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Congrats to Blake Loring, the winner of the HP Proliant Microserver
I wanted to formally extend my congratulations to Blake Loring, the winner of the Tech Talk Giveway – a HP Proliant Microserver. Blake was selected from 33 entries submitted on my blog. The selection process was completely random. I wrote a MySQL view with a seeded rand() statement to select the winner a week before [...]
Updating VMware Certification to VCP5
One of the additional questions I have had about the introduction of vSphere 5 is how I would update my VMware Certification to the vSphere 5 level, VCP5. Fortunately, the answer is really simple. Existing VCP4 holders will be able to take the VCP5 exam and upgrade their certification without any additional course requirements until [...]
VMware announces vSphere 5.0, changes licensing entitlement
UPDATE: VMware has announced an increase, effectively doubling the vRAM entitlements that were originally announced. This post is dated, and you should refer to VMware‘s site for official information on pricing… VMware previewed vSphere 5.0 today via a live webcast with CEO Paul Martiz and CTO Steve Herrod. The vSphere 5 releases should be available [...]
Win this HP Proliant Microserver for your home or business
From my week at HP Discover, HP and Ivy Worldwide have awarded me one HP Proliant MicroServer to give away to ONE lucky reader. So, I want to award the MicroServer to someone who can come up with an innovative way to use the server in their home or office. There are just two steps [...]
OS X Lion is download only, but what if??
Apple announced a couple weeks ago that Mac OS X Lion will only be available as a download from its Mac App Store. So what about all the people who have slower Internet connections (DSL Lite), dial-up or, as scary as it sounds, those who don’t have Internet at all? ComputerWorld has posted an article [...]
Non-standard MSSQL port causes vCenter WebServices problems
After almost a year, I have had problems with the VMware WebServices (the Tomcat web apps packaged into vCenter server) not working properly. At every upgrade, I have had issues where the apps that were “fixed” by support break again. I knew I had to be doing something wrong. I thought that vCenter was just [...]
Intel Cloud Builders creating reference architectures for the cloud
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
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
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)
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 [...]
