Microsoft, GitHub, and the Power of Corporate Support of Open Source

Let me start by saying that I’m a massive advocate, contributor, and supporter of many open source communities, while also working in my role for a technology vendor who provides a commercial product that also supports many open source platforms.  The reason that matters is that I’m not saying this without an understanding of the … Read more

Quick Demo of Tags and Grouping for Automation Polices in Turbonomic 6.1

Tagging is a phenomenal way to identify your workloads.  This means VMs, containers, cloud instances, and pretty much every single layer of the application and virtualization/cloud stack.  I’m often asked how tagging comes into play with Turbonomic, so here is a really quick demo of how tagging is used to be able to do things … Read more

Interop, RapidMatter, and Mentoring

Interop 2018 This year at Interop will be exciting as usual with a number of events focused on community collaboration in and out of the technology ecosystem. Tuesday and Wednesday will feature a 5km (3 mile) #vFit fun run. Tuesday run: http://schedule.interop.com/session/itx-vfit-runs/856879 Wednesday run: http://schedule.interop.com/session/itx-vfit-runs/856880 There are also two blocks of time which are Ask … Read more