Virtualizing Hadoop in Large Scale Infrastructure

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 […]

Various info around deploying VDI

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of discussions with companies around Virtual Desktops (VDI) and these meetings usually fall into 2 types. First type is “what is VDI” or “VDI Best Practices” and even sometimes it’s “Why VDI now” or VDI 101. Normally this is an open discussion around why they are looking at […]

VMware is not evil – my opinion on their new licensing model

What a WEEK!!! VMware didn’t let us down with all the buildup they made to their big launch on Tuesday. In the immortal words Chad Sakac – it was FACEMELTING AWESOMESAUCE. I mentioned a few of my favorite things about vSphere 5 on this blog post. The unfortunate side of the announcement was the reaction […]

really cool things in vSphere5

Today with all the pomp and circumstance they rightly deserve VMware announced that vSphere 5 and all its wonderful glory will be “GA” (Generally Available) in August. I thought I would write a short blog and call out some of the coolest features, at least to me, that will be in vSphere 5. First and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]