Chinwag with Mike (Mainly Audio)
By Mike Laverick
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Podcast Description
In these weekly audio podcasts, Mike Laverick chats with various individuals practically involved in all aspects of virtualization. Additionally, in the vNews series - Mike delivers a summary of what's been happening in the world of virtualization each month. Additionally in the "vendorwag", Mike interviews various vendors and how their solution intregrate with virtualization....
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CleanvNews - Jan 2012 | -- | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Zerto - Gil Levonai | -- | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Ed Czerwin | -- | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Nimbula - Jay Judkowitz | -- | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanvNews - Nov 2011 | -- | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - David Owen | -- | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Actifio - Ash Ashutosh | -- | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Tintri - Ed Lee | -- | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Shannon Snowden | -- | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Glenda Canfield | -- | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Nimble Storage - Ajay Singh | -- | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - vKernel - Bryan Semple | This weeks chinwag is with Bryan Semple of vKernel. We discuss their range of performance products, and chat about the impact of VMware vRAM licensing... | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - VirtualSharp - Phil Maynard | This weeks chinwag with is with virtual DR vendor VirtualSharp - we talk about their ReliableDR technology | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Scott Lowe - Stretched Clusters | This weeks chinwag is a special. Scott Lowe talks about the advantages, disadvantages, rewards and challenges of VMware HA Stretched Clusters... | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Andi Mann | This weeks Waggie is Andi Mann of CA Technologies. We talk about VM Stall and Andi's new book about Private Cloud operations... | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Dante Orsini | This weeks chinwag is with Dante Orsini who represents iland.com. We talk about cloud, and about his organizations experience offer up a vCloud Director based service offering... | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Doug Brown | Doug Brown is a legend within the server-based computing community (aka Citrix MetaFrame) in this weeks wag we talk about all things to do with desktops, delivery and applications. We also take a pop at Apple too! | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Duncan Epping | This weeks wag with is Duncan Eppying of Yellow-bricks and VMware fame. We discuss a number of topics from book writing to ephemeral ports on DvSwitches. See I told you it was wide ranging! | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - InstallFree - Alon Yaffe | This weeks vendorwag is with application virtualization vendor InstallFree and their representative is Alon Yaffe. In the session Alon explains to me their concepts of "shell shadow", "self-provisioning" and "self-encapsulation" | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Edward Haletky | This weeks wag is with author, consultant and all round guru in virtualization - Edward Haletky. We chat about his books, his view of the new VMware Operations - and cloud security | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Spoon - Lee Murphy | Continuing a recent theme on application virtualization, this week I speak to Spoon (nee Xenocode) about their technology, and their new Spoon-as-a-Service approach | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Rick Vanover | This week chinwaggie is Rick Vanover. Our discussions were very wide ranging – and we discussed Rick’s thoughts about Bring-Your-Own-PC (BYOPC) models, Legacy & Older software, Setting up his Hyper-V lab, change in VMware | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Browsium - Matt Heller | This week starts a new theme about application compatibility and application virtualization. First off is Browsium who are brand new company, with their own unique way of getting IE6 to work on Windows 7 | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - PHD Technologies - Frank Musacchia | This weeks vendorwag is with PHD Technologies - the VM backup company. With Frank I discuss the companies recent tie-in with Citrix. Whether VMware's vDR is threat, and we can about the on-going challenges of VM Backup. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Thomas Bryant | This weeks chinwag is with Thomas Bryant. Thomas has been around in the virtualization space for quite sometime. Anyway, in our chat we talk about the cloud - because that's an arena that Thomas is increasingly focused upon. