Here we go again. After a prolonged break, we’re back with a new one! This is episode 60, which is a decent number by any standard. No guest, just us three hosts shooting the breeze. Bonus points if you remember Paula, no bonus points if you ha

vSoup #59 – Snapchat IT and a Sack Full of DevOps

Aug 16th, 2016 43m 44s

A while back we recorded one with Simon Eady, and then vanished into a black hole of laptop crashes and corporate access. After Ed did some extensive digging, and probably some undisclosed felonies, we’ve managed to our hands on the recording,

vSoup #58 – Pre-dirtied low hanging fruit

Apr 6th, 2016 39m 56s

This time we got Amit Panchal to spend some time with us, and since we recorded it, we might as well just publish it. Right? We also get into Christian’s new job, and how he suddenly got his VCAP-DCD. How about that VMworld thing, who is going?

vSoup #57 – Bipolar Hipster-IT

Jan 19th, 2016 39m 14s

We’re back! The plan is to release one monthly episode in 2016, and impressively enough we are right on track. At least so far. Since it’s been a good 6 months since the last one, we went commando. Perhaps commando is a feature of Hipster- and

vSoup #56 – Shakeweights

Jul 14th, 2015 33m 48s

Minding my own business yesterday a wormhole opened up on my desktop and an MP3 popped out of it. The episode you are about to hear is the contents of that file… you have been warned ! A little about what was going on in the world at the time

vSoup #55 – Bob’s Your Uncle with Plankers

May 22nd, 2015 44m 37s

We’ve gone full circle, sort of, with a return of the wonderful Bob Plankers as our guest. You know, The Lone Sysadmin guy. The hosts enjoy is blog posts, and we sure do enjoy having him as a guest as well. After all, he was a guest in our four

vSoup #54 – But Mom, I Don’t Want to be a Developer with Matt Brender

Apr 22nd, 2015 37m 29s

No we are not quite dead yet, we’re just pining for the fjords. We’re joined by Matt Brender, a “community-centric marketer. Developer Advocacy @Basho“. We have no idea what that means, but at least Matt tries to explain it to us. Of course, we

vSoup Filer Swinger Parties #53

Jan 5th, 2015 44m 57s

So, lets get 2015 started with an episode recorded way back in 2014. We’re sorry about the delay, but this one needed some time to simmer. After all, one of our guests ends up singing. To find out which of our two guests, Julian Wood and Matthe

vSoup Double Dippin’ the Wahl #52

Nov 13th, 2014 48m 28s

We got the double VCDX Chris Wahl, and we got him to spill the beans on where the VCDX-NV’s came from. And no, it is not from the Iliad. We talk certifications, and answer the age old questions; “Is is wise to try to certify when you are hung o

vSoup Special: Live from VMworld 2014 with John “The Dude” Troyer

Oct 21st, 2014

vSoup Who Let the Frank Out? #51

Oct 14th, 2014 49m 28s

We got Frank’d, and that is not a bad thing. Frank Denneman joins us for a discussion about travel, writing and publishing books, dogs with ebola and HA/DRS Deepdives. How´s that for a rather mixed bag of nuts? Since Frank is an evangelist for

vSoup Mike goes EVO #50

Oct 8th, 2014 58m 32s

Our regular guess Mike Laverick is back, this time talking about EVO:RAIL which clearly is his new thing. As we all know, Mike is a man of many words, and EVO seems to be one of the new ones added to his vocabulary, and he sure knows how to use

vSoup Things Can Only Get Better #49

Aug 27th, 2014 40m 35s

Three men left behind in Europe during VMworld US. There is no way anything good can come of this, right? While you ponder that little conundrum, why not give the latest episode a listen. Chances are that you will have forgotten about the quest

vSoup A Most Peculiar Test Drive with Brian #48

Aug 10th, 2014 44m 41s

We are joined by Brian Knudtson, (blog: knudt blog) for a mostly hyperconverged chat, including a car analogy. Yeah, we know you should never trust a car analogy, but we went there anyway. After all, who knows how we will deal with hyper-conver

vSoup Feeding Frenzy with Mr. Laverick #47

May 26th, 2014 44m 18s

This time we welcome Mike Laverick back, where we finally give him a platform to promote his Feed Forward VMUG initiative. Jokes aside, it’s worth a listen if want to know what Feed Forward is all about and how to get involved. We also give ou

vSoup Single Glass of Pain #46

May 4th, 2014 47m 9s

Finally, we have a guest again. David Owen joins us again, for a good 45 minutes of topic jumping and general discussion. We touch on quite a few topics, including Storage Field Day 5 (and it’s fallout/aftermath), SMBs, Mojo Stealing, FeedForwa

vSoup Hairy Wizards #45

Apr 4th, 2014 35m 17s

No guests, just hairy wizards. If that doesn’t scare you, give it a listen as we ramble on about things like the Swiss Navy, VMware Airwatch, Simon Long moving to the US and adaptation rates on new technology. We even talk about tablets, and

vSoup Flashdance #44

Mar 18th, 2014 1h

What a feeling, being’s believing! This time we have Vaughn Stewart from Pure Storage. As since this, thankfully, is audio-only we have no idea if he was wearing leggings or not. Just like Irene Cara we have moved past that awkward third album

vSoup Convergsation #43

Mar 3rd, 2014 47m 3s

Once in a blue moon, when the stars align just right over the northern hemisphere, wonderful things happen. We don’t know if that was the case here, all we know is that we are joined by Matt Northam from Nutanix. Naturally we talk about the pen

vSoup Commando Monday #42

Feb 17th, 2014 45m 34s

Once again we go commando, that is without a guest. We get into the Wardrobe malfunctions and public speaking and the FeedForward VMUG initiative. Monster VMs, and 1 to 1 virtualization, is it really an option, and why? A little storage discuss

vSoup Nested Accountants #41

Jan 17th, 2014 37m 1s

Another naked one, with just the three of us. Budgets and accounting, and Christian kind goes on a rant. And this podcast thing, does anyone really care/listen to them? Oh, and Google buys a bit of hot air/smoke Nest, is that an internet of thi

vSoup General Purple is better than Agent Purple Any Day #40

Jan 2nd, 2014 52m 17s

Yay, we turned 40. Collectively that is. For the first recording in 2014, we do it like the last time; Three guys hosting, no guests. Except for General Purple that is. Other than that, we talk a bit about Chris’ career change, business travel,

vSoup Reloaded #39

Dec 12th, 2013 46m 43s

Reloaded, huh? What does that mean? Well, basically we have decided to refresh ourselves a little bit, and change a couple of things. It only took us 38 recordings over nearly three years to decide to change things up. This episode has no guest

vSoup Special Edition #6 What? No Potato?!

Oct 20th, 2013 28m 10s

In this special VMworld Europe recording, we are joined by Craig Waters from the APAC Virtualization Podcast and our usual VMworld stand-in, Ed Griegson. For once, Christian managed leave Norway and join the party, but this time Ed is missing.

vSoup Somebody’s Watching Me With Chris Hoff #38

Oct 20th, 2013 42m 26s

Chris Hoff. Better known (at least on Twitter) as Beaker is our guest in this one. How we managed to pull that off, is still beyond us, but hey, it all worked out beautifully. Just like his Twitter stream, this one is a constant barrage of fun,