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The Political Challenge of Moving to the Cloud

31, Aug 2011

The way that I see it, VMware is up for a political fight in many of its customers’ IT departments.  Two things have become evident to me this week at VMworld 2011 – first, moving to the cloud is going to involve rewriting a lot of our applications and two, this is going to to be as [...]

The week ahead > VMworld 2011

25, Aug 2011

The upcoming week is another exciting one with VMworld on the horizon.  I will be on site at VMworld thanks to Thomas Jones’ Bloggers Reality Contest, just one of the perks of participating in the competition. VMworld 2011 will have a lot of new information to share about the newly released vSphere 5, which went [...]

On this day, three years ago…

4, Aug 2011

On this day, three years ago, I posted my first entry on Tech Talk.  At the time, the idea was to try to contribute back to a community of technical resources whose blogs had contributed so much knowledge to me.  I had found their blog posts about VMware ESX and vCenter invaluable and the information [...]

Intel Cloud Builders creating reference architectures for the cloud

16, Jun 2011

At Intel, engineers have been hard at work creating reference architectures with its partners utilizing Intel technologies through their Cloud Builders program. Last week, a group of bloggers, including myself, had the chance to sit down with Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Software Strategy at Intel in the Blogger’s Studio during HP Discover. Cox discussed [...]

A potential service provider’s take on CloudSystem

14, Jun 2011

Day to day, I work for a telephone company, though we are really much more – we sell cable TV, wireless, landline, Internet, security and home automation.  [Disclaimer - these are my views and not theirs.]  We have tossed around the idea of becoming a public cloud provider more than once.  Last week, during HP [...]

DiscoveringHP.com > a meta blog of HP Discover coverage

13, Jun 2011

Fellow blogger Mauricio Freitas has created the http://www.discoveringhp.com website and he has rounded up all of the coverage from the bloggers during the HP Discover 2011 conference.  I encourage you to head over and check out all of the posts about the event.  The posts are grouped by day of the conference and there is a good bit of [...]

Archiving Solutions: StoreOnce + Tape (Recap HP Discover #3839)

13, Jun 2011

During the introduction to session 3839, we were all given a disclaimer by the presenter – a disclaimer that this sessions would be a very tape heavy session.  Sadly, I was hoping for some good information about the StoreOnce product.  But I should have keyed in on the word archiving in the title, because the [...]

Insight Control for vCenter (Recap HP Discover #4718)

9, Jun 2011

A couple years ago at VMworld, HP announced a new plugin for vCenter, called Insight Control for vCenter, which pulled from HP System Insight Manager and on-board intelligence of ESX host Proliant servers and displayed system status within vCenter.  Since the introduction, the Insight Control for vCenter package has grown to include a second plugin [...]

HP Discover Closing Session Day 4 Liveblog

9, Jun 2011

I have found my seat and people are streaming in to find their seats.  The closing keynote is about to begin in a few minutes.  We are currently listening to a live DJ mixing video and music on stage.  You may also watch a live stream from the event at http://www.hp.com/go/discover. Live updates will appear [...]

HP Discover – Spending a week in the Blogger Studio

9, Jun 2011

(This went out a little earlier than I wanted, but since its already in my RSS, gonna go ahead and release it.) I was fortunate to have been invited to HP Discover 2011 by Ivy Worldwide along with a group of other independent bloggers.  I am gracious for the opportunity to attend and blog about [...]


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