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Join Eric, Corey as they provide updates on vExpert 2024, and then interview Michael Roy as he talks about the new release of Fusion and Workstation. As always they will discuss the latest with Apple's M series laptop and Windows on ARM.

Did you miss the vExpert gift this year, you can get a great NUC system for 249.99 to start your holiday project this year. With this hardware you get a silent home lab system (no fan) that will run vSphere 8. Pick up the VMUG advantage membership for 200.00 and get a vSphere 8 license and all the rest. A great 2023 kickstart to update your skills and have fun.

Lino Telera joins Eric to speak about his journey from learning to Automate the DataCenter to using API's for more sophisticated control. Lino speaks to the trials and rewards when engaging with the automation community VMware{code}. From hackathons to slack engagements, the hour long show goes fast!

In this episode of the EUCdigest, Kees Baggerman and Jits Langedijk had the privilege to speak with Helge Klein. Helge is the creator of community tools like SetACL and DelProf2, he's also the owner of Vast Limits who create the uberAgent. Helge walked us thru his admirable career in IT in which sharing is a fundamental truth for him. Many of us will recognise the software Helge have published and the knowledge he continuously shares with the community. Today, he and his colleagues at Vast Limits continue helping both customers as well as the community with uberAgent! Tune in and enjoy this episode with Helge.

