Brian is an event reporter for VMBlog.com and an expert in virtualization/cloud techonlogies. In his 15+ years of experience in the virtualization/cloud field he has interviewed hundreds of companies, users and executives. Brian has been an active member of the NEVMUG (NEVTUG) since 2006 and attends both vmworld and Citrix Synergy every year. Brian works full time as a Senior Software Engineer for Liquidware Labs.
Brian also spent 5 years as the managing editor of Virtual Strategy Magazine, an online magazine focused on the virtualization industry and has been with vmblog since 2011. He has a background in Computer Graphics, Marketing, Programming, Web Design, Mobile App Development, Linux Administration and is an active member of the NHJS group.
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Zane Adam, VP, Product Management, IBM Cloud.
Watch as we learn more about IBM Cloud and their technology offerings. IBM has a very long history and is one of those world-renown companies, but Adam is involved with one of the company's divisions, IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud is a comprehensive and integrated cloud computing platform offered by IBM that provides a wide range of services and solutions designed to empower businesses and developers in their digital transformation journey. IBM Cloud offers scalable and flexible infrastructure, advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and a variety of tools to help organizations build, deploy, and manage applications and services more efficiently.
During this interview, Adam provides a deeper dive into IBM Cloud solutions, and explains how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, and how they've become one of the largest VMware clouds in the world. Adam talks about their joint development efforts, joint go-to-market, and their business relationship developed over 20+ years. And he explains how they work with and solve problems for VMware users and VMware implementations. Adam also describes a number of new announcements being made by IBM Cloud at VMware Explore.
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.ibm.com
And IBM Cloud: https://www.ibm.com/cloud
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft.
During this interview, Woolsey takes us on a journey across a number of topics being worked on by his group at Microsoft, many of which will be highlighted on stage, during breakout sessions, and certainly at the Microsoft booth at VMware Explore.
Watch this video as we discuss how Microsoft partners with VMware. And beyond that, how Microsoft works with VMware users and implementations. As a VMware user, you'll want to learn more about Azure VMware Solution, running your VMware workloads natively on Azure. Seamlessly move VMware-based workloads from your datacenter to Azure and integrate your VMware environment with Azure. Best of all, keep managing your existing environments with the same VMware tools you already know, while you modernize your applications with Azure native services.
Woolsey also introduces us to Azure Arc, the overarching brand for a suite of Azure hybrid products that extend specific Azure public cloud services and/or management capabilities beyond Azure to on-premises environments and 3rd-party clouds.
Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere allows users to perform various VMware virtual machine (VM) lifecycle operations directly from Azure, such as create, start/stop, resize, and delete. And empower developers and application teams to self-serve VM operations on-demand using Azure role-based access control (RBAC).
Get ready for Microsoft to explore more of their Azure strategy and hybrid distributed cloud at VMware Explore.
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Vasu Murthy, Vice President of Products at Rubrik, a Zero Trust Data Security Company.
Watch as we learn more about Rubrik and their technology. Rubrik delivers data resilience, data observability, and data recovery for organizations. Their solutions keep your data safe and easy to recover in the face of cyber attacks and operational failures. Now you can recover the data you need, however and whenever you need it, to keep your business running. With Rubrik, your business becomes unstoppable.
During this interview, Murthy provides a deeper dive into Rubrik's solutions, and explains how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, as well as how they work with and solve problems for VMware implementations. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.rubrik.com/
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Phil Trickovic, SVP, Revenue at Tintri, a DDN subsidiary and a leading provider of VM-aware, AI-powered data management solutions.
Watch as we learn more about Tintri and their technology. The company is delivering purpose-built solutions to store and manage virtual machines in enterprise data centers. With Tintri, VMware users can enjoy a simplified VM-aware and hands-free environment that's largely automated and familiar to virtualization staff.
During the interview, Trickovic provides a deeper dive into Tintri, and talks about why they don't have an apple to apple competitor in the market. He also describes the company's partnership and deep integration with VMware and what that looks like.
At VMware Explore, they will be making a few new announcements that are high value and worth looking into. Make sure you visit their booth to find out!
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://tintri.com
And check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5d54NDqMuac6Kbd7fprdZg
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Mike McDonough, Executive Director of Software and Solutions at Lenovo.
