Posts tagged "vmworld2016"

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Day 1 General Session Thoughts

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ 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 c...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: LAB: Cloud Native Apps With Photon Platform - HOL-1730-USE-2

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I had time on the Sunday pre-VMworld to take one of the Hands-On-Labs and you can get set up quicker at the show using your own laptop with a BYOD option. The labs are available publicly at ( " but I see the ones from the show have not been made available yet. 07:00AM – 06:00PM Sunday, August 28 10:30AM – 06:00PM Mo...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: NSX - The Network Bridge to the Multi-cloud Future - NET9989-S

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ The session was run by VMware Chief Technology Strategy Officer, Guido Appenzeller and customer Isao Eguchi from Nomura Research Institute. The session went through how networking is changing to support tomorrow’s applications, multiple hypervisors, multiple clouds, multiple platform architectures. Guido mentioned the...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Secure Digital Workspace of the Future: Embracing the Opportunities Presented by Enterprise Mobility in Financial Services - EUC9160

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ Manasee Dash and Harry Labana from VMware hosted with Matt Casper from Prudential, Simon Gallagher from UBS and Billy Matkovich from First Data. Any project, particularly EUC which covers a raft of VMware, Microsoft and Citrix technologies is going to be hard work and I know Simon has his work cut out for him. The pan...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: VMs, Containers, and Mega-Clouds: Connecting the Dots - MGT10599-S

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ VMs, Containers, and Mega-Clouds: Connecting the Dots \ I’ve been getting more involved in containers recently and so am wanting to hear more about how to navigate the choices of where to run containers. VMware’s Cloud Management BU Boss Ajay Singh was joined by customers Marshall Holloway from SAIC and Campbell McCle...

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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: What's New with vCenter Server - INF9944R

Sep 9, 2016

_Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:_ I had planned to attend a session on one of the products I’ve written extensively about over the years, vCenter. After VMworld last year I had ( so was hoping to see how a year may have changed things. The session was unfortunately oversubscribed by the time I arrived so I missed out but caught up from a few people. T...

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VMworld US 2016: The Day 3 Buzz

Sep 1, 2016

No General Session today so straight into sessions Virtual SAN Management Current and Future \ As a quick summary of the vision, VSAN is bringing "appliance like experience" on your choice of hardware, 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...

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VMworld US 2016: The Day 4 Buzz

Sep 1, 2016

Today is the wind down to VMworld when all the announcements are out. I usually love the final day general session as it gives us a peak at what else is happening outside the VM/cloud/IT bubble. Today’s talks covered satellites hunting lost cities, 3D printers building robots and synthetic biology, a much needed look at something else! Sarah Parcak, Satellite Archaeologist, University of Alabam...

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VMworld US 2016: The Day 2 Buzz

Aug 31, 2016

Day 2 General Session: Competitive Advantage in the Multi-Cloud Era - Connecting People, Apps and Data to Propel your Business Forward. \ 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...

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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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