About ChrisChris Williams is a Enterprise Architect for World Wide Technology — a technology solution and service provider. There he helps customers design the next generation of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, specializing in AWS and VMware. His first computer was a Commodore 64, and he's been playing video games ever since.Chris blogs about virtualization, technology, and design at Mistwire. He is an active community leader, co-organizing the AWS Portsmouth User Group, and both hosts and presents on vBrownBag. He is also an active mentor, helping students at the University of New Hampshire through Diversify Thinking—an initiative focused on empowering girls and women to pursue education and careers in STEM.Chris is a certified AWS Hero as well as a VMware vExpert. Fun fact that Chris doesn't want you to know: he has a degree in psychology so you can totally talk to him about your feelings.Links: WWT: https://www.wwt.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistwire Personal site: https://mistwire.com vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/team/chris-williams/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it's hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I've got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards, while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other, which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at Honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability, it's more than just hipster monitoring.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats v-u-l-t-r.com slash screaming.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. One of the things I miss the most from the pre-pandemic times is meeting people at conferences or at various business meetings, not because I like people—far from it—but because we go through a ritual that I am a huge fan of, which is the exchange of business cards. Now, it's not because I'm a collector or anything here, but because I like seeing what people's actual titles are instead of diving into the morass of what we call ourselves on Twitter and whatnot. Today, I have just one of those folks with me. My guest is Chris Williams, who works at WWT, and his business card title is Enterprise Architect, comma AWS Cloud. Chris, welcome.Chris: Hi. Thanks for having me on the show, Corey.Corey: No, thank you for taking the time to speak with me. I have to imagine that the next line in your business card is, “No, I don't work for AWS,” because you know a company has succeeded when they get their name into people's job titles who don't work there.Chris: So, I have a running joke where the next line should actually be cloud therapist. And my degree is actually in psychology, so I was striving to get cloud therapist in there, but they still don't want to let me have it.Corey: Former guest Bobby Allen is now a cloud therapist over at Google Cloud, which is just phenomenal. I don't know what they're doing in a marketing context over there; I just know that they're just blasting them out of the park on a consistent, ongoing basis. It's really nice to see. It's forcing me to up my game a little bit. So, one of the challenges I've always had is, I don't like putting other companies' names into the title.Now, I run the Last Week in AWS newsletter, so yeah, okay, great, there's a little bit of ‘do as I say, not as I do' going on here. Because it feels, on some level, like doing unpaid volunteer work for a $2 trillion company. Speaking of, you are an AWS Community Hero, where you do volunteer work for a $2 trillion company. How'd that come about? What did you do that made you rise to their notice?Chris: That was a brilliant segue. Um—[laugh]—Corey: I do my best.Chris: So I, actually prior to becoming an AWS Community Hero, I do a lot of community work. So, I have run and helped to run four different community-led organizations: the Virtualization Technology User Group of New England; the AWS Portsmouth User Group, now the AWS Boston User Group; I'm a co-host and presenter for vBrownBag; I also do the New England AWS Community Day, which is a conglomeration of all the different user groups in one setting; and various and sundry other things, as well, along the way. Having done all of that, and having had a lot of the SAs and team members come and do speaking presentations for these various and sundry things, I was nominated internally by AWS to become one of their Community Heroes. Like you said, it's basically unpaid volunteer work where I go out and tout the services. I love talking about nerd stuff, so when I started working on AWS technologies, I really enjoyed it, and I just, kind of like, glommed on with other people that did it as well. I'm also a VMware vExpert, which basically use the exact same accolade for VMware. I have not been doing as much VMware stuff in the recent past, but that's kind of how I got into this gig.Corey: One of the things that strikes me as being the right move with respect to these, effectively, community voice accolades is Microsoft got something very right—they've been doing this a long time—they have their MVP program, but they have to re-invite people who have to requalify for it by whatever criteria they are, every year. AWS does not do this with their Heroes program. If you look at their Heroes page, there's a number of folks up there who have been doing interesting things in the cloud years ago, but then fell off the radar for a variety of reasons. In fact, the only way that I'm aware that you can lose Hero status is via getting a job at AWS or one of AWS competitors.Now, the hard part, of course, is well, who is Amazon's competitors? Basically everyone, but it mostly distills down to Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, as best I can tell, for Hero status. How does VMware fall on that spectrum? To be more specific, how does VMware fall on the spectrum of their community engagement program and having to renew, not, “Are they AWS's competitor?” To which the answer is, “Of course.”Chris: So, the renewal process for the VMware vExpert program is an annual re-up process where you fill out the form, list your contribution of the year, what you've done over the previous year, and then put it in for submission to the board of VMware vExperts who then give you the thumbs up or thumbs down. Much like Nero, you know, pass or fail, live or die. And I've been fortunate enough, so my vBrownBag contributions are every week; we have a show that happens every week. It can be either VMware stuff, or cloud in general stuff, or developer-related stuff. We cover the gamut; you know, people that want to come on and talk about whatever they want to talk about, they come on. And by virtue of that, we've had a lot of VMware speakers, we've had a lot of AWS speakers, we've had a lot of Azure speakers. So, I've been fortunate enough to be able to qualify each year with those contributions.Corey: I think that's the right way to go, from my perspective at least. But I want to get into this a little bit because you are an enterprise architect, which is always one of those terms that is super easy to make fun of in a variety of different ways. Your IDE is probably a whiteboard, and at some point when you have to write code, I thought you had a team of people who would be able to do that all for you because your job is to cogitate, and your artifacts are documentation, and the entire value of what you do can only be measured in the grand sweep of time, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.Chris: [laugh].Corey: But you don't generally get to be a Community Hero for stuff like that, and you don't usually get to be a vExpert on the VMware side, by not having at least technical chops that make people take a second look. What is it you'd say it is you do hear for, lack of a better term?Chris: “What would you say ya, do you here, Bob?” So, I'm not being facetious when I say cloud therapist. There is a lot of working at the eighth layer of the OSI model, the political layer. There's a lot of taking the requirements from the customer and sending them to the engineer. I'm a people person.The easy answer is to say, I do all the things from the TOGAF certification manual: the requirements, risks, assumptions, and constraints; the logical, conceptual, and physical diagrams; the harder answer is the soft skill side of that, is actually being able to communicate with the various levels of the industry, figuring out what the business really wants to do and how to technically solution that and figure out how to talk to the engineers to make that happen. You're right EAs get made fun of all the time, almost as much as consultants get made fun of. And it's a very squishy layer that, you know, depending upon your personality and the personality of the customer that you're dealing with, it can work wonderfully well or it can crash and burn immediately. I know from personal experience that I don't mesh well with financials, but I'm really, really good with, like, medical industry stuff, just the way that the brain works. But ironically, right now I'm working with a financial and we're getting along like a house on fire.Corey: Oh, yeah. I've been saying for a while now that when it comes to cloud, cost and architecture are the same things, and I think that ties back to a lot of different areas. But I want to be very clear here that we talk about, I'm not super deep into the financials, that does not mean you're bad at architecture because working on finance means different things to different folks. I don't think that it is possibly a good architect in the cloud environment and not have a conception of, “Huh, that thing seems really expensive if I do it that way.” That is very different than having the skill of reading a profit and loss statement or understanding various implications of the time value of money calculation that a company uses, or how things get amortized.There are nuances piled on top of nuances in finance, and it's easy to sit here and think that oh, I'm not great at finance means I don't know how money works. That is very rarely true. If you really don't know how money works, you'll go start a cryptocurrency startup.Chris: [laugh]. So, I plugged back to you; I was listening to one of your old shows and I cribbed one of your ideas and totally went with it. So, I just said that there's the logical, conceptual, and physical diagrams of an environment; on one of your shows, you had mentioned a financial diagram for an environment, and I was like, “That's brilliant.” So, now when I go into a customer, I actually do that, too. I take my physical diagram, I strip out all of the IP addresses, and our names, and everything like that, and I plot down how much it's going to cost, like, “This is the value of the EC2 instance,” or, “This is how much this pipe is going to cost if you run this over it.” And they go bananas over it. So, thanks for providing that idea that I mercilessly stole.Corey: Kind of fun on a lot of levels. Part of the challenge is as things get cloudier and it moves away from EC2 instances, ideally the lie we would like to tell ourselves that everything's in an auto-scaling group. Great—Chris: Right.Corey: —stepping beyond that when you start getting into something that's even more intricately tied to a specific user, we're talking about effectively trying to get unit economic measures of every user, every thousand users is going to cost me X dollars to service them on average, on top of a baseline of steady-state spend that is going to increase differently. At that point, talking to finance about predictive models turn into, “Well, this comes down to a question of business modeling.” But conversely, for engineering minds that is exactly what finance is used to figuring out. The problem they have is, “Well, every time we hire a new engineer, we wind up seeing our AWS bill increase.” Funny how that works. Yeah, how do you map that to something that the business understands? That is part of what they do. But it does, I admit, make it much more challenging from a financial map of an environment.Chris: Yeah, especially when the customer or the company is—you know, they've been around for a while, and they're used to just like that large bolus of money at the very beginning of a data center, and they buy the switches, and they buy the servers, and they virtualize them, and they have that set cost that they knew that they had to plunk down at the beginning. And it's a mindset shift. And they're coming around to it, some faster than others. Oddly enough, the startups nowadays are catching on very quickly. I don't deal with a lot of startups, so it takes some finesse.Corey: An interesting inflection that I've seen is that there's an awful lot of enterprises out there that say, “Oh, we're like a startup.” Great. You mean with weird cultural inflections that often distill down to cult of personality, the constant worry about whether you're going to wind up running out of runway before finding product-market fit? And the rooms filled with—Chris: The eighty-hour work weeks? The—[laugh]—Corey: And they're like, “No, no, no, it's like the good parts.” “Oh, so you mean out the upside.” But you don't hear it the other way around where you have a startup that you're interviewing with, “Ha-ha, we're like an enterprise. We have a six-month interview process that takes 18 different stages,” and so on and so forth. However, we do see startups having to mature rapidly, and move up the compliance path as they're dealing with regulated entities and the rest, and wanting