An 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 treeGuess what….you can now officially stop blaming storage as the most expensive part of a VDI deployment. 🙂 Gunnar Berger (@gunnarwb) with Gartner sent out a provocative tweet that grabbed my attention: He followed that tweet up with a blog post that gave some detail: The Real Cost of VDI Storage . In […]
Read More Stop Blaming Storage For Busting you VDI BudgetLet 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”, […]
Read More What is your Virtual Machine Lifecycle ProcessLast week I had an awesome opportunity to attend a VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) bootcamp put on by the VMware team. If you aren’t familiar with vCAC, it can be described as an Enterprise wide IT Portal that helps customers deliver on the “Software Defined Datacenters” promise around IT as a Service. The […]
Read More Note To Self get up to speed on VMware vCOOne 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 […]
Read More Updated EMC EUC Reference ArchitecturesEpic blogger and overall rockstar Chris Wahl (Twitter: @ChrisWahl) over at Wahlnetwork.Com recently pondered out loud about VSAN and it’s impact in overall datacenter storage design. This caused a flurry of Storage and infrastructure companies to add their 2 cents worth in the comments section. I decided I would do the same. VSAN = […]
Read More Resistance is Futile: VSAN to POWER UP vSphere DASHOT OFF THE PRESS! For those of you that are avid readers of my blog (thanks Mom!) I wanted to make you aware of a kick butt new reference-architecture that VMware just released for large scale VMware Horizon View deployments. Large in this case is 7000 concurrent Windows 7 desktops. Special thanks to Itzik Reich […]
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