaaS applications to the cloud first.     

With the new year now fully underway, we reflect on what we saw as the biggest announcements, trends and successes within the IT industry in 2017.   We also look into the next 12 months and what announcements and technology trends we want to and expect to hear in 2018.  Lastly we discuss why it is important that your business has an IT strategy, what elements you need to consider and how this can help your businesses success.  

VMware's CTO for EMEA Joe Baguley, speaks live at the Define Tomorrow event in Bristol October 19th 2017.  Joe delivers a visionary presentation covering a wide range of subjects including IoT, Cloud, Edge Computing, Containers, AI and much, much more.  Full videos and further presentations from the day will be made available at www.definetomorrow.co.uk

We caught up with Sam Woodcock of iland live on the show floor at VMworld 2017. Barry and Sam spoke about the show, iland's services, taking your first steps to the cloud with DRaaS or Backup as a Service as well as much much more.  

Recorded at VMworld 2017 in Barcelona, ComputerWorld's Barry Coombs interviews VMware Senior Product Line Manager Alan Renouf. Barry and Alan discuss Alan's career and journey to the VMworld main stage. They discuss his discovery of virtualisation and automation, the VMware Community and joining VMware, finally how Alan ended up on the VMworld main stage with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger

Barry Coombs is joined by Nick Dyer of Nimble Storage to discuss the value of the technical community.  Both Barry and Nick are long standing members of various technical communites, but particularly the VMware community.  They talk about the value of the technical community from the side of both the vendor but importantly for the end user. They share their experiences and advice on how you can get the most out of the community including, getting started, helping gain knowledge, contacts and progressing your career.  

In episode two of the Define Tomorrow, Enterprise Technology Podcast, host Barry Coombs is joined by colleagues David Wynn and Ben Evans to discuss "Being under attack - A discussion on how to handle a cyber-attack" Topics discussed include  The thoughts and feelings an IT admin will go through when they realise their systems are under attach. Discussion on what to do in the first minutes and hours of realising your systems have been compromised and the stages of isolate, investigate, recover and improve that should be in your cyber response plan to help you overcome a cyber-attack and much more.  Specific Technologies Discussed Include Ransomeware, Anti-Virus, Firewalls, Password Security, Patching, Change Control, Cyber-Response Plan If you have questions, thoughts on future topics you would like to hear or if you would like to join the Define Tomorrow team for a future podcast please email hello@definetomorrow.co.uk  

In episode one of the Define Tomorrow, Enterprise Technology Podcast, host Barry Coombs is joined by colleagues David Wynn and Ben Evans to discuss "Your data centre, the cloud and much more" Topics discussed include  The Cloud, Adoption, IaaS, DRaaS and SaaS, considerations when choosing cloud based applications and more.  Refreshing your infrastructure, why now might be the right time to plan your infrastructure refresh, considerations around a traditional virtual infrastructure against the latest trend of hyper-converged solutions, an overview of the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC). Data Protection, considerations around how to prepare a data protection strategy, 3-2-1 Backup strategies and how to avoid your backups being part of a ransonware attack. Specific Technologies Discussed Include Dell 14th Generation Servers, VMware VSAN, NSX and vSphere and Veeam Backup and Recovery.  If you have questions, thoughts on future topics you would like to hear or if you would like to join the Define Tomorrow team for a future podcast please email hello@definetomorrow.co.uk