Data Center Therapy

Welcome back, loyal Data Center Therapy listeners! As summer gives way to fall, we’re dropping another fresh and topical episode onto the hot podcast grill for your informational delight (with a dash of fun thrown in for good measure.) Your host, Mr. Matt “My Stack Overflowed” Cozzolino joins IVOXY End User Compute specialists Ryan "Universal Broker" Grelck and Aaron "Auto-Scaling" Hagman for a deep dive into the new and cloud-enabled world that is Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, and Windows 365. In just thirty-two minutes, you, our listeners will get to learn about: Along the way the crew also discusses Azure Arc, VPN tunnels and Express Routes, GPU-enabled cloud desktop instances, Windows Update for Business, thin clients and much more. If you like what you hear, please be sure to like, subscribe and share wherever you find quality podcasts like Data Center Therapy. If you’re interested in learning more about AVD or Windows 365, please reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager and we’d be happy to help guide you on your journey. Thanks for listening! Be safe, be informed, manage your virtual desktop environment like a boss, and catch you on the next fresh episode!

Welcome back to another exciting episode of Data Center Therapy, where the digital device management seas are stormy but the DCT deck crew are always ready for a challenge! While Matt ‘Hard to Starboard’ Cozzolino is out on PTO this week, your reliable and experienced Captain, Mr. Matt ‘Engines Steady at Quarter Impulse’ Yette welcomes IVOXY End User Computing Consultants Mr. Ryan ‘Magnum VDI’ Grelck and Mr. Aaron ‘Active Directory Animal’ Hagman to the virtual DCT studios, for a chat about all things Microsoft Intune. In this episode, you, our adventurous listeners, will get to hear about: After listening, if you’re excited to join the September 19th through 21st Intune class (with Office Hours on September 22nd) then please be sure to reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager or podcasts@ivoxy.com so you can register yourself. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like DCT are found. Thanks as always for listening, and stay safe, get your (Windows) Autopilot on, stay (mobile) managed and catch you on the next fun and informative episode of Data Center Therapy!

Welcome back to another installment of your favorite IT podcast with a healthy dose of empathy, Data Center Therapy. On this episode Matt ‘Mouse Master’ Yette and Matt ‘4K before 4K was cool’ Cozzolino invite VDI expert and all-around VMware guru Mr. Ryan Grelck back to the virtual studios. Ryan shares the latest and greatest developments of end-user-computing and virtualization technologies, the changes that were made in the IVOXY training labs as of late, and even ends up getting mired in debates over the best input systems for end-user devices. In this episode, you, the lifeblood of our show - our listeners, will get to learn about: Ryan’s latest Summer 2023 Horizon class is coming up July 10th through the 14th, so if you’re interested in attending, please reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager or hit up the IVOXY website at your earliest convenience. If you enjoyed what you heard, please be sure to like, share and subscribe to this podcast wherever you found it. Now that the dog days of summer are upon us, be sure to stay cool, stay informed, stay trained up, and catch you on the next episode of Data Center Therapy. Thanks for listening!

