OpenStack Havana All-in-One Lab: Cinder addition for Block Storage

It seems like forever ago that we began, and it’s time to keep the ball rolling with our OpenStack Havana All-in-One build on VMware Workstation series that had become idle in the last little while. Lot’s of great feedback has been coming in and one of the key things that we wanted to do to … Read more

Cheeseburger cheese: How customer awareness is shaping the IT and cloud marketplace

Recently I attended a SQL User Group here in Toronto and one of the fun parts of the event is that everyone was asked to speak. I opted for a lightning talk which was five minutes, and my presentation was created to chat about change, virtualization, SQL servers, and the new ways of IT. I … Read more

Taking on your storage situation with CloudPhysics – new Storage Analytics release!

What’s one of the most common things we see as virtualization admins is the classic performance issues which lead many to say “It must be a problem with the SAN”. The black-box feel of the storage layer can often be a blame destination when there undetermined performance problems. The CloudPhysics way: Products powered by you! … Read more

VMware VSAN has arrived!

This week was the launch of the much anticipated VMware VSAN in General Availability. This product has been in beta for some time now, and getting a lot of attention from customers, partners, and from its competitors. Today is really the more official launch with the availability of vSphere 5.5 Update 1: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=353&downloadGroup=VC55U1 If you … Read more