Austin VMUG Preso–Disruption

I had the absolute pleasure of delivering the lunch keynote at the April 7th VMware UserGroup Conference in Austin. I always enjoy presenting and love it even more when I can be vendor neutral and talk about things that are passionate to me. This presentation is focused on disruption, which interestingly enough is something […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]