Are you going to EMC World ?

  So last week Chad Sakac (who is my bosses, bosses, bosses, bosses, boss 🙂 ) sent out an e-mail to the vSpecialist team reminding everyone that EMC World is coming FAST AND FURIOUS !!!  (May 9-12 in VEGAS ) I can’t tell you how excited I am about this.  It will be my first […]

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iPad Apps for the Road Warrior

So, we are a couple of days away from Christmas and the craziness that comes with it!! I know a few people that are giving themselves “iPads” for Christmas!!  That’s my kind of gift 🙂  Since my hope is many of you will be getting iPads soon, I thought I would list out some of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The VMware Home Lab

  The Home Lab If you are not familiar with the vSpecialist group over at EMC, we are a bunch of A.D.D nerds that love to tinker with stuff.  Most, if not everyone in the group has some sort of “VMware home lab” they use to help stay current on things as well as a […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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