I’m delighted to have been awarded vExpert for 2019, for the second year in succession. For those that don’t know, the annual VMware vExpert title is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users over the past year. The title is awarded to individuals for their commitment to sharing their […]
We’ve spent years removing consumption silos, so why are they making a comeback under a cloud banner?
On the Thursday during VMworld in Barcelona I sat the VCAP deploy exam. I’d funded the trip to VMworld myself and had no customer commitments. So in addition to using the event to network, learn and have a bit of geeky fun, I decided to make use of the VMworld package discounts to sit the […]
Starting from Monday 7th I’ll be joining VMware as a Technical Account Manager. I’ll be joining a growing team of talented individuals working directly with VMware’s customers to help them get the best out of the VMware organisation and technologies. For me this is a perfect fit, the latter part of my career has been […]
This years VMware User Group Conference was held at the national space center in Leicester, with significant support from the community, vendors and VMware alike. The keynote sessions top and tailed the day, with Joe Baguley focusing his discussion on innovation and Duncan Epping highlighting the results of that innovation. These sessions where held in […]
The future for many services will be cloud hosting. Services that are now hosted on on-premises infrastructure, will be able to be rebuilt and consume cloud architectures in new and innovative ways outside of the traditional data center. Imagine you’re tasked with overseeing that development of business services, how do you get there? Cloud Strategy […]
It feels odd to be writing about VMworld 2018, in the week of AWS Re:invent. However, work and family schedules have meant that I’ve been focus on other things since I returned. Including preparing to leave my current role, having accepted a new challenge in the new year. More on that next month. This year […]
My first session at VMworld proper! And it’s a subject I don’t normally cover. I’m focused mainly on infrastructure, as those reading would know, however I had a good reason to attend this session… Let’s see if you can spot it. The scale and scope of end user services have grown as well as the […]
As you may or may not know day one at VMworld is dominated by TAM customer and partner content. As I’m travelling under my own buck, I’m neither a TAM customer or a Partner this year – so what to do? A new session type for me this year is the design studios. Due to […]
I’m writing this from a lovely apartment in the medieval part of Barcelona, for I’m here to attend VMworld. This will be my third VM world event, having attended at the Moscone back in 2007 and Cannes in 2009. It will be interesting to see what had changed with the event over the last decade. […]