You’re a one-person wrecking crew. You rock your compute infrastructure, your hypervisor and virtual machine management system, and your storage subsystems, but you’ll admit, you could use some help with the networking side every once in a while. In fact, every now and again, something happens on the network and you never can quite get to the root of it; you rebooted a device and that ended up fixing it ninety nine times out of a hundred. Let’s not talk about that one-hundredth time - that was a doozy and turned out to be an obscure setting, or a malfunctioning printer or client system. Either way, it sure would be nice to know, for certain, if you could make things better, permanently. Or… Maybe you’re at a large organization; perhaps even in the networking and security arm of an I.T. group, but somebody new starts and as you look over the documentation, you realize it’s terribly out of date. It would be a great exercise to map everything out and update the records and create diagrams in addition to mentoring the new person, but there’s just not enough hours in the day to do both. Or…is there a way you could? Welcome back to another episode of your favorite I.T. podcast with a healthy dose of empathy, Data Center Therapy. Your hosts, as always, include the gregarious and well-travelled Mr. Matt “Traffic Shaping the T1 with Napster” Yette as well as the multi-talented and tenured Mr. Matt “Hospitals don’t have change control windows!” Cozzolino. In this edition, the Matts welcome IVOXY Director of Consulting and O.G. of the Networking Practice, Mr. Mack “Channel Surfing” Nethkin as well as the newest IVOXY Senior Network Consultant, Mr. Robert “Pain is just Weakness leaving the Network” Clack. If terms like STP, HSRP, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, and Dynamic Routing get your motor running, great. If it’s all Greek to you, that’s A-OK - in fact, you’ll likely pick up a few new network terms while giving this one a listen. When listening to this latest episode, you, our grateful listeners will hear tales of: Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found this podcast and stay tuned to our show to learn about our upcoming training courses, including a second round of Matt Cozzolino’s Advanced vSphere 8 class. Catch you on the next jam-packed episode of Data Center Therapy - and stay safe, assess your stacks or get some help assessing them, and as always, stay informed, DCT friends!

You! Yes, you! Running vSphere 6.5 or 6.7? We understand, you’re busy! For many, many reasons, you couldn’t get around to upgrading your systems to 7.0 when VMware deprecated support for 6.7 and 6.5 on October 15th, 2022. So now you’re at a cross roads. vSphere 8 is out, but fairly new, and comes with its own set of new hardware requirements. Assuming your existing hardware meets them, do you upgrade to vSphere 7 or vSphere 8? If instead you get new hosts, should you run ESXi 7 or 8 on them? And what if you’re already running vSphere 7? Should you upgrade to 8? It’s a been a little while, but your favorite, most empathetic, most wise and most entertaining IT therapists are back in the office to look at all things vSphere 8. In this episode of Data Center Therapy, your intrepid hosts Matt ‘Pi before Pi was cool’ Yette and Matt ‘Distributed Everything Si-fu’ Cozzolino teach you with their technology equivalents of the martial art of Wing Chun on what’s new with vSphere 8. In this episode, you, our treasured watchers (DCT is now on YouTube!) and our listeners, will get to learn about: As the Matts state in this episode, it’s not too late to join “Professor” Cozzolino in his Introduction to vSphere 8 class March 21st through 24th, and his Advanced vSphere 8 class April 18th through 21st. If you need to know “how” to operate your systems, the Intro class is likely the best choice for you. If you’d like to know the “why” of best practices in vSphere, then the Advanced class is the best choice for you. To get registered ASAP, talk to your IVOXY Account Manager and we’ll be happy to assist right away. As always, be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found this episode of Data Center Therapy. If you need assistance planning or executing your own organization’s vSphere upgrades, please reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager. In the meantime, stay up to date, stay supported, stay stable and optimized (as we like our ESXi hosts to be), and stay informed, DCT friends! Talk to you on our next fresh episode!

The Matts are back, baby! Your intrepid Data Center Therapy hosts, Mr. Matt ‘He sings the bass’ Yette, and Mr. Matt ‘He sings the tenor’ Cozzolino have returned! The Matts welcome IVOXY’s own End-User Compute specialist Mr. Hoppy Shaw back to the DCT virtual studios. Hoppy once again regales you, our audience, with stories of his time in Operations and the evolution of Microsoft products we’ve come to all know and (somewhat) love. Among the many topics they review are: Hoppy and the Matts also cover whether GPU-enabled virtual desktops are an option for folks thinking about Desktop-as-a-Service. If your own organization needs help evolving its networks, infrastructure, or security practices so that you can leverage cost-effective virtual or cloud desktop infrastructure, please be sure to reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager so that we can help! If you enjoyed the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you get your quality podcasts. Thanks for listening as always and we hope to catch up with you on our next exciting episode. Stay safe, stay secure, and stay well (endpoint) managed, DCT friends! Ciao.

