Edward Green, Head of Commercial Technology at McLaren Racing, keynoted at the VMware Explore tech conference in Barcelona. I had the honor of sitting down with him for a few minutes to talk about the role of IT in F1. Most of us watch the races with multiple screens, the main TV for the race and additional screens to look at the various telemetry feeds. And so you know how much data flows between cars and the teams. But sitting down with Edward and hearing him explain how data transfer feeds and disk sizes impact real training time for the driver is just candy to the ears of every tech-savvy Formula 1 fan. The episode starts with a short interview with Joe Baguley, the racing CTO of VMware, discussing his involvement with the McLaren Racing partnership and his passion for racing!

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While preparing the podcast, I knew this episode would be good. Edge technology immensely excites me, and the way the project team strays away from the proverbial hammer and looks at ways to incorporate different principles like Gitops management concepts is inspiring. To top it off, you have Alan Renouf to talk about it, a long-time colleague and friend, but unfortunately, Covid prohibited me from partaking in this discussion. But, of course, Duncan and Johan had an excellent conversation with Alan. Please check it out on Spotify, Apple, or via our website. Enjoy!

This week we released two episodes covering the vSphere 8 and vSan 8 releases. Together with Feidhlim O’Leary, we discover all the new functions and features of the vSphere 8 platform. You can listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple, or on our website: unexploredterritory.tech

Pete Koehler repeats his stellar performance of last time and helps us understand the completely new architecture of vSAN 8. You can listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple, or on our website: unexploredterritory.tech or anywhere else you get your podcasts!

This week Duncan and I attended VMware Explore to co-present the session “60 Minutes of Virtually Speaking Live: Accelerating Cloud Transformation.” with William Lam and our buddies of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson.  The recordings should be made available soon or sign up for the session in Barcelona.

During the week, we caught up with many people and captured soundbites of people such as Kit Colbert, Chris Wolf, Stephen Foskett, Sazalla Reddy, and a few more. You can listen to this special VMware Explore episode on Spotify (spoti.fi/3cITI7p), Apple (apple.co/3q35dJJ) or our website: unexploredterritory.tech/episodes/