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…
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…
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…
One of the real fun things I get to do within the @NexusStratos End User Computing Practice is check out some of the latest devices. Let’s face it; devices are where it’s at. Devices, like the new Microsoft Surface tablet, really run the end users. While I don’t believe we’re beginning the “post-iPad era” I…
On the Solutions Exchange floor for vmworld 2012 I got an extensive run through of the Nutanix platform and software. Since last vmworld I don’t know of any other storage vendor that’s received this much buzz. Why? What’s interesting to me is they are a server/storage no SAN platform. That’s right a full integrated solution…
Desktop as a Service. Dropbox. Consumerization…. and so on. @NexusStratos (Tim Pfaff aka “The Angry VCP” & @jerridcunniff) and I presented “EUC Kung Fu” at the vmworld vBrownbag flash talks about VDI moving to a broader definition; End User Computing (EUC). So in other words it’s not just about a hosted virtual desktop. Here’s where…
A continuation of my floor review of FusionIO and their new technology. ION is one of those technologies that is an externally sharable solution. The concept is you provide the x86 box, insert multiple FusionIO cards, load ION software code and boom; you have an all PCIe flash, fault tolerant (stripped across cards), sharable via…
From the show floor of vmworld 2012 I got a chance to get a demo and overview from the FusionIO folks. These are the folks that @NexusStratos (the company I’m with) worked with on the Polaris success (earlier in the year we did a “brief-n-ride” at their corp HQ – uber sleds, uber tech). The…
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