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Chatting With Cloud Therapist, Developer Relations Manager At Hashicorp, Host & Presenter At Brownbag, Enterprise Architect, Co-Founder At AWS Portsmouth User Group, AWS Hero, VMware vExpert- Chris Williams- Chris Williams said about his work and answered some of my questions. More info at https://smartcherrysthoughts.com

In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we were thrilled to sit virtually with none other than Joe Houghes, engaging him in an insightful discussion about his dynamic journey and participation in community activity. Woven throughout with humor and knowledge, our ponderings with Joe centered around the significance of building relationships within the community. We ventured further into the dialogue surrounding the emphasis on soft skills and their interaction with professional growth. The conversation pivoted towards effective communication as an investment into one's self, bringing about palpable value in the workplace. Walk away with a newfound reflective insight and tangible advice for involvement in the community, all courtesy of Joe's enlightening experiences.   Bio: Joe Houghes is a co-leader of the Denver PowerShell & VMware User Groups and he is a Sr. Solutions Architect with Pure Storage. He focuses on automating us out of our IT operations while freeing us to perform higher-level tasks. Joe has been the #1 speaker internationally for VMUG in 2021 and 2022 for virtual and in-person events, and is always working to help & encourage the next community speaker(s) to take his place, while helping to get them started. Joe also works to evangelize the message that automation should be a focus for admins & engineers, even though it requires more in-depth thinking and focus beyond performing a task once. He knows that even though it is not always someone's default method, the result is then repeatable and consistent. Joe tries to help others understand why we should do the easy tasks better, and he challenges everyone to push themselves outside of their comfort zone and learn more about any topic of interest. Joe is a collector of communities as a leader for 2 User Groups, and a member of many evangelist groups including Microsoft MVP, Veeam Vanguard, VMware vExpert, Cisco Champion, Tanzu Vanguard, plus he helps out to host events as part of the vBrownBag crew. He tells people not to let fear keep them from sharing their knowledge with others and teaching from their unique perspective. He's also easy to spot by the colored hat, big grin, and the loud "Howdy Y'all."   Watch The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vQb21FFcwo Resource links: https://github.com/HCRitter/PSModuleAnalyzer https://twitter.com/AndrewPlaTech/status/1709594063370928639 https://mikefrobbins.com/2023/09/27/create-calculated-properties-in-powershell/ https://clatent.com/2023/09/getting-started-with-365automatedlab-part-1/ https://psconf.eu/ https://fullstackgeek.net/ https://twitter.com/jhoughes @jhoughes@vmst.io https://github.com/jhoughes https://www.youtube.com/@joehoughes

In this episode of the Imposter Syndrome Network podcast, we talk with Senior Systems engineer Keiran Shelden who'll share his career journey and experiences with imposter syndrome.Keiran discusses maintaining their VMware Vexpert status for nearly 10 years through community involvement like blogging and tech field days. They describe first discovering their passion for virtualization technology and how getting engaged with online communities helped expand their knowledge and network. Keiran also opens up about challenges faced working in IT in Australia due to geographic isolation from many technology vendors. We will hear about overcoming imposter syndrome and learn how participating in groups like user conferences can help boost confidence and make valuable connections.Keiran's Links:LinkedInTwitterBlog--Thanks for being an imposter - a part of the Imposter Syndrome Network (ISN)! We'd love it if you connected with us at the links below: The ISN LinkedIn group (community): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14098596/ The ISN on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImposterNetwork Zoë on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoseSecOps Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisGrundemann Make it a great day.

