About “vExpert” VMware has a program called the “vExpert Program”. It’s for the people who have made significant contributions to vmware through leadership in blogs, speaking, technical evangelism, expertise, and so on. This is the 5th year vmware has pulled this process together so thanks go out to John Troyer and the whole social media…
My wife hates my Logitech Harmony remotes. I love it. It’s hard to get everyone to unify on a concept but last I checked the Harmony remote concept is ruling the universal remote markets She, like a lot of people, doesn’t have any tolerance for flaws in the HD TV system. If it doesn’t work flawless,…
The industry has been crazed by the notion of “Unifying” storage. NetApp has lead the charge as has EMC and others. Above I’ve offered the classic “spork” as a symbol (similar to swiss army knife) of the ultimate flexible eating utility. What could beat it? The problem is I’ve never seen kitchen drawers with sporks. Huh.…
Jason Boche is one of the world’s most recognized vmware bloggers (see this recent link). Recently he even landed on a top 10 virtualization bloggers list with the likes of Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac, and Vaughn Stewart. As vmware is tightly integrated in cloud and has “cloud Infrastructure” software/solutions I thought I’d reach…
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…
One of the biggest buzz new vendors at vmworld 2012 was Cloud Physics. I got to meet Irfan Ahmad who gave me the intro and rundown of a cloud based vmware management solution. Very cool stuff so prepare to be blown away!
DynamicOps is a company vmware acquired previously for multi-tenant, multi-hypervisor cloud orchestration. My 1st stop once the keynote completed and the Solutions Exchange floor opened up was to seek these folks out. Their software was both straightforward and powerful. I’ve also got an additional YouTube video from DynamicOps as my video was a bit out of focus from…
On the floor a the solutions exchange I ran into the servicenow folks. These guys just went public (symbol = NOW) and are blazing a new trail in the ITIL world to enable organizations to manage hybrid environments. This is the first year I’ve seen them at vmworld and did they ever make a splash!…
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