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Archive for October, 2011
Returning from HP Cloud Tech Day
28, Oct 2011I am currently sitting in Atlanta airport waiting on my flight to return to Myrtle Beach. I am returning from Houston, TX, where I have been on-site at HP’s facility to learn more about cloud and HP’s CloudSystem in particular. Although cloud was our primary focus, we also spent some time looking at other innovations [...]
- In: Blogging|Cloud Computing
- Tags: blogging, Cloud Computing, CloudSystem, HP, Travel
VMware announced today vCenter Protect Essentials, based on the Shavlik NetChk Protect product that it acquired earlier this year. The newly rebranded product is good news for companies who currently leverage the built-in Update Manager technology in vSphere 4 and earlier version for patch management. Previously, these customers would be looking at the hefty-priced upgrade [...]
- In: Virtualization|VMware
- Tags: Patch Management, Virtualization, VMware, VMworld
I have often commented to my coworkers that VMware is facing a “good enough” problem. Even though I believe in VMware and their software, I’ve said there is day coming soon that competing products will be “good enough” and customers will no longer see the need to buy VMware’s vSphere suite, even though it is [...]
Spending FaceTime with clients and family
21, Oct 2011One of the more brilliant features included with the iPhone 4, and now the iPhone 4S, is something Apple calls FaceTime. It’s a video chat service that is dead simple to setup and use. For other iPhone users, it uses your phone number to identify you (no additional account needed) and for other Macs and [...]