Whoa! Data Center Madness Series Launches March 21st – Register Now!... March 13, 2017 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7.0 – New Recommendations and Re... December 18, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
vChat Podcast Episode 40 – EMCworld 2016, OpenStack Summit 2016 and Hot Te... June 6, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Migrating to the Cloud – It May Not Be As Easy As You Think... November 19, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Hyperconverged.org: Bringing Hyperconvergence Education to Global Markets!... October 23, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
LIVE from VMworld 2015! – vChat Podcast Episode 39 with @DavidMDavis @Kiwi... September 17, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
vSphere Snapshot Monitor – SnapWatcher – Now GA – Independence... July 1, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Getting Started with Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7
December 18, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
The folks at Solarwinds have been busy enhancing their Virtualization Manager product with some great new features. I’ve done a full review of the new edition here -> Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7.0 – New Recommendations and Remediations! So how … Read More
Don’t Miss Our 2016 Cloud MegaCast – JULY 27th!
July 14, 2016 | Melina Black
DISCOVER SEVEN HOT CLOUD SOLUTIONS IN ONE EVENT: BACK-TO-BACK
“The cloud” is a term that has been hijacked, twisted about, and regurgitated by many marketers with nary a thought to what it actually happening under the hood. Part of the … Read More
Don’t Miss This! Our 2016 Hyperconvergence MegaCast – April 27th!
April 7, 2016 | Melina Black
EVALUATE SIX TOP HYPERCONVERGENCE SOLUTIONS IN ONE EVENT: BACK-TO-BACK
Are you frustrated by the rising complexity in your data center? Does storage keep you up at night because it’s too slow, too small, or too expensive… or all of the … Read More
VMworld 2015 – Not Your Typical Tradeshow
October 22, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
As the U.S. VMworld 2015 recedes into our rear view mirror and we gear up for Barcelona next month, you might be wondering if a large trade show like this is worth attending. After my experience in San Francisco earlier … Read More
Attacking the Datacenter Problem From all Directions at ZeroStack
October 20, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
ZeroStack just raised an additional $16M in VC Series B funding to support its efforts to bring a whole new hyperconvergence solution to market. Their new solution uses a hardware appliance, KVM hypervisor, OpenStack and creates a fully supported OpenStack private … Read More
New Virtual Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tool – Free Beta
July 22, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
There is a lengthy list of virtualization performance and capacity tools that monitor CPU, memory, storage, and network. However, when they say that they monitor the “network”, what they really do is to go to vCenter and pull basic network … Read More
Cisco Firing on All Pistons in OpenStack Cloud
June 12, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Cisco, a company which was traditionally known for their network equipment, such as routers and switches just a few years ago has continued to further diversify their business over the last several years. In 2014, Cisco purchased Metacloud, an OpenStack … Read More
HP Expands the Cloud with Helion Updates
June 12, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
HP recently announced multiple enhancements to their Helion Cloud product suite at HP Discover 2015. Since its initial announcement in 2014, the Helion Cloud has grown by leaps and bounds with a focus on HP enterprise customers.
HP Helion CloudSystem … Read More
Cloudy Forecast, EMC Purchases Virtustream
June 11, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
EMC, a company traditionally known for their storage systems, has announced they are acquiring Virtustream for 1.2 Billion Dollars in cash. This move is another in a series of acquisitions faced on the cloud computing market space over the last … Read More
Solving VMware vSphere Tools Are Outdated or Not Installed
April 24, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
One of the most common problems you’ll ever see in any VMware vSphere infrastructure is the error message “VMware Tools are Outdated or Not Installed”. For those who don’t know, VMware Tools are a suite of utilities that enhance the … Read More
BIG NEWS! February 24th: The Hyperconverged Infrastructure Mega-Cast!
February 12, 2015 | admin
DON’T MISS THIS ONE-TIME EVENT – OVER $10,000 IN TOTAL PRIZES! February 24, 2015 12:00PM Eastern Time (9:00AM Pacific)
DON’T WAIT! CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER!
Are you frustrated by the rising complexity in your data center? … Read More
Protected: Managed Virtualization by Rackspace – the Alternative to Public Cloud
February 4, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Blue Box gets a Boost: OpenStack Provider Announces Funding Round
January 6, 2015 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack continues to draw more attention as we see more funding announcements and product news. Seattle-based OpenStack private cloud provider Blue Box has just announced the completion of their Series B funding round which began in Q4 of 2014.
Private … Read More
Clouding the Enterprise Definition: Verizon Announces Potential 48 hour Outage
January 5, 2015 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
It what many have called a surprising move, cloud provider Verizon has announced to some customers that it will be experiencing a service outage of up to 48 hours. While this doesn’t surprise some who understand the nature of cloud … Read More
Midokura’s SDN Product, MidoNet Becomes Open Source
December 11, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Midokura is a software defined networking company who’s product, MidoNet, aims to provide functionality for Layer 2 through Layer 4 of the OSI model. On November 3rd, Midokura announced that MidoNet has become available under the Apache 2.0 license, … Read More
OpenStack Summit – Great Summary by Red Hat
November 10, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Well titled as “OpenStack 2015 – The year of the enterprise?”, the team at Red Hat have put together a great summary of their experience at the recent OpenStack Summit in Paris. While we often chuckle at the ever famous … Read More
Mirantis and the Art of the Multi-Million Dollar OpenStack Business
October 27, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
As the OpenStack market place continues to grow, and vendors lunge to get a piece of the hot new open cloud customer base, Mirantis has shown many why it is for good reason. Just recently we saw the landmark announcement … Read More
Open Source: Projects to Watch (hint: OpenStack and Docker)
October 23, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
We’ve been seeing a lot of activity around open source projects lately. It isn’t that they haven’t existed before, but there is an increased focus on open source software that is proving to be a powerful adversary for the traditional … Read More
EMC Ups Their OpenStack Game; Acquires Cloudscaling
October 13, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There are a lot of deals happening in technology lately around OpenStack. Today marked another of those big days with another acquisition as EMC announced the purchase of Cloudscaling, founded by Randy Bias.
Financial details were not disclosed as the … Read More
