Virtual Stack

Virtual Stack is a podcast about the glorious world of Enterprise IT. On this show, we discuss networking, virtualisation, cloud and all things software-defined.

44 - Virtual Stack - eBPF and its Use Cases 05/25/2022

44 - Virtual Stack - eBPF and its Use Cases eBPF is one of the most interesting emerging technologies in the area of observability, networking and security. On the 44th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, Moustafa Harbi (Sr. Technical Account Manager at Red Hat) and I have a chat about this technology and its use cases in today's enterprise IT industry. Show Notes: 00:00 - Intros 01:30 - What's eBPF in a nutshell? 06:40 - What can eBPF offer us? 12:30 - In what language or on what framework do we write eBPF code? 14:20 - What are the use cases of eBPF in an enterprise setting? 21:30 - Do eBPF programs create any load on system CPU or memory? 23:00 - How do we use eBPF on an enterprise-wide scale? 24:45 - What's Cilium and what's its relationship with eBPF? 30:30 - What do you think about the future of eBPF and Cilium? Can they change the way we do networking? 35:00 - How can we start learning about eBPF? 39:00 - Closing notes Links: BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/23226659

43 - Virtual Stack - Network Automation 04/27/2022

43 - Virtual Stack - Network Automation On the 43rd episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by (Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation Platform, at Red Hat) and we discuss all things network automation. If you'd like to hear about main use cases, common obstacles and the solution you need (spoiler alert: Ansible :)), this episode is for you. Show notes: 01:00 - Intros 07:30 - Some of the biggest changes in networking in the last few years 18:30 - Main use cases for network automation 31:00 - Key benefits of Ansible 36:00 - Common obstacles on the journey to automation 41:30 - Closing notes Links: /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/22926650

42 - Virtual Stack - Company as Code 03/25/2022

42 - Virtual Stack - Company as Code On the 42th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by (co-founder & CTO at Salto) and we discuss about their solution of automating the configuration of SaaS applications, which they describe as company-as-code. Can we manage and operate our business applications the same way as our CI/CD pipelines and IT infrastructure? Answers are on this episode. Show notes: Intros: 00:00 What's Salto? 01:30 What can be automated by Salto on some typical applications? 06:00 How do you make sure Salto works with many SaaS applications and keep up with their changes? 14:00 What made you design an automation language instead of using something like YAML or XML? 17:15 What types of companies benefit from the company-as-code approach? 19:55 Who are the main buyers? What business benefits do they get? 22:10 What are the main obstacles that organisations encounter when adopting company-as-code? 26:10 How can customers test the solution? 32:30 Closing notes: 34:30 Links: - Blog article on Salto.io Gil on /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/22568837

41- Virtual Stack - MicroShift 03/01/2022

41- Virtual Stack - MicroShift On the 41st episode, (Sr. Director Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Red Hat) joins me on the show we talk about MicroShift, an open source project of optimizing OpenShift for edge/small form factor use cases. We also talk about how Red Hat looks into emerging technology projects. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), or . Links: Nick's MicroShift Red Hat Emerging Technologies portal /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/22297064

40 - Virtual Stack - 2022 Tech Trends 02/15/2022

40 - Virtual Stack - 2022 Tech Trends Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a 10 months long hiatus! On the 40th episode of the show, I'm joined by a fellow Red Hatter and the co-host of the The Cloudcast, . With Brian, we look into several technology trends such as cloud computing, web3, security then we discuss what to expect in 2022 and beyond. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech. Show notes: 1:30: Intros 6:00: Cloud computing 20:30: web3 and Metaverse 27:45: Security 33:15: Tech investors and VC funding 39:45: Future of work and great resignation. 47:30: Closing notes Links: Brian's The Cloudcast: , . /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/22137149

39 - Virtual Stack - Core Kubernetes 04/29/2021

39 - Virtual Stack - Core Kubernetes Chris Love and Jay Vyas's book "Core Kubernetes" is about to hit the shelves around July this year via Manning Publications. Chris joined me on the 39th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast and we discussed about all things Kubernetes: learning, common challenges of running in production and the exciting future of K8S. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/18907541

