VMware terms and acronym index: vSphere based • ESXi Elastic Sky X Integrated • DPM Distributed Power Management • DRS Distributed Resources Scheduler • FT Fault Tolerance • HA High Availability • HCL Hardware Compatibility List • SM Service Manager • SMP Symmetrical Multi Processing • VM Virtual Machine • VUM vCenter Update Manager Storage…
A year ago last week (7/15) I joined SolidFire after 2 decades in the channel thanks to Dave Cahill. The journey started with Dave and I chatting about candidates for a new Tech Solutions team he would be building at SolidFire. CRN ran an article here and listed me in top 100 people to know here.…
A highlight of VMware’s Newest Updates from Partner Exchange 2015 On Monday February 2 VMware announced the release of several new updates and new offers. I previously blogged a bit about this titled: vSphere 6 Storage – The Future of Storage At-Scale. Here’s a few of the highlights to be aware of and how SolidFire integrates…
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Warning – This blog is not an engineering deep dive on everything VVOLs. There will be many of those launched at VMware Partner Exchange 2015 with incredible info. This blog will be about the future of VMware Storage at Scale. First off congrats to VMware for the release of vSphere 6. In this release there…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
VMworld 2014 Recap The Themes VMware is trying to transcend the hypervisor with a Software Defined Data Center – Not news but repackaging and renaming it a modernization of the marketing approach sometimes needed to move forward (See announcements on vRealize). New products/services were announced but not as prominently as previous VMworlds. VMware is transcending…
The Superbowl of IT events, VMWorld 2014 US is fast approaching (end of August). Why would I call it the Superbowl of IT events? Even though there are bigger attendance events this is the one that unites most end users, vendors, analysts, and press. Big reason? The opportunity! Opportunity to transform, opportunity to connect, opportunity…
Cut to the chase; today 7/16/2014 I join SolidFire! I’m doing this to: Further build out some of their most strategic technology partnerships including VMware, Citrix Systems and others Work with an elite team of solution architects focusing on areas like virtual infrastructure and virtual desktops, orchestration, automation and database systems Work with the SolidFire…
AppRemoting has been almost an exclusive Citrix functionality. As a former MACBook user I prayed for thsi kind of functionality. VMware has unlocked this function within Horizon 6 to combine with Workspace to deliver a end user consumption portal and usage model. This is really profoundly useful when you want to consume in a lot…
One of the pleasures of VMware’s Partner Technical Advisory Board is the demo night they had night 1. I sought out one of the hottest technologies to get acquainted with; Airwatch. This technology becomes fundamental for VMware’s future vision for End User Computing not just because of BYOD but a range of other things like Mobility Device…
I’m honored to be named to this group for my 3rd year (announcement here). I’ve seen value in the program because of the people, passion, and resources of this community. As IT has changed from the mass adoption of virtualization to the cloud era we are all contending with ways to triangulate what really…
Congrats to VMware for launching VSAN! Are they a virtualization company or storage company? Yes. IMO to truly be software defined you should abstract to a none storage construct. In this case the move from managing LUN’s and brute force storage admin now moves to Policy Based Storage. Yep, a policy runs storage. Extending from…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
I decided to write this blog somewhat inspired by John Troyer’s blog + tweet about 2014 predictions here. I love Duncan Epping’s response here. That said I thought I’d provide what are my focus areas for 2014 as something potentially more useful than a prediction (and I’ll through in a couple predictions just for fun)……
At VMWorld there’s become a new tradition of having the vBrownbag guys offer breakout sessions. These are 15 minute TechTalks. This year I gave one as follow up to a previous blog about how the Software Defined Data Center was like a Harmony Remote. Below is a link to the presentation. http://new.livestream.com/accounts/237166/events/2352999/videos/28516482
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