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VMworld “day 0” was really just a precursor to what we’ll be seeing for the rest of the week. Today, there were no major sessions, but attendees were treated to the early opening of the exhibit floor where vendors galore have gathered to hawk their wares. As the biggest VMworld yet, it’s not a surprise that the show floor…
VMware view has been a major topic at VMWorld 2012 and one of the key issue issues that even VMware is acknowledging is that the infrastructure costs are still a barrier for broader adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). In particular the unpredictability of the storage IOps and the differences between peak…
Gartner analyst Richard Jones led a really insightful presentation today at VMworld 2012 talking about storage in virtual environments. He focused a lot on what he called “Server Hosted Virtual Desktops,” or SHVD (a.k.a.: virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), hosted virtual desktop (HVD), etc.), which, he rightly pointed…
In my first VMWorld blog I asked the question “Will it be all about the Cloud again this year?” From the first day of sessions and my take on the General session topic this morning I think we have an initial answer – while cloud hasn’t gone away, “software-defined” seems to be the focus from VMware. VMware is already all…
As my supply of koozies has dwindled over the long hot Texas summer due to natural attrition (dogs making up for a neoprene dietary deficiency, unrecoverable loss while boating, etc.), my mind naturally turns toward VMWorld 2012. What better place to restock the supply and maybe even increase our USB memory stick inventory…
VMworld 2012 kicked off today in San Francisco, and it promises to bring lots of surprises. The first I've heard about is a rewind in VMware's pricing model to be announced tomorrow, including a change in pricing for their solution for VMware monitoring, vCenter Operations Manager. From the sounds of it, this will be the…
Virtualization is all about abstraction. With VMware, we've abstracted complete servers away from the hardware. For storage, we're creating automated tiering pools that enable data to flow up and down tiers as necessary in order to meet predefined business objectives. In the data center, we're looking for anything and…
There's been lots of talk in the virtualization market about using flash-based storage or SSD to enhance performance. The major premise is that the bottleneck, in many environments is storage I/O instead of storage capacity. This isn't a new problem - storage administrators and DBAs have been dealing with this for years. I…
In just a couple of weeks, thousands of people will be swarming San Francisco for VMworld! It promises to be a great time with lots of excellent networking and content. VMblog.com and SolarWinds are teaming up to make it even better!! We're hosting a vMixer on Monday night, and we'd love for you to join us! VMblog founder…
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