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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: The beginnings...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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 nearly 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...

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...

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...

When you need to talk about the supply chain issues that affect IVOXY, our customers and really everyone and everything, who’d be the logical guest to bring on an episode of Data Center Therapy?  Maybe…somebody who’s seen it all, and been there from the very start? This week on DCT, our intrepid hosts, the newly returned Matt “Logistical Challenge Accepted!” Yette and Matt “Holdin’ up the Fort” Cozzolino welcome IVOXY’s founder, Mr. Eric Watson, to the virtual studios to share his unique,...

Space out.  No, really, go ahead and think of your favorite space themed games, movies, and books, because on this episode of Data Center Therapy, your host Matt “PlexMan” Cozzolino welcomes Ryan Grelck into the virtual studios to talk about 2022 and what fun things are right around the corner.  Don’t be fooled, however, as the duo also talk about Linux as a desktop operating system, ransomware, and transparent network virtualization technologies all in the same episode!  While taking you,...

IOS.  Android. MacOS. Windows.  No, this isn’t an episode about which is better or what Apple just released.  It’s all about managing those mobile and desktop platforms because, face it, the world is complicated, and the stronger businesses know how to play nice with all the different platforms.  Keep the users happy, but also keep the critical enterprise data protected while allowing those platform choices.  This isn’t an easy thing to do for most companies.  The software is...

Time flows strangely in the era of the pandemic.  Sometimes you go out on what seems like a four hour walk, and barely two hours have passed.  Or you might sit down on the couch in what you thought was the morning and suddenly it’s 4PM and you have no idea how that’s even possible.  Here on this podcast episode is a rare change up for Data Center Therapy; there’s almost no mention of the datacenter!  Instead, Matt “Bonjour” Yette and Matt “You have a Rendezvous with a uPnP problem?” Cozzolino...