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VMworld Europe 2015: The Day 1 Buzz

Oct 13, 2015

A great early start to the day was joining the #vBreakfast, an import from the VMworld US conference organised locally by ( . Conveniently near the conference venue it was great to meet up with 20 early breakfasters. I headed to the Hang Space which has been well thought out, great having the Hands on Labs in the same space as it brings people together. There's the Community Theatre, VMUG Loung...

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VMworld Europe 2015: The Day 0 Buzz

Oct 12, 2015

VMworld Europe on Monday is Partner Day which is a separate track from the main VMworld dedicated to helping partners sell VMware products. VMworld for most attendees kicks off in earnest tomorrow. VMware Partner TV has a preview of what's it about: <iframe src=" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> BIG BIG News of the Day is that ( and the 80% is...

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VMworld Europe 2015: The Day –1 Buzz

Oct 11, 2015

VMworld Barcelona starts off unofficially today, the day before Partner Day (Day 0) the Day before the full house start (Day 1) so, why not, I'm calling it Day –1! A shortish hop over from London landed me in pleasantly warmer Barcelona. I took the free shuttle from the airport which dropped me in the middle of nowhere which is precisely where the conference center is. I headed off to my teeny...

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VMworld Europe Preview: Differences + the DevOps Dilemmas

Oct 7, 2015

I previewed VMworld San Francisco in my post: ( where I initially highlighted the recent people changes at VMware as well as the rough and tumble world VMware lives in while marketing and selling storage and networking. I also spent some time going though the changing face of application development which I'll expand on in this post. VMworld Europe is the smaller sibling to the exuberant big 'o...

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VMworld: Juggling and jousting, VMware's battles for the future

Aug 28, 2015

VMware's annual love fest that is VMworld kicks off in a few days time. VMworld isn't just any vendor conference, it has become THE central meeting place to network and trade. Due to VMware technology being ubiquitous at the heart of the data center, nearly every vendor selling to the SMB, government or enterprise partners or interoperates with VMware meaning attendees can not only gorge themse...

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HP announces OneView 2.0

Jun 3, 2015

( was built initially to support the configuration of HPs version of the Vblock, the ConvergedSystem 300s and 700s. This has extended to be able to manage blade systems and 3PAR storage, The December 2014 1.2 release added a standard version so you could monitor any HP G6-Gen9 servers for free without having any of the configuration options. There is still a "tax" to upgrade your existing HP iL...

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HP Discover Buzz: HP Software

Jun 3, 2015

Paul spoke again today about the "continuous innovation enterprise". Paul said enterprises are struggling to differentiate through "digital" (a buzz term I don't particularly like BTW). He says 25% of companies will miss the shift and lose market position (does this include HP!?). He then went to on to talk about how HP is trying to help business and IT leaders understand this transformation. I...

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HP Discover Buzz: HP Storage

Jun 3, 2015

The HP Storage Coffee Talk session that we attended was first of all to introduce the new New SVP and GM of HP Storage, Manish Goel, who takes over from David Scott who worked for HP, left to start 3PAR and then brought it into HP. David has been credited with revitalising HPs storage portfolio with its now flagship product range based mainly on 3PAR based. Manish therefore has big shoes to fill....

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HP Discover: Preview & Where to for HP from here?

May 28, 2015

It's no secret HP is having a terrible time at the moment. They are in the middle of a very expensive, very distracting, very time consuming ( into two new companies, HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Will two separate companies make any difference to HP? They just reported their ( They are spending as much of this declining revenue on Capex as stock buy-backs to prop up the share price. T...

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SpiceWorld presentation: vSphere 6, Big, Better, Should You Be Bovvered?

May 13, 2015

I was asked to talk about vSphere and so of course presented on the new vSphere 6. I went through some of the editions particularly looking at what would be interesting for SMBs, highlighting the free ESXi version to be able to get started with virtualisation for free. I went through some of the new features, everywhere vMotion, SMT-FT, Enhanced Linked Mode, new stuff with vCenter, the PSC, the...

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