In this interview with Guy Leech, he shared his passion for the coding community and how it has helped him in his career. He revealed that he uses his Twitter account as a personal knowledge base, and shared his story on how he got started in coding. He also provided valuable insights on how to ask good questions, the importance of helping others in the community, and how doing so can lead to better career opportunities. Additionally, he discussed error handling in PowerShell and the importance of not getting bogged down by small details.   Guest Bio and links: Guy is a freelance consultant, speaker, and developer, a passionate PowerShell scripter, a current Microsoft MVP (Cloud and Datacenter Management), Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert, Parallels VIPP, and a veteran of 25+ years in the Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware End User Computing (EUC) space & was a Unix C/C++ developer prior to that. He specializes in troubleshooting and automation for both end customers and software vendors.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZaSPa7KNY https://guyrleech.wordpress.com/ https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003774?fullName=Guy Leech https://github.com/guyrleech https://twitter.com/guyrleech https://www.youtube.com/@GuyRLeech

Especialista em Infraestrutura e Segurança, com certificações em Aws Solutions Architect Associate, Aws Cloud Practitioner, VmWare vRealize Operation e outras certificações, Arthur Nycael é Fundador e Colunista do site Ar7 Technology, Colunista do Portal Dicas de Infra e é o nosso convidado de hoje

In this episode, we welcome Luke Orellana from Microsoft to the show! Luke is a Software Engineer for Infrastructure during his day job, and he's also a VMware vExpert and a Hashicorp Ambassador! I invited Luke on the show specifically because of his high degree of skill when it comes to today's topic - Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Luke does a fantastic job of walking us through this new management method, use-cases, why you would want to learn it, resources to get start, and much more. After watching this episode you'll be armed with enough knowledge to go start learning more and figure out how IaC concepts can help you in your own datacenters! In this episode on Infrastructure as Code What is Infrastructure as Code? - 4:45 Why would I want to learn how to use Infrastructure as Code? - 7:55 What are some of the core tools that are involved in Infrastructure as Code? - 14:58 What platforms does the Infrastructure as Code method work with? - 19:45 What are some good resources for those that are looking to get started with Infrastructure as Code? - 22:00 An Example of Infrastructure as Code in Action - 26:57 Resources for Infrastructure as Code Terraform Resources on the DOJO Bicep vs. Terraform on the DOJO GitHub CoPilot Exercism - Learn Programming Cloud Posse Community For more on this episode on Infrastructure as Code >

Our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes had the pleasure of being joined by A. J. Murray. A.J. Murray is a Sr. Engineer LAN/WAN/Security at Presidio. Additionally, he writes articles, is a Cisco Champion and VMware vExpert, a teacher AND is also the creator and co-host of The Art of Network Engineering Podcast.With so many amazing achievements and stories to tell, George & A. J delve into discussing everything from the nitty-gritty tech, to the importance of looking after your mental health when working in such a demanding industry. It was great to learn so much from this incredible man!Learn more from A. J: The blog: https://blog.noblinkyblinky.com Podcast: https://artofnetworkengineering.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/noblinkyblinkyIG: https://www.instagram.com/noblinkyblinky/LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajmurrayvt/

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. 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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. 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SQL Server object disks on Windows Server can be expanded at any time with no issues, but Linux doesn't quite work like that by default. In a situation where you run out of space, you're out of luck, unless you know some secrets about Linux. The mysterious Linux Logical Volume Manager must be used before you put anything on the disks to properly set up the disks so you can expand them in a pinch in the future. In this episode with David Klee, we're going to walk through how to use this service to set up your object volumes the right way from the beginning and show you how to expand the disks with no outage. Break out your pocket protectors and come learn with someone who was compiling Linux kernels while in elementary school! [00:37] About David Klee[01:18] Challenge overview[02:14] Linux Logical Volume Manager [03:00] Demo: Logical Volume Manager Setup[09:22] Who should this set up[10:05] Getting started Resources:$2 Million Reasons to Start with TuningDavid Klee's websiteHeraflux Data Platform ConsultantsSQLlibrium Training About David Klee:David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies and SQLibrium Education. His areas of expertise are cloud, virtualization, performance tuning, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology-related events, including the PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQL Saturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups. About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

