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IT talk with a healthy dose of empathy: Hosts Matt Yette & Matt Cozzolino draw on their combined 40+ years of infrastructure experience as they discuss the ever-changing technology landscape – from virtualization to storage, security to networking, and everything in between.
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Aug 8, 2023
#089 - InTune Education with Ryan Grelck and Aaron Hagman
Welcome back to another exciting episode of Data Center Therapy, where the digital device management seas are stormy but the DCT deck crew are always ready for a challenge! While Matt ‘Hard to Starboard’ Cozzolino is out on PTO this week, your reliable and experienced Captain, Mr. Matt ‘Engines Steady at Quarter Impulse’ Yette welcomes IVOXY End User Computing Consultants Mr. Ryan ‘Magnum VDI’ Grelck and Mr. Aaron ‘Active Directory Animal’ Hagman to the virtual DCT studios, for a chat about all things Microsoft Intune.
In this episode, you, our adventurous listeners, will get to hear about:
* What Microsoft 365 traditionally encompasses and how offerings beyond M365 integrate into the usual core technologies (Exchange, Sharepoint, OneDrive and Teams).
* How Microsoft Intune can be helpful for hybrid work and remote/travelling sales teams, and how SCCM relates.
* Mobile Device Management, including some old stories of MobileIron, and what Intune is capable of doing for the new corporate end user’s experience and data management (including conditional access).
* How Azure Active Directory (now Entra) can integrate with on-premises infrastructure and clients and what happens when the Internet goes out.
After listening, if you’re excited to join the September 19th through 21st Intune class (with Office Hours on September 22nd) then please be sure to reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager or podcasts@ivoxy.com so you can register yourself. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like DCT are found.
Thanks as always for listening, and stay safe, get your (Windows) Autopilot on, stay (mobile) managed and catch you on the next fun and informative episode of Data Center Therapy!
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Jun 22, 2023
#088 - What’s new with Desktop Virtualization and Horizon Classes, with Mr. Ryan Grelck
Welcome back to another installment of your favorite IT podcast with a healthy dose of empathy, Data Center Therapy. On this episode Matt ‘Mouse Master’ Yette and Matt ‘4K before 4K was cool’ Cozzolino invite VDI expert and all-around VMware guru Mr. Ryan Grelck back to the virtual studios. Ryan shares the latest and greatest developments of end-user-computing and virtualization technologies, the changes that were made in the IVOXY training labs as of late, and even ends up getting mired in debates over the best input systems for end-user devices.
In this episode, you, the lifeblood of our show - our listeners, will get to learn about:
* Which software offerings make sense to deliver over application virtualization technologies.
* New evolutions of App Volumes including the intriguing and flexible Apps On Demand feature.
* Why imaging suites in medical systems tend not to be delivered over thin clients.
Ryan’s latest Summer 2023 Horizon class is coming up July 10th through the 14th, so if you’re interested in attending, please reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager or hit up the IVOXY website at your earliest convenience. If you enjoyed what you heard, please be sure to like, share and subscribe to this podcast wherever you found it.
Now that the dog days of summer are upon us, be sure to stay cool, stay informed, stay trained up, and catch you on the next episode of Data Center Therapy. Thanks for listening!
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May 1, 2023
#087 - Network Assessments with Mack & Robert
You’re a one-person wrecking crew.
You rock your compute infrastructure, your hypervisor and virtual machine management system, and your storage subsystems, but you’ll admit, you could use some help with the networking side every once in a while. In fact, every now and again, something happens on the network and you never can quite get to the root of it; you rebooted a device and that ended up fixing it ninety nine times out of a hundred. Let’s not talk about that one-hundredth time - that was a doozy and turned out to be an obscure setting, or a malfunctioning printer or client system. Either way, it sure would be nice to know, for certain, if you could make things better, permanently.
Or…
Maybe you’re at a large organization; perhaps even in the networking and security arm of an I.T. group, but somebody new starts and as you look over the documentation, you realize it’s terribly out of date. It would be a great exercise to map everything out and update the records and create diagrams in addition to mentoring the new person, but there’s just not enough hours in the day to do both. Or…is there a way you could?
Welcome back to another episode of your favorite I.T. podcast with a healthy dose of empathy, Data Center Therapy. Your hosts, as always, include the gregarious and well-travelled Mr. Matt “Traffic Shaping the T1 with Napster” Yette as well as the multi-talented and tenured Mr. Matt “Hospitals don’t have change control windows!” Cozzolino. In this edition, the Matts welcome IVOXY Director of Consulting and O.G. of the Networking Practice, Mr. Mack “Channel Surfing” Nethkin as well as the newest IVOXY Senior Network Consultant, Mr. Robert “Pain is just Weakness leaving the Network” Clack.
If terms like STP, HSRP, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, and Dynamic Routing get your motor running, great. If it’s all Greek to you, that’s A-OK - in fact, you’ll likely pick up a few new network terms while giving this one a listen.
When listening to this latest episode, you, our grateful listeners will hear tales of:
* Mack’s experiences at Alaska Airlines and how those experiences shaped the practices he advocates for (including good switch names) and things he looks for when delivering network assessments for customers.
* The various sections of a typical network assessment, and what are included in those sections (including infrastructure, availability, management, performance and security elements, all to paint a more complete picture!)
* How network assessments are performed (and yes, there are diagrams!), the red/yellow/green light methodologies, but also more importantly, the why of the assessment - and why those reasons matter to businesses.
Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found this podcast and stay tuned to our show to learn about our upcoming training courses, including a second round of Matt Cozzolino’s Advanced vSphere 8 class. Catch you on the next jam-packed episode of Data Center Therapy - and stay safe, assess your stacks or get some help assessing them, and as always, stay informed, DCT friends!
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Mar 9, 2023
#086 - What's New in vSphere 8.0?
You! Yes, you! Running vSphere 6.5 or 6.7? We understand, you’re busy!
For many, many reasons, you couldn’t get around to upgrading your systems to 7.0 when VMware deprecated support for 6.7 and 6.5 on October 15th, 2022.
So now you’re at a cross roads. vSphere 8 is out, but fairly new, and comes with its own set of new hardware requirements. Assuming your existing hardware meets them, do you upgrade to vSphere 7 or vSphere 8? If instead you get new hosts, should you run ESXi 7 or 8 on them? And what if you’re already running vSphere 7? Should you upgrade to 8?
It’s a been a little while, but your favorite, most empathetic, most wise and most entertaining IT therapists are back in the office to look at all things vSphere 8. In this episode of Data Center Therapy, your intrepid hosts Matt ‘Pi before Pi was cool’ Yette and Matt ‘Distributed Everything Si-fu’ Cozzolino teach you with their technology equivalents of the martial art of Wing Chun on what’s new with vSphere 8.
In this episode, you, our treasured watchers (DCT is now on YouTube!) and our listeners, will get to learn about:
* How mature ESXi 7.0 is, when it came out, and how relatively rare PSODs are now
* What some of the implications of the new hardware requirements are for ESXi 8, and how boot media and types have changed since ESXi 7 appeared
* What new concepts and hardware support exists in ESXi 8, what Distributed Processing Units (DPUs) do and how AI/ML and hardware consumption models are managed inside vCenter
* What changes have taken place in the Lifecycle Manager of vCenter to make things easier to update and upgrade (both on the ESXi front, as well as the firmware of the systems ESXi is deployed on!)
* How regions and availability zone concepts, once solely in cloud hosting providers, has trickled down into the vSphere command-and-control paradigms as well as Tanzu’s current state of integration
As the Matts state in this episode, it’s not too late to join “Professor” Cozzolino in his Introduction to vSphere 8 class March 21st through 24th, and his Advanced vSphere 8 class April 18th through 21st. If you need to know “how” to operate your systems, the Intro class is likely the best choice for you. If you’d like to know the “why” of best practices in vSphere, then the Advanced class is the best choice for you. To get registered ASAP, talk to your IVOXY Account Manager and we’ll be happy to assist right away.
As always, be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found this episode of Data Center Therapy. If you need assistance planning or executing your own organization’s vSphere upgrades, please reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager.
In the meantime, stay up to date, stay supported, stay stable and optimized (as we like our ESXi hosts to be), and stay informed, DCT friends! Talk to you on our next fresh episode!
