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You probably didn’t notice, but VCE reached a significant milestone this week. I don’t think it got nearly as much fanfare as it should have, but the VCE Developer Portal that was announced as part of the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations launch in February, and which has been in [...]
Continue Reading →First off, I apologize for the relative scarcity of blog posts lately. I hadn’t really noticed that I had slowed down, but I was (forcefully) reminded by two people that I respect very much that I need to stop making excuses and get back to writing more.
Since the large [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve added a couple more blog links, as well as links to information about the technology included in the launch. I also included all of the YouTube videos and the Launch Kickoff Video from Joe Tucci, John Chambers and Pat Gelsinger. I covered the analysis of the Gartner market share report Continue Reading →
Finally. Finally. I’ve been waiting a while to put this post together.
Most of you have read about the dustup between Tesla founder Elon Musk and the NYT reporter who wrote a critical review of the car’s performance. What was interesting to me was that the conversation was immediately [...]
Continue Reading →You may have seen a few tweets last week, formally confirming that VCE has the ability to resell the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) solution directly.
I’ve been asked by a couple people why there wasn’t more of a formal announcement with regards to this, since there was no VCE [...]
Continue Reading →Last week’s announcement that Cisco has acquired Cloupia is one that I was excited about on a number of levels. First, the Cloupia team, including Raju Penmetsa, their CTO and Raju Datla, their CEO have been great to work with and I’m excited to see their hard work pay off. It couldn’t [...]
Continue Reading →To go along with the general theme of VMworld 2012 for VCE, today it was announced that Cloupia has formally joined the VCE Technology Alliance Partner program, and that they will offer their end-to-end converged infrastructure management and orchestration solution to offer cloud services on VCE Vblock Systems.
There are [...]
Continue Reading →In a bit of cool, cross-company promotion, folks from VCE will be posting articles to Cisco, EMC and VMware blogs, highlighting releases that are being made at VMworld. If you are interested in the entire list of events and sessions that VCE is participating in, check it out here. What I want [...]
Continue Reading →The big news this morning is VMware’s announcement of the upgraded vSphere 5.1 and the introduction of the new vCloud Suite licensing model. As the world’s most advanced converged infrastructure, Vblock Systems are going to naturally take the lead in support and availability for this powerful new technology and simplified licensing model.
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Continue Reading →As every one of you knows by now, VMware announced its intentions to acquire Nicira for $1.26B last Monday. I’ve waited a few days to post this, just because I’ve been fascinated by the conversations that have happened in response. To recap, here are some of the conversations, and a description [...]
Continue Reading →I love to point at “converged” infrastructure and call it boring. I even have a slide that I use to kick off some presentations that says it in 66-point font. But you know what isn’t boring? Data center construction and operation. In fact it’s damn hard, and we’ve seen that fact brought front [...]
Continue Reading →On Thursday, at the Omaha VMware User’s Group meeting, CoSentry announced they had entered into an partnership with VCE. CoSentry will be able to host your Vblock, deliver and implement a Vblock for you on your site or theirs, manage your Vblock for you and even let you consume capacity in a [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve had this post sitting around for a while, and I’m still not sure I should publish it. Of course if you are reading it then I’ve pushed the button and am bracing for the inevitable…
Today, in the technology arena, there is an endless debate that borders on religious at times. Sides are drawn, [...]
Continue Reading →Chad Sakac and Chuck Hollis have done a fantastic job of introducing the world to the VMAX 40K in all it’s peerless splendor, but of course there’s one more question being asked: when will we get to see this behemoth, along with the 5876 Enginuity code at the storage [...]
Continue Reading →Having being involved in a number of EMC product releases over the last couple years, this one may have garnered the most wildly speculative pre-launch chatter from the market. While some of it was reasonably accurate, some of it was pretty significantly off-base. Some of the questions and speculation [...]
Continue Reading →With the day one issues all put to bed, day two was awesome. The conference seemed much more lively today, and we ended up having a great day of booth presentations, VPLEX demos and hands on labs.
One of the presentations that I enjoyed the most was from Gideon Wilkins, the Director of [...]
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