Pets vs Cattle Is Not Reality

Yes, the title is a bit caustic, but I have been giving some serious thought about the attitude of pets vs cattle within a hybrid cloud environment, and every time, it boils down to the conclusion that we shoot cattle because the underlying infrastructure is just not robust enough to treat our cattle like a …

All the World Is an EMC Cloud

With the news that EMC has bought Virtustream (to be completed near the end of the year), the cloud landscape does not change very much in the short term; however, in the long term, the EMC family has its work cut out for it to integrate all its cloud solutions. The EMC family currently has …

Virtual Thoughts with HotLink

Transforming IT, a subject of many discussions within organizations today, was a major topic at EMC World 2015. Lynn LeBlanc of HotLink and Edward Haletky spend some time discussing transforming IT into a hybrid cloud landscape on this Virtual Thoughts video podcast. We look not only at HotLink technology, but also at what it really …

Technical Arc of Virtualization

While at EMC World and RSA Conference this last month, I realized something very interesting. The same people I normally see at these shows have moved on to something new and shiny, and as such they were not at the shows. However, what was at the shows was really interesting. There was much more talk …

Virtual Thoughts with Intigua

Tim MacDonald of Intigua joins us on the third episode of Virtual Thoughts, where we discuss anything and everything related to virtualization and cloud technologies, communities, and organizations. Intigua has a unique product for managing virtual machines at scale. Its product concentrates on the virtual machine substrate most often ignored by applications, developers, and end …

Virtual Thoughts Ep 2: Veeam Endpoint

In Virtual Thoughts episode 2, Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) and I sit down to talk about Veeam Endpoint, the latest free product from Veeam. Endpoint provides a method for backing up your Windows endpoints to and from a backup store. That store can be managed by Veeam Backup & Replication v8 as well. This implies that …