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Mar 8, 2023
#085 - Endpoint Device and Virtual Desktop Jamboree with Hoppy Shaw
The Matts are back, baby!
Your intrepid Data Center Therapy hosts, Mr. Matt ‘He sings the bass’ Yette, and Mr. Matt ‘He sings the tenor’ Cozzolino have returned! The Matts welcome IVOXY’s own End-User Compute specialist Mr. Hoppy Shaw back to the DCT virtual studios. Hoppy once again regales you, our audience, with stories of his time in Operations and the evolution of Microsoft products we’ve come to all know and (somewhat) love.
Among the many topics they review are:
* The beginnings of ActiveSync and Exchange.
* The evolution of relevant software suites from Microsoft, including Systems Management Server, System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
* How things like networks, infrastructure, and security must all be considered at the same time when integrating Azure cloud-based services into an Enterprise.
* The difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktops.
Hoppy and the Matts also cover whether GPU-enabled virtual desktops are an option for folks thinking about Desktop-as-a-Service. If your own organization needs help evolving its networks, infrastructure, or security practices so that you can leverage cost-effective virtual or cloud desktop infrastructure, please be sure to reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager so that we can help! If you enjoyed the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you get your quality podcasts. Thanks for listening as always and we hope to catch up with you on our next exciting episode. Stay safe, stay secure, and stay well (endpoint) managed, DCT friends! Ciao.
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Dec 13, 2022
#084 - If You Had Just One Dollar to Spend on Security...
Scene: a dimly lit but warm lobby, looking a little like a doctor’s office in a log cabin but more comfortable. You’re patiently waiting to hear from some I.T. podcast microphone jockeys who’ve haven’t peeked out of their door in some time.
You’ve been in that waiting room for a bit, but thankfully your Data Center Therapists, Mr. Matt “Email shields up” Yette and Mr. Matt “Attack vector identified” Cozzolino are back and ready to see you now!
As Yette says, if you could spend only a dollar on security, it should be spent on email security so give this episode a good listen to find out exactly why he says that. You’ll likely end up agreeing.
Inside the virtual studios of DCT on this episode, our intrepid hosts welcome Darla Teeter, Global Solutions Architect from ProofPoint to talk about email security in a depth and breadth that you might not have thought possible. Along the precarious, dangerous, do-not-click-here dark alleys of their email security discussion, the Matts and Darla discuss:
* What kinds of email, be it malicious or SPAM, can be filtered through email security solutions and how that filtering is accomplished
* What threats exist to businesses through email, and how social engineering and targeted campaigns are becoming more prevalent and attacking specific people in your organization
* How “browser isolation” can reduce or remove the threat of hackers leveraging “highly attacked people” for their privileges and access
* How machine learning, AI, threat analytics and rich data play a role in improving filtering solutions and security overall
* Why “default security” from a cloud provider may not be sufficient to protect an organization
In addition to the above, Darla also explains how ProofPoint goes way beyond the cliched and often boring, hour-long typical “security awareness trainings” when it comes to educating workers on email security. The detection and remediation of knowledge gaps (via “mock attacks”) makes their solution a very interesting one.
Listen to this episode and you’ll find out how to win a Yeti cooler (no relating to our intrepid host, Mr. Matt Yette, of course) and be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts are found.
As always, thanks for listening, stay warm this winter, practice safe email and stay informed with our next episode of Data Center Therapy!
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Nov 22, 2022
#083 - Email: The Wide Open Front Door
Howdy Data Center Therapy regulars and new “Therapy Clients” alike!
On this episode, your hosts Matt “Release and Report” Yette and Matt “Reverse Lookup” Cozzolino break down email security for you, our listeners, with a little history, a little humor, and a little education around all those three, five and six letter acronyms. The Matts share their deep technical knowledge and experiences so that you can understand what those acronyms add, protocol-wise, to enhancing the integrity of the email system as a whole.
During the course of this podcast, you’ll get to hear about:
* The relationship of email to the ever growing threat of ransomware (“i.e. the malicious clicks”.)
* Technical protocols like DNSSEC, TXT, BIMI, DMARC, SPF and DKIM, and how those contribute to strengthening email security (while not breaking compatibility with the forty (40!)-year-old email protocol)
* How solutions like ProofPoint can easily add a strong layer of security to your own Office365 implementations
After you’ve listened to the episode, if you’re interested in the free IVOXY Email Integrity Assessment to check your own incoming and outgoing email security postures, please reach out to your local IVOXY representative, and if you don’t have one, hit us up at podcasts@ivoxy.com. If you’re an Office365 customer, the Consultants assisting you will include a Rapid Risk Report as stated earlier.
We hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you did, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like DCT are found. We appreciate it!
Guard that front door (of email activity!), stay safe, and stay as secure as you can, listeners. Catch you on the next informative episode of Data Center Therapy!
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Jun 14, 2022
#082 - The Past, Present and Future of GPUs
Howdy Data Center Therapy listeners - are you all ready to go on a trip? What if we told you this trip would take you back to the beginnings of Graphics Processing Units?
Are you ready to time-travel to the start of 3D-enabled gaming, the beginnings of fancy operating system user interfaces with visual effects, and the early artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts?
Strap on those headphones and press play to go on our GPU Journey, with your hosts Matt “3DFX” Yette and Matt “Literal Duct Tape” Cozzolino as they welcome IVOXY’s own Virtual Desktop and End User Computing Specialist Mr. Ryan Grelck back to the virtual Data Center Therapy studios. The Matts and Ryan talk about:
* What GPUs actually do, what the early use cases for them were, and how they changed PCs and gaming, with a focus on the mid and late 90’s (while mentioning some blast-from-the-past games!)
* The current players in the GPU market, what kinds of applications GPUs can be used for, and the barriers of entry into the GPU business that keep choices limited.
* The fiscally unattractive elements of using GPUs in the Corporate and Enterprise space - licensing, and what may change soon with the entry of new GPU players.
If hearing the phrases “Quake”, “Counterstrike”, “Halo 3”, “Call of Duty” and “Destiny 2” pique your interest, you’ll no doubt enjoy this episode. That said, even if you’re not a gamer, and you’re here to discern new developments in the GPU market, you’ll definitely want to tune into this one to learn more about Intel’s plans with “Arctic Sound M.”
As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts can be found. If you’re looking for the documentary on “Unreal Tournament” Ryan mentioned, it may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKDvqLNk7CQ
Stay low-latency, stay fragging, stay sharp and catch you on the next shiny episode, DCT friends!
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May 16, 2022
#081 - Advanced vSphere with Shane Bradley
Who doesn’t love a good trilogy?
Cue the John Williams music!
Mr. Shane Bradley, IVOXY’s resident VMware Master, returns for his third appearance on Data Center Therapy. Your intrepid hosts, Matt “No! I want Performant, Scalable AND Value-Conscious!” Yette joins his co-host Matt “Have I shown you this Docker setup?” Cozzolino to collectively welcome Shane back to the DCT virtual studios, and talk about the new Advanced vSphere class he’s been working studiously on for the past few months. Along the way, the Matts and Shane discuss:
* What folks would learn in a more advanced class covering VMware and how it can help shops with just two hosts all the way up to monster Enterprise organizations.
* How VMware vVols converged on some of the same instrumentation and monitoring that Tintri brought to the market with their VMstore appliance.
* How Host Profiles can be used to reset root passwords when your hosts get locked out.
If you’re a fan of Letterkenny, the Red Green show, or Schitt’s Creek, you’ll appreciate the alternative North American velvety tones of our favorite Albertan DCT guest and VMware expert, Shane. We look forward to seeing many of you at Shane’s next Advanced vSphere class, debuting sometime in June 2022. If you enjoy the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like Data Center Therapy may be found. We wish our customers and new-to-IVOXY students the best in their VMware journeys (and are here to help!) and appreciate all the IVOXY learning and technology partnerships we’ve made through the years. Thanks for listening!
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May 12, 2022
#079 - Remote Work, Zero Trust, Mobile Device Management and More
What’s better than having a Security-minded Consultant guest on Data Center Therapy, sharing their tips on how to manage endpoints and access in your network?