SQL Server object disks on Windows Server can be expanded at any time with no issues, but Linux doesn't quite work like that by default. In a situation where you run out of space, you're out of luck, unless you know some secrets about Linux. The mysterious Linux Logical Volume Manager must be used before you put anything on the disks to properly set up the disks so you can expand them in a pinch in the future. In this episode with David Klee, we're going to walk through how to use this service to set up your object volumes the right way from the beginning and show you how to expand the disks with no outage. Break out your pocket protectors and come learn with someone who was compiling Linux kernels while in elementary school! [00:37] About David Klee[01:18] Challenge overview[02:14] Linux Logical Volume Manager [03:00] Demo: Logical Volume Manager Setup[09:22] Who should this set up[10:05] Getting started Resources:$2 Million Reasons to Start with TuningDavid Klee's websiteHeraflux Data Platform ConsultantsSQLlibrium Training About David Klee:David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies and SQLibrium Education. His areas of expertise are cloud, virtualization, performance tuning, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology-related events, including the PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQL Saturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups. About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

Planning a proper disaster recovery solution is a critical piece of any infrastructure design, even when working in the cloud solutions like Azure SQL Database. Thankfully, the Azure architecture provides a solution that with only clicks of the mouse a DR plan can be implemented. In this episode with MVP John Morehouse, we'll take a look at how easy it is to set up and configure a disaster recovery solution for Azure SQL Database. [00:37] About John Morehouse[01:27] Demo: Backups[04:42] Demo: Active geo-replication [10:39] Demo: Failover groups[15:20] Getting startedResources:BackupsActive Geo-replicationAuto Failover groups About John Morehouse:John Morehouse is currently a Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 2 decades of technical experience in various industries, John now focuses on the Microsoft Data platform and specializes in Microsoft SQL Server. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, VMWare vExpert, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. John has a passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to the technical community as much as possible. He is a user group leader, SQL Saturday organizer, and former PASS regional mentor. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at SQL Saturday's as well as other conferences. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog, https://sqlrus.com.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram.

Planning a proper disaster recovery solution is a critical piece of any infrastructure design, even when working in the cloud solutions like Azure SQL Database. Thankfully, the Azure architecture provides a solution that with only clicks of the mouse a DR plan can be implemented. In this episode with MVP John Morehouse, we'll take a look at how easy it is to set up and configure a disaster recovery solution for Azure SQL Database. [00:37] About John Morehouse[01:27] Demo: Backups[04:42] Demo: Active geo-replication [10:39] Demo: Failover groups[15:20] Getting startedResources:BackupsActive Geo-replicationAuto Failover groups About John Morehouse:John Morehouse is currently a Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 2 decades of technical experience in various industries, John now focuses on the Microsoft Data platform and specializes in Microsoft SQL Server. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, VMWare vExpert, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. John has a passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to the technical community as much as possible. He is a user group leader, SQL Saturday organizer, and former PASS regional mentor. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at SQL Saturday's as well as other conferences. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog, https://sqlrus.com.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram.

Why is storage so important for Data Engineering? Learn how storage impacts the performance of your database solution. In this episode with MVP Argenis Fernandez, we will go over the basics of I/O, what the different access patterns are for the database engine and how to tell when there is an issue with underlying storage for your database.[00:34]​ About Argenis Fernandez[01:23]​ Why is storage so important for data engineering?[02:12]​ Latency[03:04]​ IOPS[04:17]​ Bandwidth[08:45]​ Different IO Block Sizes[12:03]​ SQL Server I/O Patterns[18:19]​ Getting startedResources:Argenis' blog on IO Block SizeGianluca's WorkloadTools MVP Edition episodeFor any questions, reach out to Argenis and other MVPs on Twitter with #SQLHelpAbout Argenis Fernandez:Argenis Fernandez is a Principal Architect for Pure Storage. He works with customers around the world to make their experience with storage better. He's a Data Platform MVP, a VMware vExpert and a Microsoft Certified Master. Argenis also worked on the SQL Server engineering team as a Principal Program Manager handling various areas of the database engine as well as other internal projects within Microsoft. Argenis is a community enthusiast and speaks at all major Azure SQL-related conferences.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have a very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and the quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

