Monthly Archives: September 2010

My New Writing Career

Obviously there has been a lack of posts lately.  For that I apologize. The main reason I haven’t been blogging much lately is that I’ve been doing a lot of freelance writing.  I realized I haven’t been talking about these articles much on my blog, so I figured now was as good a time as …

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VMWorld – Day 4: Something Amazing Just Happened

The last day of VMWorld 2010 started with a new kind of keynote.  Instead of hearing from VMware’s senior management, we got to hear from three AMAZING innovation leaders in the user interface space. First to speak was Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. He gave one of …

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VMWorld – Day 3: Sticking My Head in to the Clouds

Wednesday was still a day of recovery, but I did manage to do some deep diving into VMware’s vCloud Director through a couple of meeting with VMware folks.  Much of the conversations were NDA, so I’m not going to cover them extensively.  One item we did discuss was that the product is not necessarily aimed …

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VMWorld – Day 2: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

Started Tuesday with the Maritz/Herrod keynote.  I have to say that this was probably the best keynote I’ve seen at any of the VMWorlds. The message was relatively clear, they transitioned well from one topic to another and stuck with a common theme through all three speakers. It started with a short video “explaining” the concept …

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VMWorld 2010 – Days 1 + 1: PTAB

As has been the case for the last two years, my first two days of this VMWorld were spent in the Partner Technical Advisory Board.  This board is made up of the top engineers and architects of the top 1% of all VMware North America partners, but represent almost 50% of all the revenue brought …

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