Why, having TWO of them, of course!
Matt “Tech Debt Crusher” Yette and Matt “Magnificent Bastion” Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual studios one Mr. Quinton Barber, Security Consultant for IVOXY as well as one Mr. Hoppy Shaw, End-User Technology Consultant for IVOXY, as they discuss the challenges of remote work and zero trust.
Some of the concepts, you, our loyal listeners will hear on this episode include multi-factor authentication, identity management, device compliance and control, mobile device management solutions, Active Directory to Azure migrations, and much, much more. BYOD for iPhones and Android phones? Yep, we’ve got that too.
Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts are found. Do you have challenges with securing some of your endpoints? Reach out to your local IVOXY Account Manager and we’ll be able to help secure the devices that you previously didn’t have the time or willpower to tackle on your own. Thanks for listening! Stay secure, stay (Windows Server) updated, stay (Microsoft) InTune-d in, and stay informed DCT fans! Catch you again on our next topical episode. Ciao for now.
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May 12, 2022
#080 - Ransomware Preparedness with Quinton Barbe
Cliched though it may be, it’s true: It’s not if you’re going to experience a ransomware attack, it’s just a matter of when.
What can you do to prepare for it?
Matt “It’s 2022 but Backup is still Sexy” Yette and Matt “Trip this Wire” Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual studios for the second time in a row IVOXY’s own Mr. Quinton Barber, Security Consultant, who counts acting as an Anti-Ransomware Specialist as one of his many responsibilities. Quinton and the Matts waste no time and begin to prescribe steps you can take to harden your environment, instrument your infrastructure, and shorten the time to restore when something happens to your data.
In this episode you, our loyal and proactive but ransomware-prone listeners will get to hear about:
* What aggregation of logs and the use of a SIEM means to your business, and how it can inform your decision makers of when to restore from (known good backup points) in a Business Continuity event.
* How long t…
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Apr 7, 2022
#078 - Mapping and Macintoshes
Using a Garmin? Maybe a TomTom? It’s OK if you’re not, because it’s 2022 and your phone has a maps application, right?
If you thought you knew everything about what you can do with your phone and a mapping app, think again!
We welcome our Data Center Therapy guests to a gadget- and application-filled episode as your hosts Matt “Major Release Blues” Yette and Matt “Offroad Antenna” Cozzolino chat about mapping and then circle around to the state of Macintosh hardware and software. Whether you’re a diehard camper, an off-road enthusiast, a powder hound, or you just want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes on mapping applications, the Matts have you covered with this podcast. In this episode you’ll get to learn about:
* How cars have evolved subscription models for some services, and how those are still far behind modern mobile apps and the modern PC browser experience.
* Mapping players such as CalTopo and Gaia, and what their (premium) subscriptions enable.…
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Mar 31, 2022
#077 - Adventures in 3D Printing
What are you going to print?
Head straight downtown to the 3D statue-filled intersection of “Fun Street” and “Technology Avenue” with this Data Center Therapy podcast! Your hosts Mr. Matt “What can’t you do with a Pi?” Yette and Mr. Matt “Printable Log Cabin” Cozzolino welcome you, our loyal listeners, into their virtual garages for an entertaining introduction to 3D printing, sans the resin fumes. If you’re wondering what the heck a “PEI magnetic build plate” is, give this episode a listen!
In this quick but enjoyable 30-minute dash, you’ll get a handle on:
* Which 3D printers are the “Ford F-150s” of the market; trustable industry standards to get started with and to modify when you’re ready.
* The difference between Filament-based and Resin-based 3D printers, how they function, and which ones are more hazardous and need special consideration.
* And tips and tricks that the Matts share to keep your 3D prints extruding well, staying sharp a…
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Mar 24, 2022
#076 - NetApp Technical Partner Manager (and IVOXY alumnus) Kris Lamet
Welcome back Data Center Therapy fans! We have a special treat on this podcast as IVOXY’s own Kris Lamet returns to the virtual DCT studios, this time employed at NetApp as their Technical Partner Manager for the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.
Kris and your two intrepid hosts, Matt “2.4 Gigahertz? Sure Does!” Yette and Matt “Deadbolt This!” Cozzolino crack a couple of frosty ones and muse about the amazing longevity and adaptability of NetApp, the challenges of using the cloud either for DR or for hybrid datacenter scaling, and the newest home automation projects they’re all working on.
You’ll also learn in this episode:
* Which technologies NetApp themselves pioneered that are still in widespread use by all storage vendors to this day.
* How many unique products NetApp have in their portfolio, and which new acquisitions they’ve made have been relevant to the cloud-first adopters.
* What challenges in home automation arise with WiFi versus Z-Wave dev…
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Mar 3, 2022
#075 - Introducing Mr. Quinton Barber
Join us on this special episode of Data Center Therapy where Matt “M.C. MFA” Yette and Matt “So Many Rules” Cozzolino welcome the newest member of the IVOXY family, Security Consultant Quinton Barber. Quinton joins the team with over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and has specialized in producing Assessments and Gap Analysis for all his customers, from the improbably small to the stupendously large F500s.
In this episode, you’ll get talk that includes conceptual basics such as Defense-in-depth, zero-trust, and edge and endpoint protection layers. You’ll hear discussion around policies, firewalls, anti-virus and mobile device management solutions. You’ll find out why an Identity Access Management solution can be critical to securing your systems. You’ll also learn information on how to get out of the tactical, fix-it-now practices and evolve your own processes and procedures into those which can adapt and change in time to respond to the threats t…
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Feb 24, 2022
#074 - Retro Gaming and Hypervisor Boot Devices
Away crew, prepare to set your phasers to ‘fun’!
On this episode of Data Center Therapy, your fabulous hosts, Mr. Matt “SCUMM For Life” Yette and Mr. Matt “Bring up your Inventory Screen!” Cozzolino drive the DeLorean Time Machine and drop you, our loyal listeners, off at the Pizza Hut with a huge stack of quarters for the Pac-Man, Galaga, and pinball machines. Come on a retro journey with the IVOXY gang as they share their thoughts on their favorite games of years past, including:
* Beloved Nintendo64 and PlayStation classics such as GoldenEye and Final Fantasy VII.
* The finest Nintendo classics like Track & Field and Zelda, and must-play-back-in-the-day arcade games (with special respects paid to NBA Jam!).
* And the best adventure games from Sierra Online (King’s Quest, Leisure Suit Larry) and LucasArts (Sam & Max, The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle).
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Feb 3, 2022
#073 - AI and the Metaverse
It’s the near future. You’re on a road trip across the country. At some point, you realize you’re tired and lower your seat for a nap. You go ahead and take one. In the meanwhile, your car nearly silently glides onward, ever attentive to the road.
On this quick bite of an episode, your Data Center Therapy hosts Matt “You think that’s air you’re breathing?” Yette and Matt “We Hope You Enjoy the Ride!” Cozzolino talk about Artificial Intelligence, the Metaverse, 3D movies and Washington state drivers.
You, our dear listeners, will also get the Matts’ takes on:
* How the world might look without Facebook, and how Google and Apple develop similar technologies (but ostensibly implement them way differently!)
* How things like voice recognition and augmented reality have evolved over the years from initial attempts to now
* When (or if!) Tesla and other auto manufacturers will ever achieve fully autonomous self-driving and why it’s valuable
Join us on…
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Feb 3, 2022
#072 - Working from Home with Neil Kassal
You already work from home, and you’re in IT, so there’s probably not much you can do to improve your setup, right?
Maybe not!
In this episode of Data Center Therapy, your hosts Matt “Faster than Gigabit” Yette and Matt “Layer 2 Plus” Cozzolino welcome IVOXY’s own Systems and Storage Consultant Neil Kassal into the virtual studios. Neil shares his tips on optimizing your work from home setup, from your seating all the way up to network segmentation and home backups.
Along the way, the dynamic trio discuss:
* “Layer 8 issues” - how to deal with the distractions of pets, roommates, family and your own physical spaces
* How to decide what to optimize for in your home network and how to make sure you choose the right gear for those goals
* Why it makes sense to exercise “best practices” not just in your business and enterprise networks, but also in your home
As a bonus, Yette, Cozz and Neil also talk about the newest exploit that affects much of the enter…
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Dec 15, 2021
#071 - USA’s First Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer, Nicolas Chaillan
You ever envision updating the firmware of a weapons system on your fighter jet while you’re flying it?