Why is storage so important for Data Engineering? Learn how storage impacts the performance of your database solution. In this episode with MVP Argenis Fernandez, we will go over the basics of I/O, what the different access patterns are for the database engine and how to tell when there is an issue with underlying storage for your database.[00:34]​ About Argenis Fernandez[01:23]​ Why is storage so important for data engineering?[02:12]​ Latency[03:04]​ IOPS[04:17]​ Bandwidth[08:45]​ Different IO Block Sizes[12:03]​ SQL Server I/O Patterns[18:19]​ Getting startedResources:Argenis' blog on IO Block SizeGianluca's WorkloadTools MVP Edition episodeFor any questions, reach out to Argenis and other MVPs on Twitter with #SQLHelpAbout Argenis Fernandez:Argenis Fernandez is a Principal Architect for Pure Storage. He works with customers around the world to make their experience with storage better. He's a Data Platform MVP, a VMware vExpert and a Microsoft Certified Master. Argenis also worked on the SQL Server engineering team as a Principal Program Manager handling various areas of the database engine as well as other internal projects within Microsoft. Argenis is a community enthusiast and speaks at all major Azure SQL-related conferences.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have a very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and the quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

This week's episode of Conversations with Tech Experts features Andrew Hancock, VMware vExpert and Experts Exchange Author of the Year. Andrew joins Experts Exchange CEO Randy Redberg and Director of Bus. Dev. Thomas Bernal to discuss the benefits of becoming an IT author and update the world on the status of his bees. They start by catching up with Andrew about life in England in 2021 and Andrew talks Randy & Thomas through the process of winter beekeeping. Next, Randy and Thomas pick Andrew's brain about why it's so beneficial for IT professionals to learn to write well. Andrew finishes with his thoughts on how the perception of data privacy affects the way we create and distribute content.

In the conclusion to this two-part series with Allan Hirt, learn how Azure can be used to create disaster recovery solutions for your on premises Microsoft SQL Server instances and databases through the use of built-in availability features of SQL Server. For an introduction to Microsoft Hybrid SQL Server Solutions, watch part one. [01:22] Built in hybrid disaster recovery options overview[02:22] Hybrid Log Shipping[04:27] Hybrid "Normal" Availability Group[07:34] Hybrid Distributed Availability Group[11:55] Hybrid Failover Cluster Instance Resources:Log ShippingDistributed Availability GroupsStorage ReplicaAbout Allan Hirt:Consultant, trainer, author, business continuity expert, and SQLHA, LLC founder Allan Hirt has been working with both SQL Server since 1992 when it was still a Sybase product as well as clustering in Windows Server since the late 1990s when it was called Wolfpack. Currently a dual Microsoft MVP (Data Platform; Cloud and Datacenter Management) as well as a VMware vExpert, Allan works with customers of all sizes around the world to deliver mission-critical projects whether they are on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. You can follow him on Twitter at @SQLHA, read his latest blog posts and see upcoming speaking engagements and classes at https://www.sqlha.com, and get his free video content on the SQLHA YouTube Channel.About MVPs: Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

In the first episode of this two-part series with Allan Hirt, learn how to leverage on premises infrastructure for Microsoft SQL Server deployments while also taking advantage of the benefits of Azure at the same time. Using cloud-based resources does not have to be an all or nothing proposition. [01:22] Why people go hybrid[02:10] High-level look at deployments[03:37] Key understandings of hybrid[06:19] Networking will make or break you[08:34] Hybrid scenarios for SQL Server[13:10] Top tips Resources:SQL Server data files in Microsoft AzureBackup to URLAzure File ShareAzure Arc enabled SQL ServerAbout Allan Hirt:Consultant, trainer, author, business continuity expert, and SQLHA, LLC founder Allan Hirt has been working with both SQL Server since 1992 when it was still a Sybase product as well as clustering in Windows Server since the late 1990s when it was called Wolfpack. Currently a dual Microsoft MVP (Data Platform; Cloud and Datacenter Management) as well as a VMware vExpert, Allan works with customers of all sizes around the world to deliver mission-critical projects whether they are on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. You can follow him on Twitter at @SQLHA, read his latest blog posts and see upcoming speaking engagements and classes at https://www.sqlha.com, and get his free video content on the SQLHA YouTube Channel.About MVPs: Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

