Summary: A recap of the major announcement and my thoughts on both the announcements and the conference. It’s a long post because I use it as a personal record of thoughts – feel free to skim read! Like last year I arrived in Barcelona on the Sunday so I had more time to settle in. This was my … Continue reading Reflections on VMworld 2014
Perfectly positioned to provide automation for the infrastructure providing both private and public clouds (and a darling of the burgeoning DevOps scene), Puppet has seen a groundswell of adoption in recent years. It’s undoubtedly very capable but may not be what some enterprises expect. For those not familiar with Puppet it’s a tool which helps … Continue reading An introduction to Puppet
Summary: Some new (and actually exciting) announcements, some good conversations about the challenges VMware face in the next few years, and business as usual in the solutions exchange, HOL, and general sessions. Still a conference worth attending! As I’ve done for the last couple of years (2012, 2011, 2010) I recently attended VMworld Europe, which … Continue reading VMworld 2013 Barcelona wrapup
For the last couple of years adoption of ‘converged infrastructure’ has been on the rise but until recently it wasn’t something I’d needed to understand beyond general market awareness and personal curiosity. I was familiar with some of the available solutions (in particular VCE’s vBlock and Netapp’s Flexpod) but I also knew there were plenty … Continue reading Converged infrastructure: an introduction
Firstly an apology for those who regularly read my blog – I’ve just returned from three months paternity leave where I was largely ‘off the grid’ and had very little to do with technology and lots to do with changing nappies and singing nursery rhymes in public! I could write a blogpost about technology parallels … Continue reading Twelve weeks is a long time in tech!