Virtually Speaking Podcast

16:32

Agentic AI for VCF: Your Cloud Admin’s New Sidekick

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2026/10/06

What if your next troubleshooting session started with a conversation instead of digging through logs?Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome Victoria and Dave Linthicum to explore how agentic AI can help VMware Cloud Foundation administrators troubleshoot issues, simplify reporting, and get more done. The conversation examines VCF Intelligent Assist, private AI services, and how AI agents can use logs, telemetry, and VMware knowledge base articles to help identify

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12:21

Smarter Attacks, Stronger Defenses: Security in the...

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2026/10/02

Can AI help defenders as much as it helps attackers? At VMware Explore 2026, Bob Plankers joins Pete Flecha and John Nicholson to discuss how organizations can use AI to strengthen security while putting practical guardrails around agentic AI.Bob shares insights from customer conversations, discusses the security focus in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, and explains why patching, isolation, and recovery remain essential. We also explore Secure Boot certificate changes, the “time travel” issue

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17:18

From Dashboards to Dialogue: Agentic Observability on...

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2026/09/28

What happens when AI becomes a new way to interact with your infrastructure?At VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and guest host Dave Linthicum talk with Scott Rosenberg about agentic observability on VMware Cloud Foundation. Scott explains how agents and MCP servers could bring insights from multiple tools into a more useful conversation, and why the quality of the data and the design of the agents matter more than simply adding more copilots. They also discuss when to use AI instead of traditional

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11:38

What’s New in Storage and Memory Tiering? Duncan...

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2026/09/25

Duncan Epping joins Virtually Speaking at VMware Explore 2026 to discuss the storage and availability topics that caught his attention, and why memory tiering is drawing so many questions from customers.He also shares how technical conversations at Explore have changed over the years, what he’s looking to learn about AI and networking, and why he makes time to explore the show floor.

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15:08

From Bare Metal to AI: Supermicro and VMware Cloud...

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2026/09/22

AI is moving quickly from experimentation to enterprise-scale inference and agentic applications. The supporting infrastructure must move just as fast.Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, this episode explores how Supermicro and Broadcom are helping customers simplify the path from bare metal to production AI. The conversation covers customizable AI infrastructure, VCF AI ReadyNodes, rack-scale deployment, liquid cooling, zero-touch provisioning, and the role of VMware AI Factory in accelerating

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13:38

Building with VCF: A Partner Perspective

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2026/09/18

Partners play a critical role in helping customers take advantage of everything VMware Cloud Foundation has to offer.Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Krunal Patel of SidePath to discuss what customers are doing with VCF today. The conversation covers the economics of vSAN, integrated security and microsegmentation with vDefend, NSX networking, and the importance of platform-level automation and visibility. Krunal also shares how SidePath is using vibe

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9:39

AI Factory: From Infrastructure to Intelligence

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2026/09/15

What does it take to move from AI experimentation to a production-ready environment?Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Vijay Ramachandran, Vice President of Products for the VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom, joins Pete Flecha and John Nicholson to explain how VMware AI Factory provides a simplified path from bare metal to model serving. They discuss how VMware AI Factory brings AI into the familiar VCF operating model, with support for a broad choice of servers, GPUs and models. Vijay

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14:52

The New Path to VMware Certification: VCAP and VCDX...

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2026/09/14

VMware certification is evolving alongside VMware Cloud Foundation. At VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Drew Nielsen, Brett Guarino, and VCDX #1 John Arrasjid to break down what has changed and what it means for certification candidates.The conversation covers the expanded VCAP portfolio, new domain-based and role-based paths for administrators, architects, and support professionals, and the evolution of VCDX from “Design Expert” to “Distinguished Expert.” They

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7:31

The Practical Path to VCF 9.1 with William Lam

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2026/09/11

Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha sits down with longtime friend of the podcast William Lam to discuss how customers can design and architect their path to a modern private cloud with VCF 9.1.William shares what he heard directly from customers during VMware’s Technical Advisory Board and packed interactive design workshops. They discuss practical upgrade paths for existing vSphere environments, options for brownfield and greenfield deployments, hardware compatibility, simplified

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14:00

Zero Trust at Scale with Chris McCain

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2026/09/10

How do you apply Zero Trust consistently across virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and rapidly changing applications? Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Chris McCain to discuss how VMware vDefend brings security controls directly into the hypervisor. They explore how tagging, dynamic groups, and application visibility can replace complicated IP-based rules and help infrastructure and development teams secure workloads at scale. Chris also explains why

