Archive for April, 2009

Scott Lowe’s Mastering Virtual Infrastructure book coming soon

30, Apr 2009

I had the priviledge of meeting Scott Lowe this past year at VMworld.  Scott’s wife Crystal arranged trips and adventures around Las Vegas for the wives whose husbands were attending the conference.  But that’s besides the point – Scott has a new book coming out soon – Mastering Virtual Infrastructure - that is all about the [...]

Wildfire

24, Apr 2009

No, its not a new software title…  more of a current event.  Many have probably seen it on the news, but there is a massive wildfire in my area – the Myrtle Beach, SC area  - just a few miles away from where my family and I live and work.  

VMware chairman leaves HP in the cold

22, Apr 2009

Let me preface everything below with this – my company is an HP shop.  We have other systems (IBM, Sun, Dell, etc.) in our datacenter, but for the gross majority, we are an HP shop.  We are also what I’d term as medium sized VMware shop.  We have a lot of eggs in both baskets. [...]

vSphere official announcement – licensing & pricing

21, Apr 2009

Today, VMware made their official announcement of vSphere, the next generation of virtualization technology in their flagship ESX line.  There has been a lot of coverage of vSphere online in the weeks leading up to today’s big announcement.  To me, the most interesting information and the most sought after is the answer to one simple [...]


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