What is a vSpecialist

I’ve been a vSpecialist for about 5 months now and I’m starting to feel like I’m getting my legs under me. Don’t get me wrong, I still have a lot to learn but DAMN this is a great job !! BUT, moving from a 200+ company to one with close to 50,000 has its unique […]

blame the big push for cloud on the iPad

I spent the last couple of days presenting on the EMC “Journey to the Private Cloud” for a partner of ours at their lunch N learn (it was at Maggianos…and I’m low carbing..bastards 🙂 !! ). As I was tweaking the deck between events (it’s a bad habit…I can’t seem to not mess with a […]

Vblock: the answer to the NRE time problem

Have you ever heard the expression “The only thing not being created anymore is time”? I used to hear that often growing up. Back then it made little sense to me but as I got older, married, started a career and then had kids it seems that the hours in the day are shrinking and […]

Secure Virtual Desktops

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, “This is the year of the virtual desktop”!! Hell, I think I’ve even said it a few times!! It’s usually met with the same response “Seriously Trogden, if I hear that one more time, I’m going to pull my hair out!!”. You know what usually happens after […]

Follow up PCoIP Questions

Some follow up PCoIP Questions. On Wednesday (12/15/2010) I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of people in Troy Michigan (my slide deck is at the bottom). This was a discussion around “Why EMC for VMware View”. We discussed all the benefits of a secure virtual desktop as well as the scalability and […]

Turning the IT landscape upside down

My “Journey to the Private cloud” post got me thinking (you know you want to say it “uh oh, he’s thinking”) and specifically the part about pure play Service Providers like Savvis, Terremark, Amazon S3 and even utility providers like Verizon and AT&T etc. It’s dawning on me that these companies have the potential […]

Journey to the Private Cloud

The Journey to the Private Cloud I had an interesting epiphany last week while shadowing on some Executive Briefings. So, in my last blog I wrote about what interested me in the Vblock architecture, especially around the compatibility matrix and all the components that integrate in the stack. The fact that the EMC Vblock takes […]

So this Vblock thing is kind of interesting

Welcome to my first blog as an EMC vSpecialist !! One of the things that fascinated me the most prior to moving over to EMC was Vblock. In my prior life, I never really ran into it too much but I kept up with it from some of the other bloggers. Now, I’m not going […]