to deal with serious customers who have no sense of humor about, “Yeah, we'll figure that part out later as part of an audit document.”So, what we also see, though, is that enterprises are doing things that look a lot more startup-y. If I take a look at the common development environments and tools and techniques that big enterprises use, it looks an awful lot like how startups were doing it five or ten years ago. That is the slow and steady evolution of time. And what startups are doing today becomes enterprise tomorrow, and I can't shake the feeling that there's a sea of vendors out there who, in the event that winds up happening are eventually going to find themselves without a market at all. My model has been that if I go and found a Twitter for Pets style startup tomorrow and in ten years, it has grown to become an S&P 500 component—which is still easier to take seriously than most of what Tesla says—great.During that journey, at what point do I become a given company's customer because if there is no onboarding story for me to become your customer, you're in a long-tail decline phase. That's been my philosophy, but you are a—trademarked term—Enterprise Architect, so please feel free to tell me if I'm missing any of the nuances there, which I'm sure I am because let's face it, nuance is hard; sweeping statements are easy.Chris: As an architect, [laugh] it would be a disservice to not say my favorite catchphrase, it depends. There are so many dependencies to those kinds of sweeping statements. I mean, there's a lot of enterprises that have good process; there are a lot of enterprises that have bad process. And going back to your previous statement of the startup inside the enterprise, I'm hearing a lot of companies nowadays saying, “Oh, well, we've now got this brand new incubator system that we're currently running our little startup inside of. It's got the best of both worlds.”And I'm not going to go through the litany of bad things that you just said about startups, but they'll try to encapsulate that shift that you're talking about where the cheese is moving so quickly now that it's very hard for these companies to know the customer well enough to continue to stay salient and continue to be able to look into that crystal ball to stay relevant in the future. My job as an EA is to try to capture that point in time where what are the requirements today and what are the known detriments that you're going to see in your future that you need to protect against? So, that's kind of my job—other than being a cloud therapist—in a nutshell.Corey: I love the approach. My line has been that I do a lot of marriage counseling between engineering and finance, which is a fun term that also just so happens to be completely accurate.Chris: Absolutely. [laugh]. I'm currently being a marriage counselor right now.Corey: It's an interesting time. So, you had a viral tweet recently that honestly, I'm a bit jealous about. I have had a lot of tweets that have done reasonably well, but I haven't ever had anything go super-viral, where it was just a screenshot of a conversation you had with an AWS recruiter. Now, before we go into this, I want to make a couple of disclaimers here. Before I entered tech myself, I was a technical recruiter, and I can say that these people have hard jobs.There is a constant pressure to perform, it is a sales job that is unlike most others. If you sell someone a pen, great, you can wrap your head around what that's like. But you don't have to worry about the pen deciding it doesn't want to go home with the buyer. So, it becomes a double sale in a lot of weird ways, and there's a constant race to the bottom and there's a lot of competition in the space. It's a numbers game and a lot of folks get in and wash out who have terrible behaviors and terrible patterns, so the whole industry gets tainted—in some respects—like that. A great example of someone who historically has been a terrific example of recruiting done right has been Jill Wohlner. And she's one of the shining beacons of the industry as far as how to do these things in the right way—Chris: Yes.Corey: —but the fact that she is as exceptional as she is is in no small part because there's a lot of random folks coming by. All which is to say that our conversation going forward is not and should not be aimed at smacking around individual recruiters or recruiting as a whole because that is unfair. Now, that disclaimer has been given. Great, what happened?Chris: So, first off, shout out to Jill; she actually used to be a host on vBrownBag. So, hey girl. [laugh]. What happened was—and I have the utmost empathy and sympathy for recruiting; I actually used to have a side gig where I would go around to the local recruiting places around my area here and teach them how to read a cloud resume and how to read a req and try to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to actually have good conversations. This was back when cloud wasn't—this was, like, three or four years ago.And I would go in there and say, “This is how you recruit a cloud person nowadays.” So, I love good recruiters. This one was a weird experience in that—so when a recruiter reaches out to me, what I do is I take an assessment of my current situation: “Am I happy where I'm at right now?” The answer is, “Yes.” And if they ping me, I'll say, “Hey, I'm happy right now, but if you have something that is, you know, a million dollars an hour, taste-testing margaritas on St. John island in the sand, I'm all ears. I'm listening. Conversely, I also am a Community Hero, so I know a ton of people out in the industry. Maybe I can help you out with landing that next person.”Corey: I just want to say for the record, that is absolutely the right answer. And something like that is exactly what I would give, historically. I can't do it now because let's be clear here. I have a number of employees and, “Hey, Corey's out there doing job interviews,” sends a message that isn't good when it comes to how is that company doing anyway. I miss it because I enjoyed the process and I enjoyed the fun, but even when I was perfectly happy, it's, “Well, I'm not actively on the market, but I am interested to have a conversation if you've got something interesting.”Because let's face it, I want to hear what's going on in the market, and if I'm starting to hear a lot of questions about a technology I have been dismissive of, okay, maybe it's time to pay more attention. I have repeatedly been able to hire the people interviewing me in some cases, and sometimes I've gone on interviews just to keep my interview skills sharp and then wound up accepting the job because it turned out they did have something interesting that was compelling to me even though I was reasonably happy at the time. I will always take the meeting; I will always at least have a chat about what they're doing, and I think that doing otherwise is doing yourself a disservice in the long arc of your career.Chris: Right. And that's basically the approach that I take, too. I want to hear what's out there. I am very happy at World Wide right now, so I'm not interested, interested. But again, if they come up with an amazing opportunity, things could happen. So, I implied that in my response to him.I said, “I'm happy right now, thanks for asking, but let's set up the meeting and we can have a chat.” The response was unexpected. [laugh]. The response was basically, “If you're not ready to leave right now, it makes no sense for me to talk to you.” And it was a funny… interaction.I was like, “Huh. That's funny.” I'm going to tweet about that because I thought it was funny—I'm not a jerk, so I'm going to block out all of the names and all of the identifying information and everything—and I threw it up. And the commiseration was so impressive. Not impressive in a good way; impressive in a bad way.Every person that responded was like, “Yes. This has happened to me. Yes, this is”—and honestly, I got a lot of directors from AWS reaching out to me trying to figure out who that person was, apologizing saying that's not our way. And I responded to each and every single one of them. And I was like, “Somebody has already found that person; somebody has already spoken to that person. That being said, look at all of the responses in the timeline. When you tell me personally, that's not the way you do things, I believe that you believe that.”Corey: Yeah, I believe you're being sincere when you say this, however the reality of what the data shows and people's lived experience in the form of anecdotes are worlds apart.Chris: Yeah. And I'm an AWS Hero. [laugh]. That's how I got treated. Not to blow my own horn or anything like that, but if that's happening to me, either A, he didn't look me up and just cold-called me—which is probably the case—and b, if he treats me like that, imagine how he's treating everybody else?Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by something new. Cloud Academy is a training platform built on two primary goals. Having the highest quality content in tech and cloud skills, and building a good community the is rich and full of IT and engineering professionals. You wouldn't think those things go together, but sometimes they do. 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We're gonna have some fun with this one!Corey: Every once in a while I get some of their sourcers doing outreach to see folks who are somewhat aligned on them via LinkedIn or other things, and, “Oh, okay, yeah; if you look at the things I talked about in various places, I can understand how I might look like a potentially interesting hire.” And they send outreach emails to me, they're always formulaic, and once in a while, I'll tweet a screenshot of them where I redact the person's name, and it was—and there's a comment, like, “Should I tell them?” Because it's fun; it's hilarious. But I want to be clear because that often gets misconstrued; they have done absolutely nothing wrong. You've got to cast a wide net to find talent.I'm surprised I get as few incidents of recruiter outreach as I do. I am not hireable and that's okay, but I don't begrudge people reaching out. I either respond with a, “No thanks,” if it's a particularly good email, or I just hit the archive button and never think about it again. And that's fine, too. But I don't make people feel like a jerk for asking, and that is an engineering behavioral pattern that drives me up a wall.It's, “So, I'm thinking about a job here and I'm wondering if you might be a fit,” and your response is just to set them on fire? Well, guess what an awful lot of those people sending out those emails in the sourcing phase of recruiting are early career, and guess what, they tend to get promoted in the fullness of time. Sometimes they're no longer recruiting at all; sometimes they wind up being hiring managers in different ways or trying to figure out what offer they're going to extend to someone. And if you don't think that people in those roles remember when they're treated poorly as a response to their outreach, I have news for you. Don't do it. Your reputation lingers long after you no longer work there.Chris: Just exactly so. And I feel really bad for that guy.Corey: I do hope that he was not reprimanded because he should not be. It is clearly a systemic problem, and the fact that one person happened to do this in a situation where it went viral does not mean that they are any worse than other folks doing it. It is a teachable opportunity. It is, “I know that you have incredible numbers of roles to hire for, all made all the more urgent by the fact that you're having some significant numbers of departures—clearly—in the industry right now.” So, I get it; you have a hard job. I'm not going to waste your time because I don't even respond to them just because, at AWS particularly, they have hard work to do, and just jawboning with me is not going to be useful for them.Chris: [laugh].Corey: I get it.Chris: And you're trying to hire the same talent too. So.Corey: Exactly. One of the most egregious things I've seen in the course of my career was when that whole multiple accounts opened for Wells Fargo's customers and they wound up firing 3500 people. Yeah, that's not individual tellers doing something unethical. That is a systemic problem, and you clean house at the top because you're not going to convince me that you're hiring that many people who are unethical and setting out to do these things as a matter of course. It means that the incentives are wrong, it means that the way you're measuring things are wrong, and people tend to do things out of fear or because there's now a culture of it. And if you fire individuals for that, you're wrong.Chris: And that was the message that I conveyed to the people that reached out to me and spoke to me. I was like, there is a misaligned KPI, or OKR, or whatever acronym you want to use, that is forcing them to do this churn-and-burn mentality instead of active, compassionate recruiting. I don't know what that term is; I'm very far removed from the recruiting world. But that person isn't doing that because they're a jerk. They're doing that because they have numbers to hit and they've got to grind out as many as humanly possible. And you're going to get bad employees when you do that. That's not a long-term sustainable path. So, that was the conversation that I had with them. Hopefully, it resonated and hits home.Corey: I still remember from ten years ago—and I don't always tell the story, but I absolutely will now—I went up to San Francisco when I lived in Los Angeles; I interviewed with