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Note: This is my very last “vendorwag”. I know, wipe a tear from your eye! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank ALL the vendors over the last two or so years for taking the time out to engage with me… This weeks vendorwag is with Nutanix. How to describe in a nutshell what they do? Well, they provide servers and storage in highly dense 2U packag...

This weeks vendorwag is with VMTurbo, “VMTurbo delivers an intelligent workload management solution providing service assurance and infrastructure efficiency for cloud and virtualized environments. With an emphasis on prevention, VMTurbo delivers an intelligent and automated control plane for cloud and virtualized datacenters. Easy to deploy and simple to administer, VMTu...

A couple of weeks ago I spent sometime with Xsigo in Silicon Valley. That recordings of those sessions went out on youtube some weeks ago, but these are the full resolution videos which are now available, and being pushed out through iTunes and podcast subscription today. Vendorwag – Xsigo – Elevator Pitch (Part 1 of 4) Vendorwag – Xsigo – Product Lowdown...

This week’s chinwag was recorded in Austin, Texas with Dell’s Marc Stitt. He’s Product marketing leader and IT evangelist focused on deriving the real value of enterprise software, he enjoys spending time with family, and mastering the art of BBQ. In fact I helped unload Marc’s car of BBQ kit before his journey back to Ohio where he’s based. You c...

This weeks vendorwag sees the return of Centrix Software. It’s a full 18 months since they were on the show, and they were one of the very first vendors to come onboard. In case you don’t know Centrix Software specialise in analysing the activity of users desktops in real-time in order to gather data about application usage – called “WorkSpace iQ”...

As with the other videos in the “Vendorwag in the Valley” we have diced & sliced them into 3 course, or one jumbo portion. First video is the “elevator pitch” which gives an introduction from the CEO about who Pure Storage are, what they do, and what their unique value-proposition is. What this video if you have never come across Pure Storage before....

If you missed the youtube version of my vendorwag with Nlyte Software, its now available to listen to via my iTunes subscription. I chat with Craig Ledo and Claudia Hanson There’s three videos – the Elevator Pitch, the Product Lowdown and the Techknowledgy Demo.

In my last day on the Vendorwag in the Valley I toddled down to X to see guys at Xangati. Xangati delivers the leading infrastructure performance management solutions designed to overcome virtualization stall for both server virtualization and VDI environments. Xangati’s ability to track cross-IT silo interactions in 360° in a live and continuous fashion is entirely unique ...

http://www.panologic.com/images/logo.png My very last “Vendorwag in the Valley” is with Zero Client specialists, PanoLogic. Pano System 5.0 includes everything you need to deploy virtual desktops on top of your VMware, Microsoft or Citrix virtualization platform. In one package and for one low price you get both our unique award-winning Pano Zero Client and the comprehensiv...

On the second day of the Vendorwag in the Valley series I stopped by the offices of NetApp in Sunnyvale. Sunny it definitely was not – considering it rained for seemed like all day in the Valley. When I say “offices” of NetApp that’s being a bit throw away – there’s actually 10 or more large building all around which makes it feel like a busi...

As with the other videos in the “Vendorwag in the Valley” we have diced & sliced them into 4 courses. First video is the “elevator pitch” which gives an introduction from Jon Toor about who Xsigo are, what they do, and what their unique value-proposition is. Watch this video if you have never come across Xsigo before. The second video is a slightly m...

  My very first “Vendorwag in the Valley” is with Datacenter Visualization specialists, nlyte. The nlyte Suite of products replaces spreadsheets and Visio diagrams with DCIM software that contains the predictive intelligence and management controls data center professionals need to reduce operational risks and achieve smarter, more efficient and highly availab...

This weeks Vendorwag is with Whiptail, and I’m very privileged to speak to their CTO, James Candelaria. In case you haven’t come across WhipTail before – they are one those new breed of storage vendors who have opted for an SSD-only approach to array-based storage. From WhipTail’s website I found this bio for James: James began his career in high school...

