We had some awesome TechTalks at Explore in 2022, many with standing-room-only! It is great to be back in person. We will be back at Explore again this year, both in Las Vegas and Barcelona. The TechTalk submission form is available here. Submissions for the US conference close on 31 May to be in the
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It’s great to welcome back another regular TechTalk sponsor, Dell Technologies, supporting the community-generated technical content that we want at VMware Explore. It is also almost the last day to submit your TechTalk session using this form.
I am delighted to have Runecast as the latest sponsor of the TechTalks. I have known the Runecast team for quite a few years and it has been great to see both the team and the product grow over the years. You can even find a white paper I wrote for them when the product
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I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks, no surprise since Veeam was our first sponsor when the podcast was first started. We also have a submission deadline, your TechTalk session needs to be submitted using <this form> before May 20th in order to be listed in the VMware Explore session catalog.
VMworld this year will be a “hybrid” event, with a return to an in-person conference and retaining the online attendance option for those unable to attend in-person. The vBrownBag crew will return to the in-person event to produce vBrownBag TechTalks on a stage in the VMware Community area. If you will be at either the
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The VMworld team would like your TechTalk session to be in the Content Catalog when it launches and has set a deadline of the end of June to be part of the Content Catalog at launch. If you have a topic but haven’t submitted it yet, go ahead and submit your session now using this
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Less than a week from now, VMworld EMEA 2019 kicks off at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, and the vBrownBag team will be there to make TechTalk videos. You can find all of the TechTalks in the Content Catalog, search for VMTN. You can find the sessions in the VMware Communities area in Hall 6,
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In the middle of September, we had another fun Build Day Live event. This time, we deployed the NetApp HCI platform and the NetApp Kubernetes on top of the HCI. Be sure to take a look at all of the videos from the Build Day Live with NetApp in Boulder as well as the event home page. We all enjoyed our time in Boulder, a beautiful central city with the Rocky Mountains rising up directly to the west of town. I have wanted to look at the process of deploying this HCI platform since I was convinced that HCI isn’t really about having the compute and storage cluster on the same servers. The NetApp HCI uses compute-only hypervisor hosts, and then shared storage using the scale-out Element storage OS from the SolidFire platform. Other HCI platforms use storage inside the hypervisor hosts, and so the storage cluster overlaps the compute cluster. With NetApp, there are two separate clusters, but the management is unified, it overlaps.
Wow. Another whirlwind VMworld US is over. As you expect, we made a massive amount of TechTalks, nearly 70 presentations for over 17 hours of finished video! The full playlist is here on YouTube. Thank you to all of the presenters who shared their knowledge and experience with the community. Thanks also to my crew
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Chris Williams kicks off the Python For DevOps series discussing the basics Resources: Automate the Boring Stuff by Al Sweigart https://www.twitter.com/AlSweigart Modern Python 3 Bootcamp (Colt Steele) – Udemy Python for Everybody – py4e.com https://www.twitter.com/drchuck Python Crash Course (Eric Matthes) https://www.twitter.com/ehmatthes https://www.codecombat.com http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial http://wiki.python.org/main/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers Talk Python to Me podcast https://www.twitter.com/mkennedy http://pythontutor.com
Every year since I first started looking for sponsors, Veeam has supported vBrownBag in bringing great community education content to you. This is the eighth year of TechTalks and the eighth year of Veeam sponsorship. Veeam has certainly grown and developed over those years if you have not heard about the current features of their
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Our first sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld 2019 is Dell EMC Storage, returning for their third year supporting the TechTalks. In the past, we have heard about PowerMax, XtremeIO, and ScaleIO products from the Dell Technologies storage team. TechTalk submissions are open until June 30th, this blog post has details of TechTalks and
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It is time again, time to submit your vBrownBag TechTalk for VMworld 2019. This year there was no general call for papers for VMworld. I am expecting a larger than usual number of submissions for TechTalks and will be more selective of session acceptance. Community sessions need to show definite educational focus and value to
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The Cohesity office in San Jose is directly under the flight path to San Jose airport. For the week of the Build Day Live at Cohesity planes were flying close over our heads. It was also great for Jeffrey; his flights were from San Jose. Tracey and I had a bit more of a hike,
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Hi everybody! @arielsanchezmor here 🙂 I am in possession of the old vBrownbag recording kit (camera, tripod, wireless lavalier microphone) so whenever I get permission to record user presentations, I do it. I’m happy to be able to show three sessions from friends near where I lived the Pittsburgh area, from the Pittsburgh VMUG in
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For the first time, we will be making a small number of vBrownBag TechTalks at AWS re:Invent in sunny Las Vegas next month. We will be sharing a stage with the VMware {CODE} sessions and some VMware product presentations, thanks to VMTN for hosting us at re:Invent and helping us bring the vBrownBag community to
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After a couple of years away, the vBrownBag crew will be at vForum Sydney this year making TechTalk videos and interviewing presenters from the main stages. If you will be at vForum you can volunteer to present a TechTalk by filling in this form. You can also see the TechTalks being recorded, although it doesn’t
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Yay, Build Day Live is back in 2018. Our first event of the year is with Supermicro and will take place on August 2nd at 9 am Pacific time. We are still working out exactly what we will cram into the live stream; we will only know for sure at the end of the live
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I think that this is the seventh year that Veeam has supported the vBrownBag crew making TechTalks at VMworld US and EMEA. Thanks for the ongoing support Veeam, Ratmir, and Rickatron. More details of the TechTalks are in this blog post, and submissions are still open. Right now, we have about 160 session submissions and
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Now that the VMworld session acceptance and rejection notices are out, it may be time to sign up for a vBrownBag TechTalk. If your session was not accepted, then you are welcome to present the condensed core on the vBrownBag stage in the VMTN community area of VMworld, just fill in this google form. Keep
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