Yammer. I went through the entire process—this was not too long before they got acquired by Microsoft so that gives you some time basis—and I got a job offer. And it was a not ridiculous offer. I was going to think about it, and I [unintelligible 00:24:19], “Great. Thank you. Let me sleep on this for a day or two and I'll get back to you definitely before the end of the week.”Within an hour, I got a response rescinding the offer claiming it had been sent by mistake. Now, I believe that that is true and that they are being sincere with this. I don't know that if it was the wrong person; I don't know if that suddenly they didn't have the req or they had another candidate that suddenly liked better that said no and then came back and said yes, but it's been over a decade now and every time I talk to someone who's considering something in that group, I tell this story. That's the sort of thing that leaves a mark because I have a certain philosophy of I don't ever resign from a job before I wind up making sure everything is solid—things are signed, good to go, the background check clears, et cetera—because I don't want to find myself suddenly without income or employment, especially in that era. And that was fine, but a lot of people don't do that.As soon as the offer comes in, they're like, “I'm going to go take a crap on my boss's desk,” which, let's be clear, I don't recommend. You should write a polite and formulaic resignation letter and then you should email it to your boss, you should not carve it into their door. Do this in a responsible way, and remember that you're going to encounter these people again throughout your career. But if I had done that, I would have had serious problems. And so that points to something systemically awful at a company.I have never in my career as a hiring manager extended an offer and then rescinded it for anything other than we can't come to an agreement on this. To be clear, this is also something I wonder about in the space, when people tell stories about how they get a job offer, they attempt to negotiate the offer, and then it gets withdrawn. There are two ways that goes. One is, “Well if you're not happy with this offer, get out of here.” Yeah, that is a crappy company, but there's also the story of people who don't know how to negotiate effectively, and in turn, they come back with indications that you do not know how to write a business email, you do not know how negotiations work, and suddenly, you're giving them a last-minute opportunity to get out before they hire someone who is going to be something of a wrecking ball in the company, and, “Whew, dodged a bullet on that.”I haven't encountered that scenario myself, but I've seen it from other folks and emails that have been passed around in various channels. So, my position on this is everyone should negotiate offers, but visit fearlesssalarynegotiation.com, it's run by my friend, Josh; he has a whole bunch of free content on his site. Look at it. Read it. It is how to handle this stuff effectively and why things are the way that they are. Follow his advice, and you won't go too far wrong. Again, I have no financial relationship, I just like what he's done a lot and I've been talking to him for years.Chris: Nice. I'll definitely check that out. [laugh].Corey: Another example is developher—that's develop H-E-R dot com. Someone else I've been speaking to who's great at this takes a different perspective on it, and that's fine. There's a lot of advice out there. Just make sure that whoever it is you're talking to about this is in a position to know what they're talking about because there's crap advice that's free. Yeah. How do you figure out the good advice and the bad advice? I'm worried someone out there is actually running Route 53 is a database for God's sake.Chris: That's crazy talk. Who would do that? That's madness.Corey: I can't imagine it.Chris: We're actually in the process of trying to figure out how to do a panel chat on exactly that, like, do a vBrownBag on salary negotiations, get some really good people in the room that can have a conversation around some of the tough questions that come around salary negotiation, what's too much to ask for? What kind of attitude should you go into it with? What kind of process should you have mentally? Is it scrawling in crayon, “No. More money,” and then hitting send? Or is it something a little bit more advanced?Corey: I also want to be clear that as you're building panels and stuff like that—because I got this wrong early on in my public speaking career, to be clear—I built talks aligned with this based on what worked for me—make sure that there are folks on the panel who are not painfully over-represented as you and I are because what works for us and we're considered oh, savvy business people who are great negotiators comes across as entitled, or demanding, or ooh, maybe we shouldn't hire her—and yes, I'm talking about her in a lot of these scenarios—make sure you have a diverse group of folks who can share lived experience and strategies that work because what works for you and me is not universal, I promise.Chris: So, the only requirement to set this panel is that you have to be a not-white guy; not-old-white guy. That's literally the one rule. [laugh].Corey: I like the approach. It's a good way to do it. I don't do manels.Chris: Yes. And it's tough because I'm not going to get into it, but the mental space that you have to be in to be a woman in tech, it's a delicate balance because when I'm approaching somebody, I don't want to slide into their DMs. It's like this, “Hey, I know this other person and they recommended you and I am not a weirdo.” [laugh]. As an old white guy, I have to be very not a weirdo when I'm talking to folks that I'm desperate to get on the show.Because I love having that diverse aspect, just different people from different backgrounds. Which is why we did the entire career series on vBrownBag. We did data science with Ayodele; we did how to get into cybersecurity with Christoph. It was a fantastic series of how to get into IT. This was at the beginning of the pandemic.We wanted to do a series on, okay, there's a lot of people out there that are furloughed right now. How do we get some people on the show that can talk to how to get into a part of IT that they're passionate about? We did a triple series on how to get into game development with Dennis Diack, the founder of Apocalypse Studios. We had a bunch of the other AWS Heroes from serverless, and Lambda, and AI on the show to talk, and it was really fantastic and I think it resonated well with the community.Corey: It takes work to have a group of guests on things like podcasts like this. You've been running vBrownBag for longer than I've been running this, and—Chris: 13 years now.Corey: Yeah. This is I think, coming up on what, four years-ish, maybe three, in that range? The passing of time, especially in a pandemic era, is challenging. And there's always a difference. If I invite a white dude to come on the podcast, the answer is yes before I get the word podcast fully out of my mouth, whereas folks who are not over-represented, they're a little more cautious. First, there's the question of, “Am I a trash bag?” And the answer is, “No.” Well, no, not in the way that you're concerned about other ways—Chris: [laugh]. That you're aware of. [laugh].Corey: Oh, God, yes, but—yeah. And then—and that's part of it, and then very often, there's a second one of, “Well, I don't think I have anything, really, to talk about,” is often a common objection here. And it's, yeah, if I'm inviting you on this show, I promise that's not true. Don't worry about that piece of it. And then it's the standard stuff that just comes with being me, of, “Yeah, I've read your Twitter feed; you got to insult me here?” It's, “No, no, not really the same tone. But great question; throw the”—it goes down to process. But it takes constant work, you can't just put an open call out for guest nominations, and expect that to wind up being representative of our industry. It is representative of our biases, in many respects.Chris: It's a tough needle to thread. Because the show has been around for a long time, it's easier for me now, because the show has been around for 13 years. We actually just recorded our two thousandth and sixtieth episode the other night. And even with that, getting that kind of outreach, [#techtwitter 00:31:32] is wonderful for making new recommendations of people. So, that's been really fun. The rest of Twitter is a hot trash fire, but that's beside the point. So yeah, I don't have a good solution for it. There's no easy answer for it other than to just be empathic, and communicative, and reach people on their level, and have a good show.Corey: And sometimes that's all it takes. The idea behind doing a podcast—despite my constant jokes—it's not out of a love affair of the sound of my own voice. It's about for better or worse, for reasons I don't fully understand, I have a platform. People listen to the show and they care what people have to say. So, my question is, how can I wind up using that platform to tell stories that lift up narratives that are helpful for folks that they can use as inspiration—in my case, as critical warnings of what to avoid—and effectively showcasing some of the best our industry has to offer, in many respects.So, if the guest has a good time and the audience can learn something, and I'm not accidentally perpetuating horrifying things, that's really more than I have any right to ask from a show like this. The fact that it's succeeded is due in no small part to not just an amazing audience, but also guests like you. So, thank you.Chris: Oh no, Thank you. And it is. It's… these kinds of shows are super fun. If it wasn't fun, I wouldn't have done it for as long as I have. I still enjoy chatting with folks and getting new voices.I love that first-time presenter who was, like, super nervous and I spend 15 minutes with them ahead of the show, I say, “Okay, relax. It's just going to be me and you facing each other. We're going to have a good time. You're going to talk about something that you love talking about, and we're going to be nerds and do nerd stuff. This is me and you in front of a water cooler with a whiteboard just being geeks and talking about cool stuff. We're also going to record it and some amount of people is going to see it afterwards.” [laugh].And yeah, that's the part that I love. And then watching somebody like that turn into the keynote speaker at a conference ten years down the road. And I get to say, “Oh, I knew that person when.”Corey: I just want to be remembered by folks who look back fondly at some of the things that we talk about here. I don't even need credit, just yeah. People who see that they've learned things and carry them forward and spread to others, there's so many favors that people have done for us that we can only ever pay forward.Chris: Yeah, exactly. So—and that's actually how I got into vBrownBag. I came to them saying, “Hey, I love the things that you guys have done. I actually passed my VCIX because of watching vBrownBags. What can I do to help contribute back to the community?” And Alistair said, “Funny you should mention that.” [laugh]. And here we are seven years later.Corey: Well, to that end, if people are inspired by what you're saying and they want to hear more about what you have to say or, heaven forbid, follow in your footsteps, where can they find you?Chris: So, you can find me on Twitter; I am at mistwire.com—M-I-S-T-W-I-R-E; if you Google ‘mistwire,' I am the first three pages of hits; so I have a blog; you can find me on vBrownBag. I'm hard to miss on Twitter [laugh] I discourage you from following me there. But yeah, you can hit me up on all of the formats. And if you want to present, I'd love to get you on the show. If you want to learn more about what it takes to become an AWS Hero or if you want to get into that line of work, I highly discourage it. It's a long slog but it's a—yeah, I'd love to talk to you.Corey: And we of course put links to that in the [show notes 00:35:01]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me, Chris. I really appreciate it.Chris: Thank you, Corey. Thanks for having me on.Corey: Chris Williams, Enterprise Architect, comma AWS Cloud at WWT. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with a comment telling me that while you didn't actively enjoy this episode, you are at least open to enjoying future episodes if I have one that might potentially be exciting.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Welcome to this third episode of the EUCdigest ThrowDown. In the ThrowDown we’ll discuss and debate on the news of the past month in the EUC space. Fire at the OVH Cloud datacenter, thousands of customers didn't have DR in place. Is the vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange a reason to use Cloud services? Are NVidia and VMware democratising AI? Netflix enabled artist to work from anywhere with Remote Workstations. Dropbox acquired document sharing platform DocSend for $165M Microsoft makes a universal printer server available for E3 customers and up. Host Ingmar Verheij - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingmarverheij/ Co-hosts Eric van Klaveren - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanklaveren/ Jits Langedijk - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jitslangedijk/ Johan van Amersfoort - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hojan/ Kees Baggerman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keesbaggerman/

