VMware on AWS: Thoughts, Wins, and Challenges

VMware did what many would have thought would never be the done.  They announced the upcoming launch of VMware on AWS.  Frank Denneman did a great write up (thanks Frank!) that covers the first announcement and some of the details.  There have been lots of opinions on the announcement, the value to customers, and the impetus … Read more

vSphere Announcement:  Goodbye C#, Hello HTML5 Client

No more C# client. It’s a new world where HTML 5 is the way to go. This is a very exciting announcement as we look towards the new iteration of VMware vSphere as it begins to trickle into the roadmap in the coming months. The web client has been something that has been a big … Read more

Is Multi-Hypervisor Cost a Myth?

There are lots of exciting things happening in the technology industry. While multi-hypervisor strategies are not pervasive today, I see more and more production environments which are looking to leverage more than one hypervisor. This raises the question of “is running more than one hypervisor too costly?” If you are a hypervisor vendor, your obvious … Read more

Fire Photon Torpedoes! Getting Started with VMware Photon Linux

A new brand of containerization just launched with the release of Photon from VMware.  This new, open source linux derivative, is similar to the concept of CoreOS in being able to provide a thin linux base to provide a fast path to hosting containers. Both Docker and Rocket are supported in the base build, and … Read more