Software Defined Networking – The policy, programmability and bedlam as VMware NSX prepares for public release

These are very exciting times in virtualization as we prepare for the general availability launch of VMware NSX, the product of the Nicira integration over the past 14 months. The product received heavy focus at this year’s VMworld in San Francisco, so much so that it was referred to by many as “NSXWorld”. I’ve been … Read more

VMware Workstation 10.0 – Hardware Compatibility 10 and vSphere support

With the update of VMware Workstation to version 10.0 on September 3rd, we gained some really amazing features including the latest guest OS support (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Ubuntu 13.10) and a plethora of other amazing features for collaborative VM sharing. Really great stuff! But when many people start up the new version … Read more

Bridging the gap to Private Cloud – #vBrownbag at VMworld

UPDATED  – 8/31/2013 – added embedded video for my session As a part of the VMworld conference, the #vBrownbag community is streaming some amazing sessions today and tomorrow live! I’ll be giving a 15 minute presentation titled “Bridging the gap to Private Cloud” at 4:30 PM Pacific (7:30 PM Eastern), so watch below and let … Read more

VMworld – Keynote and Announcements

This is going to be an incredible few days as we wrap together all the information about the keynote and the big announcements that just came out. So let’s talk about what we’ve heard from the morning keynote. vSphere 5.5 The new version of the flagship VMware vSphere ESXi platform is the new version 5.5 … Read more