OpenStack Lab on VMware Workstation – Getting Started

One of the hot topics these days is OpenStack. When I say hot topic, I should really say that it’s a fast-growing ecosystem which has been, and will continue to gain traction in the cloud infrastructure world. What makes OpenStack very interesting to me, and to many others in the virtualization community is that it can … Read more

Event Recap: HP Storage Summit 2013 Toronto

Today was the HP Storage Summit presentation at the Carlu here in Toronto. It was an exciting event with a real focus on partner networking and about the roadmap of the HP Storage leadership team. I’ll start by saying that I was clearly under-dressed for the event :). It seems that the corporate focus drove … Read more

Strength in understanding weakness

It seems like a backwards concept sometimes, but the greatest strength in anything is understanding the weaknesses of an environment. This can be something in life, in sport, and in what we want to talk about here, in technology. When doing business and systems analysis it is equally, if not more important to understand and … Read more

2013 Predictions in Virtualization and Server Technology

Well folks, it’s that time of year. Usually people are putting together their best of 2012 stuff now, but I’m taking the different tactic and putting myself out there to predict some changes which will come in 2013. The usual disclaimer: As with any predictions, these are my own and have no basis on NDA … Read more