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…
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,…
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!
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!…
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…
On the floor of the vmworld 2012 Solutions Exchange I ran across my favorite VDI/EUC tool; Lakeside Software. Naturally I wanted to see what was new with them and man did I get a surprise!
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