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…
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…
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