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

Austin VMUG Preso–Disruption

I had the absolute pleasure of delivering the lunch keynote at the April 7th VMware UserGroup Conference in Austin. I always enjoy presenting and love it even more when I can be vendor neutral and talk about things that are passionate to me. This presentation is focused on disruption, which interestingly enough is something […]

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 […]

What is your Virtual Machine Lifecycle Process

Let me remind you of my favorite motto, and probably the title of a future blog post. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less“ Keep that motto in mind as you work through this blog post. If you find yourself saying “this is the way we’ve always done this”, […]

Updated EMC EUC Reference Architectures

2014 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 […]

VMware Software Application Services Business Unit

I had an incredible opportunity the other day to do a cool Google+ Hangout with VMware’s Software Application Services Business Unit’s Chief Strategist Chuck Hollis (@ChuckHollis) for the EMCElect Community group. By the way, if you didn’t realize he moved, check out his blog post titled: “A Change in Role” . Matthew Brender (@mjbrender), […]