No? That makes sense. But for the people trying to evolve our military’s ossified bureaucracies and systems, that vision is indeed a reality.
Your hosts of this Data Center Therapy episode, Matt ‘I’ve got a lock on the target’ Yette and Alec ‘It's a UNIX system! I know this!’ Taylor welcome the United States of America’s very first Chief Software Officer, Nicolas M. Chaillan to the DCT virtual studios. Nicolas shares his background, how his career at the DoD evolved, and what he sees in the future of cyber-warfare and security for both the military and American enterprise. It’s a fascinating look inside the inner workings of some quite large organizations, our own U.S. Air Force and Space Force branches.
During this show, you’ll also gain some understanding of:
* How agility differs in the private sector versus the military, and how Nicolas attempted the imp…
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Dec 14, 2021
#070 - Supply Chain Troubleshooting with Eric Watson
When you need to talk about the supply chain issues that affect IVOXY, our customers and really everyone and everything, who’d be the logical guest to bring on an episode of Data Center Therapy? Maybe…somebody who’s seen it all, and been there from the very start?
This week on DCT, our intrepid hosts, the newly returned Matt “Logistical Challenge Accepted!” Yette and Matt “Holdin’ up the Fort” Cozzolino welcome IVOXY’s founder, Mr. Eric Watson, to the virtual studios to share his unique, broad perspective on the supply chain conundrum. Eric knows finance and the IVOXY customer base quite well, but also the happenings across the globe as they pertain to our collective business, and as such shares the very time-sensitive and complicated causes that got us to where we are right now.
You, our loyal listeners, will also get to hear about:
* How China’s fixed utility/electrical rates impacted the global supply chain through simple microeconomic consequences.
*…
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Dec 14, 2021
#069 - 2022: Predictions and Anticipations with Ryan Grelck
Space out.
No, really, go ahead and think of your favorite space themed games, movies, and books, because on this episode of Data Center Therapy, your host Matt “PlexMan” Cozzolino welcomes Ryan Grelck into the virtual studios to talk about 2022 and what fun things are right around the corner. Don’t be fooled, however, as the duo also talk about Linux as a desktop operating system, ransomware, and transparent network virtualization technologies all in the same episode!
While taking you, our dear listeners, on an intergalactic journey through the greatly anticipated entertainment releases of late 2021 and 2022, Ryan and Matt also discuss:
* Why manning a Security Operations Center typically requires more people than you’d initially estimate.
* If Linux gaming is ready for prime-time, and the performance price you might pay to play on it.
* And why NSX-T’s most nifty feature is not the much-vaunted microsegmentation and VM firewalling it’s known for.…
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Dec 13, 2021
#068 - End User Computing with Consultant Hoppy Shaw
IOS.
Android.
MacOS.
Windows.
No, this isn’t an episode about which is better or what Apple just released. It’s all about managing those mobile and desktop platforms because, face it, the world is complicated, and the stronger businesses know how to play nice with all the different platforms. Keep the users happy, but also keep the critical enterprise data protected while allowing those platform choices. This isn’t an easy thing to do for most companies. The software is complicated. There are many competing vendors. Experts are few and far between.
IVOXY recognize that your problems are also our problems. We are, after all, a consultancy that looks for specific, curated solutions to our customers technology challenges. For us, making sure we have the staff with those ever-so-rare magical skills is a priority. To that end, we had to grow our family to keep up.
In this episode of Data Center Therapy, Matt ‘Let Me Un-pretzel your Network’ Cozzolino we…
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Oct 7, 2021
#067 - Security vs Home Automation: FIGHT!!!
Time flows strangely in the era of the pandemic. Sometimes you go out on what seems like a four hour walk, and barely two hours have passed. Or you might sit down on the couch in what you thought was the morning and suddenly it’s 4PM and you have no idea how that’s even possible. Here on this podcast episode is a rare change up for Data Center Therapy; there’s almost no mention of the datacenter! Instead, Matt “Bonjour” Yette and Matt “You have a Rendezvous with a uPnP problem?” Cozzolino melt away thirty-five minutes into what feels like a quick ten minute catch-up with a friend about their home automation adventures. The Matts talk about Home Assistant and HomeKit here, but this time, it comes loaded with stories about compromises (for the sake of home automation) and the “buyer beware!” security implications of the technologies they’ve played with. We promise: it’s still a fun one.
You, our curious listeners, also get to hear:
* Which robotic va…
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Sep 23, 2021
#064 - No Silver Bullets: Security Series, Part One
Welcome back to another episode of Data Center Therapy where the topic this week is all things security related. With your hosts Matt “You sure you wanna kick that can down the road?” Yette and Matt “The answer is: It Depends!” Cozzolino, the intrepid DCT Duo has a quick and fun but also informative podcast all around Information Technology Security this week.
In this episode, the Matts answer a few white-hot, timely and relevant questions such as:
* Is the sole purpose of SD-WAN to reduce costs by eliminating proprietary networking circuits?
* Is there a way to implement a SIEM without full time engineers manning a security NOC 24x7?
* In a zero-sum budget game, what’s the solution to security issues - endpoint protection, firewalls, multi-factor authentication (MFA), or microsegmentation?
Join us on this fast and light run through the landscape of security technologies, where you’ll get a high-level overview of the technologies and solutions that the Matts work…
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Sep 23, 2021
#066 - The Man in Black, from VMware’s Carbon Black
We know, we know, EVERYbody’s talking about ransomware lately. Given that there’s so many bad actors, and so many easily tricked users, though, how can we not talk about it? At least talk about a different technical approach to anti-virus and anti-malware software, we say. Tell us what makes it different and how it can be proactive, and not just reactive like most solutions out there.
Ask and ye shall receive! Matt “The tinfoil doesn’t seem to be working!” Yette and Matt “I DROPped that packet, didn’t I?” Cozzolino welcome to the virtual studios a very special guest with a highly unique background. John Nelson, Global Field Solutions Engineer from VMware’s Carbon Black acquisition joins the Matts and shares his experiences. Were you expecting a Pennsylvania State Police Corporal, or a Computer Forensics specialist for the United States government to join Data Center Therapy for an episode? Neither were we!
John and the Dynamic DCT Duo talk about:
*…
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Sep 23, 2021
#065 - No Silver Bullets: Security Series, Part Two
Welcome back to Data Center Therapy’s second security episode of late summer 2021. With your hosts Matt “Fragged due to network latency!” Yette and Matt “Raspberry PIs 4 Life!” Cozzolino, the DCT Duo get into the nuts and bolts of how firewalls have evolved over the years (ASA to PIX and well beyond those), and the DCT Duo also discuss how your company’s most critical data can be corralled INSIDE your network with the right set of tools.
In this episode the Matts ask and answer:
* What information can be extracted from seemingly encrypted communications?
* What did the first generation of firewalls not have that modern, next-generation firewalls do?
* What’s the value in implementing outgoing web proxies?
Keep the security party going, give this episode a listen and if you dig it, please like, share, and subscribe wherever finer podcasts are found. Should you have questions about the security in your networks and applications, do reach out to your IVOXY Account M…
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Aug 11, 2021
#063 - Brand Protection with Cisco
Who doesn’t love a good procedural cop show?
Welcome to a very different episode of your favorite I.T.-themed podcast, Data Center Therapy, where your hosts Matt “Football is Life” Yette and Matt “Now the Hunted becomes the Hunter!” Cozzolino welcome to the virtual studios Doug Abbott, Senior Investigator for Brand Protection at Cisco. Doug and the Matts talk about many of the different ways Cisco gear can be counterfeited, and they cover topics on this show such as:
* How Cisco counterfeit products are created, “upgraded” or modified and how they’re trafficked, including on the Grey Market.
* What product diversion fraud is, and examples of how it happens.
* How stolen and counterfeit units enter the various markets and how unauthorized resellers play into those scenarios.