Today I spent some time getting my AV kit together ready for the “Vendorwag in the Valley” event which is just a week away. A lot of people ask me what kit I use for recording stuff. And this youtube video gives you the details… On the Mac I used “Call Recorder” to record the Audio/Webcam from Skype   and I use “Screenflow” to capture w...

Quick Update: Nlyte Software has joined the Venderwag in the Valley event! Next month see’s me back in the US of A in the Silicon Valley, primarily to speak at the VMUG there. This was confirmed in late Feb/early March. As ever with my trips for VMUGs I was looking for something to do when I was “in country”. It occured to me that because the Bay Area is such a...

This weeks vendorwag is with Virtual Instruments and their guy, Archie Hendryx.  Virtual Instrument’s “Virtual Instruments ensures the performance and availability of mission-critical applications by providing a comprehensive infrastructure optimization platform“, specifically they focus on the fibre-channel SAN fabric. Archie works as the Senior Solutions A...

NOTE: The first couple of minutes of this weeks vendorwag suffers from a bit of Skype latency, where the odd word is lost here and there. However, the call quality does improve massively after the first 2 or 3 minutes. Stick with us! This weeks vendorwag is with Gil Levonai of Zerto. In case you don’t know Zerto are company that provides replication of VMs for DR purpose...

In this vendorwag I chat to Jay Judkowitz, Product Manager for Nimbula. Before Nimbula, Jay was at VMware for over eight years where he drove products like Site Recovery Manager and Storage VMotion.  Before that, he was at Scale 8, an early innovator in what would now be called cloud storage.  Jay started his career as a hands on IT practitioner at Intel for four years where...

This weeks vendorwag is with Ash Ashutosh, who is CEO of Actifio. If you’ve not come across them – here’s an in-a-nutshell paragraph from their website about what they do: “Actifio’s Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform is the industry’s first solution optimized for managing copies of production data, resulting in the elimination of redundant silos of ...

Click the Tintri logo to visit their site; Click Ed’s photo to subscribe to his twitter. This week’s “Vendorwag” is with Ed Lee of Tintri. I’ve kept on bumping into the Tintri guys over the last year, as I did my tour around various VMUGs in the US. I was lucky enough to get a breakfast meeting with Kieran Hearty the CEO and Founder of the company back at VMworld....

This weeks vendorwag is with Nimble Storage – who have been on my radar for sometime – I seem to keep on bumping into the same folks at every VMUG I speak at in the US! I think this might start a theme because I’ve have been chatting to the guys from TinTri and Astute as well. I spoke to Ajay Singh who is the VP Product Management at Nimble. Here’s his bio… Ajay i...

I’ve been meaning to have vKernel on the vendorwag for sometime (well, months and months actually). Back in June I had chance to hear them present at the Boston TechField Day arranged by Stephen Foskett. So it was an opportunity to become reacquainted again. On top of watching them present at the TFD, I made a point of doing a private webex with Bryan as part of the prep for this weeks v...

This weeks vendorwag has been in the making for sometime – so I was able to fit into my schedule despite my recent haitus. Despite which I didn’t want to keep the VirtualSharp guys hanging on waiting for me to get my virtual butt back in the saddle. I first came across VirtualSharp at the Leeds VMUG in the Spring – and was very intrigued by them. There product covers the worl...

This weeks vendorwag is with Alon Yaffe of InstallFree – and its part of theme of podcasts that I have been doing with Application Virtualization vendors. Some of these guys picked up on a recent TechTarget article I did about Microsoft’s stance on virtualizing IE6. But I’m interested in the general usage case of application virtualization. Alon is a seasoned Product Manageme...

This weeks vendorwag is a bit delayed, you might have noticed there was no chinwag or vendorwag last week. That’s because I was busy in Salt Lake City/Portland presenting and meeting with customers for mstates.com Anyway, this week vendorwagggie continues a new theme which is all about application virtualization, and topic that received some traction after I aim a broadside at Microsoft&...