This basically turned into a VSAN & EVO SDDC presentation -- improvements in VSAN 6.1 are quite impressive.  Presenters Charles Fan, VMware, Inc Mike Feld, CTO, Baystate Health, VertitechIT Changing world of storage - in Google, Facebook, etc. datacenter see same hardware used for storage, network, and compute Flash is pushing storage hardware to be … Continue reading VMworld 2015 Session Notes – Rethinking Enterprise Storage: The Rise of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Going to live blog..will post updates as we go along if Wifi and/or tethering cooperate…. What's below is a somewhat blow by blow writeup with commentary - if you want a summary, read Scott Lowe's blog post here (although his summary stops before we got to Photon and containers). http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/08/31/vmworld2015-day1-general-session/ Starting with a video about … Continue reading VMworld 2015 Day 1 Keynote Live Blog

  Panelists are... Damian Karlson, EMC (@sixfootdad) moderator John Troyer, TechReckoning (@jtroyer) Kat Troyer, Jigsaw Staffing Solutions (@dailykat) Emad Younis, Tintri (@emad_younis) Lauren Cooney, Cisco (@lcooney) Keith Neighbors, Neighbors & Associates (@datastoragejobs) Dom Delfino, VMware (@domdelfino) John takes the opportunity early to plug TechReckoning  -http://techreckoning.com If looking for someone to join an organization, what is the … Continue reading VMunderground Opening Acts – Careers Panel – VMworld 2015

Ross Brown on stage (head of partner stuff worldwide)....I'm going to post general items here but not NDA stuff. Only in this role 4 weeks - started as a coder, decided didn't want to do it, then at TechData. Vendor side with IBM, Citrix, and Microsoft. Been in startups, mid-cap companies in rapid growth, larger … Continue reading VMworld 2015 Partner Session Keynote

  So I started to take notes myself but found that Bill Gurling's notes were way better (@vdingus on Twitter) - I'm publishing them here with his permission (call me his hype man). ~~~~~~~~~~~ Hartman Schoebel Shannon Wilber VMware   Process Ask the customer what they want? Maybe not - customers don’t know what they don’t … Continue reading VMworld 2015 Session Notes – PAR6421 – Best Practices for Deploying IaaS