With over 13 years of experience in his role at Cisco, Doug shares his thoughts and glimpses of how his team stays vigilant, engaging in the fight against counterfeit gear. Yette and Cozzoli…
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Jul 29, 2021
#062 - Smart Homes, Backyards, and Surviving Heat Waves
After a short summer hiatus, hosts Matt “If you’re from Chicago, fight me!” Yette and Matt “Free Chimenea” Cozzolino return to the virtual Data Center Therapy studios to record another fun and casual podcast about all things Smart Home. Commenting on Cozzolino’s continued updates to his new-to-him log cabin, our intrepid hosts cover a wide amount of topics such as:
* Core technologies that power automation, such as Node Red, IFTTT (If This Then That), MQTT and Message Brokers, and Home Assistant.
* Z-wave sensors and clever programs to integrate changes in motion, temperature, humidity and luminosity.
* Corded and cordless electric chainsaws - their surprising utility, as well as speculation on motor and battery innovations over the years.
* Ubiquiti products such as UDM Pro, USG and the possible decline in the quality of their solutions.
* And musings on proper pizza (including opinions on both pineapple-on-pizza, as well as deep dish, by Mr. Matt Yette).
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Jun 9, 2021
#061 - Advanced vSphere Topics with Shane Bradley
For this episode, our intrepid hosts Matt “Southern Upstate New York Accent” Yette and Matt “Running NFSv3 before eligible for Driver’s Ed” Cozzolino welcome vSphere Guru and Senior IVOXY Consultant Shane Bradley back into the virtual studios. Shane shares where he’s at, what he’s working on, and gives us, the loyal Data Center Therapy listeners, a little preview of what’s coming down the pipe for Shane’s newest class, vSphere 7 Advanced.
Along the way, the Matts and Shane talk about:
* NFSv4, pNFS, and how the changes from NFSv3 can potentially impact their customers and you.
* Best practices and use cases for folks considering large numbers of vSphere Standard Switches (or for the folks with the right license levels, large numbers of vSphere Distributed Switches!).
* How VMware’s Skyline, vSAN, and (now retired) vCloud Air products have changed in the past few years, sometimes for the worse, but mostly for the better.
Yette also gives a quick overview o…
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May 19, 2021
#060 - Cryptocurrency with Keith Emmanuel
What is Bitcoin? What’s Dogecoin (pronounced dohj-coin)? For that matter, what the heck is cryptocurrency? What’s it useful for? Why is the price of it so volatile?
To answer these questions and more, Matt “Mine This!” Yette and Matt “Transactions and…all the things!” Cozzolino welcome IVOXY Network Consultant Keith Emmanuel to the virtual Data Center Therapy studios this week to break it all down for us. Keith sheds some light on how he got interested in cryptocurrency, the history and genesis of Bitcoin, and how it works (or the “Layer 1” as Yette likes to describe it!).
To bootstrap our loyal DCT listener’s knowledge, in this overview, Keith talks about:
* Mining and how Bitcoin is created.
* What Block chains and blocks are.
* The economic realities of the finite number of Bitcoins possible, and how macroeconomic Bitcoin trends impact the (fixed) costs of real-world things.
* What Bitcoins effectively accomplish with respect to certain countries’ (f…
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May 5, 2021
#059 - You Shall Not Pass(word): Multi-Factor Authentication
Question: When does a 40-minute podcast episode feel like a fun 15-minute chat beside the old water cooler? (Remember when that was still a thing?)
Answer: When it’s Matt “Lemme tell you something about Android” Yette and Matt “Got YubiKey?” Cozzolino talking about multi-factor authentication!
Our intrepid hosts of Data Center Therapy have a lively and always topical talk about MFA and more in this latest chapter. You, our welcome listeners, get to hear about:
* How TouchID, FaceID, and biometrics are an important part of the multi-factor authentication story (and if they’re generally proven to be secure).
* How Duo, Okta, Microsoft and Google Authenticator apps as well as password management software tie into enabling better security.
* When a “backup plan” involving printouts, USB keys, or a big heavy safe might be a good idea for a CYA factor.
You’ll also get to hear cringey tales of sticky notes under keyboards, badly designed applications (for bank…
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Apr 21, 2021
#058 - Software-Defined Wide Area Networks with Mack Nethkin
Join Matt “Always carry a Mobile Hotspot” Yette and Matt “Palo Alto ARE my middle Names!” Cozzolino as they welcome Senior Network Consultant and Engineering Manager Mack Nethkin to the virtual Data Center Therapy Studio, to talk about all things Software-Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN it’s come to be known.
Mack and the Matts chat about:
* What the basic recipe of SD-WAN is, and where you’d want to use it in your corporate and datacenter networks.
* How SD-WAN can act as a unified management platform for wide area connectivity, how it can efficiently enable cloud applications.
* Who the players are in the SD-WAN space, such as CloudGenix, Silver Peak, Velocloud and Viptela, and how various acquisitions of the OEMs by other companies affects them.
Mack also shares an “I’ve never seen that before!” about his experience working with SD-WANs in the field. Note that there’s some audio difficulties with Mack’s studio set up on this episode, but loyal l…
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Apr 7, 2021
#057 - Trust Nothing and No One: Micro-Segmentation with Matt Cozzolino
In this short but sweet DCT Episode, Matt “Yette never refers to himself in the third person!” Yette and Matt “Every User is an Attack Surface” Cozzolino give a great little introduction to traditional firewalling, microsegmentation, and Zero Trust concepts in the IT world.
Listening to this episode, you’ll get to hear about:
* The history of the security “bastion” mindset, leading to how most enterprises built their network infrastructure.
* What Layer 2 stretch is, what Zero Trust represents, and what microsegmentation comprises and why it’s desirable.
* Why Windows Firewalls (and even Linux firewalls) can “fall down” after a compromise and how microsegmentation at the hypervisor layer can be a better solution.
* How to inspect flows between components of an application with software tools, and how to implement microsegmentation after understanding and analyzing those flows.
As Matt Yette mentions in this podcast, if you register for Matt Cozzolino’s…
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Mar 31, 2021
#056 - Return of the VDI Jedi with Ryan Grelck
End-user computing and virtual desktop administrators: You may rejoice as IVOXY VDI Senior Consultant Ryan Grelck returns to the virtual studio of Data Center Therapy to share the latest and greatest on Horizon 8 and beyond!
When you tune into this timely and relevant VDI-centered podcast, you’ll hear Matt “PiHole Schmihole” Yette and Matt “Layer 2 Stretch is cooler than MicroSeg” Cozzolino ask Ryan questions such as:
* How the IVOXY lab is configured to serve our students in the Horizon for Virtual Administrators class, and which virtual machines and applications you can find in the class environment.
* How to decode the version numbers of Horizon releases, and why they’re not exactly what you’d expect given the dates they appear on the market.
* When to expect more VDI classes, and what topics will appear in Ryan’s Advanced VDI courses.
The Matts and Ryan also talk about hot wings, getting pepper-sprayed, Linux desktops, password managers, and ad-blockers lik…
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Mar 31, 2021
#055 - Home Automation with the Three Muskebeards
Set the gadget geek dial to 100% for this Data Center Therapy episode, where Matt “No way do I use Just for Men” Yette and Matt “Slope Astronaut” Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual DCT studio our own Kris “Single-Pole Switch? No Problem!” Lamet to talk about everybody’s favorite post-lockdown hobby tech - Home Automation.
Kris and the Matts cover in this episode:
* Which platforms, protocols and technologies the Matts and Kris have in their homes including Z-Wave, HomeKit, NodeRed, Ecobee thermostats, Apple Hub, Amazon Echo devices and Home Assistant.
* How to train your loved ones to do easier electrical wiring work (and how to get frustrated working on the more complicated switches and rooms yourself!).
* Whether or not to advertise that your home is a “Smart Home” when putting it on the market - and how Kris’ experience turned out, even after the home was sold.
You, our faithful DCT listeners, are guaranteed an episode completely devoid of anything Da…
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Mar 10, 2021
#054 – Networking with Joe
Proud family that we are, IVOXY formally invites you to tune into this special episode of Data Center Therapy, where our hosts Matt “LAN party” Yette and Matt “Beard Ambassador” Cozzolino welcome Network Consultant Joe Lentz to the virtual DCT studio. Joe shares stories with the hosts about his networking background (dating back to high school!), his service in the Air Force, and his experiences working between security policy implementation and datacenter networking deployments.
