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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
VMware have been presenting at Money 20/20 this past week, where they made a few announcements. A VMware commissioned survey of banking professionals, exploring how technology will shape the future of the banking industry, led to the following results; “The banking sector is laying the foundation for the digitization of their businesses and anticipate emerging […]
It’s widely acknowledged that to understand the present, and to try and predict the future you must know and understand the past. The current data centre landscape is a complex place. Virtualisation of compute resources with VMware has been the de facto standard for over a decade. The move to software defined infrastructure has been […]