Uma conversa supimpástica com Valdecir Carvalho, que é um nerd e pai orgulhoso da Mariana e João. Atualmente trabalha como Engenheiro de Soluções Cloud Sr. na Oracle, É um profissional sênior de TI com foco em arquitetura de infraestrutura e cloud computing. Valdecir também é blogueiro, podcaster, palestrante, amante de comunidades técnicas, fotógrafo aposentado e adora jogos antigos. Se destaca e é membro de várias comunidades de tecnologia, como VMware vExpert, VMUG, vBrownBag, Hashicorp Ambassador e Veeam Vanguard. Ele também dedica seu tempo como blogueiro do Homelaber Brasil (http://homelaber.com.br). Você vai encontrá-lo no twitter como @homelaber e seu site é http://valdecir.me Links citados: Homelaber Brasil (http://homelaber.com.br) http://valdecir.me https://thedevconf.com/tdc/2020/sampaonline/ http://apoia.se/vidadeprogramador https://picpay.me/vidadeprogramador

Microsoft continues to push the envelope on feature capabilities with every release of SQL Server. One of the more prominent features that was released with Microsoft SQL Server 2019, is the ability to resume or throttle certain index operations. Have you ever wanted to just stop and then resume an index operation picking up where it left off? Now you can! This feature alone magnifies the data professionals' ability to have deeper granular control on how index operations affect their ecosystem as well as their work-life balance. In this episode, John Morehouse gives a high-level look at how this feature works and how it can be applied seamlessly to your environment. Resources:Guidelines for online index operationsDenny Cherry & AssociatesAbout John Morehouse:John Morehouse is currently a Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 2 decades of technical experience in various industries, John now focuses on the Microsoft Data platform and specializes in Microsoft SQL Server. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, VMWare vExpert, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. John has a passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to the technical community as much as possible. He is a user group leader, SQL Saturday organizer, and former PASS regional mentor. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at SQL Saturday's as well as other conferences. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

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.

One of the major benefits of Azure SQL Database is that the Azure platform provides additional protection for your database against SQL Injection attacks and Data Exfiltration, amongst other threats. Join Joey D'Antoni as he shows you how to configure Advanced Threat Protection, and some of the protections it offers.[01:37] What is Advanced Threat Protection?[02:46] Microsoft Azure Configuration[03:36] Advanced Threat Protection types[04:48] Enable auditing[05:19] Tracking alertsAbout Joey D'Antoni:Joseph D'Antoni is a Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting. He is recognized as a VMWare vExpert and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and has over 20 years of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He has worked extensively on database platforms and cloud technologies and has specific expertise in performance tuning, infrastructure, and disaster recovery.About MVPs:Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products and solutions, to solve real world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others - that's what sets them apart. Learn more: https://aka.ms/mvpprogram

For Episode 86 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I connected with Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP Mike Nelson (@mikenelsonIO), a Solution Architect at Pure Storage based in Northern Wisconsin. Mike has been involved in IT for more than three decades in various management, architecture, engineering, and consulting roles. In addition to his Microsoft MVP, Mike is a Microsoft Azure Advisor, Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA), and VMware vExpert. He currently leads several user groups, including a Cloud user group and a VMware User Group (VMUG). Recorded in April 2020. In this episode, Mike and I talk about his focus as an MVP originally in Hyper-V, on-premises and hybrid datacenter solutions, and more recently Azure Edge -- which is a huge piece of Microsoft's cloud strategy. Mike has a great perspective on the growth of Azure and how organizations are transitioning to the cloud, and shares some insights into questions he hears from customers and how he advises them to move forward. You can watch this entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/FogxoJZhGdw