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12:42

AI-Ready Infrastructure: Doing More with VCF and Intel

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2026/09/09

AI is creating new opportunities for the enterprise, but it’s also putting new pressure on infrastructure, from rising server and memory costs to increased power and compute demands. Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein sit down with Paul Turner of Broadcom and Caitlin Anderson, Corporate Vice President and GM of Americas Sales at Intel, to discuss how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and Intel Xeon 6 are helping customers modernize infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation

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8:44

VMware Explore Day 3 Recap

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2026/09/07

That’s a wrap on VMware Explore 2026!After a week of announcements, technical sessions, customer conversations, partner meetings, and more than 30 Virtually Speaking interviews, Pete, John, Jad, and guest host David Linthicum sit down one last time to share their biggest takeaways from the event. AI was everywhere, but the conversation has clearly moved beyond the hype. Customers are actively exploring how to bring AI into their own environments while controlling cost, protecting their data, and

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14:11

VMware Explore Day 2 Recap

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2026/09/07

Live from VMware Explore 2026, the Virtually Speaking crew wraps up Day 2 with David Linthicum and Rick Walsworth to talk about what they’re hearing from customers, partners, and the technical community on the show floor. A big theme this year is the changing definition of the edge. It’s no longer just remote offices and branch locations. AI inference, autonomous systems, factories, vehicles, and other distributed environments are creating new requirements to put compute and AI closer to where data

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12:48

VMware Explore Day 1 Recap

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2026/09/07

Live from VMware Explore 2026, the Virtually Speaking crew wraps up Day 1 with Mark Latham from Broadcom Product Marketing to break down the biggest announcements, conversations, and themes coming out of the event. Pete, John, Jad, and Mark discuss the convergence of private cloud and AI with VMware Private AI Cloud, why organizations are looking for a faster path from infrastructure to production AI with VMware AI Factory, and the growing importance of security, governance, and cost control as

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15:45

From AI to Real Outcomes

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2026/09/07

AI is moving fast, but getting from infrastructure to a working model in production can still be complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and David Linthicum sit down with Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services at Broadcom, to break down the latest VMware Cloud Foundation AI announcements and what they mean for enterprises building an AI strategy. Chris explains VMware AI Factory, designed to automate the journey from infrastructure

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37:46

Preparing Private Cloud for the AI Era

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2026/08/27

AI is changing the way organizations think about private cloud, from infrastructure and security to developer experience, operating models and cost.In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein are joined by Vivek Vijay and John Hall from Kyndryl to discuss what it takes to prepare private cloud environments for the AI era. The conversation explores the growing demand for private and sovereign AI, the impact of AI-driven security threats, and why organizations need

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4:29

Fire Flood Blood at VMware Explore

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2026/08/20

Fire. Flood. Blood. is back. 🔥🌊🩸Everybody in IT has that story. The outage, the flooded data center, the script that went sideways, or the moment you thought, “What the hell was I thinking?” At VMware Explore, we’re bringing Fire Flood Blood back to Virtually Speaking and we want to hear your craziest IT stories and the lessons you learned from them. Going to Explore? Come find us and bring your best story. #VMwareExplore #FireFloodBlood #VirtuallySpeaking #VCF

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27:42

VMware Explore 2026 Preview

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2026/08/11

VMware Explore 2026 is almost here, and the Virtually Speaking crew is getting ready for Las Vegas.In this episode, Pete Flecha is joined by John Nicholson, Jad El-Zein, and special guest Duncan Epping to preview the week ahead. They talk about the return to deeply technical content, the sessions they’re most excited about, the evolution of Hands-on Labs, Odyssey competitions, and why the community and networking remain such a big part of Explore. Virtually Speaking will also be recording live

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47:09

Self-Service Infrastructure with VCF Automation 9.1

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2026/07/21

VCF 9.1 goes beyond the foundational infrastructure to help organizations deliver a true private cloud experience through automation, self-service, and policy-based governance.In this episode, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein welcome Maher AlAsfar, Product Marketing Engineer at Broadcom, to explore what is new in VCF Automation 9.1. The conversation covers declarative infrastructure, Kubernetes-native APIs, Containers as a Service, centralized service management, namespace capture, app stack formation,

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13:35

VCF for Smaller IT Teams

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2026/07/14

Can a lean IT team successfully adopt VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)? Jeremy Wright joins Pete Flecha and John Nicholson to share how Grinnell Mutual transformed its infrastructure strategy after initially assuming VCF was only for large enterprises. Jeremy discusses how uncertainty during the VMware acquisition led his team to VMware Explore looking for answers—and how one conversation changed their entire approach. From identifying a potential $1 million storage savings with vSAN to embracing

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