Scene: a dimly lit but warm lobby, looking a little like a doctor’s office in a log cabin but more comfortable. You’re patiently waiting to hear from some I.T. podcast microphone jockeys who’ve haven’t peeked out of their door in some time. You’ve been in that waiting room for a bit, but thankfully your Data Center Therapists, Mr. Matt “Email shields up” Yette and Mr. Matt “Attack vector identified” Cozzolino are back and ready to see you now! As Yette says, if you could spend only a dollar on security, it should be spent on email security so give this episode a good listen to find out exactly why he says that. You’ll likely end up agreeing. Inside the virtual studios of DCT on this episode, our intrepid hosts welcome Darla Teeter, Global Solutions Architect from ProofPoint to talk about email security in a depth and breadth that you might not have thought possible. Along the precarious, dangerous, do-not-click-here dark alleys of their email security discussion, the Matts and Darla discuss: In addition to the above, Darla also explains how ProofPoint goes way beyond the cliched and often boring, hour-long typical “security awareness trainings” when it comes to educating workers on email security. The detection and remediation of knowledge gaps (via “mock attacks”) makes their solution a very interesting one. Listen to this episode and you’ll find out how to win a Yeti cooler (no relating to our intrepid host, Mr. Matt Yette, of course) and be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts are found. As always, thanks for listening, stay warm this winter, practice safe email and stay informed with our next episode of Data Center Therapy!

Howdy Data Center Therapy regulars and new “Therapy Clients” alike! On this episode, your hosts Matt “Release and Report” Yette and Matt “Reverse Lookup” Cozzolino break down email security for you, our listeners, with a little history, a little humor, and a little education around all those three, five and six letter acronyms. The Matts share their deep technical knowledge and experiences so that you can understand what those acronyms add, protocol-wise, to enhancing the integrity of the email system as a whole. During the course of this podcast, you’ll get to hear about: After you’ve listened to the episode, if you’re interested in the free IVOXY Email Integrity Assessment to check your own incoming and outgoing email security postures, please reach out to your local IVOXY representative, and if you don’t have one, hit us up at podcasts@ivoxy.com. If you’re an Office365 customer, the Consultants assisting you will include a Rapid Risk Report as stated earlier. We hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you did, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like DCT are found. We appreciate it! Guard that front door (of email activity!), stay safe, and stay as secure as you can, listeners. Catch you on the next informative episode of Data Center Therapy!

Howdy Data Center Therapy listeners - are you all ready to go on a trip? What if we told you this trip would take you back to the beginnings of Graphics Processing Units? Are you ready to time-travel to the start of 3D-enabled gaming, the beginnings of fancy operating system user interfaces with visual effects, and the early artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts? Strap on those headphones and press play to go on our GPU Journey, with your hosts Matt “3DFX” Yette and Matt “Literal Duct Tape” Cozzolino as they welcome IVOXY’s own Virtual Desktop and End User Computing Specialist Mr. Ryan Grelck back to the virtual Data Center Therapy studios. The Matts and Ryan talk about: If hearing the phrases “Quake”, “Counterstrike”, “Halo 3”, “Call of Duty” and “Destiny 2” pique your interest, you’ll no doubt enjoy this episode. That said, even if you’re not a gamer, and you’re here to discern new developments in the GPU market, you’ll definitely want to tune into this one to learn more about Intel’s plans with “Arctic Sound M.” As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts can be found. If you’re looking for the documentary on “Unreal Tournament” Ryan mentioned, it may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKDvqLNk7CQ Stay low-latency, stay fragging, stay sharp and catch you on the next shiny episode, DCT friends!