This week, we're doing a live career coaching session. We welcome Becky Elliott, a technologist and writer who is looking at what comes next in her career. The career coaching session was recorded live and unscripted, but this time we weren't talking about a book or specific topic - we were tackling a real person thinking out loud about where they are and where they want to go. We thank Becky for coming on the show with vulnerabilty and honesty. The episode was recorded during a Stay At Home order in March 2020 from our homes in California, Texas, and Virginia. Becky is an IT professional, and she had started a 2-month sabbatical as she figured out what was next for her. Now, six months later, she's juggling our current stay-at-home environment with her husband also working from home, home-schooling , and freelance writing -- and also thinking about a full-time role in the future that incorporates her technical skills with her writing and blogging. Writing, both about personal development as well as technical topics, has become Becky’s passion. Becky is an active part of the VMware vExpert technical community, and has spent a lot of her sabbatical at conferences like VMworld, Pure Accelerate, and NetApp Insight as a blogger and influencer. She gets a lot of energy from these community events. She gets invited to come to these events, and sometimes even gets paid to write some blog posts at the event, but she feels she's not a "schmoozer" -- and like many people, she isn't comfortable doing a lot of selling to potential clients to get paid gigs at these events. On the other hand, Kat has met Becky at several of these events, and she has seen Becky act as a connector. Kat also notes that Becky is well-liked in the community, and her role as a connector may be one reason. Ideally, Beck wants a job as a creator: creating content and blogging. She also loves the idea of championing other bloggers as some sort of community manager. She is inspired by Sam Moulton, who manages the the NetApp A-Team Advocacy Program, because she is a cheerleader, coach, and connector who makes opportunities for the members of the program. At a career coaching event with Becky at a conference last year, Kat made an offhand comment about "whether you stay in tech or not." Suddenly Becky found herself contemplating the novel idea of leaving tech completely, but after thinking about it, realized that tech eally was home to her and she does want to stay in this area for her career. The innovation and change in tech, the ability to figure out how things work, and how tech continually helps to make things better are all things that appeal to Becky. We talk about Becky’s writing portfolio, her websites and how she presents her writing, her many domain names, and how to best market herself. We advise Becky to consolidate and use one site or a service like Linktree to consolidate all the different information that she shares in different places. Make it easy for people to find you and all the information about your projects -- that's true for any audience, but especially true for a busy recruiter or hiring manager! Becky’s #1 priority for her next role is to really like the people she works with and the product they're producing. We counsel her to use her active network and tell them that she’s ready for her next opportunity. She has been looking at Twitter and Slack channels to hear about roles directly from people who are hiring. We challenge Becky to put together her "must-have" and "nice-to-have" lists and to go to her network with authenticity. There could easily be a friend-of-a-friend or a reader of her blog who would love to help her find the next role. Becky’s current list of must-have's is cenered around values, not specific technologies she wants to work with. This is great, because it's clear that her values are important to her. We gave some examples about how to ask questions to test company values. You need to see how they show up in everyday work life. We think it’s important to have a list of values and also a list of skills. Ask people who know you what would be important for you in a job. Giving yourself plenty of time to put together your list is really helpful so that you can think and reflect. And write your list in pencil -- because it’s a living document, and things can change, especially now! Becky Elliiott on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beckylelliott Becky’s web site: https://beckyelliott.com *If you'd like to partcipate in a live coaching session with Liz and Kat, just get in touch! *

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

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

SD-WAN 360 is live at Dell Technologies World 2019 and we are excited to introduce VMware's COO Sanjay Poonen.Sanjay joined VMware in August 2013, and is responsible for worldwide sales, services, alliances, marketing and communications.Question 1: You are very active on social media and a part of many tech communities within VMware (vEXpert , VMUG). Last week, I was amazed to see around 50 personalized videos in different VMUG locations. That is incredible. What are your thoughts on social media as tool to reach VMware’s customer base and your audience? Can you share any of your best practices? Question 2: Lets switch gears to talk about SD-WAN. VeloCloud, the start-up, was acquired by VMware in 2017. Has the original VMware leadership vision changed for SD-WAN since VeloCloud was acquired and became VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud? Where do you see SD-WAN heading? What are you hearing from VMware customers? Question 3: If I am a large enterprise customer, why do you think VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud is the right choice? Or let me put this way, if I am a huge Cisco shop today, why should I switch vendors and select VMware SD-WAN solution? Question 4: How do you see the relationship with Dell impacting the value of VMware SD-WAN to enterprise and service provider customers? Support the show (https://www.velocloud.com/sd-wan-resources/podcasts/sd-wan-360)

