Virtually Speaking Podcast
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom, and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise.
Episodes
Moving to VMware Cloud Foundation doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch. But how do you decide what to keep, what to retire, and where to begin?
Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson join Chris Kusek, host of Architects Edge, and David Linthicum to discuss the architecture decisions behind a practical VCF adoption strategy. The conversation explores brownfield deployments, hardware compatibility...
Rising memory costs and unpredictable AI spending are changing how organizations plan their infrastructure. How can IT teams control costs while building for what comes next?
Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein welcome Scott Patti and David Tareen from Lenovo to discuss memory tiering, hybrid AI, and the infrastructure behind VMware Cloud Foundation.
The conversation explores how memory tiering helps address ...
A cracked floor tile. A massive hole. A soldier holding up a rack carrying an entire military base’s communications. What could possibly go wrong?
Recorded live at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome returning guest Jeremy Wright for another edition of Fire, Flood & Blood, where IT practitioners share their unforgettable stories from the field.
Jeremy takes us back to 2007, working as a civilian sy...
AI is changing how cyberattacks are built, how they spread, and how long they can hide. Is your cyber resilience strategy keeping up?
Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein welcome Belu back to the Virtually Speaking Podcast to discuss why perimeter security, immutable backups, and more security tools alone aren’t enough.
We explore how AI enables adaptive attacks, accelerates vulnerability chaining, and...
You encrypt data at rest and in transit. But what protects it while your applications are using it?
Recorded at VMware Explore 2026, this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast features Bob Plankers and Nick Ford for a practical look at confidential computing and protecting data in use.
Learn how confidential VMs use Intel and AMD hardware technologies to isolate workloads and help protect sensitive memory from privileged access...
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 l...
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 expl...
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 mo...
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.
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 p...
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 automati...
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, w...
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 evolut...
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 brownfie...
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 dev...
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 hel...
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 t...
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 envir...
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...
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 F...
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