Cloud Consumption Silos
We’ve spent years removing consumption silos, so why are they making a comeback under a cloud banner?
Category: Cloud
Cloud Migration – Steps to Success
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 […]
VMworld 2018 – Recap
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 […]
VMworld day one, Design Studios
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 […]
VMworld Europe 2018
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. […]
Data Centre Hybridity – VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension
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 […]
VMware EMPOWER – VMware Cloud Services on AWS for Managed Service Providers
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
VMware EMPOWER – General Session Day One
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 […]
VMware EMPOWER – Planning Your Migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware EMPOWER – Planning Your Migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS Session Presenter – Andrea Siviero, VMware Principal Architect Come and learn how to accelerate cloud migration without complex conversions and run you applications on VMware Cloud on AWS
Ravello Cloud Lab
As a vExpert for 2018 I get access to Ravello cloud services, what better to do then then continue the home-lab build I started last year. I’m by no means finished putting the lab together, however I have spent some spare time over the easter weekend starting to pull it together. The first component of […]