38 - Virtual Stack - Learn K8S in a Month of Lunches 03/17/2021

38 - Virtual Stack - Learn K8S in a Month of Lunches Learning Kubernetes can be a great boost for your career, and you might be wondering where to start and what resources to use. Elton Stoneman joined me on the 38th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast and talked about his new book "Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches", his journey of learning K8S and his views about the future of K8S. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/18369599

37 - Virtual Stack - AI as a Service 11/20/2020

37 - Virtual Stack - AI as a Service Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a long break! On the 37th episode of the show, I'm joined by the authors of the book "AI as a Service", Peter Elger (CEO, fourTheorem) and Eoin Shanaghy (CTO, fourTheorem). /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/16890179

36 - Virtual Stack - Elastic Infrastructure for AI/ML workloads with vSphere Bitfusion 07/16/2020

36 - Virtual Stack - Elastic Infrastructure for AI/ML workloads with vSphere Bitfusion vSphere Bitfusion delivers elastic infrastructure for AI/ML workloads by creating pools of hardware accelerator resources, such as GPUs. VMware has acquired Bitfusion in late-2019 and it has been recently announced that Bitfusion will be an integrated feature of vSphere 7.0. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/15232931

35 - Virtual Stack - Employee Experience, Pandemic and the "New Workplace" 06/24/2020

35 - Virtual Stack - Employee Experience, Pandemic and the "New Workplace" On the 35th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by David Burton (Director, Colleague Experience & Technology - EMEA at VMware) and we discuss about how VMware uses its own technologies to create the best employee experience. We also touch base on the new definition of workplace in enterprises after the COVID-19 pandemic. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/14948291

34 - Virtual Stack - What's cooking in vRNI kitchen? 05/29/2020

34 - Virtual Stack - What's cooking in vRNI kitchen? Virtual Stack podcast is back with its 34th episode! On this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (Sr. Technical Marketing Architect at VMware) and we dive into the newest features of vRealize Network Insight, such as flow-based app discovery, support for VeloCloud SD-WAN, AWS, Azure and more. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/14621384

33 - Virtual Stack - AWS Security 04/01/2020

33 - Virtual Stack - AWS Security On the 33rd episode of Virtual Stack, I’m joined by Dylan Shields (Software Engineer at Google) and we talk about his upcoming book called AWS Security. In our discussion, we touch on many points; such as the security governance on public clouds, security services on AWS, best practices for networking/VPC, IAM and continuous monitoring. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/13798670

32 - Virtual Stack - What's Low-Code Development? 03/23/2020

32 - Virtual Stack - What's Low-Code Development? On the 32nd episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kenneth Reilly (CTO at LevelUP) and we talk about Low-Code Development. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/13665197

31 - Virtual Stack - Modern Digital Workspace 02/06/2020

31 - Virtual Stack - Modern Digital Workspace Digital Workspace is increasingly becoming a strategic IT priority for enterprises, since it's directly related to employee experience and productivity. On the other hand, security and privacy are becoming even more important in parallel with BYOD and mobile working. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/13041740

30 - Virtual Stack - VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific 01/17/2020

30 - Virtual Stack - VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific Back in August 2019, Pat Gelsinger and Joe Beda were on stage at VMworld US to announce VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific, the products and solutions that are designed to change the way customers build, run and manage their Kubernetes based applications. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/12780665

29 - Virtual Stack - Work/Life Balance in IT Industry 01/07/2020

29 - Virtual Stack - Work/Life Balance in IT Industry Finding the perfect balance between work and life has always been a trouble, especially for those in the IT sector. IT and many other industries adore productivity, tie your work output to your salary and even your professional status. We occasionally forget having interests outside of work, and this work-life imbalance often ends up with anxiety, stress, and depression. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/12645101

28 - Virtual Stack - NSX-T 2.5 and NSX Intelligence 12/19/2019

28 - Virtual Stack - NSX-T 2.5 and NSX Intelligence On the 28th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timuralp (NSX Lead Solution Engineer at VMware) and we talk about the new features announced on NSX-T 2.5, especially NSX Intelligence. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/12467714

27 - Virtual Stack - VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS 12/02/2019

27 - Virtual Stack - VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS On the 27th episode of the show, I’m joined by Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Technical Product Manager at VMware. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/12253724