In his episode, Ingmar and Johan had a conversation with Barry Schiffer. Barry Schiffer is well known in the EUC community and recently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, joined eG Innovations. During the podcast Barry took us through his career, how he and Bram Wolfs came up with the idea of creating RDanalzyer, and why he joined eG Innovations. And we talked about monitoring the performance of an IT infrastructure and how that relates to the productivity of employees.

Bonus episode 1 of 2021, You may have heard about vExpert. Are you familiar with The Veeam Vanguard program though? Topics discussed: What is the Veeam Vanguard Program Sub Program “Legends” How to be inclusive but keep the group appropriately sized? What are the benefits (Veeam perspective) What are the benefits (Vanguard perspective) Why do you want to be a Vanguard (perks aren’t everything) What does Veeam look for continued inclusion How to find/interact with a Vanguard? Links mentioned in this episode: Veeam Vanguard Veeam Legends

Welcome to this second episode of the EUCdigest ThrowDown. In the ThrowDown we’ll discuss and debate on the news of the past month in the EUC space. What about conferences in 2021? New community experts in 2021 VDI Like a Pro! Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead Microsoft introduced Microsoft Viva What music do listen to when working remote? Neropasso Originale Rosso Veneto wine review Host Ingmar Verheij - http://linkedin.com/in/ingmarverheij​ Co-hosts Eric van Klaveren - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanklave...​ Jits Langedijk - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jitslange...​ Johan van Amersfoort - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hojan/​ Kees Baggerman - http://linkedin.com/in/keesbaggerman​

Mike is sitting down to chat today with vExpert and Cisco Champion Michael Cade, a senior global technologist over at Veeam. Michael has spent the last 18 months or so diving deep into the Cloud, and he’s a great resource for folks looking to expand that skill set.In this episode, we talk about…Michael’s experience with Azure versus AWS.What Michael has been working on at Veeam -which has been seeing a huge shift of many more people moving over into the public cloud.Several interesting use cases for data migration projects Michael has worked on, and what he learned from them.How Veeam works efficiently to back up data for its customers.Why Michael has been geeking out over educating families who aren’t able to afford computers to learn about technology like raspberry pi that helps folks who need to get online for virtual work or remote learning.The best career advice Michael has ever gotten -which is that the feeling of imposter syndrome isn’t always a bad thing.Resources from this episode:Follow Michael on TwitterCheck out Michael's BlogCheck out Veam

Need we say more? ok, we will. See the show notes. vLadies is an amazing movement in the #vCommunity. In this episode, we have the privilege to talk to some amazing members of the movement to find out what it’s all about, and what we can do as a community to help. Note: Some audio distortion was found in editing and is being dealt with so please forgive us. Topics discussed: vLadies Group Intro Issues Women face in Tech Wage Gap personal experiences How can we be better allies? Ladies in tech are not Secretaries or Assistants. Don’t ask them to handle tasks like note taking, or scheduling, or food/coffee procurement. Treat the ladies as equals Listen more and talk less Think before you speak Understand your Audience Don’t assume a lone lady joining a group is lost Ensure the ladies in your group are welcomed/offered to speak/present How can the job market be better? Encourage Ladies in tech to put forth a best effort despite lacking certain skills Encourage/Remind all to leverage the community/their network to find opportunities Links mentioned in this episode: https://twitter.com/vExpert/status/1316060274776920064 https://www.vmware.com/radius/vmwares-culture-built-epic2-values/ https://itr-it-reality.zencast.website/episodes/30 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64941/meet-woman-behind-apollo-project https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Yaddle https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/223415/dirt-pudding/ Join the ITR Slack space

Discussion with Aaron Buley about what a product manager is, how podcasting can be easy, and all things #CoolTech. **Topics discussed:** * Podcasting * IOT * AI * ML * Lidar * Deep stuff **Links mentioned in this episode:** * https://www... Discussion with Aaron Buley about what a product manager is, how podcasting can be easy, and all things #CoolTech. Topics discussed: Podcasting IOT AI ML Lidar Deep stuff Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.businessinsider.com/dell-dude-ben-curtis-today-2014-10 https://anchor.fm/techbreakfast https://www.youtube.com/user/marquesbrownlee https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/ https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision https://twitter.com/vExpert/status/1316060274776920064 https://www.meatchurch.com/ Join the ITR Slack space

There is more to this vExpert than you may realize. Listen and find out! This week we welcome Guest Co-Host Ariel Sanchez Mora, Richard Kenyan, and star guest Caitlin Allison. Let’s delve into the mind of vCommunity Caitlin, and her travels in the US... Come with us… #vExpert #vCommunity #PizzaWars Topics discussed: Do you even Twitter? Creating relationships within a Community. Working with VMUG Usercons Rolling with the punches, when things go wrong you can't control. Links mentioned in this episode: Join ITR Slack for great conversation and the opportunity to participate in the after show. VMUG is awesome, get Involved & connected!

In this episode, Johan and Kees have a chat with Huib Dijkstra (EUC specialist at VMware). They talk about the EUC announcements from VMworld 2020 including some of the highlights around EUC and this first online VMworld in general. Sessions mentioned by Huib: DWHV1805 Horizon - What you need to know DWDE1521 Technical Deep Dive - Blast Extreme Protocol and Remote Experience DWMM1836 Apple at Work With VMware HCP1833 What's New with Fusion and Workstation DWMM1882 A Playbook for Migrating to Android Enterprise Other videos mentioned by Huib: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReIFlS8z00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPkYMEoDWw

In this episode Eric and Jits invited Rody Kossen (IT consultant at PQR) and Ruben Spruijt ( Sr. Technologist at Nutanix) to have a chat about their upcoming session (https://bit.ly/3mIDfjy) Top 5 VDI/DaaS Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them. If you actively work with Amazon AWS, Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix, or VMware VDI and DaaS solutions, you don’t want to miss this session. They’ll dig into essential topics, provide technical details, examples, and best practices to help you deliver a successful VDI and/or DaaS deployment. Can't wait? Hit that play button!

In this episode Jits and Kees had the pleasure to have Mathias Alleyn as their guest. Mathias is a strong believer of ‘sharing is a fundamental truth’ and with that a great supporter as well as initiator within the EUC community. Together with Mathias, Jits and Kees chatted about the added value of Citrix combined with Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD). Learn how to increase user experience, security and manageability. Tune in and enjoy this podcast..

Andrew Hancock is a VMware vExpert, a Gold Status Certified Expert on Experts Exchange, and a beekeeper in England! Randy Redberg and Thomas Bernal sit down with Andrew and discuss how his success as an expert in the EE community helped him excel his VMware career and ultimately earn the vExpert Pro title. Andrew gives his best tips and advice on how to succeed in VMware, the path to becoming a vExpert, and the benefits of being involved in the VMware and Experts Exchange community.

In this episode Ingmar and Eric have a chat with industry veteran Steve Greenberg about end user computing through the years. After starting as an audio engineer, he shifted into IT and made OS/2 applications available on NeXT computers using Citrix technology. Steve shares his experience on how EUC has evolved over the years and how things have changed and yet so much has remained the same. The important role of the community in the early days and how that has evolved and led to the creation of EUC the Masters Retreat. A great conversation with many historical fun facts. Tune in and find out.

