RedisConf 2016

As you may recall, I moved into a new focus in January of this year. It’s REALLY outside of my comfort zone from a focus perspective. The Cloud Native Apps team I belong to is really not focused on “storage” or even a particular OS/Hypervisor like I’ve done in the past. It’s geared towards […]

EMC World 2016 12 Factor App FTW

Last 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 […]

Austin VMUG Conference–Keynote April 2016

This has taken way longer than I had hoped I wanted to post my April 2016 Austin VMUG Conference Lunchtime keynote. I’ve posted it to Slideshare and you can link to it from here 2016 April Austin VMUG User Conference – lunch keynote from Tommy Trogden

Check out the VMware Virtual User Group Meeting

TL:DR – go sign up and participate in the VMware Virtual User Group Meeting <-LINK Do you have an active VMUG in your city? If not, do you wish you did? When was the last time you were able to attend one? Here is a FANTASTIC opportunity for you to participate in a “Virtual […]

DFW Area May 2013 VMUG

I had the pleasure of talking about “End User Computing, The Journey Starts Here” at the May 2013 DFW Area VMware User Group a couple of weeks ago. HUGE thanks to Brad Christian (@BChristian21) for the opportunity to present ! Nothing is more exciting then getting a chance to nerd out with fellow VMware focused […]

Austin VMUG User Conference

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that next week, April 2nd I’m going to be the keynote speaker at the big Austin Area VMUG User Conference. Needless to say, I’m mixed with excitement as well as nervous energy! I take speaking at these VMUG’s pretty seriously and especially when they asked me to […]

Introducing EMC Elect

One of the things that drove me to social media (Twitter+Blogging+Facebook+Linkedin etc) was a desire to share with the community, good, bad or indifferent, but sharing none-the less. It’s probably a lot of the same reasons others gravitated towards this medium. It’s not for everyone, but for those that embrace it, they can certainly […]

The Legendary VMworld 2012 Hands On Labs list

<Updated Aug 22> Hot off the presses – in the immortal words of Barney Stinson ! This years VMword HoL is indeed going to be legendary !! For those of you that have been to VMworlds in the past, you understand the value of the VMware HoL. In most cases, you schedule your sessions […]

VMworld 2012 Tips Tricks and General FYIs

I recently published “EMC Guide to VMworld 2012” with lots of information focused on EMC customers, partners and employees that might be at VMworld I’ll probably publish one more later this week with a consolidate list of “Tweetups” that you might find interesting. In the mean time, I thought I would follow that blog […]

EMC Guide to Sessions at VMworld 2012

I totally stole this document from Kyle Keller (@latency) – EMC Cloud Director for our Federal team and former vSpecialist, because I’m getting asked a lot about EMC’s presence at VMworld I figured I’d toss this up on my blog site for others to view. With that said – here is your EMC Guide to […]