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 […]

How to install SQL 2008 R2 in your vSphere 5 Home Lab

This is something I’ve been wanting to do a while. As you recall, I’ve been reinstalling everything in my VMware vSphere 5 home lab I’ve decided that I really need/want/”glutton for punishment” to install SQL Server 2008 R2 and start moving away from the default SQL Express stuff that most of the VMware tools let […]

VMworld 2011–Las Vegas Edition

Another VMworld USA has come and gone and with it a TON of awesome memories and cool opportunities to learn. This year was my first year to work along side our VMware brothers and sisters in the VMware Hands on Lab (HoL). If you recall, the HoL was something I missed all together in 2010 […]

VMworld 2011–Las Vegas Edition

See I told you VMware wasn’t evil

Me being right doesn’t happen often (just ask my wife) but when it does, I like to make sure I point it out to people 🙂 If you go back a few weeks to VMware’s big vSphere 5 announcement you will recall that no matter how many awesome features and benefits they rolled out with […]

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 […]