One thing that everyone who is attending VMworld is always  curious about is the VMworld party. On twitter a couple of hours ago @vmworld revealed that the party will be held at Yerba Buena Gardens. Unfortunately they have not revealed yet who the legendary US/British rock band is that supposedly has been booked. We will just have to wait and [...]

I was just watching the Drummonds vs Crosby debate. Many people have analyzed the videos already but the one worth reading is the article by Mr Stevie Chambers. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look it’s definitely worth it. One thing I would like to note is that in my opinion this was the wrong match. I don’t [...]

There are still a couple of days left to enter the “Run It With VMware” contest. I just noticed a tweet which had a link to a video of one of the contestants. I thought it was funny, especially the last bit were the woman does the vSphere rap. Anyway, $ 5000,- grand prize and four $ 1000,- second prizes [...]

Yesterday I posted an article that the required exams for the VCDX certification would be available at VMworld at discounted prices. Today Rick broke the news that VCDX Defense panels are also scheduled for VMworld. This reminded me that I still haven’t heard from VMware on the results of my VCDX Design Exam beta.  I was really hoping that I [...]

Usually 1.5 month before VMworld all the “VMworld, why you should attend” posts start appearing. My title says it all, Just be there! But if you are still not sure why, here are a bunch of arguments you can use to convince yourself and your manager… As most of you know Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac, Tom Howarth and [...]

A whole new set of products have been released today. Besides Lab Manager 4.0 VMware also released Chargeback 1.0 and Appspeed 1.0. Cloud talk is hot these days, if we are talking about tools which enable cloud computing we are most definitely talking about these “new” products. Take a look at the Lab Manager page and notice that “lab manager” [...]

People have been speculating about it for a while. Just when everyone thought it would not happen anymore Google announced the Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in [...]