You get opportunities in tech to work with some of the best people in the world. I got that opportunity when I joined Microsoft, that's where I met the Exchange Goddess! We discuss family, work and how it all comes together when you're on-call. We also discuss the Microsoft Create Startups Event Phoummala will be taking part in, https://www.createstartups.io/ You can register now, for free! Sr Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft, with a background focus on messaging and collaboration, virtualization, and storage. She is a VMware vExpert and co-hosts The Current Status Podcast. In her spare time she blogs for 24x7ITConnection, Exchangegoddess.com. Some her technical articles can also be found on Petri IT Knowledgebase, WeBreakTech.com, and The Register. Considered as one of the Top 50+ Tech Influencers and Thought Leaders You Should Follow , Phoummala aka Exchange Goddess can be followed as @exchangegoddess on Twitter.

In episode 26, Steve and Jay are joined by Theresa Miller - Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP and VMware vExpert to talk about Office 365 backups and gain valuable perspective from this industry veteran on why it is something you might want to consider

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.

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Allan Hirt. Allan is a managing partner at SQLHA. Allan is based outside of Boston and is a dual Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert, SQL Server and HA/DR expert. He is a practicing consultant for all things related to data availability. Allan and Rick discuss one of the most consistent issues regarding database backups: giving them the *right* type of RPO and RTO, and the right tool(s) to do that. 

Podcast main page: http://mspvoice.com/ Guest: Dean Lewis Company: Chess ICT Website: https://chessict.co.uk/ Dean on Twitter: @saintdle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saintdle/ Blog: https://www.educationalcentre.co.uk/ Currently working as a Technical Architect at a UK based VAR, Chess ICT. Focusing on both pre-sales design an post sales implementation, finding himself working most days in the virtualisation field. Also a general geek with a passion for technology as a whole, which has led him to being nominated as a VMware vExpert, Veeam Vanguard and Cisco Champion multiple times. Outside of this, he tries to improve his culinary skills and find that ultimate Indian curry recipe.

Today we are talking with Eric Nielsen, Senior Director of Social Media and Communities for VMware. Eric and his team run the VMware vExpert program, one of the most successful advocacy programs in the enterprise technology area. John created and managed the program with Eric, and the vExperts make up a community that John and Kat are both still engaged with.  Eric reinforces throughout our conversation how the program is first built for its participants — to help make them successful. We also discuss creating programs and process, scaling the program to be global, demonstrating value to the rest of the organization, and how to keep innovation going as the program matures. Eric Nielsen is the Senior Director, Social Media and Community at VMware. At VMware, Eric’s team is been responsible for community, blogging, social media, and advocacy programs. Prior to VMware, Eric was a Director, Enginering Systems Management for Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his career at Sun, Eric created BigAdmin, one of the web’s early technical communities. Eric lives with his family in Palo Alto, CA. The Influence Marketing Podcast is a podcast from the Influence Marketing Council, an industry council for B2B brands who innovate in influencer, advocacy, and community marketing. Hosts John Mark Troyer and Kathleen Nelson Troyer are co-founders of the IMC. For more information, go to influencemarketingcouncil.com.

