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Canadian Clouds in the Forecast: CloudA Merges with Cirrus9
June 9, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As an OpenStack enthusiast, I have been closely watching Canadian cloud startup CloudA intently as they have grown into a very interesting provider of Canadian hosted cloud services. It was particularly exciting to see their recent news as they announced … Read More
Let’s Talk Docs: Document Conversations in SharePoint Online
June 6, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco ChampionAmong many of the feature updates announced at the recent SharePoint 2014 Conference, the addition of Yammer integration has been viewed as one of the more exciting changes to help drive customers into the platform.
Social Integration For Enterprise Documents … Read More
Not Just Talk: VMware Touts SDDC and NSX With Customer Proven Deployments
June 6, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
With all of the marketing in place to drive the message of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networking (SDN), it is difficult to see the real data among all the slide decks.
The Vision of Software Defined … Read More
AirWatch Becomes a Leader in Gartner MQ for EMM
June 6, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) becomes a hotly contested market, we are seeing some excitement in this ecosystem with more vendors coming forward, and expansion of offerings in the major players. Gartner has just released their Magic Quadrant report for … Read More
A Nice Time to Visit Brazil: Azure Opens Up Brazil South Region
June 5, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
I’ve always wanted to visit Brazil, and as of today I can. At least my Azure virtual instances can!
Beginning with Web Sites, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and much more (Full service list here), the new region which debuted in … Read More
VMware vCenter Heartbeat Officially Flatlined
June 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 3
While the reasoning may not be fully known yet as to why it has happened, VMware has chosen to mark the vCenter Server Heartbeat product as EOA (End of Availability) as of June 2, 2014. It has been noted that … Read More
Maya Have This Dance? The Protonet Crowdfunded Social Server
June 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
In today’s world, crowdfunding is fast becoming a strategy to fund development of many things. While this venue began as a way to gather up money to produce movies and music, the amount of technology campaigns has proven that this … Read More
Cisco UCS Rockets up the Charts to Number 1!
June 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 3
With a momentum that could not have been predicted in 2009, Cisco has taken the reins in leading the x86 blade market with an announcement today from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for Q1 2014.
There has been massive … Read More
Breaking News: Scott Davis, Former VMware CTO, Joins Infinio as CTO
June 3, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 2
While everyone was watching WWDC yesterday to see what announcements were coming out, something was happening in the world of virtualization storage that had my attention in a much greater way.
As of 9:00 AM on Tuesday June 3, 2014, … Read More
Pivotal Announces Cloud Foundry 1.2: Now with vCHS Support!
June 2, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Fans of the increasingly popular PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offering Pivotal Cloud Foundry, otherwise known as Pivotal CF, can now share their excitement with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) consumers with the launch of Pivotal CF 1.2 thanks to some great new … Read More
AWS Management for vCenter: Strange Bedfellows?
June 2, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
In a move that some have regarded as a clear shot across the bow of VMware, Amazon has launched an interesting new product with their AWS Management Portal for VMware vCenter. This is a very nifty management tool for organizations who have … Read More
The Dawn of Managed Cloud – Rackspace and the Upcoming Gartner MQ Report
May 30, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
I won’t be the first one to say this, but in the enterprise adoption of cloud I feel that this is where things may go: “Managed cloud is the new cloud”
As Gartner prepares to publish their Magic Quadrant for for … Read More
Designing Your VMware VSAN HA Environment
May 30, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
We often scoff at the “Best Practices” designs because they typically over-provision more than illustrate the truth behind how to protect a high availability (HA) environment. Luckily, we come across some great articles sometimes which not only tell us the “how” … Read More
Putting the Service in Self-Service: Understanding the Cloud Service Catalog
May 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – (Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare)
But what is in a name? Service Catalogs can come in many different shapes and sizes. … Read More
SAP Skies are Looking Blue…Azure Blue
May 29, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Long gone are the days where big software companies hold their bare-metal delivery methods close to their chest. We have seen the shift with products from Oracle getting the “supported” moniker on virtualized platforms, so it was both a surprise … Read More
Like Posters? We do! VMware vCHS Reference Architecture from Hany Michael
May 28, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
If you aren’t already familiar with the work of Hany Michael, you will soon become an avid follower. Hany has been the person behind some of the most well known reference posters for many VMware technologies. The latest release is … Read More
Securing Your vSphere: vSphere 5.5 U1 Hardening Guide Beta 2 Released
May 28, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
With all of the focus on security in the world of technology, one of the first places we should look is into our VMware infrastructure. The VMware Community Team has just released Beta 2 of the VMware vSphere 5.5 Update … Read More
Open Licensing Coming for Microsoft Azure
May 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Microsoft has announced that they will add the ability to use Open Licensing to purchase services in their Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The announcement came from Josh Waldo, Senior Director of Cloud Partner Strategy, which is a timely move for … Read More
Getting Started with VMware NSX – Great New Series from VMware!
May 27, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
With all of the hype happening around Network Virtualization (NV) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), we can often get lost in the shuffle of marketing overload. The folks at VMware have decided to change that by opening the doors more … Read More
Is Your Business Always-On? Veeam Wants to Make Sure it is
May 26, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There are so many changes happening in the way that business is operating these days, and we have to make sure that our products are keeping up with the rate of change to support that. Our friends at Veeam Software … Read More
VMware vCHS is getting a pay-as-you-go makeover
May 26, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
For fans of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) model, you may have heard that there are some changes coming for the platform. There is continuous integration and continuous deployment already actively happening on the technical side, but the excitement … Read More
IPv4, where are you? IANA handing out last IPv4 address blocks
May 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
We’ve known that this day was coming for a long time, and it now we know that it will soon come to pass. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) who manages the IANA, has begun the process of allocating the … Read More
OpenStack Icehouse – Lots of New Changes!
May 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack is becoming a more widely known name in virtualization lately, and with good reason. Much like a band that tours small venues for a few years and then suddenly becomes an “overnight success”, OpenStack has the potential to become … Read More
Microsoft goes cross-platform with PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux
May 22, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
If you haven’t already had a look at PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration), then I highly recommend that you do. The new platform management offering from Microsoft is a powerful tool that provides stateful configuration management for your Microsoft environment.
Making logging fun again! VMware releases Log Insight 2.0
May 22, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Log management may not be fun, and it certainly isn’t anyone’s favorite thing to do for the most part. One thing that can ease the pain with log management is to use the VMware Log Insight tool which has a … Read More
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