VMworld 2018 was hosted in Barcelona, and is returning there for 2019. 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 […]
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. […]
Earlier on this year VMware announced Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX). The release and subsequent detail about the service has been a cause of excitement. Why? Traditionally the most complex element of any service migration, is understanding the interdependence between elements. If you are migrating from an environment dependent upon legacy infrastructure, most of the early […]
VMworld Europe 2018 takes place again in the wonderful city of Barcelona. After some intense negotiations in the Conyard household, I can confirm that I will be coming to VMworld Europe this coming November. It’s been a few years since I was able to attend (this will be my 4th overall 1 in San Francisco […]
One of the benefits of attending the VMware EMPOWER event in Vienna, is that part of the package includes an exam of your choosing from VCP to VCAP. In addition to the awesome content, sessions, networking and technology updates.
Presenters: Owen Sheehy, John O’Brien Technical support specialists from GSS and VMware GSS support the entire VMware stack, so requires technical competencies across all disciplines. For the purposes of this session much will focus on vSphere (ESX and VMware vCenter) as the foundatio building blocks of any solution. 80% of cases are logged against these […]
Presenter – Martin Hosken Session expectations VMware Cloud Provider Vision and Strategy Managed Service Provider and VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Cloud on AWS technical deep-dive How can MSP consume this model
Having worn both my fingers and my laptop battery down trying to keep up with the previous sessions in the day, I didn’t live blog the general session. In brief, lots of numbers about how well the various product streams within VMware are performing. However, in my opinion the session really started to ‘sparkle’ when […]