Learn more: https://www.ivoxy.com/networking-with-joe
In other news, registration is open for our upcoming Introduction to Virtualization with vSphere 7.0 class.
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Feb 3, 2021
#053 – Scaling with Terraform (On-Demand Lab Part VI)
Here we go – the final episode of this series [insert Return of the Jedi reference here]. This week we here at Data Center Therapy we’re bringing you the ultimate conclusion of the IVOXY On-Demand Lab podcast series, where the subject is all things Terraform.
Keep an eye out for our Terraform Demo Day coming in March, and consider saving your seat for our Hands-on VMware Horizon for Administrators class later this month.
Learn more: ivoxy.com/scaling-with-terraform
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Jan 20, 2021
#052 – Cisco Intersight with Dave Nentarz
If the acronym “API” excites you, the phrase “software-defined infrastructure” tickles your fancy, or if skating ahead of where the technology puck is going is your MO, be sure to tune in to this one to hear Dave share about what’s coming down the pike from Cisco across networking, hyper-converged and computing solutions.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/cisco-intersight
By the way, we just announced our upcoming Hands-on VMware Horizon for Administrators – learn more and save your seat now: ivoxy.com/vmware-horizon-for-administrators
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Jan 6, 2021
#051 – Holiday Sundries
Need a quick break from work? On this episode of Data Center Therapy we've just got fun water cooler topics like TV shows, home improvements and delicious beef dinners.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/holiday-sundries
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Dec 30, 2020
#050 – Network Automation with Keith Emmanuel (On-Demand Lab Part V)
This week Keith astounds and delights the systems folks as well as the network infrastructure die-hards on this episode as he gives details on the parts and pieces needed to command, control and deploy a network from scratch.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/network-automation-with-keith-emmanuel
PS: There is still time to save your seat for our Hands-on Network Automation with Ansible hosted by Keith: ivoxy.com/ansible.
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Dec 16, 2020
#049 – VDI with Ryan Grelck (On-Demand Lab Part IV)
Our intrepid hosts welcome back to the virtual studios IVOXY’s very own Ryan "Magnum VDI" Grelck to talk about a smorgasbord full of Horizon topics, including how it has changed and how it’s been implemented in our On-Demand Lab.
You will also find out why Matt Cozzolino doesn’t need a stud finder in his new house (and no, it is not the obvious joke you’re thinking of!!)
Learn more at ivoxy.com/vdi-with-ryan-grelck
PS: There is still time to save your seat for our Hands-on Network Automation with Ansible hosted by Keith Emmanuel (with Cozz helping along as Teacher’s Assistant and lab proctor): ivoxy.com/ansible.
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Dec 2, 2020
#048 – Network Virtualization (On-Demand Lab Part III)
Our series reaches new depths as the guys discuss nesting NSX-T instances, GNS3 integration into the lab, and why on-prem solutions like vSphere & NSX-T are convergently evolving towards the DevOps space.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/network-virtualization
PS: Don't forget about our December 15 Gene Kim event – the first 50 to RSVP & attend get a complimentary copy of his latest book: ivoxy.com/gene-therapy
PPS: Save your seat for our Hands-on Network Automation with Ansible coming this January right here: ivoxy.com/ansible.
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Nov 25, 2020
#047 – Sizing with Shane Bradley (On-Demand Lab Part II)
We welcome back Shane to share how our On-Demand Lab was conceived, sized and configured. Topics include the evolution from VMware Workstation virtual machine to full-on co-located infrastructure, NSX-T, Nested ESXi, Terraform, TrueNAS, ESXi on Arm and more.
PS: We just announced an exciting event with Gene Kim coming up on December 15 – and the first 50 to RSVP & attend get a complimentary copy of his latest book: ivoxy.com/gene-therapy
Learn more at ivoxy.com/sizing
Save your seat for our Hands-on Network Automation with Ansible coming this January right here: ivoxy.com/ansible.
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Nov 18, 2020
#046 – Origins (On-Demand Lab Part I)
This episode is the first of our new series. Matt & Matt discuss how the new IVOXY lab was designed, how it was implemented, the things it can do, where it’ll go in the future and what it all means to you!
This is a fun and delightful episode that shares adventures from just about all disciplines: networking, storage, compute, cloud and automation, so be sure to give it a listen if your technical interests veer towards any of those.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/origins.
Save your seat for our Hands-on Network Automation with Ansible coming this January right here: ivoxy.com/ansible.
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Oct 28, 2020
#045 – VMworld 2020 REDUX Epilogue
Our hosts Matt ‘Ask me about my Pi’ Yette and Matt ‘Barbecue-As-A-Service’ Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual studios our very own IVOXY Principal Consultant, Mr. Alec Taylor, who shares his camaraderie and technical perspective on this casual, fun edition of Data Center Therapy which was recorded #live at our VMworld 2020 REDUX event.
You’ll get to hear about a few odds and ends that have the Matts and Alec thinking about the future like ESXi-on-ARM, DR testing, Carbon Black, and active-active data centers.
PS: We're hosing one more chance for your to catch the full VMworld 2020 REDUX on November 5. This is our can't-miss event of the year – learn more and register here for free: ivoxy.com/redux.
We hope to see you there, including at a very special episode of Data Center Therapy #Live to kick off the day!
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Oct 7, 2020
#044 – VMworld 2020 Predux with Alec Taylor
Alec's got his crystal ball and he's giving you a peek! With VMworld squarely in the rear-view mirror, we're looking forward at what all the big announcements will actually mean for you and your organization.
Consider this episode the appetizer to our main entre online event, with two convenient dates to choose from: October 20 and November 5. Whether you caught some of the event or not, VMworld 2020 REDUX is our can't-miss event of the year. Learn more and register here for free: ivoxy.com/redux.
We hope to see you there, including at a very special episode of Data Center Therapy #Live as a part of both dates.
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Sep 23, 2020
#043 – Project Management Conundrums with Jenn Bahneman & Dan Stoecker
It’s the people and the processes that make that classic IVOXY data center refresh and network optimization magic happen. In this episode, our humble hosts welcome to the virtual studios two professionals from our Project Management Office: Jenn Bahneman and Dan Stoecker to discuss how we approach projects with our customers.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/project-management-conundrums.
As mentioned, VMworld 2020 REDUX registration just opened – we hope you can join us: ivoxy.com/vmworld-2020-redux
PS: We added more dates to our Hands-on vSphere 6.7 Advanced Class, save your seat now: ivoxy.com/vsphere-6-7-advanced.
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Sep 11, 2020
#042 – Matt "The Toolman" Yette
Remember Tim & Wilson catching up across the fence on Home Improvement?
This episode feels a lot like that!
It's a holiday week, so the Matt & Matt slowed things down a bit to catch up on a potpourri of personal and semi-technical topics like:
* Their top choices of hard breakfast beverages.
* One of Yette’s old DMB fan stories.
* All things printers (including how to actually get a reliable home printer.
* Cozz’s recent off-roading experiences.
* A crude form of packet-based radio messaging you’ve likely never heard of.
* Yette’s home reno, especially focused on bringing his back yard to life!
* Some helpful tips for installing LED strips anywhere, and other home improvement need-to-knows.
Enjoy the show!
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/matt-the-toolman-yette.
PS: We just added more dates to our Hands-on vSphere 6.7 Advanced Class, save your seat now: ivoxy.com/vsphere-6-7-advanced.
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Aug 26, 2020
#041 – Curb your Catastrophes with Neil Kassal
We welcomed Neil (our multi-talented Systems and Storage Consultant) in to share some thoughts on how to approach DR planning, what kinds of tools there are out there to automate testing & failover of recovery plans, and how the disaster recovery landscape has changed over the years.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/curb-your-catastrophes.
Our upcoming Hands-on vSphere 6.7 Advanced virtual class is sold out so we are about to add more dates, learn more and join the waitlist here: ivoxy.com/vsphere-6-7-advanced.
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Aug 12, 2020
#040 – Exploring the New Horizon with David Crow
How much could possibly change with the flagship virtual desktop solution from VMware this summer?
The short answer: more than you might imagine.