Who doesn’t love a good trilogy? Cue the John Williams music! Mr. Shane Bradley, IVOXY’s resident VMware Master, returns for his third appearance on Data Center Therapy. Your intrepid hosts, Matt “No! I want Performant, Scalable AND Value-Conscious!” Yette joins his co-host Matt “Have I shown you this Docker setup?” Cozzolino to collectively welcome Shane back to the DCT virtual studios, and talk about the new Advanced vSphere class he’s been working studiously on for the past few months. Along the way, the Matts and Shane discuss: If you’re a fan of Letterkenny, the Red Green show, or Schitt’s Creek, you’ll appreciate the alternative North American velvety tones of our favorite Albertan DCT guest and VMware expert, Shane. We look forward to seeing many of you at Shane’s next Advanced vSphere class, debuting sometime in June 2022. If you enjoy the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like Data Center Therapy may be found. We wish our customers and new-to-IVOXY students the best in their VMware journeys (and are here to help!) and appreciate all the IVOXY learning and technology partnerships we’ve made through the years. Thanks for listening!

What’s better than having a Security-minded Consultant guest on Data Center Therapy, sharing their tips on how to manage endpoints and access in your network? Why, having TWO of them, of course! Matt “Tech Debt Crusher” Yette and Matt “Magnificent Bastion” Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual studios one Mr. Quinton Barber, Security Consultant for IVOXY as well as one Mr. Hoppy Shaw, End-User Technology Consultant for IVOXY, as they discuss the challenges of remote work and zero trust. Some of the concepts, you, our loyal listeners will hear on this episode include multi-factor authentication, identity management, device compliance and control, mobile device management solutions, Active Directory to Azure migrations, and much, much more. BYOD for iPhones and Android phones? Yep, we’ve got that too. Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts are found. Do you have challenges with securing some of your endpoints? Reach out to your local IVOXY Account Manager and we’ll be able to help secure the devices that you previously didn’t have the time or willpower to tackle on your own. Thanks for listening! Stay secure, stay (Windows Server) updated, stay (Microsoft) InTune-d in, and stay informed DCT fans! Catch you again on our next topical episode. Ciao for now.

Cliched though it may be, it’s true: It’s not if you’re going to experience a ransomware attack, it’s just a matter of when. What can you do to prepare for it? Matt “It’s 2022 but Backup is still Sexy” Yette and Matt “Trip this Wire” Cozzolino welcome back to the virtual studios for the second time in a row IVOXY’s own Mr. Quinton Barber, Security Consultant, who counts acting as an Anti-Ransomware Specialist as one of his many responsibilities. Quinton and the Matts waste no time and begin to prescribe steps you can take to harden your environment, instrument your infrastructure, and shorten the time to restore when something happens to your data. In this episode you, our loyal and proactive but ransomware-prone listeners will get to hear about: . If phrases like event correlation, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and MDR garner your interest, this episode’s going to be a great one for you. On the other hand, Quinton and your DCT hosts do their best to keep things very understandable and relatable if your ransomware concerns are there, but your own knowledge of all those anti-ransomware tools needs augmentation. If you’d like to attend one of IVOXY’s Security Roundtables, please reach out to your Account Manager and we’d be happy to help. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found our quality podcast. Lock it down and stay tuned for another exciting episode of Data Center Therapy! Thanks for listening!

Using a Garmin? Maybe a TomTom? It’s OK if you’re not, because it’s 2022 and your phone has a maps application, right? If you thought you knew everything about what you can do with your phone and a mapping app, think again! We welcome our Data Center Therapy guests to a gadget- and application-filled episode as your hosts Matt “Major Release Blues” Yette and Matt “Offroad Antenna” Cozzolino chat about mapping and then circle around to the state of Macintosh hardware and software. Whether you’re a diehard camper, an off-road enthusiast, a powder hound, or you just want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes on mapping applications, the Matts have you covered with this podcast. In this episode you’ll get to learn about: The Matts also share their historic experiences with Macintosh, the current state of Macintosh hardware and Apple’s own CPU platform, and their thoughts on the modern development and evolution of the MacOS operating system. If you enjoyed your listening experience, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you found this podcast. Always know where you are, share that with your travel buddies, and stay tuned loyal listeners for the next fun episode of DCT! Thanks for listening!