In this episode Jits and Eric had the pleasure to have Pim van de Vis as a guest. Pim explained his role at VMware and how his customer engagements can influence product development and priorities. And, we discussed how software vendors influence the way people conduct their work. How is defining what? Is the customer, the vendor or a healthy mix of both? Tune in and find out.

We manage to have a catch up after slight pause in getting episodes out. We discuss vExpert applications, remember dont delay apply today! https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2020/05/31/vexpert-applications-are-open-dont-miss-out/ Please reach out to any of us or the Pro’s for UK & Ireland are Gareth, Matt Ford, Andrew Hancock, Colin Westwater, Christian Parker & Paul Wilk We also have a...

In this episode Jits and Kees had a casual chat with industry veteran Ron Oglesby. With his experience, dating back from the days with Novel Netware and Windows NT all the way up to today and tomorrows developments, Ron has holistic view on IT in general and EUC in particular. Insights from a vendor perspective based on his various roles at Unidesk, Citrix and now VMware, provides input on where we are heading in EUC. A great podcast with some interesting facts and views, tune in and enjoy.

In this episode, Ingmar and Jits have a nice chat with Thomas Poppelgaard on all kinds of different realities. It’s from Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality all the way to eXtended Reality. How do these various realities empower us today and especially in the End User Computing space? How do today's applications fit into eXtended Reality, can Virtual Reality increase security for organizations and what is the biggest challenge in adoption of these solutions? Just a couple of questions discussed in this podcast, so, tune in to our reality and enjoy!

In this episode, Johan and Kees talk to Niek Boevink. Niek works at Citrix and quite recently has won a Citrix Global Demo Warrior Award. During the podcast we discuss what it takes to create a great story for a presentation and demo, and also how technology in his story had a massive impact for a non-profit organisation.

A new crop of VMware vExpert PROs were awarded and we had some of them participate in a roundtable talking about what the program is about and how it helps others who aspire to get the vExpert award. Here's the announcement and their twitter accounts: https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2020/04/07/vexpert-2020-sub-program-awards/ https://twitter.com/vtimd https://twitter.com/MattThatITGuy https://twitter.com/gsxesx https://twitter.com/jhoughes https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor Blog posts with tips for getting awarded vExpert https://www.42u.ca/2019/06/09/four-things-to-do-when-applying-for-vexpert/ http://www.vbrain.info/2019/07/17/vexpert-application-tips-and-tricks/ https://hcidiver.com/datacenter/i-need-vexpert-advice-tips-i-was-rejected-again-for-vexpert-should-i-just-give-up/ http://www.itgaiden.com/being-a-vexpert/ http://blogs.arielsanchezmora.com/post/vexpert-2019---my-tips-to-help-your-approval-odds/

In this episode Jits and Johan have a conversation with Noah Kravitz, a writer, consultant and fellow podcast host (The NVIDIA AI Podcast). Todays topic is, Artificial Intelligence and the impact on our daily lives and how we can benefit from AI already. Naturally we discuss how AI-powered solutions are impacting our enterprise solutions which we use at work. Make sure to catch this podcast episode.

In this episode Eric, Ingmar, and Jits have a conversation with Remko Weijnen, a working from home (#WFH) veteran and System Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services, about remote working. What are some of the benefits when working from home? How do you keep in touch with your colleagues, superior, and family. What agreements do you make with your spouse, kids, and many more useful tips. This episode is a must especially now that everyone is working from home. Buckle up and tune right in!

We are joined by vExpert, host of OpenTechCast (another great podcast!) and technology enthusiast Ather Beg, who comes to discuss the hot topic of running VMware Cloud on AWS. We delve into the following: What are the benefits and use cases of combining these private and public clouds? How exactly does it all work? How reliable is this solution in terms of availability? Thanks for joining us Ather, and for helping us set new records for acronym usage!

This week Vince Wood and Joe Houghes discuss the VMware vExpert Program with Matt Langguth and Matt Crape. Matt and Matt are both VMware vExpert Pros. Based on their experience with the program, we explore the details as well as give advice for current and future vExperts. Conversion points include: For those who don’t know, what is it? What vExpert is not Requirements to become a vExpert Requirements to maintain vExpert status. vExpert Pro vs vExpert -Sub programs, now open. Compare & contrast with similar programs -Veeam Vanguard -Tech Field Day? -Microsoft Cloud Advocate -VMware CTAB (Customer Technical Advisory Board) -Cisco Champion -Nutanix Technology Champion Value -To VMware To vExperts Benefits -Access to Slack -Pluralsight -RoyalTS -Eval Licenses To Outsiders (e.g. Hiring Managers, vCommunity, other) VMware Community Podcast #469 - Matt Langguth & Corey Romero - vExpert Application Process 2019 The first vExpert PRO panel - meet @gsxesx @arielsanchezmor @MattThatITGuy vExpert 2020 Announcement Matt Langguth's made up word vExpert Directory vExpert Stats vExpert Twitter feed

In this episode Eric and Jits traveled to Munich to visit IGEL Disrupt 2020. They met with EUC legends Douglas Brown and Simon Townsend and talked about the importance and power of community. The value to the customers, the industry and how community increases customer support and last but not least, how IGEL Technology empowers the EUC community. Tune in and get involved!

During the Login VSI VDI Performance Summit 2020 in the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, Eric, Jits, Johan and Kees talked to wide variety of IT Professionals. From (independent) consultants to the organization, from sponsors to session speakers - many guests that offered a lot of different insights. Expect loads of VDI, thoughts and opinions on what was shared at the conference, but also VR and AR, obviously performance and the impact on user experience. Curious, tune in now!

In this episode Eric and Jits have a conversation with Eltjo van Gulik and Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk, both consultants working for ICT Partners, about the community research platform Go-EUC. Go-EUC is an open, independent community platform focused primarily on performance research within the EUC domain. They delve into what makes up a test run, the huge amounts of data involved when performing multiple tests, the triple shot cappuccino, and why this is important for the end user experience. Curious? Tune right in!

Piąty odcinek podcastu jest poświęcony technologiom wirtualizacji opartej o software VMware. W rozmowie z Sebastianem poruszamy tematy związane z wyborem VMware, ścieżką certyfikacji i szkoleń oraz labów dla adminów. Pojawia się również temat istniejącej społeczności VMware w Polsce. Pytania do Sebastiana: Aplikacje, które używa Sebastian (początek rozmowy): Czym zatem zajmujesz się na co dzień? Czym jest VMware? Dlaczego VMware do wirtualizacji a nie HyperV MS? Warto adminom robić certyfikaty VMware i które (do jakiego etapu)? “7 narzędzi o których każdy początkujący administrator VMware powinien wiedzieć!” skąd pomysł na taki pdf? Od czego rozpocząć przygodę z VMware jeśli jestem student lub w firmie nie ma wirtualizacji? Chwila na temat grupy dot. VMware na Slacku. Kim jest vExpert? Gdzie słuchacze mogą więcej Cię posłuchać/poczytać? Linki: Blog Sebastiana: https://akademiadatacenter.pl/ LinkedIn: https://pl.linkedin.com/in/sebastiangrugel “7 narzędzi o których każdy początkujący administrator VMware powinien wiedzieć!”: https://akademiadatacenter.pl/newsletter-menu Ścieżka certyfikacji VMware: https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification.html VMware Flings: https://flings.vmware.com/ HOLlabs: https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/catalog/1212 Blog VMware: https://blogs.vmware.com/ VMware vExpert: https://vexpert.vmware.com/ Spotkania VUMG: https://community.vmug.com/communities/localcommunityhome?CommunityKey=6558a847-c2b3-44a7-8278-d2daf29efc80 Grupa na SLACKu: https://link.do/2c0Al

In this episode, Eric and Jits chat with Huib Dijkstra. They talk about the EUC highlights of VMworld 2019 in Barcelona. Huib is an EUC specialist at VMware, public speaker, vExpert and co-founder of vEUCTechCon. Together we’ll talk about VMworld, (probably) the biggest European virtualization event, the highlights on the latest and greatest Workspace One with Intelligence, Workspace One Assistant, the integration of Carbon Black, App Volumes 4 and much more. Tune in now to satisfy your appetite for EUC!

