Lately, VMUG has become no stranger to controversy after dust-ups with rowdy vendors like Nutanix, and a website launch that was lackluster and fairly disruptive amongst a messy and fast-paced split from SmithBucklin (the original VMUG HQ outsourcer). Now they are dealing with a self-made mess after the announcement that VMUG is joining the Dell Technologies User Community (DTUC) community. There have also …
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vSphere 5 Desktop Edition
I alluded to this in my previous post, but it seems that no one else has picked up on it yet, so I figured I might as well write up the first post on the subject. People familiar with the VMware View Bundles know about a special license of vSphere that comes as part of …
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 …
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 …
Kansas City VMUG Plans
As I sit down to really dig into building labs for the upcoming Regional VMUG in Kansas City, I realize that I haven’t even mentioned it once on my blog. I guess it is close enough now that I can spill some beans as to what we have in store. Similar to what we did …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Partner Exchange Day 5 – Thursday (The Final Day)
The final day of Partner Exchange started off with a final breakfast with a bunch of the attendees, some I met this week and some I have known in the past. It was a fun time and I appreciate David Davis helping to arrange it. The sessions I attended were merely okay. The two most interesting had …