What are you going to print? Head straight downtown to the 3D statue-filled intersection of “Fun Street” and “Technology Avenue” with this Data Center Therapy podcast! Your hosts Mr. Matt “What can’t you do with a Pi?” Yette and Mr. Matt “Printable Log Cabin” Cozzolino welcome you, our loyal listeners, into their virtual garages for an entertaining introduction to 3D printing, sans the resin fumes. If you’re wondering what the heck a “PEI magnetic build plate” is, give this episode a listen! In this quick but enjoyable 30-minute dash, you’ll get a handle on: You’ll get a little background on the common things some of the gaming-minded folks print (hint: Final Fantasy VII, Warhammer, and Day of the Tentacle come into the discussion) and you’ll also find out where things like ESP32 and Arduinos (nifty pieces of technology in their own right) mesh with 3D printing. If you loved this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you quality podcasts are found. Be sure keep those printer beds warm, keep those filament spools spooling, and tune in again for another fun episode of Data Center Therapy. Thanks everybody!

Welcome back Data Center Therapy fans! We have a special treat on this podcast as IVOXY’s own Kris Lamet returns to the virtual DCT studios, this time employed at NetApp as their Technical Partner Manager for the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Kris and your two intrepid hosts, Matt “2.4 Gigahertz? Sure Does!” Yette and Matt “Deadbolt This!” Cozzolino crack a couple of frosty ones and muse about the amazing longevity and adaptability of NetApp, the challenges of using the cloud either for DR or for hybrid datacenter scaling, and the newest home automation projects they’re all working on. You’ll also learn in this episode: still When listening, you’re in for some storage and cloud talk for sure, but you’ll also be a party to some good old-fashioned IVOXY Squad camaraderie and home gadget talk, so there’s something for everybody. Please be sure to like, share and subscribe as always, and stay connected, stay secure, stay cloud-enabled, and stay tuned for the next great episode of Data Center Therapy! Thanks for listening!

Join us on this special episode of Data Center Therapy where Matt “M.C. MFA” Yette and Matt “So Many Rules” Cozzolino welcome the newest member of the IVOXY family, Security Consultant Quinton Barber. Quinton joins the team with over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and has specialized in producing Assessments and Gap Analysis for all his customers, from the improbably small to the stupendously large F500s. In this episode, you’ll get talk that includes conceptual basics such as Defense-in-depth, zero-trust, and edge and endpoint protection layers. You’ll hear discussion around policies, firewalls, anti-virus and mobile device management solutions. You’ll find out why an Identity Access Management solution can be critical to securing your systems. You’ll also learn information on how to get out of the tactical, fix-it-now practices and evolve your own processes and procedures into those which can adapt and change in time to respond to the threats that modern enterprise systems and businesses face. As always be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you’ve found our quality podcast. Security couldn’t be any more important, especially given all that’s happening right now. Stay safe, stay informed, watch those any-any firewall rules, and stay tuned for the next exciting episode of Data Center Therapy!