In this first episode we introduce you to the team of (co)hosts, the podcast, the platform and the ideas. A show fully focused on EUC, vendor agnostic and community driven.

At VMworld, we held vExpert and blogger briefings covering the state of HPE and VMware. This is the section of that briefing where we talked about storage. Joining the briefing were Sandeep Singh, VP of Marketing for HPE Storage and Eric Siebert, one of the original vExperts and VMware for storage solution manager.

Witam Ciebie w pierwszym odcinku podcastu z Pasją o IT przygotowywanym na bazie jednego z cyklicznych treści tworzonych dla subskrybentów bloga AkademiaDatacenter.PL z serii "Piątkowa kawa". Ja nazywam się Sebastian Grugel i zapraszam Ciebie do wysłuchania tego odcinka. Witaj w copiątkowym zestawieniu najciekawszych rzeczy, które znalazłem w tym tygodniu z myślą o Tobie. Mam nadzieję, że znajdziesz tu coś przydatnego. To zaczynajmy: 1. Formularz, który daje nam możliwość zgłoszenia się do testów beta VMware vSphere. Ciekawy temat, bo można wówczas o pewnych funkcjonalnościach dowiedzieć się wcześniej i przetestować je w środowisku testowym. Ja akurat takie rzeczy testuje obecnie w chmurze IaaS gdzie pracuję, ale można też z powodzeniem na swojej stacji roboczej np. na VMware Workstation ===> https://www.vmware.com/content/microsites/learn/en/43478_vSphere_Beta_Reg.html 2. W między czasie ogłoszono także wyróżnienia vExperta na 2019. Jest to druga tura już w tym roku. Fantastycznie, że do grona vExpertów dołączyli kolejni Polacy. Tym bardziej cieszy mnie fakt, bo niektórych sam rekomendowałem. ===> https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2019/07/26/vexpert-2019-second-half-award-announcement/ Czy warto zdobyć tytuł vExperta i czym to jest opisywałem kiedyś na blogu https://akademiadatacenter.pl/vmware/cala-prawda-czy-warto-zdobyc-tytul-vexperta-czym-jest-program-vmware/ 3. Nie mogę także przemilczeć kolejnego partnerstwa VMware z graczem wielkiej trójki na rynku chmur publicznych. Będziemy mieli rozwiązanie VMware na Google ===> https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/vmware-cloud-foundation-comes-to-google-cloud P.S1. Masz może jakieś pytanie lub uwagii co do podcastu ? Po prosu napisz maila na sebastian@akademiadatacenter.pl. Jestem po drugiej stronie :)Jeśli podcast w jakiś sposób okazał się być dla Ciebie wartościowy proszę podziel się linkiem do tego podcastu, dzięki czemu będe mógł dalej Tworzyć dla Ciebie kolejne materiały w przyszłości. To już wszystko w tym odcinku. Jeśli chcesz otrzymywać powiadomienia gdy tylko opublikuję najnowszy podcast, dopisz się do listy mailowej pod adresem akademiadatacenter.pl/podcast lub zasubskrybuj ten kanał.Wszelkie notatki do tego podcastu możesz znaleźć pod adresem akademiadatacenter.pl/001 Do usłyszenia gdzieś kiedyś w podcascie lub na blogu AkademiaDatacenter.PL Do usłyszenia Sebastian

#469 - vExpert Applications & Denials w/Mat Langguth by VMware Podcasts

#455 - VMworld Europe Hackathon, vExpert Party, CloudCity w/Social Team by VMware Podcasts

#461 - How to do a Great vExpert Application w/Corey Romero by VMware Podcasts

#437 - vExpert & vSAN awards w/Corey Romero by VMware Podcasts

#451 - vExpert Sub Programs & Exclusions by VMware Podcasts

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). 

John Troyer is well known among the VMware community as the creator of what may be the most widely known technology advocacy communities known as #vExpert during his time at VMware.  Now, as co-founder of Tech Reckoning, John shares insights into the distinct challenges of influencer marketing and technology community health as a whole.  This discussion will leave you asking some deep questions yourself about these programs and what's next for it all.  

En este primer episodio del año 2019 vamos a hablar de los cambios en las certificaciones Openstack COA y VMware VCP. Antes de nada ya están abiertas las inscripciones al programa vExpert de VMware y te contamos que necesitas para acceder y fechas. Nada más, nos vemos en el próximo capítulo, y si quieres contarme que te ha parecido te invito a que lo hagas a través de nuestros comentarios o los de iVoox, Youtube, Itunes, RRSS... ¡Los leemos todos! ¡Muchas gracias por los me gusta, suscribirte y compartir!

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 be granted with the vExpert title, and more. Read more on: https://vexpert.vmware.com/.  Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter, LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.

Featured in this episode is info on January Windows Updates Break GPO + SYSVOL, New HP Laptop Security Feature, Azure Pricing, Computes Beta & More | Jan 27th 2018 Hot Jobs: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/ojob/426fff71c5b9c2f72518aed69f2922ce?utm_campaign=google_jobs&utm_source=google_jobs&utm_medium=organic Scripts, Tricks & Tips http://sonic-pi.net http://carlwebster.com/script-download-counts/ January Patch Issue: https://www.gpanswers.com/hresult-0x80071128-on-server-2012r2-dcs-when-editing-gpos/ HP Spectre x360 Privacy Screen: http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-spectre-x360-built-in-instant-privacy-screen/ Azure Pricing Decrease: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/microsoft-drops-the-price-of-its-standard-support-for-azure-to-100-per-month/ vExpert 2018 Program: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2017/12/vexpert-2018-applications-are-now-open.html Community Conferences: http://itdevconnections.com/dc18/Public/Enter.aspx https://mmsmoa.com/news/157-mms-2018-registration-information-and-important-dates.html https://www.fslogix.com/events/236-masters-retreat-2018 Podcast is also available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Google Play: https://soundcloud.com/5bytespodcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/5bytespodcast/id1332947921 https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Igovmycvyyhxp5a6obr4oj6rkde?t%3D5bytespodcast%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16 Check out my site: https://rorymon.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rorymon

#434 - HOL w/Dave Rollins & vExpert Pro w/Valdecir Carvalho by VMware Podcasts

In deze derde aflevering van de Login TechCast spreken Eric en Sander met Rob Beekmans over Windows 10 Multi User en Server 2019. Na een lange tijd voor PQR gewerkt te hebben, werkt Rob sinds kort bij Citrix in de rol van Technical Marketing Manager. Rob is al bijna dertig jaar werkzaam in de IT en heeft zich – voor zijn nieuwe uitdaging bij Citrix –altijd gefocust op end user computing (Application and Desktop delivery, User Environment Management, Mobility and Monitoring). Eveneens is hij vExpert en maakt hij deel uit van VMware EUC Champion Group. Zijn eureka momenten beleeft hij doorgaans naast zijn vrouw op de bank (wanneer deze The Bold and The Beautiful kijkt) en deelt die inzichten vervolgens weer in blogs, als gastspreker op evenementen of in webinars. Je kunt dus wederom een interessante aflevering verwachten, schakel snel in!

In deze extra flevering van de Login TechCast spreken Eric en Sander met Mark Plettenberg over de Meltdown en Spectre kwetsbaarheden en de consequenties voor SBC en VDI. Mark is Senior Product Manager bij Login VSI, enthousiast motorrijder (caféracers in het bijzonder) en houder van de volgende community statussen: CTA, vExpert, NGCA en MVP. Op het moment van opname zijn hij en zijn vrouw in blijde verwachting van een tweeling. Waar wacht je nog op? Snel, druk op die play knop.