This week the guys welcome End-User Compute Specialist David Crow back into the (virtual / socially-distanced) studio to give you the 30,000 foot view (and relative firehose) of the just announced Horizon 8 announcements. The velvety-piped “VDI Guy” David also shares his ...ahem… measured approach to the new features VMware often touts.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/exploring-the-new-horizon.
Also, our upcoming Hands-on vSphere 6.7 Advanced virtual class is almost sold out – you can learn more and save your seat here: ivoxy.com/vsphere-6-7-advanced.
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Jul 29, 2020
#039 – What to Expect when You’re Expecting (an F5 Exploit)
Yette and Cozz embark on their most security-focused and technical journey yet, diving into the making of the recent F5 vulnerability while also educating listeners on things like two-factor authentication missteps, social engineering goofs, and the dangers of running multiple application & web servers from different codebases on your servers.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/f5-exploit
PS: We just announced our upcoming Hands-on vSphere 6.7 Advanced virtual class coming in September. You can learn more and save your seat here: ivoxy.com/vsphere-6-7-advanced
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Jul 15, 2020
#038 – (Network) Automation with Alec Taylor
You don’t need to be a network professional to appreciate the why and the how of the best practices shared on this episode – but feel free to invite your peers if they’re the kind of people who might appreciate automating IOS or NX-OS upgrades. Whether you are already an expert in YAML, Python, Terraform, or Ansible; or you're just trying to wrap your head around when network automation even makes sense, Alec & the guys have something for you in this episode.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/network-automation
If you'd like to go deeper on this topic with Alec, be sure to register for our complimentary Network Automation for Busy People virtual workshops coming throughout August.
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Jul 8, 2020
#037 – Storage Protocols and Boss Battles
It’s a debate as old as modern, virtualized computing itself: Which storage protocol(s) should you deploy in your infrastructure?
Given decades of development, such as the speeds of Ethernet links increasing and the CPU/processing power growing in modern servers, you’d think the landscape would tilt in a particular direction so long after these debates started. However, in this episode of Data Center Therapy, our hosts-with-the-most duke it out on the storage battlefield to build their respective cases for their preferred protocols and practices.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/storage-protocols-and-boss-battles
PS: Don't forget to register for our Network Automation for Busy People virtual workshops!
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Jul 1, 2020
#036 – The BGP Route Heist with Keith Emmanuel
Our automation and network guru, Keith, stopped by to share about routing and the Border Gateway Protocol, including an incident with the country of Pakistan and YouTube that illuminates how BGP can be compromised.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/the-bgp-route-heist
PS: Don't forget to register for our Network Automation for Busy People virtual workshops!
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Jun 17, 2020
#035 – Adventures in Data Classification with Jason Burrell
You might remember Jason from his time at IVOXY – he's back to share what he's been working on in the Emerging Technologies division at Rubrik (a startup-within-a-startup!) Spoiler alert: topics include compliance, ransomware, & COVID-19 implications on the industry at large.
We have an exciting promotion going for anyone interested in speaking more with Rubrik. Learn more about the episode and this offer at: ivoxy.com/data-classification
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Jun 3, 2020
#034 – Storage Futures with Chris Crow
For our inaugural #Live episode we brought former Data Center Therapy host and current Pure Storage Engineer, Chris Crow, for a joyous reunion with the Matts.
Chris cooked up a big ‘ole plate of storage appetizer topics to educate our listeners about brand-new flash technologies like vVols, wear-leveling basics, flash connected to host PCI-Express busses, NVMe latency benefits, etc.
If you’d like to talk with IVOXY and Pure about how to put these technologies into action in your environment, you can get an awesome gift in the process by visiting our new Modern Data Pop-up: ivoxy.com/pop-up
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/storage-futures
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May 13, 2020
#033 – vSphere 7 (It’s About Time!) with Shane Bradley
Our resident VMware trailblazer, Shane, stopped by dive into some of the new features, gotchas, and surprises in the big new release including container orchestration, new UI display options, host licencing changes, plus enhancements to vMotion and Distributed Resource Scheduler.
Shane and the guys are continuing the conversation WITH YOU later this week at Casual Fridays (11am PST): register now!
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/vsphere-7-its-about-time
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Apr 29, 2020
#032 – Home Automation: Rebooted
This episode is all about greenfielding something fresh with no real consequences to your IT job: home automation. The Matts riff on HomeKit making way for Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi Zero W devices, The Z-Wave protocol, Node Red …and a slew of other home automation topics that make for a bonus extended runtime on this 46-minute edition.
We're continuing the conversation WITH YOU this week at our third installment Casual Fridays: register now!
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/home-automation-rebooted
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Apr 15, 2020
#031 – Combo Meal with Touch-Free Delivery
Whether you’d like to learn a little bit about NSX-T 3.0, how upgrades on certain critical command-and-control mechanisms in your virtual environment impacts hosts & VMs, or why load balancers can be worth their weight in digital gold, there’s something for everybody in this well rounded episode.
By the way, we'd love it if you joined us for our all-new Casual Fridays events, as well as our VMware Horizon Deep Dive virtual workshops hosted by our ever-talented and charming Principal & Consultant, Alec Taylor.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/combo-meal-with-touch-free-delivery
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Apr 1, 2020
#030 – A New Dawn for Remote Work (& VDI) with David Crow
We invited our VDI Specialist, David, into the studio to share his perspective on remote work strategies in this new normal. Oh, and by studio we mean 100% remote conferencing because here at IVOXY Consulting we were practicing social distancing long before it was hip.
PS: We will also be available in some new ways to be announced over the next few weeks – including our just-launched vROps In Depth & Horizon VDI Deep Dive Virtual Workshop Series.
Learn more at: ivoxy.com/a-new-dawn-for-remote-work-and-vdi
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Mar 25, 2020
#029 – A Healthy Dose of Empathy
What a few weeks it’s been. You’re stir crazy – we understand! You’re also probably more than ready to vent and share your pain (both physical and mental) with the Data Center Therapy crew. So go and grab a mitt’s worth of hand sanitizer, crank up the podcast volume and cozy up to the comfort that is Matt Yette and Matt Cozzolino in it with you on this week’s WFH edition of DCT (Captain Picard facepalm inserted here).
Learn more at ivoxy.com/a-healthy-dose-of-empathy
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Mar 18, 2020
#028 – Networking on vSphere
We're doubling down on networking to address all those questions hanging out there: What are good practices for setting up ESXi and vSphere networking? Should I put management vmkernel ports on Standard or Distributed virtual switches? Nexus or Catalyst switching? ...and much more – have a listen to find out!
Learn more at ivoxy.com/networking-on-vsphere
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Mar 5, 2020
#027 – Networking & Security Safari with Jeremy Goosen
If you're a part of a small to medium-sized organization, listen up! Jeremy spends some time talking with the guys about networking best practices for SMBs – specifically discussing some products & features that can really help secure servers & systems from diabolical attachers and feckless users alike.
As discussed on this episode, if everything in your network is on the default VLAN (VLAN1), it might just be the right time to have a chat with your friends here at IVOXY; we’re eager to help you out!
Learn more at ivoxy.com/networking-and-security-safari.
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Feb 12, 2020
#026 – The Great Lab Rebuild
2020 is off to a roaring start! Our intrepid hosts balance the demands of delivering services, refreshing our internal IVOXY lab infrastructure and helping the team get ready for our upcoming Kubernetes classes.
Listeners get a chance to overhear the staging discussion and learn more about how the lab will be rebuilt with Infrastructure-as-Code, the trials and tribulations of bootstrapping a development environment, and how our engineers have to shift their mental gears to get into scripting and coding when plain old system administration is their true comfort zone.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/the-great-lab-rebuild.
Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.
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Jan 23, 2020
#025 – The IVOXY Origin Story with Alec Taylor
We’ve hit a milestone, the big two five, heck our podcast can finally rent a car! So we thought it’d be a good chance to catch up with our co-founder, Alec, to share a bit about our virtualization-driven genesis, 14 years of evolution, and where we believe IT is headed next.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/the-ivoxy-origin-story.
Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.