In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with the great and fantastically unique Eric Wright. Eric is the Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, and he shares with us his passion of building a community and engaging with them. Giving with no expectations while having faith that this generosity will be returned in the long run are two main themes that come up for Eric, both in his personal and professional life. This mindset has helped him develop a strong gut instinct and ability to show the impact of intangible efforts to Turbonomic’s internal team. And wait — there’s a twist! Turbonomic does not have a traditional advocacy program, and it’s on purpose. Eric shares what the Green Circle Program is, and finally gives us his forecast on the upcoming future for influence marketing. We appreciate and admire the energy, generosity and thoughtfulness he brings to everything he does! About our guest Before joining Turbonomic, Eric Wright served as a systems architect at Raymond James in Toronto. As a result of his work, Eric was named a VMware vExpert and Cisco Champion with a background in virtualization, OpenStack, business continuity, PowerShell scripting and systems automation. He’s worked in many industries, including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community-driven technology groups such as the vBrownBag community and leading the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada. He is a Pluralsight Author, the leading provider of online training for tech and creative professionals. Eric’s latest course is “Introduction to OpenStack” you can check it out at pluralsight.com.   The Influence Marketing Podcast, a podcast brought to you by the Influence Marketing Council, an industry council for B2B brands who innovate in influencer, advocacy, and community marketing. Your hosts, John Mark Troyer and Kathleen Nelson Troyer, are co-founders of the IMC. The Influence Marketing Podcast is part of the research program of the IMC. For more information, go to influencemarketingcouncil.com.  

Thomas LaRock is a Head Geek at SolarWinds and a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, VMware vExpert, and former Microsoft Certified Trainer. Thomas has over 20 years’ experience in the I.T. industry in roles such as programmer, developer, analyst and database administrator. In this episode Thomas explains why people don’t care about effort or how difficult something is to achieve.  Thomas also talks about the importance of being a generalist even when you are a specialist in one particular area of I.T. To find out more about this episode, visit the show notes page at www.itcareerenergizer.com/e22

VMware recently announced the release of the vSphere 6.0 Update 2m (Migration) tool. vSphere 6.0 Update 2m is an automated end to end migration tool from a Windows vCenter Server 5.5 to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in VMware Sr. TME Emad Younis to walk us through details of using this new tool. Emad is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at VMware focussing on the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). His experience spans many Datacenters, industries, and job roles and holds several certifications, including VCAP-DCD, VCAP-DCA, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-DCV (4 and 5). Emad is an avid blogger whos contributions to the IT Community have earned him recognition as a VMware vExpert and Cisco Champion -Datacenter. You can follow Emad on twitter @Emad_Younis. Also when tweeting VCSA questions use the hashtag #Migrate2VCSA Show Related Links vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2M VCSA Migration FAQs EmadYounis.com VMworld session INF9044 Journey to the VCSA: A Migration Story All Migrate 2 VCSA Sessions The Register: VMware flings vCenter Server away from Windows The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Show 19 was recorded at the SQLBits conference in London, where we had the pleasure to interview PASS President, Thomas LaRock (blog | twitter). We talk to Tom about his long time volunteering at PASS and about his current role as the president of the organization. Among other topics, we cover: What does it mean to be PASS president? What’s the path to being on the board of directors? How does Tom manage to balance between his job at Solarwinds, his role at PASS and his family? How did 24 Hours of PASS come to the world? What is PASS Summer Camp? And more.. About Tom: Tom LaRock works as a Head Geek for Solarwinds, where his mission is to give IT and Data Professionals longer weekends. He also serves as the president of the PASS board of directors. He’s a Microsoft Certified Master, a SQL Server MVP, a VMWare vExpert, and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has over 15 years experience in the IT industry in various roles such as programmer, developer, analyst, and database administration. Tom is also the author of DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA and have participated in the technical review of several other books.

In vChat #18, Simon, Eric, and David discuss Simon using Twitter at Mt Everest basecamp, the new Iomega PX4, HP Discover, HP TouchPad, Uber EMC VNX VSA, the Denver VMUG, the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Launch Event (July 12), VMware vExpert program, VMworld 2011, and new TrainSignal VCA-DT and Security products. vChat is a regular virtualization […]

In vChat #18, Simon, Eric, and David discuss Simon using Twitter at Mt Everest basecamp, the new Iomega PX4, HP Discover, HP TouchPad, Uber EMC VNX VSA, the Denver VMUG, the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Launch Event (July 12), VMware vExpert program, VMworld 2011, and new TrainSignal VCA-DT and Security products. vChat is a regular virtualization […]

VMware vExpert, consultant and author Edward Haletky about his experiences with PowerShell and securing your virtual infrastructure