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DevOps Enterprise Summit London Review: Organisational Change is Mandatory

Jun 15, 2017

One of the recurring themes throughout the conference was about organisational change. Many enterprises are making some headway with DevOps practices if we define DevOps in one of its purest aims of "shipping higher quality code faster" as well as in a more broader sense of making IT more efficient and adaptive. I listened to a number of the presentations, attended the great Ask the Speakers Se...

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Do Enterprise People Not Care About DevOps? A DevOps Enterprise Summit London Review

Jun 15, 2017

I was very fortunate to be able to attend the ( in London recently. The conference is organised by ( which is lead by DevOps luminary ( who has written a number of books and papers about DevOps. I was struck that there were apparently 650 attendees which I found surprisingly low. If DevOps is the solution to many IT problems I would have thought that it would appeal to more than 650 people. It...

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UKVMUG: Demystifying the Future of IT, an IT practitioners guide

Nov 17, 2016

I presented "Demystifying the Future of IT, an IT practitioners guide" The premise was helping IT practitioners navigate a complicated cloud journey. As well as a summary: I want to redefine the journey as a multi-cloud one rather than just hybrid which implies a single private and public cloud relationship. Multi-cloud means embracing all the cloud offerings from on-premises to AWS/Azure encom...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: My wrap up thoughts + a VMworld Hot or Not

Sep 20, 2016

I arrived at VMworld a little sceptical this year. So much is changing in IT, cloud and DevOps is actually delivering the promises of a better way to do things, I wasn’t sure VMware was up to the task of pivoting/extending beyond being the best VM hypervisor/management company around. I do see tons of things happening at VMware. Cloud native apps and container management are being worked on fur...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management - STO7903

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Next up to another storage session with one of the fathers of VSAN, Christos Karamanolis, who is also a VMware Fellow, I’ve heard Christos speak a number of times and he’s very much worth listening to. Christos started reiterating that data provides tremendous business value potential with a huge uptick in the amount...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: CLOVE: Congestion-Aware Load Balancing from the Virtual Edge

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Aditi Ghag. This is all about building a congestion aware, fine-grained, distributed network load balancer. This means as soon as the packet enters the network at the vSwitch or physical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Corfu Distributed Shared Log

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I had been to a session which I blogged about: ( so here are my notes from that: Michael Wei spoke about Corfu which is an open source distributed open scale platform. He went through how a typical...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Enabling vMotion with Passthrough SR-IOV Network Devices for Latency Sensitive Apps

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Xin Xu. Currently VMware has a number of features for allowing latency sensitive apps to have a more direct path to the hardware which obviously speeds things up. However this breaks som...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: Exo-Clones: Better Container Storage Management Across the Clouds

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I had had a look at the stand talking about Exo-Clones and then also attended a session by Christos Karamanolis, who is also a VMware Fellow, I blogged about the whole sessions: ( which covers more...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: P4: Programmable Data Planes

Sep 14, 2016

I made a point as I always do at VMworld to head to the VMware Office of the CTO booth to have a glimpse into the future. I spoke to Mihau Budiu who also talked at a session which I blogged about: ( so here are my notes from that: Towards a programmable Internet Mihau talked about P4 (Programming Protocol Independent Packet Processors). I had heard about P4 on the ( (is that P3?). This is a pro...

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