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John Troyer recently rounded up 3/4 of the Infosmack family for episode 122 of his VMTN Communities Roundtable Podcast.

Join Greg Knieriemen, Rick Vanover and I as we reminisce about podcasts past from 2010, and then make some virtualization and cloud predictions for 2011. As always, John’s show is live, so many others join in the fun.

Listen to the episode in the embedded player here, or go to the Talkshoe page to get this great episode.

VIRTUMANIA Episode 26 features Patrick O’Rourke and Jeff Woolsey from Microsoft!. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 26 – Exploring What’s Next With Microsoft Virtualization Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com host special guests Patrick O’Rourke (@virtualization) and Jeff Woolsey. Both Patrick and Jeff contribute posts to the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog at blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization. This week’s episode focuses on Microsoft’s latest virtualization features with a lot of talk about the new 2010 products. Topics include managing multi-vendor hypervisor environments with System Center, the latest information about stateless applications with Server App-V, cloud computing with Azure and BPOS, tier 1 applications on Hyper-V, and finally backing up VMs, physical servers, applications and DR site fail-over with DPM. Virtumania is an Infosmack Production.

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to past episodes as well as episodes of Infosmack.

VIRTUMANIA Episode 25 … finally! We put the headsets back on and recorded another episode. Sorry for the delay! The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 25 – Better Late Than Never VMWorld 2010 Autopsy.  Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of  StorageRap.com with co host Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com are joined by special guests Jon Owings (@2vcps) of 2vcps.com and Kelly Culwell (@kculw) of VirtualInsanity.com. Unconfirmed reports describe chalk outlines on the Moscone Center floor from the bodies of exhausted vendors and attendees. Enjoy our autoposy of VMWorld 2010 from the experiences of this week’s Virtumaniacs. Get an inside perspective on the sessions, the announcements, the parties, the people, and everything else. Virtumania is an Infosmack Production.

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to past episodes as well as episodes of Infosmack.

This week on VIRTUMANIA we focus on Xangati’s ability to record network activity between VMs and hosts on virtual infrastructure. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 24 – De-Funkified V.I. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com and Ed Haletky (@texiwill) of The Virtualization Practice Blog and The Virtualization Security Podcast. This week’s episode features special guest Nathaniel Iverson, Director of Product Marketing at Xangati. With Xangati’s announcement of the free Xangati appliance for ESX, virtualization administrators now have a cost effective tool to auto record activity inside their virtual infrastructure and more easily prescribe the proper remedy to alleviate the symptoms. Virtumania is an Infosmack Production.

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to past episodes as well as episodes of Infosmack.

For those attending VMWorld 2010 in San Francisco, CA, On Wednesday September 1 at 1:00 PM PST take a break from the sessions and stop by to meet VIRTUMANIA and Infosmack personalities Marc Farley, Rick Vanover, and me in person on the VMWorld 2010 Solutions Exchange floor. The Veeam and 3PAR booths are adjacent to each other, so this tweet up will be in the general area at both booths from 1 PM to 2 PM PST.

RSVP at twtvite.com/vmworld2010smackup and then add to your calendar:

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Be sure to follow (and use) the hashtag #smackup during the event on that Wednesday. The twtvite.com page will be collecting tweets and photos using this tag!

Looking forward to seeing everyone then!

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Citrix CTO Simon Crosby was our very special guest for VIRTUMANIA Episode 23! The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 23 – The Citrix Virtualization Safari. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com and Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen). This week’s special guest is Citrix CTO Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby / Citrix Blogs). This episode’s conversation covers almost everything going on at Citrix for virtualization. From Citrix Receiver on the iPad, HDX with VDI, development of the Citrix XenClient, XenServer strategy, partnership with Microsoft, to Citrix in the Cloud, Crosby offers inside thoughts and experiences.  VIRTUMANIA is a Infosmack Production.

Before, between, and after the important stuff we also have some fun with Rick’s picture of the wrong end of a giraffe and Dell’s rumored acquisition of 3PAR

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to past episodes as well as episodes of Infosmack.

I was lucking enough to get an invite from the VIRTUMANIA mothership this past week. I was back for my third appearance on the Infosmack Podcast, and this time the guest of honor was Paul Maritz!

The following is the podcast summary:

Infosmack Podcast Episode 63 – VMware’s Paul Maritz. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation, Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.com and Rich Brambley of Veeam and our sister podcast Virtumania with special guest Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware. In this week’s special episode with Paul, we explore VMware beyond server virtualization, how they are building the data center platform of the future and Paul’s work with The Grameen Foundation as well as “10 Big Questions”.

I have to say that it was an honor and a thrill to be able to chat with Paul. When we weren’t recording he made some funny comments about Infosmack being his first public podcast, and at the end he suggested he possibly would be interested in making another appearance depending on how this one turned out! I know that Greg, Marc and I are definitely pleased.

Infosmack also experimented with soliciting questions from Twitter during the episode. Although Infosmack doesn’t have a live audience, the real time interaction via tweets was definitely fun. Both Infosmack and Virtumania will most likely repeat this use of Twitter in the future!

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