Following on from the VMware licence change announcements, detailed here. I thought I’d take a quick look at the accompanying PowerShell module to see what… Read More »Extending – Counting CPU licenses needed under new VMware licensing policy
The impact of gravity on the cloud, what am I talking about now… Gravity is defined as “the force that attracts a body towards the… Read More »The impact of gravity on the 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… Read More »Cloud Migration Steps to Success
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… Read More »VMworld 2018 – Recap
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… Read More »VMworld Europe 2018
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… Read More »Data Centre Hybridity VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension
Presenter – Martin Hosken
Session expectations
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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… Read More »VMware EMPOWER – General Session Day One
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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 gathering momentum and VMware’s vision for the software defined data centre (SDDC) looks set to augment vSphere offerings and continue to dominate the private data centre landscape.
So how did we get here? How did we go from that initial wow factor that came from first experiencing VMotion to the VMware SDDC? I think it all comes down to one building block.Read More »Software Defined – How did we get here?