Posts tagged "vmworld"

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VMworld US 2016: The Day 1 Buzz

Aug 30, 2016

VMworld TV has a preview of VMworld Day 1 General Session CEO Pat Gelsinger started talking about his perspective on the industry of digital business (does anyone ever talk about analogue business!?) and of course on the state of the cloud. Poor Pat was recovering from a foot injury 10 weeks ago and still had to walk around the stage for 90 minutes. The keynote had lots of customer references s...

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VMworld US 2016: The Day 0 Buzz

Aug 29, 2016

One of the best ways I’ve found to beat jetlag is to get active in the morning which helps to shock the body clock into submission! I thoroughly enjoyed meeting up again this year with the assembled #vFit crew for a run past the Vegas sights. Next up was activity reversal. I had planned to head to the obligatory #vBreakfast to sample that great staple of Americana, the humble pancake, laced in...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: A Group Discussion that made me worry about the future of vCenter Server - INF6383-GD

Nov 5, 2015

After attending a group discussion on vCenter I left perplexed by what was shared of the product roadmap and current customer feedback. On reflection I wondered whether something big enough was on the horizon that they were deliberately throwing us off the scent as I couldn't believe how some questions raised in the discussion were not recognised as problems. Virtualisation management is so inc...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting Virtustream + the updated BIG news

Nov 3, 2015

Since VMworld there's been a huge amount of news about EMC(Dell)+Virtustream\_vCloud Air. Basically EMC(Dell) will be consolidating most of its cloud assets under Virtustream which will be spun out as a separate company with EMC(Dell) owning 50% and VMware the other half. I'll go into more details of the spin out but first here's what I learnt speaking to them at the show. _Adding some more col...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Hot Topics in VMware Research - CTO6660

Oct 30, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Presented by David Tennenhouse - Chief Research Officer (cool title), VMware VMware has always been very academic research focused likely due to it being founding and having its head office in Palo Alto, home of Stanford University. Founders Mendel Rosenbaum and Diane Green were academics. VMware still maintains a...

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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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