Away crew, prepare to set your phasers to ‘fun’! On this episode of Data Center Therapy, your fabulous hosts, Mr. Matt “SCUMM For Life” Yette and Mr. Matt “Bring up your Inventory Screen!” Cozzolino drive the DeLorean Time Machine and drop you, our loyal listeners, off at the Pizza Hut with a huge stack of quarters for the Pac-Man, Galaga, and pinball machines. Come on a retro journey with the IVOXY gang as they share their thoughts on their favorite games of years past, including: You’ll feel a nostalgic thrill as you hear Cozzolino recalling him and a friend staying up all night to play Resident Evil (and scaring the heck out of themselves while doing so!). You’ll learn how Cozz took a fancy to EverQuest and World of Warcraft, but not older titles and games (and why!). You’ll also get to hear about the latest advances in retro gaming, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays that let newer hardware become the awesome custom hardware that powered the games of old. Finally, the boys also open the podcast with their take on VMware (suddenly and without much warning) deprecating the use of inexpensive USB and SD card boot devices for the ESXi Hypervisor, and what you can do about it. Though the Matts mention Boot-from-SAN and Netbooting, you’ll want to listen in so you can stay informed and knowledgeable as you, our loyal listeners, embark on your own quest to remediate that challenge! As always, if you enjoy this podcast, wherever you found it, please be sure to like, share, and subscribe, and do reach out to IVOXY should you need assistance transitioning your hosts to supported boot mediums in your ESXi 7.0 journeys. Be safe, be in the know, have some (retro gaming) fun, and catch you on our next episode, DCT friends!

It’s the near future. You’re on a road trip across the country. At some point, you realize you’re tired and lower your seat for a nap. You go ahead and take one. In the meanwhile, your car silently glides onward, ever attentive to the road. On this quick bite of an episode, your Data Center Therapy hosts Matt “You think that’s air you’re breathing?” Yette and Matt “We Hope You Enjoy the Ride!” Cozzolino talk about Artificial Intelligence, the Metaverse, 3D movies and Washington state drivers. You, our dear listeners, will also get the Matts’ takes on: Join us on this forward-looking chat and challenge yourself to see into the future as the Matts have here. For those folks clamoring for more enterprise best practices and technically focused content, get ready friends, for an exciting interview with IVOXY’s new Security Consultant, Mr. Quinton Barber. As always, be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you find your quality podcasts. Thanks for listening and see you (virtually?) on the next episode of Data Center Therapy!

You already work from home, and you’re in IT, so there’s probably not much you can do to improve your setup, right? Maybe not! In this episode of Data Center Therapy, your hosts Matt “Faster than Gigabit” Yette and Matt “Layer 2 Plus” Cozzolino welcome IVOXY’s own Systems and Storage Consultant Neil Kassal into the virtual studios. Neil shares his tips on optimizing your work from home setup, from your seating all the way up to network segmentation and home backups. Along the way, the dynamic trio discuss: As a bonus, Yette, Cozz and Neil also talk about the newest exploit that affects much of the enterprise information technology world at the moment: the log4j JNDI vulnerability. Whether you’re into system security or just want some tips for working from home, there should be something to make you laugh or think on this episode. As always, if you enjoyed listening to Data Center Therapy, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts may be found. If you need help dealing with the implications and remediation of the log4j vulnerability in your software, systems and storage infrastructure, please reach out to your trusted IVOXY Account Manager or Consultants, and as ever, stay healthy, stay warm in the Pacific Northwest this winter, and stay informed DCT friends. Catch you on the next fun episode!

You ever envision updating the firmware of a weapons system on your fighter jet while you’re flying it? No? That makes sense. But for the people trying to evolve our military’s ossified bureaucracies and systems, that vision is indeed a reality. Your hosts of this Data Center Therapy episode, Matt ‘I’ve got a lock on the target’ Yette and Alec ‘It's a UNIX system! I know this!’ Taylor welcome the United States of America’s very first Chief Software Officer, Nicolas M. Chaillan to the DCT virtual studios. Nicolas shares his background, how his career at the DoD evolved, and what he sees in the future of cyber-warfare and security for both the military and American enterprise. It’s a fascinating look inside the inner workings of some quite large organizations, our own U.S. Air Force and Space Force branches. During this show, you’ll also gain some understanding of: You, our business and enterprise-oriented listeners will also get a great overview of the practices (some of them simple or less difficult to implement than you might think!) that you could be doing today to secure your critical data and systems, like implementing Single Sign On, Zero Trust, and Endpoint Protection solutions. As always, if you enjoy this episode, please like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like Data Center Therapy can be found. Thanks for listening, stay safe and soar high, DCT friends!