Posts tagged "vmworld2016"

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Virtual SAN Management Current & Future - STO7904

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ As a quick summary of the vision, VSAN is bringing "appliance like experience" on “your choice of hardware” with “different storage policies per VM”. HCI is the driver for further revolution in simplicity, the next stage for VSAN is to double down on simplification and this wasn’t just for VSAN but for vSphere as a wh...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: VMware Chief Technology Officer Panel & Trends and Futures - CTO9943

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ VMware CTOs, Shawn Bass, Ray O'Farrell, Paul Strong and Chris Wolf took to the stage to give their perspectives. The role of a CTO is two fold, looking outward to understand technology and business trends to define a companies strategy and then look inward to direct that strategy internally and also to connect customers...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: The VMworld Store

Sep 14, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I took some pictures of the things for sale in the VMworld Store, one of the ways to buy presents for your kids

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Chatting to Satyam Vaghani from PernixData/Nutanix

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I luckily managed to bump into PernixData CTO Satyam Vaghani who had just been on ( talking about his companies acquisition by Nutanix. Satyam was gracious enough to talk and hear my ramblings, so I’m not quoting him here, all my words! I think it is good tech for Nutanix to acquire, I believe Pernix was caught betwee...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Cloud Native Buzzwords (Demystified) for Dummies - CTO7964

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Quickly off to this excellently titled presentation from VMware’s Massimo Re Ferre' who’s an Open Source PM. Massimo is one of the voices of reason in the industry with excellent perspective on the reality of global IT. He had an awesome t-shirt saying BADaaS! He explained how the infrastructure requirements are being...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Day 2 General Session Thoughts

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ VMware’s energetic Sanjay Poonen who is EVP and GM for End User Computer and has also taken on the role of Global Marketing head honcho kicked off the day 2 keynote. Initial talk about “digital transformation”. I still can’t believe in this day and age we need to highlight this but I’m sure its a nod to CxOs who still n...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Group Discussion: vSphere Integrated Containers with Ben Corrie - CNA10737-GD

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I attended a group discussion hosted by Ben Corrie who was the clever guy who put together ( of the game Prince of Persia running in MS-DOS in a container! It was a pretty high level group discussion, Ben asked for agenda things to go through: He went through the reasons for vSphere Integrated Containers which is to p...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Hot Topics in VMware Research - CTO9406

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I then heard from VMware’s Senior Director for RandD, Chris Ramming as well as Chief Research Officer, David Tennenhouse who were joined by Michael Wei and Mihai Budiu who are researches I had heard from David ( so was interested to see what additional things they saw as important areas of research. VMware has always be...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: VMware Internet of Things Strategy Unveiled - CTO9018

Sep 12, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I headed off to catch the rest of this spotlight IoT session. It was presented by Ravishankar Chamarajnagar and Mimi Spier from VMware’s IoT division I managed to get a quick update on the beginning which was how companies are starting to invest heavily in IoT to be able to create a new market and be first movers. Com...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Ask the vCenter Server Experts Panel - INF9083

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I had the opportunity to hear more about vCenter from an expert panel. The session started going through the evolution of vCenter Server. They asked for a show of hands of who was running the VCSA and I would think 70% of the attendees said they were which surprised the panel (in a good way!). There was talk of furthe...

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