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

VMworld is here!

VMworld 2013 – Time for the big show With the growing popularity of the vendor conventions in the last few years, it goes without saying that VMware has made their mark on the industry with their products, and the VMworld Conferences that bring the big news to customers, partners and community members each year. I’m … Read more

Is OpenStack a cloud? Thoughts on Subbu Allamaraju’s post

As you may have seen from Tweets floating around today, there was an interesting post written by Subbu Allamaraju, Chief Engineer for the cloud program at eBay, titled “OpenStack is not cloud” – http://www.subbu.org/blog/2013/07/openstack-is-not-cloud This article brings up some very interesting questions about how we define the litmus test for a cloud, and how OpenStack is … Read more