Watch as we learn more about Lenovo and their technology offerings. Lenovo is one of the world's largest PC companies, and they are expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of 'New IT' technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services.
During this interview, McDonough provides a deeper dive into Lenovo solutions, and explains how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, and describes a world class, large joint lab facility between the two companies. McDonough also explains how they work with and solve problems for VMware users and VMware implementations with a combination of hardware and software.
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.lenovo.com
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Yogesh Anyapanawar, Co-Founder and CEO at Datamotive, a company that provides cloud workload portability for worldwide organizations.
Watch as we learn more about Datamotive and their technology. Datamotive is an enterprise workload mobility company that enables the seamless movement of workloads in a hybrid multi-cloud environment with a guaranteed SLA of 10 minutes. Its patented solution protects organizations from data losses caused by cloud security misconfigurations, data breaches, or the corruption of corporate networks.
During this interview, Anyapanawar provides a deeper dive into Datamotive, and talks about how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, how they work within the VMware ecosystem, and details the problems that they solve for VMware implementations. We also learn about a new funding round that was just completed, which will help to accelerate the delivery of Datamotive's products and to continue the innovation cycle with their DR and cloud migration products, and, accelerate their geographic expansion as they make their way into North America.
Stick around to the end and watch a demo!
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.datamotive.io
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Nancy Hurley, Director Multicloud Infrastructure Product Marketing at Dell Technologies.
Watch this video interview as we learn more about Dell. Yes, they are known for their servers, laptops/desktops, and monitors, but today we're focusing in on two large business groups and technologies found within, as Hurley digs into hyperconverged infrastructure and their multi-cloud platforms.
During this interview, Hurley explores the Dell HCI and multi-cloud product line further, and explains how their solutions are unique and differentiated in the market. She also goes into detail about their long standing partnership with VMware.
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
Watch this VxRail 8.0 Interactive Demo: https://democenter.dell.com/interactive/ITD-0321
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Andrew Silva, Technical Marketing Manager at Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
Watch as we learn more about Zerto and their technology. Zerto empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto's cloud data management and protection platform eliminates the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments. The simple, software-only platform uses continuous data protection at scale to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility.
During this interview, Silva provides a deeper dive into Zerto, and talks about how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, how they work within the VMware ecosystem, and details the problems that they solve for VMware implementations. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.zerto.com
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Missy Young, Chief Information Officer at Switch, the exascale technology infrastructure company.
Watch this video Q&A as we explore and find out more about Switch. The company is an independent leader in exascale data center ecosystems, edge data center designs, industry-leading telecommunications solutions, and next-generation technology innovation. And during the conversation, Young explores how her company is building some of the most powerful data centers in the world, all of which are running 100% on clean energy. And another fascinating area is that Switch is offering the world's largest telecom cooperative that all of their clients are a member of, helping them to save money in numerous ways.
Young also explores how Switch has been partnering with VMware for many years and what that partnership looks like. And provides a deeper dive into what Switch is offering their customers, from an impressive 100% uptime within sustainable and green data center environments in safe locations, to saving money for their clients and partners on the data center space as well as their telecom cooperative, especially giving small to medium sized clients increased buying power they probably wouldn't be able to have on their own without having the cooperative standing behind them, which is transformative for those businesses.
With projected growth and demand coming from AI down the line, it is time for companies to think about and plan for that growth and how they are going close their corporate data centers and figure out what are they going to run in the cloud, what are they going to run in a co-location facility, and how are they going to connect it and connect it intelligently at a good cost.
In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Andrew Parlette, Chief Technology Officer at Tricerat, a leader of enterprise print management.
Watch as we learn more about Tricerat and their technology. The company provides world class print management software for even the most complex IT environments across any industry including, healthcare, manufacturing, education, finance, legal, and more. The company's software, ScrewDrivers, enables end users to print from any device, in any location, to any printer. Its drag-and-drop console is the hub for simplified enterprise print management - seamlessly managing mobile, native, and virtual printing, while empowering users to carry out advanced printing tasks without needing to contact the help desk.
During this interview, Parlette provides a deeper dive into Tricerat and its ScrewDrivers solution, and how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, how they work with and interoperate with VMware Horizon, and also details the problems that they solve for VMware implementations. Stick around to the end and watch a demo!
Don't miss this exclusive interview.
You can also visit: https://www.tricerat.com/