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This year there are some awesome sessions at VMworld, I think people are starting to realize the benefits of automation and how these can be achieved with VMware products.  I am looking forward to attending and hopefully presenting some great sessions at VMworld 2013. Today is the last day of voting so if you are still looking through the session list and wondered what I had put forward th...

VMworld 2013 session voting is open from April 23 till May 6. You will be required to login to your vmworld.com account to participate. If you do not have a vmworld.com account, you can set one up for free. This is a global voting process, approximately 80% of sessions selected will be presented at both VMworld 2013 Europe and US.  Once you login to the voting site, you can select a...

VMworld 2013 session voting is open from April 23 till May 6. You will be required to login to your vmworld.com account to participate. If you do not have a vmworld.com account, you can set one up for free. This is a global voting process, approximately 80% of sessions selected will be presented at both VMworld 2013 Europe and US.  Once you login to the voting site, you can select a...

VMworld 2013 session voting is open from April 23 till May 6. You will be required to login to your vmworld.com account to participate. If you do not have a vmworld.com account, you can set one up for free. This is a global voting process, approximately 80% of sessions selected will be presented at both VMworld 2013 Europe and US.  Once you login to the voting site, you can select a...

Well maybe not often, that’s the way they used to do it in Chicago in the old days. I did want to make a plea to get your votes for my sessions at VMworld. I have several I submitted as part of HP and I promise to make them as technical as possible. My Top 10 things you must know about storage for vSphere session is crammed full of technical info, so much so that I’ve had to trim i...

If you have a session I missed please put it in the comments are yell at me on twitter. My submission I had 2 other sessions that seemed to be the exact same submissions as a certain VP from EMC, so I stuck with 5351 Enterprise Platform as a Service. – How IT will compete for internal business customers. There was an alternative title to this session and I promise to reveal it if my...

The last few weeks have flown by for me. After returning from Japan to welcome warm weather here in North Carolina, now it would also seem the conference season is in full-swing! (creeps up on us every year). A couple weeks ago, NetApp submitted abstracts for VMworld "Call for Papers". Now the abstracts have been released for public session voting. I have two sessions in the mix this year: Ses...

So the onslaught of "vote for my sessions" has begun. I like numbers and the interesting information that can be interpreted from those numbers. VMworld Call for Papers Voting is no exception. So let's start. But before that, I would like to stress something. These numbers are what I have extracted from what is publicly available - it could be that the numbers presented below do not make up a f...

It’s that joyous time of year again! VMworld is fast approaching and Public Voting is NOW OPEN.  This year I’ve submitted three different Ask the Expert sessions with focus on different topics, so there should be an Ask the Expert session for you! I’ve also submitted a great session on integrating two great technologies, vSphere Metro Cluster and VMware Horizon View, you shoul...

Well kids here we are again ready for the VMworld 2013 Call For Papers Voting.  This is going to be a short post but as always you can easily filter by the name of the presenter you want to find to make things easier.  Below you can see the filter results for my sessions.  I’ve also listed a few others that I think you should also look at since the presenters are always great.  I̵...

The VMworld Public Session Voting is now Open to anyone and allows VMware to poll the general public on which sessions they want to see presented at the event. This year I decided submit only co-hosted sessions with people who are specialist in their product areas. People like Mac Binesh, Director for Horizon Performance; John Dodge, Tech Marketing DIrector; and Narasimha Krishnakumar, Horizon...

So I finally got around to getting my VMworld 2013 session submitted based on my work a few weeks ago with the Hybrid Cloud setup I was working on between multiple public clouds.  I know voting is not opened yet, but I am hoping many of you will earmark this session for your list.  The details are below so you can read about it before the catalog goes live. VMworld 2013 Session Title:   How...

Recently Veeam gave away some passes to Microsoft TechED, and now they are doing the same for VMworld.  You can actually enter into their drawing to win a free pass to the VMworld 2013 conference.  You might as well do it you never know, you could win and make it to VMworld on Veeam!  You just need to register and you are done.  Here is a few reasons why you want to get there! VMworld Bre...

Recently Veeam gave away some passes to Microsoft TechED, and now they are doing the same for VMworld.  You can actually enter into their drawing to win a free pass to the VMworld 2013 conference.  You might as well do it you never know, you could win and make it to VMworld on Veeam!  You just need to register and you are done.  Here is a few reasons why you want to get there!VMworld Breako...

With VMworld (Americas) 2013 fast approaching at the end of August 2013, VMware have once again calling for session/paper proposals.  In recent years it has become increasingly more competitive for non-VMware folk to get a session accepted, with a significant number of the overall VMworld session count being assigned to VMware staff, though that said there are still non-VMware employee sessions...

VMworld 2013 Call For Papers opened today. I know many of you are excited about this and hoping to have a session accepted at this top-of-the-bill event. Personally I always submit various sessions and for the last years always had atleast one of them excepted, and some years even multiple. So the obvious question I always get is “do you have tips”? I guess at the risk of loweri...

It is around that time of the year again, when VMware puts out the announcement that the Call for Papers for VMworld 2013 and will be open, and then people will start to submit their sessions to get their hour of glory at the biggest virtualization show of the year. VMworld will be in San Francisco between August 26-29, 2013 in the Moscone Center. Last year there were 1222 separate sessions up ...

Howard Marks has a great piece on VMware buying Virsto over at Network Computing (link is below): Some of my fellow analysts have lumped Virsto into the flash acceleration category along with caching solutions like Proximal Data, Sandisk’s Flashsoft and Intel’s CAS. While Virsto can use flash to accelerate some storage I/O, it’s not primarily a flash acceleration product. I...

VMware is in an enviable but tricky situation: The company must work closely with hardware partners, keeping these prime sales and promotional channels happy and supportive. But VMware must also innovate around proprietary OEMs, subverting their products with integrated software before a rival steps up with an integrated alternative. This two-prong “coopetition” strategy has worked m...

It’s coming! VMware Partner Exchange is dedicated to educating and enabling VMware partners to sell and deploy VMware products and solutions successfully. PEX 2013 is filled with business and technical sessions. If you have not registered yet click on the picture on the right side of this blog post. If you have already registered you can customize your own Partner Exchange experience from all ...

VMware Mirage offers a unique solution for managing your laptops and desktops that combines centralized management for IT and local execution for end users. Mirage installs directly into Windows- no hyper-visors or formats required. And when Mirage is installed on a PC, it centralizes a complete virtual copy of that end point to the data center and keeps it synchronized. If an end user goes...

The VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite provides automated operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management. The vCenter Operations Management Suite enables IT organizations to get better visibility and actionable intelligence to proactively ensure service levels, optimum re...

Those who have visited VMworld and done a couple of labs know how awesome these are. Recently VMware announced that the VMware Hands-On Labs (HoL) would be made available online. You had the option to register for the beta and last week they announced the public beta was opened! On twitter some early reports are already popping up and judging by the comments people are loving it. Just completed ...

Mike_Laverick says Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM), as you might know there’s been a “Fling” on the VMware Labs for sometime, that allows you to manage Windows HyperV hosts from vCenter. That fling is going to be discontinued and supported in the web-client. It will be a free component with Standard vCenter and support Windows HyperV 2008, and will support Windows HyperV 2012 when it...

Cloud computing services have experienced rapid growth over the past few years because they can keep costs down by allowing multiple tenants to share system resources. One requirement of making this multiple tenancy possible is to provide each tenant with network isolation. Segmenting the traffic using VLAN is a typical solution to this problem. However, service providers also need to keep ...