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Newscale - Rodrigo Flores | This week I chat to cloud automation specialist newScale, and I quiz the CTO and Founder, Rodrigo Flores - about their strategy and approach - as well debating the future of cloud. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Raymond Overman | This week I chat to Raymond Overman who works with VMware in a SMB environment, and is the general all round IT guy for his company. We discuss the challenges of working in the SMB sector including training, licensing, and migration. | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - DynamicOps - Leslie-muller | This week I chat to the CTO of DynamicOPs - Leslie Muller. DynamicOPs is what I would call "cloud automation" software vendor. In the vendorwag we talk about how DynamicOPs got started, and what the challenges are of cloud computing. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Jase Mccarty | After well-earned Xmas break, and some Winter Sun - Chinwag is back, this week with Jase McCarty - VMware vExpert, EMC vSpecialist and virtualization blogger and author. | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - UShareSoft - James Weir | Welcome to 2011! The vendorwag returns from its Xmas lie down on the sofa - so speak to founder of UShareSoft, Jame Weir.UShareSoft’s enables users to quickly ramp their software to the cloud by packaging it as a cloud-ready image | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Nlyte - Robert Neave | This weeks vendorwag is with Nlyte the datacenter visualization people - and I'm chatting to co-found Robert Neave... | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Xangati - Nathanael Iiversen | This weeks vendorwag is with Nathanael Iiverson the Technical Marketing Manager at Xangati. They produce real-time performance monitoring systems and we recently used at both VMworld US and VMworld EU. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Simon Gallagher | This weeks chinwag is with this years winner of the TechTarget "User Awards" in Copenhagen. We talk about Simon's "vTardis" project, VMware User Groups and the VCDX and certification generally... | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - VMware Orchestrator - Burke Azbill | This weeks vendorwag I’m chatting to Burke Azbill of the vCO (VMware Orchestrator) Team. In case you don’t know the vCO Team have launched a brand new blog – in effort to galvanise the VMware Community to use vCO, and in ease the way into using it | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Criag Waters | THE WAG IS BACK! After a brief interlude whilst I rebalanced my library of vendorwags to chinwags - I'm back from the brink of vendorism. Criag recently won a competition on RTFM about SRM. And we talk about SRM and DR issues... | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Quest - Steve Paravola | In this week’s Vendorwag, Steve Paravola, Product Marketing Manager of Quest Software discusses Quest’s vOptimizer Pro software and how it can helps id and reclaim over-allocated VM; resizing of VMs improve performance partition block alignment | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Neverfail - Andrew Barnes | In this weeks first vendorwag I chat to Andrew Barnes of Neverfail. Neverfail were very helpful in helping me write a piece about vCenter HeartBeat. But my interest original stem from looking at availability generally beyond VMware HA | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - StratoGen - Karl Robinson | This weeks second vendorwag is with Karl Robinson of Stratogen. There a UK based service provider who sell capacity by the VMware Resource Pool. I chat to Karl in effort to learn more about the challenges of delivering a "public" cloud... | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Unidesk - Ron Oglesby | This weeks 1st vendor wag is with my good buddy - Ron Ogleby. Ron is a bit of legend of both the Citrix and VMware world. He talks about the Unidesk product which introduces a "layering" technology delivered as virtual appliances... | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Glenda Canfield | You might not know Glenda, because here real identity is "CitrixGurl". She's been involved in application delivery with Citrix for sometime, and now is increasing finding herself involved VDI and Application Virtualization work on Citrix and VMware | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Centrix - Rob Tribe | This weeks vendorwag is with Centrix. They produce application auditing tools - think of it like VMware Capacity Planner for Applications. They also product "Centrix Universal" which is portal that aggregrates application access into a single view | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Stuart Radnidge | This weeks chinwag is with vinternals.com's Stuart Radnidge (@vinternals) we discuss VMware Dogfood, Fluffy Clouds, Endpoint Stupidity and Novel becoming next VMware... acquisition... | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | CleanVideovNews - Sept, 2010 | This months vNews is dominated by announcements stemming from the VMworld event in SF, but contains a nod to EMC, NetApp