In episode #48, David chats with VMware vExpert Jase McCarty of VMware about VMware vSAN. You'll learn what's made it so popular, some of the coolest use cases for vSAN, and cool new features of vSAN. Join us on this episode of vChat! Links from the show- VMware vSAN Homepage Jase McCarty on Twitter vSAN […]

In episode #48, David chats with VMware vExpert Jase McCarty of VMware about VMware vSAN. You'll learn what's made it so popular, some of the coolest use cases for vSAN, and cool new features of vSAN. Join us on this episode of vChat! Links from the show- VMware vSAN Homepage Jase McCarty on Twitter vSAN […]

#425 - vExpert 2018 by VMware Podcasts

#420 vExpert Blogs Joseph Griffiths, Scott Driver, by VMware Podcasts

#421 vExpert @Andrea_Mauro talks HTML5 client by VMware Podcasts

Link to blog: Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client Ready to Replace the vSphere Web client?

In this episode, Andy Davis talks to Stuart McHugh, I.T manager at Bates Wells Braithwaite. In his role managing the IT Department he deliver strategy, deployment, training and operational support to his team. Outside of his full time technology based work Stu has been awarded vExpert status for 2012 -17. On the show he discuss the advantages and strategies of external networking, differing approaches to communicating within a business and how best to get your department's voice heard in a large company. They also touch on management and leadership styles. Show Notes 1.09 Progressing in I.T 2.45 Podcasts as a networking tool. 5.45 Discussing the uses of blogs and podcasts in a professional environment. 7.30 What particularly about VMware has motivated you. 9.33 What is the typical structure of an I.T team in a Law organisation. 11.55 Discussing the communication difficulties present when technical departments speak to non-technical ones. 14.56 How to Develop leadership styles. 15.15 Ways to get your voice heard in a company. 17.57 Strategies to gauge your success within different departments your company. 21.17 Management styles and keeping a team engaged. 23.22 The necessity of enjoying what you do to get the most from yourself and your staff and keeping a team motivated. 25.11 Discussing leadership styles and getting the most out of your team.

In this episode (episode 132) Clint Wyckoff (@ClintWyckoff) hosts Jon Hildebrand @Snoopj123) at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando. Jon and Clint discuss the week's activities including Azure Stack, PowerShell, Automation and DevOps. Jon is an active vExpert, Cisco Champion, Service Provider dude and an all around great person that resides in Kansas City, MO. Jon has been traveling around to VMUG User Conferences giving discussion on DevOps on a regular basis.    

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 the first episode of the ExploreVM Podcast, I chat with guest Eric Wright of Turbonomic about community involvement & the Virtual Design Master competition. I do apologize for the blips in Eric's audio. He was graciou

7 Keys To Building A Successful Big Data Infrastructure (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) "Hyperconverged infrastructure" sounds like the urban setting for Buck Rogers. Sure, we've been talking about it for a while, but is it a real thing or is it just a label marketing teams came up with for tried and true converged systems? In this episode of InformationWeek's Expert Voice, we get some answers and a look at where this futuristic-sounding technology might take us. {Image 1} Our guest this week is Stu Miniman, principal analyst at Wikibon and host of theCUBE. Stu is an active member of the networking (Ethernet and SAN), virtualization (vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013) and cloud communities. He is a proponent of linking information and people in IT by leveraging the latest tools and processes from the innovation and social media communities. Previously, Stu worked at EMC for 10 years; with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization technologies. Prior to EMC he worked with voice/video/data solutions at Lucent Technologies, and power solutions at American Power Conversion. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted via Skype, Stu talked about the definition of the hyperconverged infrastructure, who might use it and why, and where the technology is likely to be heading in the next few years. Along the way we also covered integration issues, virtualization concerns, and whether "hyperconverged" is another way of saying, "you can't do it yourself. Is a hyperconverged infrastructure in your future -- or even in your present? What do you think about the term, and about the technology it describes? In the podcast, you'll hear from an Expert Voice. We'd love to hear from you, too. Tell us about your experience with hyperconverged infrastructures in the comments here -- we look forward to a very converged conversation!

The NetApp A-Team is NetApp’s social media advocacy equivalent to programs like Cisco Champions and VMware’s vExpert. Made up of customers and partners, the A-Team are NetApp fans that blog, tweet and evangelize NetApp. They are an asset to NetApp because they also provide feedback to the company on what they’re doing right and what they could be doing better. That feedback is invaluable. Each year, the NetApp A-Team gathers in Sunnyvale, CA to attend the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) event, which is akin to the Tech Field Days held by Stephen Foskett. NetApp leaders present on the present and future of NetApp and take feedback on what needs to change for the company to be successful. The Tech ONTAP Podcast team was fortunate enough to be invited to this event and talk with the NetApp A-Team to get their take on the event.

In vChat #35, I sit down with vExpert, Blogger (at vtesseract.com), vBrownbag leader, VCE Guru, and virtualization evangelist to chat. We cover his presentation at the VMUG of “How to Become a vRockstar with vCenter Orchestrator” and my presentation “Secrets to a Successful Career in Tech“. vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware […]

In vChat #35, I sit down with vExpert, Blogger (at vtesseract.com), vBrownbag leader, VCE Guru, and virtualization evangelist to chat. We cover his presentation at the VMUG of “How to Become a vRockstar with vCenter Orchestrator” and my presentation “Secrets to a Successful Career in Tech“. vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware […]

Our guest this time is John Walsh who manages the OS/Virtualization/Storage/HPC Teams at Northwestern University and a fellow vExpert. As far as topics go there is no way around New- vs Old-school storage, and as the title reflects, should “server huggers” be afraid of the Software Defined Datacenter? Other topics covered in this episode: John […] The post vSoup Server Huggers Beware! #26 first appeared on vSoup.

In vChat Episode 32 Simon Seagrave, Eric Siebert, and David Davis cover our experience at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. This includes the VMworld parties, vExpert community events, launch of vSphere 5.1 and the vCloud Suite 5.1, and much much more. Join us! vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware vSphere, Cloud Computing, […]

In vChat Episode 32 Simon Seagrave, Eric Siebert, and David Davis cover our experience at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. This includes the VMworld parties, vExpert community events, launch of vSphere 5.1 and the vCloud Suite 5.1, and much much more. Join us! vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware vSphere, Cloud Computing, […]

Hoy seguimos hablando de virtualización con: Juan Manuel Rey, vExpert 2011 de Madrid. Trabaja en HP. Experto en UNIX. @jreypo Blog: http://jreypo.wordpress.com/ Jose Luis Gomez, vExpert 2011 de Sevilla. Trabaja en NEC. Experto en vSphere y Xen. @pipoe2h Blog: http://blog.e2h.net/ Diego Quintana. vExpert 2011 de Buenos Aires. CEO de Wetcom. @daquintana Blog: http://www.wetcom.com.ar/blog/ Nicolás Solop. vExpert 2011 de Buenos Aires. Co-founder at Wetcom | VMware VCP-VAC-VTSP - @nsolop Blog: http://www.wetcom.com.ar/blog/ Pablo Scheri. Buenos Aires. @pabloscheri Blog: http://www.wetcom.com.ar/blog/ Josep Ros. vExpert 2011. Director general de Ncora. @josepros blog: http://www.josepros.com

The vSoup team hunt down John Troyer for an update on the vExpert process. The post vSoup Special Edition #1: vExpert Lowdown first appeared on vSoup.

In Episode 12 of our vChat series David Davis interviews Jason Boche (of Boche.net and @jasonboche on Twitter), vExpert, VCP4, and VCDX about what it was like to go though the elite VMware VCDX certification process. In this video, filmed at VMworld 2010 SF, Jason provides exclusive VCDX preparation tips that you won't find anywhere […]

In Episode 12 of our vChat series David Davis interviews Jason Boche (of Boche.net and @jasonboche on Twitter), vExpert, VCP4, and VCDX about what it was like to go though the elite VMware VCDX certification process. In this video, filmed at VMworld 2010 SF, Jason provides exclusive VCDX preparation tips that you won't find anywhere […]