Posts tagged "vmworld2015"

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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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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: The VMworld Store

Oct 28, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ I had a look at what was for sale in the VMworld Store. There were also numerous book signings during the week so attendees could get their favourite tech tomes signed by the celebrity authors! ;-)

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Cloud Native Apps Lab - HOL-SDC-1630

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ "DevOps, Containers, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Microservices, 12-factor applications, 3rd platform, oh my!" is how it is described. The VMware Hands-on-Labs are available online from ( and the VMworld specific ones are available from: ( It doesn't seem the VMworld labs are available yet post show and this lab isn...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Day 1 General Session Thoughts

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ I suppose you could say VMworld for most attendees (partners were having their 1st day yesterday) kicked off with the General Sessions. The keynote had fair amount of content common to the ( with some local changed information. There was no point live blogging as a lot of the content has been covered previously s...

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Meeting Cirba

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Cloud placement is going to be an interesting future conundrum: what cloud, what location, what network, what price, what risk, what availability? This was a good primer before I get to hear more in a few weeks.

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VMworld EU 2015 Buzz: Should I be Transitioning my Legacy Applications into CNA? - CNA6813-QT

Oct 27, 2015

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld Europe 2015 coverage:_ Session was led by Chris Crafford, a Practice Manager, VMware This again was a high level overview of the technologies available and went through what microservice are, the 12 factor apps I mentioned ( and why they are better for cloud environments. Microservices only manage the data they care about, are accessed...

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VMworld Europe 2015: The Day 3 Buzz

Oct 15, 2015

Well, VMworld is drawing to a close, today is the last day of the whirlwind. For a conference that is only a few days it flies by yet seems like so much is packed in. There was no General Session this morning which is a shame as at VMworld US on the last day they generally have 3 tech focused TED presenters showing some interesting things not at all related to clouds, DevOps and infrastructure...

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VMworld Europe 2015: The Day 2 Buzz

Oct 14, 2015

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 VMware bought which now manages mobile devices but Windows 10 is on the cards as announced at VMworld US. This will bring together mobile and P...

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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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