Virtualization

Network Virtualization and Managment; The Final Pieces

Posted by on August 22, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Tweet Although I can’t indulge as I would like to, I still love desserts.  I love all kinds but nothing beats a good piece of cake.  My great grandmother, grandmother, and mother all used to make an old fashioned molasses stack cake.  Instead of two or three thick layers, this cake is made up of [...]

What is cloud and does it fit in a Box?

Posted by on August 14, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Tweet At the risk of appearing to be uncool and not in the know, I want to ask the question what is cloud?Is “cloud” a tangible product? Is it a service provided by a vendor? Is cloud a way of designing your architecture? Is it a marketing term?  Is it a destination? Is cloud an [...]

Elements of Virtualization: Converged Storage

Posted by on August 5, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Tweet There are many buzzwords and phrases flying around technology today.  Cloud seems to be one of the mosed used, misued, and abused.  A close second has to be ____ as a Service.  The latter has mostly become IT as a Service.    Once you look at information technology as a service we move our thinking [...]

What’s New With VMware 5?

Posted by on July 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Tweet After being bombarded for weeks with notifications about the “Raising the Bar, Part V” extravaganza, I was registered and excited to see what is new.  Unfortunately, I had a procedure at a doctors office and was a little out of it and unable to attend.  Although the interface for the event seemed really cool [...]

Think you know your environment?

Posted by on December 17, 2010 at 11:35 am

The VDI assessment provided us the information needed to determine which users and applications were a good fit for virtual desktops. It also helped decide the storage configuration and networking changes.

Are you ready for some virtualization?

Posted by on December 14, 2010 at 3:30 pm

I am not against virtual desktops, in fact I am promoting it. As I began this journey, I quickly found there is a lot more to this picture than your software platform.

Forgotten but not gone!

Posted by on December 14, 2010 at 8:46 am

On a sunny, warm early summer day I had a conversation about virtual desktops and cloud services. My life has not been the same since. Our “journey to the cloud” had begun.

VMworld 2010: Why Are You Here?

Posted by on August 29, 2010 at 12:21 pm

VMworld 2010 is upon us and everyone is gathering in San Francisco today and tomorrow. Several people I know are here and all for different reasons.

Stackwars

Posted by on May 24, 2010 at 8:16 am

I have been learning more about the so called stacks emerging in datacenters.

In the clouds

Posted by on March 12, 2010 at 8:30 am

Tweet If you are like me, you see a lot about cloud computing but pay little attention because it will never apply to small to medium sized businesses. I see it as the new “paradigm shift” from the Dilbert days of the 1990′s where everyone talks about it but has no idea what it means. [...]