26 - Virtual Stack - Managed Cloud chat with Liquid Web 10/14/2019

26 - Virtual Stack - Managed Cloud chat with Liquid Web On the 26th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kelly Goolsby, Director of Enterprise Sales & Solution Architecture at Liquid Web and we talk about a variety of topics; cloud computing, hybrid-clouds, migrating to cloud and Liquid Web's services in this domain. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/11631743

25 - Virtual Stack - Journey to Multi-Cloud Management 10/02/2019

25 - Virtual Stack - Journey to Multi-Cloud Management On the 25th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Martijn Baecke, Cloud Management Technologist at VMware, and we discuss the Journey to Multi-cloud Management. We tried to fit this big topic in less than one hour and we touched on many points, such as the evolution towards SDDC and Private Clouds, the rise of Public Clouds, cloud native applications and finally the paradigm shift into multi-cloud. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/11488856

24 - Virtual Stack - VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud 101 09/20/2019

24 - Virtual Stack - VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud 101 On the 24th episode of the show, I'm joined by Rohan Naggi Sr. Technical Product Manager at VMware, and we discuss about VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/11328701

Virtual Stack - Hybrid-cloud chat with Faction 09/13/2019

Virtual Stack - Hybrid-cloud chat with Faction On the 23rd episode of the show, I’m joined by Matt Wallace, CTO of Faction. Faction is a multi-cloud platform as a service provider and one of the first partners of VMware around the VMware Cloud on AWS solution. You should see their 2019 VMware Cloud on AWS Market Survey, which will shed some light on hybrid cloud adoption and challenges in the market. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/11234372

Virtual Stack - VMworld US 2019 08/30/2019

Virtual Stack - VMworld US 2019 I’m back with the 22nd episode of Virtual Stack after a long break. This will be a solo flight without any guests and I’ll be talking about the news and announcements from the VMworld US 2019 that took place this week. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/11057696

Virtual Stack - VMware Cloud on Dell EMC 06/03/2019

Virtual Stack - VMware Cloud on Dell EMC VMware Cloud on AWS has proven that IT infrastructure with VMware SDDC stack atop can be ordered as a cloud service; in a scalable, smooth and agile manner. But what about the scenarios where you need to have that compute power on-premises? Enter VMware Cloud on Dell EMC! /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/10024409

Virtual Stack - What's new on vRealize Network Insight 4.1? 05/24/2019

Virtual Stack - What's new on vRealize Network Insight 4.1? On the 20th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Martijn Smit and we geek out on the recently announced vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 4.1. This release brings lots of new features, such as, Container Visibility and Security, Application Discovery and Visibility and many more! /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/9915002

Virtual Stack - AI, ML and the Self-Driving Data Center 05/09/2019

Virtual Stack - AI, ML and the Self-Driving Data Center AI, ML and DL are some of the hottest IT buzzwords of our time. If you’re working in tech industry, chances are that you hear or read something about them almost every day. It looks like they are the answer to every question, and the solution to every problem. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/9721856

Virtual Stack - How to Improve Communication Skills 04/19/2019

Virtual Stack - How to Improve Communication Skills Do you ever get stressed about giving speech, even though you know the subject by heart? Or have hard time expressing your knowledge and delivering your message effectively on a blog post? Good news; all of these are skills that you can develop with some practice and attention. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/9461972

Virtual Stack - What's new on NSX-T 2.4? 04/11/2019

Virtual Stack - What's new on NSX-T 2.4? On the 17th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timuralp (NSX Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware) and we take on the challenge of squeezing all the new features of NSX-T 2.4 into a 45-minute podcast! /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/9361820

16 - Virtual Stack - VMware Certifications 03/29/2019

16 - Virtual Stack - VMware Certifications On the 16th episode of the Virtual Stack podcast, I’m joined by Karl Childs, Sr. Manager in the VMware Certification Development team. We start our conversation talking about the latest VMware announcement on re-certification, then we talk about the present and future of VMware certifications. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/9197261

15 - Virtual Stack - What's Service Mesh? 03/02/2019

15 - Virtual Stack - What's Service Mesh? With the rise of cloud-native architectures built on containers distributed microservices, developers are encountering challenges with visibility, management, and control of these new applications. The Service Mesh concept was created to address and overcome these challenges. /episode/index/show/virtualstack/id/8847641

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