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Jan 9, 2020
#024 – Infrastructure as Code
IaC borrows a methodology from developers and applies it to infrastructure. This week Matt & Matt make a New Year's resolution to work smarter, not harder by harnessing the efficiencies of Infrastructure as Code.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/infrastructure-as-code.
Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.
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Dec 19, 2019
#023 – How to Home Automate Like a Boss
It’s well known that the Home Automation space is very fragmented with all the competing ecosystems and technologies out there, so this week our intrepid technology sherpas thought it'd be fun to break down the possible options & integrations for our listeners who already spend the bulk of their day supporting the tech at their organization.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/how-to-home-automate-like-a-boss.
Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: ivoxy.co/containers_training.
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Dec 11, 2019
#022 – Tools of the (Information Technology) Trade
Matt & Matt open up their toolboxes to share their favorite widgets, dongles, and gear that help them get their dirty data center jobs done right.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/tools_of_the_information_technology_trade.
Be sure to check out our upcoming Hands-On Containers & Kubernetes training classes: https://ivoxy.co/containers_training.
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Nov 15, 2019
#021 – INSIGHT 2019 Recap - Devs are the New Kingmakers with Jeff Hicks
We welcome our good friend & NetApp Technical Partner Manager, Jeff Hicks, to dive into the revelations shared from the mothership at NetApp INSIGHT 2019 – held at the surprisingly cold Las Vegas strip a couple of weeks ago. The conucopia of topics include disaggregated HCI, NetApp's Data Fabric vision, new hardware products like the AFF A400 array, and of course what we mean by "Developers are the new Kingmakers" and how we feel about it.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/insight-2019-recap
Oh, and by the way – NetApp is offering a free 3-minute assessment to help find the right data management solution for your business: explore.netapp.com/ivoxy
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Oct 24, 2019
#020 – Can you Even Contain Yourself?
Here comes a deep dive discussion that should prove informative and entertaining to all IT pros – container-savvy or not! Whether you’re interested in repeatability, scalability, or orchestration, there are some neat advantages containers have versus “we’ve always done it this way” deployment practices.
Learn more: https://www.ivoxy.com/can-you-even-contain-yourself
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Oct 8, 2019
#019 – Ch-Ch-Changes in Primary Storage and Data Protection
The guys just got back from the Pure//Accelerate conference in Austin + the Rubrik Tech Summit in Denver, and they have everything you need to know. Oh, plus they've got first-hand accounts of high-speed electric scootering and some TV show tips.
Learn more at ivoxy.com/changes-in-primary-storage-and-data-protection
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Sep 17, 2019
#018 – VMworld 2019 Redux Sneak Peek with Ryan Grelck & Kris Lamet
Ryan and Kris stop by to debrief what they learned at this year's VMworld and to queue up our biggest event of the year: VMworld 2019 Redux. Be sure to listen through to the end to get more details on the event and learn how to request your exclusive invitation!
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Aug 28, 2019
#017 – HCI Throwdown! with David Crow
The gloves come off this week as the Matts invite David, a true EUC specialist, into our studios to debate the pros & cons of a hotly contested technology: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure.
Find out more at ivoxy.com/hci-throwdown
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Aug 20, 2019
#016 – VMworld Predux with Alec Taylor
What do motorcycle road trips, Wu-Tang Clan, and the AetherPal acquisition have in common? VMworld 2019 of course! With the conference right around the corner, Alec joins the guys to kick around predictions and share about some can't-miss parties; as well as tease our VMworld Redux coming this fall.
Get all the notes & links at ivoxy.com/vmworld19
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Jul 26, 2019
#015 – NUMA NUMA Yay – VM Performance with Alec Taylor
Yette welcomes our Founding Partner, Alec, to the podcast to talk all things virtual machines: Things like NUMA & vNUMA, why DIMMs might not be optimally placed, how VMware's evolution of multi-core & multi-socket CPU hardware impact your VMs, and much more! (Apologies to anyone looking for more info on the classic O-Zone song 'Numa Numa Yei', perhaps we'll cover that on a future episode).
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Jul 9, 2019
#014 – Cisco Live Recap with Mack Nethkin
It’s time to LVtMCEaaS (Live Vicariously through Mack’s Conference Experience as a Service) as we dive into the developments and products announced at last month's show.
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Jun 6, 2019
#013 – Home Labs & Home Automation… Because we Can’t Turn it Off
We naturally nerd-out professionally – so it should come as no surprise then, that beyond being keyboard jockeys by day, we also like to automate, command, control, and upgrade all the things in our homes, garages, entertainment systems, etc. This week we discuss our home lab and automation setups, as well as the smart home software and hardware we use to make life that much geekier.
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May 21, 2019
Bonus – NSX-V to -T
Cozz was recently joined by our very own Kris Lamet & Alec Taylor for an impromptu Q&A about the future of NSX. They briefly cover what the release of NSX-T 2.4 means for users of the NSX-V as it sunsets – and what new features -T brings to the table.
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May 7, 2019
#012 – vSphere [-R]evolution - 6.7 Update 2
We cover a lot this week including network virtualization & the software-defined datacenter, vRealize Log Insight, and all things 6.7 Update 2: Spectre / Meltdown, new config maximums for VMs, and more!
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Apr 12, 2019
#011 – Learning by (API) Example with Rebecca Fitzhugh
Technologies like Swagger, GraphQL, PowerShell, etc. are revolutionizing the way our software interacts with other components & infrastructure in the modern data center. Rebecca Fitzhugh of Rubrik takes us through the evolution of APIs, and whether you speak JSON, Golang, Python, or just plain old English, this is one you’re not going to want to miss.
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Mar 26, 2019
#010 – Container Technologies - There Ain't no Switch to Flip
This week Matt & Matt cover the 5 W's & the H of containers – most importantly WHEN you should be implementing them and HOW they tie into the new world of cloud-hosted infrastructure.
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Mar 8, 2019
#009 – Embracing a Cloud-first Strategy with Jonas Irwin
Ready or not! Are you being pushed to deploy a cloud-first strategy? Jonas Irwin of Pure Storage brings his extensive cloud acumen to bear, discussing the hybrid consumption models that are helping organizations bridge the gap.
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Feb 22, 2019
#008 – Mahalo & Aloha to Old Friends, and our Trip to DR in the Cloud
Take a 10,000-foot Pacific Northwest view of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) to get a handle on your disaster recovery plans and archival strategy as we explore the cloudy side of the data center.
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Dec 28, 2018
#007 – Malware and Your Possibly Ailing Security Posture with Mack Nethkin
Join us for a self-declared FUD-free 32 minutes where you’ll get to know a little more about our Network Practice Leader, Mack, the evolution of malware and ransomware, and how you can reduce and eliminate risk in your environment.
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Nov 21, 2018
#006 – NSX - It Depends on the Day
Chris and Matt got to sit down and discuss the many benefits and use cases for upgrading your infrastructure with VMware NSX.
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Oct 23, 2018
#005 – Automate Now! Laying the Groundwork for Infrastructure as a Service
Everybody's talking about automating, but where to start? For the past several years Chris has been helping server admins and broader IT teams bring that time way down by implementing IaaS. On today's episode he talks through many of the ins and outs.
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Sep 19, 2018
#004 – Don't be a Target: Palo Alto Networks with Matt Cozzolino
We are joined this week by our resident security expert, Matt Cozzolino, to talk all things Palo Alto Networks. When it comes to securing your data, Palo Alto is top notch and we at IVOXY are ready to help you deploy it successfully. Listen now to learn more about the technology and how you can experience it for yourself with the Security Lifecycle Review.
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Aug 22, 2018
#003 – VMware Horizon View 7.5 with Ryan Grelck
Ryan Grelck is an IVOXY engineer who specializes in virtual desktops, automation, and security, among other things. Chris and Matt spend some time with him drilling down on everything you need to know about the latest version of View.
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Aug 7, 2018
#002 – A look at VMware vSphere 6.7 - Part II
With so many new features in vSphere 6.7, Matt and Chris spend a bit more time diving into some that we didn't have time to mention in Episode 1.
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Jul 17, 2018
#001 – A look at VMware vSphere 6.7
Our inaugural episode finds Matt and Chris explaining who we are at IVOXY Consulting and what we do. We quickly dive into the tech, discussing vSphere 6.7 and its headlining features.
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