The great and the good of the virtualization world have once again descended on the City of Sin to worship at the altar of VMware. Yes, VMworld is behind us again. TVP Strategy is well represented there this year by our CEO, Edward Haletky, and our analyst Stephen Beaver. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my …
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Live from VMworld 2017
Checking in with you live from VMworld 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Things here at the conference are really starting to heat up both inside and outside, with the temperature reaching up to 108 degrees this week. There was a lot of hype coming into the conference, with the details of the VMware/Amazon AWS platform finally getting fully released.
Changing the Guard: Goodbye Flex Web Client—Hello HTML5, Baby
They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace. This is a major tourist attraction in London, and the changing of the guard happens every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, weather permitting. “Changing the guard” is also a well-known refrain used to signify the complete change of an environment. VMware is currently undergoing such a transformation with …
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Disaster Recovery Is Not Survival Mode
When Hurricane Harvey was announced, I starting thinking about disaster recovery, business continuity, and survival. The latter is not where you want to be with your business when it comes to natural disasters. Past disasters have shown that we are in need of better planning, not just for our businesses, but also for our employees, …
See You at VMworld!
See you at VMworld: I am finalizing my schedule and trying to clear my inbox in preparation for my flight out of town at the end of the week. My self and somewhere around twenty thousand of my fellow peers will all be arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada for VMworld 2017. I think the show this year, has the potential to be a very exciting and electric conference.
Lock-In, Inertia, and Gravity
I recently saw a conversation about avoiding lock-in and the fact that it is impossible to avoid at least a degree of lock-in. Like most terms in IT, “lock-in” is one that means subtly different things depending on context. Its most common usage concerns vendors. When we complain about lock-in, we are usually complaining that …