TL: DR – – https://github.com/vtexan/emcdotnext-minecraft As you may recall back in my OSCON Blog post, Brian Verkley (@BVerkley) and I had the pleasure of sitting through a really interesting talk from Julia Ferraioli with Google. She discussed running Java type apps like Minecraft in containers. Java Apps are probably one of the most […]
Read More Running Minecraft in a Container with Persistent StorageLast week Brian Verkley (@bverkley) and I had the extreme pleasure of presenting at the 2016 EMC World in Las Vegas. We were part of “Code and Modern Operations” Track. Our discussion was around 12 Factor App development as it relates to Cloud Native Apps. We took the audience made up mostly of […]
Read More EMC World 2016 12 Factor App FTWIn my last blog post (New Year with a new focus) I mentioned that I’m on a new journey – one that requires me to roll up my sleeves and get comfortable being uncomfortable in this new world of Cloud Native Apps. For those of you playing along at home, I thought I […]
Read More Let the journey begin–where I started firstOver 5 years ago I left a storage startup to move to EMC to be a vSpecialist. Probably one of the most Pivotal (pun intended) moves I’ve ever made. The numerous opportunities afforded to me here at EMC has been crazy. I went from being a vSpecialist individual contributor, to a vSpecialist Manager to […]
Read More New Year with a new focusIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it hundreds of times. If you don’t like change, you are going to like irrelevance even less and that is no truer yesterday than it is today and tomorrow. The amount of change IT is going through is incredible. If you aren’t always trying to figure […]
Read More My thoughts on EMC and DellAn interesting federation whitepaper recently hit my inbox and the subject line grabbed my attention immediately. It was a whitepaper called “Virtualizing Hadoop in Large-Scale Infrastructure”. It was written in conjunction with our customer Adobe Systems out of Utah and it was right in line with some of the comments I’ve been making recently […]
Read More Virtualizing Hadoop in Large Scale InfrastructureI’ve been in presales for about 15+ years and in that time I’ve been an individual contributor as well as managed and built presales engineering teams. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed doing. Another aspect of these different roles is it gave me a tremendous opportunity to learn different kinds of technologies, applications, solutions and […]
Read More On to my next adventure“If you don’t like change….you are going to like irrelevance even less” As I’ve mentioned in prior blog posts, that’s a phrase I use in just about every meeting, presentation and blog to describe the fast-paced, ever-changing world of IT. It can also be used to describe the incredible amount of change happening […]
Read More EMC and Open Source sitting in a treeOne of the most requested conversations I’m asked to present on, other then End User Computing, is EMC’s Strategy as it relates to the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). As you can imagine it’s a big conversation. It seems I get the most questions and excitement when I bring up ViPR which is our […]
Read More Getting Your Hands Dirty With ViPR2014 is the year of EUC Because of this EMC has recently updated their list of EUC Reference architectures with nice additions from the XtremIO team. In an effort to help other track down where all of these EMC Reference Architectures are located, I’ve made it really simple. At least simple for me […]
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