Posts tagged "vmware-2"

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Office of the CTO Stand: vRDMA & Unifying Virtual and Physical Desktops with Synthetic Block Devices

Oct 30, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 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 Jorgen Hansen about vRDMA. This is an interesting research project within VMware to create a new class of distributed application in a virtual environment by allowing very fast trans...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: The VMworld Parties

Oct 30, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ vRockstar kiked off VMworld Europe with a community gathering at the Hard Rock Cafe. This is a now yearly event organised by ( ( and team who put on a fantastic party. vExpert Party I attended the vExpert Party which was at the fantastic Elephant Restaurant and Lounge Club, It was great to catch up with VMware's vExp...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: VMware Video Game Container System

Oct 30, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ VMware Video Game Container System I then spent some time at the fascinating VMware Video Game Container System. This is basically a demo of running MS-DOS in a linux container and then launching the awesome DOS Prince of Persia game within that container. Seriously impressive technology. You can see the demo: <if...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Group Discussion: DevOps and Continuous Delivery - MGT6401-GD

Oct 29, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ This was held by Thomas Corfmat from VMware who currently works with vRealize CodeStream although the discussion wasn't product specific. Group discussions by nature aren't presentations but rely on everyone giving input. The session started with introductions from everyone to get an idea of what kinds of companie...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Panel: Enterprise Architecture for Cloud Native Applications - CNA5379

Oct 29, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ HA and FT are no longer needed. No resilience in infrastructure is required but pushed to the developers to create. This then becomes everyone's responsibility to coordinate which isn't an easy thing to do, I see more passing the buck! There was some background on how agile makes things faster. There was an interest...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Running Cloud Native Apps on your Existing Infrastructure - CNA5479

Oct 29, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ They looked at various strategies such as starting with a new cloud and rebuilding apps but this is a good choice for cloud native only, something not feasible for many companies. Greenfield can be done, starting again, but yet this is another environment to manage with upfront investment. Unsurprisingly they sugg...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: VMware CTO Panel - CTO6630

Oct 29, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Guido Appenzeller - Chief Technology Strategy Officer of Networking and Security, VMware, Inc. Joe Baguley - CTO EMEA, VMware Paul Strong - VP and CTO Global field, VMware Ray O'Farrell was sick so couldn't make it, hope he gets well! _My notes, hard to encapsulate as it was a pretty broad discussion!_ Paul Strong led...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Day 2 General Session Thoughts

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Day 2 kicked off after breakfast with again sort of a repeat of the ( kicked off by the engaging Sanjay Poonam, the EUC boss. Sanjay has really lit a fire under VMware's EUC, started talking about the amazing effect of smartphones, AirWatch is the tech company VMware bought which now manages mobile devices (and fu...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting OpenNebula

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Open Nebula says it is an enterprise-ready turnkey solution for deploying private clouds, You can use KVM, Xen or ESXi as your hypervisor and can also layer it over vCenter to provide a multi-tenant private cloud. As a consumer you can use AWS EC2 and EBS APIs, it has a marketplace of appliances ready to be run in...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: The Future of Software-Defined Storage – What does it look like in 3 years time? - CTO6453

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Richard McDougall, a Principal Engineer at VMware led this presentation peeking into the future. This session was about the futures and trends for storage hardware and next-gen distributed services. shared NVMe/PCIe rack scale, flash densities and if magnetic storage still has a place. He built up the picture showing...

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