How to Stop Windows Guests from Sleeping and Suspending in VMware Fusion and Workstation

As someone who spends a lot of time in virtual labs, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, and VirtualBox are absolute staples to my day-to-day activities. One if the challenges that we run into sometimes is that we have a few things going on at the same time and we let our lab machines relax for a … Read more

All about:virtualization

Thanks to the great community that has been build around virtualization, cloud, and everything that I’ve been writing about for many years, I have been given some great opportunities to create content to share in those communities. In my role as Technology Evangelist for Turbonomic, I get to contribute to a very cool community blog … Read more

Is Multi-Hypervisor Cost a Myth?

There are lots of exciting things happening in the technology industry. While multi-hypervisor strategies are not pervasive today, I see more and more production environments which are looking to leverage more than one hypervisor. This raises the question of “is running more than one hypervisor too costly?” If you are a hypervisor vendor, your obvious … Read more

OpenStack by the Numbers: Welcome Kilo!

As April 30th arrived, so did the next named release of OpenStack. Kilo is the 11th official release of OpenStack since its inception in 2010. Born of the with great hopes and minds at Rackspace and NASA, the widely known open cloud ecosystem continues to gain steam, awareness, and sometimes a little bit of criticism. … Read more