A couple of weeks back I received the news that one of the sessions I submitted was accepted for VMware Partner Exchange 2012. PEX is held in Las Vegas from the 13th til the 16th of February. There’s an excellent program again. Make sure to check the full list here. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it quick as [...]

I think this will make you happy. VMware just released the vCloud Director virtual appliance. That means no more installing Red Hat, Oracle and vCloud Director. Just download the appliance and deploy it. On top of there is a great vCloud Cloud Director Evaluators Guide which will help you to evaluate the product. vCloud Director virtual appliance download (You will [...]

I started diving in to vShield App and one thing that I like about vShield App is that it allows you to use different types of objects to apply your policies to. Never really put too much thought in to it, but considering the world is more and more changing to policy based management this fits right in. I just [...]

I was just reading up and noticed an article about Nutanix. Nutanix is a “new” company which just came out of stealth mode and offers a datacenter in a box type of solution. With that meaning that they have a solution which provides shared storage and compute resources in a single 2u chassis. This 2u chassis can hold up to [...]

I am live at the Launch event in San Francisco with many other bloggers, journalists and analysts. It is the 12th of July, almost 09:00 PDT and Paul Maritz is about come up on stage to talk about the Cloud Infrastructure launch. This article will be update live during the event as we go. Paul Maritz is taking the stage… [...]

I just noticed that the Horizon documentation is offered in epub and mobi format. I have been told that this is the first of many more docs to be released in this more universal format. I am happy that VMware decided to adopt this format. It does lead to another question though. I am part of tech marketing and we [...]

After attending Irfan Ahmad’s session on Storage IO Control at VMworld I had the pleasure to sit down with Irfan and discuss SIOC. Irfan was so kind to review my SIOC articles(1, 2) and we discussed a couple of other things as well. The discussion and the Storage IO Control session contained some real gems and before my brain resets [...]