My first VMware Explore was in 2018 (VMworld). It was a pinnacle year for me. There were around 23,000 people there with so many different vendors, parties, and more. It was called the land of free t-shirts and for good reason. I still have around 20 t-shirts from the past couple of VMworlds I went …
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VMware Explore – Add it to my TAB
“Nathan, good to see you’re not dead!”, “Better than the alternative Plankers!” For those of you who know the lovely curmudgeon that is Bob Plankers you can hear his voice in this paragraph. The man KNOWS security in VMware and is a pillar of the community and the company. Just like that I’m reminded why …
VMware Explore – Pre-event (Why I hate Apple sometimes)
Anyone that listened to the IT Reality US podcast with myself Vince Wood, and The Legend Richard Kenyon knows how much Apple irks me. Be aware this comes from someone writing this on an IPAD Pro with its Magic Keyboard, while looking at his IPhone for notifications and also wearing his Apple Watch Ultra 3 …
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2025: A Year of Transformation with AI and Cloud Innovations
I asked a friend earlier yesterday what the next year was about in the Chinese new year. I was informed it was the snake, and that it was focused around “Transformation”. I’d have to say that this fits the new year for me in 2025 and my current goals. When I started this journey about …
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VMware #CFD21 Presentations
For Cloud field day 21 we listened to some of the new solutions from VMware by Broadcom for 3 hours of sessions. I had originally intended to write individual posts, but the high amount of information that came hot and heavy from VMware and my fellow delegates made it very interesting to keep up, so …
VCF Platform Overview
The second presentation is a deeper dive into VCF itself. What are the questions it is trying to answer? What is the solution really built on? I think what is brought today really answers some specific questions toward the direction of VCF, but it’s still taking massive assumptions on the customer groups they are trying …
BCOM/VMware – Private Cloud
For the second day of #CFD21 we were joined by VMware by Broadcom to help us understand some of the new solutions they are building for a private cloud vendor. VMware and Broadcom partnership are reaching to the first year of working together since the acquisition. I remember a lot of folks in November thinking …
Qumulo – Cloud Data Platform
Listening to Qumulo a company who is figuring out how to fix the data growth for customers while managing issues that may not be the normal issues exploding data growth within the customer environment. Great use case of the pricelessness of Data “Within this data is the cure for cancer, but how do we ensure …
Platform 9 Private Cloud Director
Kicking off CFD 21 we got to listen to Platform9. I’ll be honest I don’t know much about platform9 but I know the name “Cloud director” and I’ve used it in a very short amount. However, when looking at what has happened in the past months with Broadcom hearing an old name with a new …
WEKA da hecka? – #CFD18
Cloud workloads with HPC, AI/ML in the cloud. Was launched at re:invent in 2017. WEKA is utilizing a data platform in order to support the major data driven solutions around HPC and AI/ML which helps fit in those areas Now I have to admit I don’t know a ton about AI/ML pipelines when dealing with …
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