Category Archives: Conference

Reflections on VMworld #12

As I spend the weekend after VMworld reconnecting with the family I haven’t seen in a full week, I can’t help but occasionally think about the week away and the community I’ve immersed myself in.  I think it’s fair to say that this community is as strong as it has ever been. Most of us …

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Partner Exchange 2013

I managed to weasel my way into another awesome VMware Partner Exchange conference.  This year, HP provided myself, along with another four social media darlings, an all expenses paid trip.  Thanks HP! This year PEX seemed a bit more tame than previous years.  VMware has done a great job describing their three pronged vision (End …

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HP at VMware Partner Exchange

HP provided myself, along with another four social media darlings, an all expenses paid trip to VMware’s Partner Exchange conference (more coming on that).  As part of the trip, I attended the HP Boot Camp this year.  Given the fact that there wasn’t an NDA required and the fact that I work for an HP …

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2012: A Year in Review

I’m not normally one to do New Year’s resolutions or “the year in review” type posts, but I felt my silence out here deserved some level of recognition…or explanation…or excuse…call it what you like.  So, if anyone is still listening here on my little lily pad in the great big Internet, here it is, my …

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VMunderground Ticket Release

Today is the day folks!  At 6pm CDT (that’s covers Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City, as well as Omaha, Des Moines and Bloomington, IL) the VMunderground crew will release 225 tickets for our Mother of All vBeers event at VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas.  Those of you who have been to one of the previous …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Days 4 & 5

Thursday was another day of meetings, including a great meeting with part of our VMware partner team where we got into a deep discussion about our cloud strategy.  There was also a great deal of work completed toward the VMWorld 2011 VMUnderground party.  It is going to be a great party!  More to come on …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Day 3

Partner Exchange this year had 3300 attendees (up from about 2800 last year). Keynote on Wednesday started straight in with Paul Maritz, where he announced the Partner ecosystem account for $45 billion of revenue.  The big message this year is that when migrating to a cloud architecture, it’s important to support existing inefficient apps (crapplications …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Day 2

My second day at Partner Exchange started in the EMC Bootcamp session.  There were many cool topics covered, a couple of which were “turn off the cameras” cool.  One of EMC’s long term goals is to reduce both price and complexity of their products.  This has manifested in the creation of Unisphere and the VNXe …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Day 1

I started my first full day at Partner Exchange in the HP Partner Bootcamp.  I’ll save you some of the more salesy/marketing information.  They started by covering some details of the infrastructure they helped build for the new Cowboys stadium.  It involves a multisite 100TB EVA, 16 BL480 blades supporting 747 POS terminals and is …

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VMUndergound PEX 2011 WuPaaS – Epcot Beer Tour

Anyone interested in a Warm-up Party before Partner Exchange this year?  If so, we might have you covered. We had pretty much decided not to do a VMUnderground party at PEX, but one innocent tweet about beer at Epcot by Theron led us into a mad rush of planning and has resulted in this: Date: …

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