and the bloggersphere... | 9/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Quest vWorkspace - Matthew Evans | This weeks vendorwag is with Matthew Evans of Quest Software. We discuss a whole gamut of topics including all about Quest's vWorkspace technology... | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Stu McHugh | Stu McHugh is a blogger, virtualization-artist and frequenter/presenter at the London VMUG. He's been involved in a VDI project at his business. And we took this as the starting point for this weeks chinwag. | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Xsigo - Camden Ford | This weeks vendorwag is with virtual I/O vendor Xsigo. I did quite a bit of work with them recently, as I wrote a long article for TechTarget about consolidate networking or virtual I/O | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNarrated TechTarget Article - What's new View 4.5 | This is text-to-speech podcast. It's basically one of my TechTarget articles converted in speech by software. This article is an overview and assessment of VMware's View 4.5 | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNarrated TechTarget Articles - VMware vCD: Ready for launch | This is text-to-speech podcast. It's basically one of my TechTarget articles converted in speech by software. This article is an overview and assessment of VMware's vCloud Director. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Ricky El-Qasem | This weeks chinwag is with Ricky El Qasem former VMware instructor and now education director at Veeam. In the wag we talk about about the tensions of being a jack-of-all-trades in IT, compared to being a specialist. We also chat about Ricky's virtualapps | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVenderwag - Wyse - David Angwin | This week's vendorwag is with David Angwin of Wyse. In the wag we talk about difference between thin and zero clients, the launch of Wyse Xenith and all matters VDI and client related! | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Kenny Coleman | This weeks "wag" is with ITpro, Blogger and Tweeter Kenny Coleman. We use Kenny's blog to discuss top free VMware Tools, network vSwitch design and 10GbE, and VMWorld 2010..., | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | CleanVideovNews - July, 2010 | In this months vNews, I take a look at vSphere4.1 and the new VMware licensing changes. I also take a peek at Microsoft SP1 for Hyper-V R2.... I also take a look at NetApp/EMC plugins and the bloggersphere | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - RES Software - Bob Janssen | Bob Janssen is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of RES Software. In this weeks vendorwag we chat about their PowerFuse technology... | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Dan Eason | This weeks chinwag is with Dan Eason, who I know for the London VMware User Group. He runs a blog called vmlover.com. In the wag we chat about C2C Design Approaches, Discuss Pass Solutions, and take about RAM challenges | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - DoubleTake - Ian Masters | This weeks vendorwag is with Ian Master's of DoubleTake. In the chat Ian takes sometime out to answer some of my questions about the DoubleTake suite taken with a virtualization angle. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - David Davis | In the chinwag we discuss the idea of "vCenter Express" edition. We discuss the some of the licensing issues that have SMBs have getting vSphere4. David talks about his VMworld Session about the top 10 VMware Free tools. We talk about the Cloud.... | 7/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVendorwag - Panologic - Parmeet Chaddha | This weeks "Vendorwag" is with Parmeet Chadda the Executive VP of Engineering at Panologic. In the vendorwag I quiz Parmeet about what a Zero Client is, and how Panologic's solutions works. | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Rich Brambley | This weeks chinwag is with Rich Brambley. Rich is an employee of Veeam, and very active in the virtualization community with his blog, twittering and podcast! | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | CleanVideovNews - June, 2010 | A monthly round-up on what's been going on in the world of virtualization. This month: VMware & TechEd awards, the Magic Quadrant, DCAP, Course, VMW & 64-bit, SIOC, VMDirectPath, VMW & Novell, Update 2, EMC VAs, and much more! | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Eric Siebert | This weeks chinwag was recorded about two weeks ago. In the wag Eric tells me about his new book, his sessions for this years VMworld, the Trusted Platform Module and his experiences of using the IOmega Storage in his home lab | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Steve Bruck | This week's chinwag is with Steve Bruck. Steve is member of the London User Group which I attend regularly. Steve's a real VMware customer and living in the real world. It was time for a break from my usual round of bloggers and social media types!!! | 6/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Scott Lowe | Chinwag returns after a break for a holiday - and is back on form with a wag with one of the top bloggers in virtualization. On the agenda this week is server consolidation and the eggs-in-one-basket anxiety, VPLEX and Citrix XenClient. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | CleanVideovNews - May, 2010 | A monthly round-up of news in virtualization.... | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Jason Boche | In this weeks chinwag I chat to Jason Boche - we discuss Jason's experiences of ESXi and an issue of trying patch ESX with VMware Update Manager - when VUM and/or vCenter a running in a virtual machine | 5/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Mike Laverick | This week I ended up talking to myself. My fault really for not being more organized! In the wag I talk about server consolidation ratios and Stupid IT, VMware View, the IOMega StorCenter and much much more! | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Simon Seagrave | This week Mike chat's to Simon Seagrave - EMC's newest employee! We cover the challenges of the homelab, the IPAD, and Simon's future at EMC | 4/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Matt McSpirit | In this week chinwag Matt McSpirit of Microsoft UK does a Q/A session with Mike. Covering the process of enabling Hyper-V, the role of the Parent Partition, new features due in SP1 such as Dynamic Memory and changes in Desktop licensing & RemoteFX | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | CleanVideovNews - April, 2010 | This is a video based podcast which rounds up the news in virtualization on a monthly basis. Powerpoints and links are available on http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/category/vnews/ | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Doug Hazelman | This weeks chinwag is Doug Hazelman. Mike quizzes doug about Veeams new "Sure Backup" offering - and learns what the new Storage APIs from VMware mean for data recovery. We finishing up discussing DR issues for the SMBs | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Steven Bryen | This week chinwag Mike wags chins with Steven Bryen. Steve outlines how he got into virtualization and some of the automation issues he's confronted. He also shares his opinons on the clouds and the Icecube DataCenter... | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Rynardt Spies | In this weeks chinwag with Rynardt Spies. We talk about how he got into virtualization; the hardware he uses for his home lab; the challenges of learning the new expensive blade technologies; NFS vs VMFS; and VMware's strategy to introduce ESXi. | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Tom Howarth | Tom wags about his brown bag series with Cody Bunch on the subject of VCDX. We also talk about VMware View and 4.5 beta program. We finish up discussing the current state of the VMware Community | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Eric Sloof | In this weeks chinwag, Mike chats to legendary Dutch blogger and instructor - Eric Sloof. A real powershell guru and dab hand at writing programs. Mike discuss with Eric how he got into the virtualization, instructing and his vmClient utility | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Vaughn Stewart | In this weeks chinwag, Mike wags his chin with NetApp's Virtual Storage Guy - Vaughn Stewart. Mike & Vaughn chat about VMware PEX, EMC aquisition of vExperts, NetApp OnTap in virtual machine and the future of NetApp and virtualization... | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | CleanVideovNews - March, 2010 | This is a monthly video based podcast which rounds up the news in virtualization on a month basis. Powerpoints and links are available on http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2010/03/04/vnews-mar-2010/ | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Al Renouf | In this weeks "chinwag" Mike wags chins with VMware PowerCLI and PowerShell Guru - Al Renouf. In this episode Mike & Al chat about Al's virtualization of Citrix Presentation/MetaFrame Server environment. They discuss challenges this introduces | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Gabrie van Zanten | In this week's chinwag, Mike chats to Gabrie Van Zanten of GabesVirtualWorld. Mike and Gabrie discuss virtual desktop licensing.... | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag - Jay Rogers | In this episode Mike mike wags chins with Jay Rogers. We discuss Jay's experiences with IBM Blades and why he's looking at virtualization IO vendor XSIGO. We touch on Thin-virtual disks & Site Recovery Manager too! | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinwag- Chris Deardon | In this episode Mike has a chinwag with Chris Deardon. We discuss plans to move over a 1,000 VMs from the US to the UK, and we also discuss some of the challenges of using snapshots in a production environment | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 79 Episodes |
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