Category: VMware

The fairytale of Hypervisor Commodity

We hear some people chanting that the Hypervisor is a commodity. What they actually mean is that for an administrator it doesn’t really matter that […]

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you startups challenge my basic knowledge

DISCLAIMER: the companies named in this blogpost COHODATA: sponsor of Storage Field Day 4, where I was an attendee and my T&E was covered by […]

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Say nay to the naysayers – serverside storage for believers

DISCLAIMER: I am currently working on a Marketing project for ScaleComputing, one of the players in the HyperConverged platform market. The heat is on! That’s […]

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The Economics of VSAN – it’s all in the design

Thank you for everyone that got in touch after my “Is VSAN affordable” post of a few days ago. I have enough new thoughts to […]

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is VSAN more affordable?

I was very pleased to see actual results coming on the VMware blog concerning VSAN 5.5 GA benchmarks in the lab. First of all please […]

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Products are sold, tools are free!

Everyone knows I am a huge community fanboy and I will highlight when a vendor acknowledges the community with free tools. A great historical example […]

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VMware uses its right to bear arms!

Waaw … I hoped I would never have to write this post. Earlier this week I noticed someone tweeting they missed Nutanix as a sponsor […]

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3 discussions on Virtualization Management

This month I was, together with Ethan Banks, the Solarwinds Thwack Ambassador. The Ambassadors take some extra time to, beyond the regular conversations on the […]

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The X-th platform expectations

This is another one of those -cut the crap and use your common sense- posts. Earlier today I had a twitter conversation with one of […]

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I want it all – and I want it now!

Is VMware starting a Turf War with it’s partners. The title of Maish Saidel-Keesing’s post this morning. And it made me immediately take up my laptop, as […]

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#vRockstar – VMworld Barcelona kickoff party

You’d better start preparing for VMworld Barcelona. Similar to last year there will be a #vRockstar party on Sunday the 13th to get the conference […]

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The VMworld CEO Tour – the recordings

Two weeks ago I wrote that I was going one week early to Silicon Valley before VMworld and I planned to interview a few CEO’s. […]

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