As most of my readers know, I also run the Tech Field Day event series, bringing independent voices in IT together with interesting companies in our space. This year, we're running a full-blown Tech Field Day event at VMworld, the largest we've ever put together. Although there's no live audience for Tech Field Day apart from the delegate panel, I invite you to watch … [Read more...] about Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2014
Events
Cloud & General Virtualization Panel at #VMUnderground Opening Acts, #VMworld 2014
The best thing about VMworld is the people, and one of the coolest gatherings of people traditionally happens before the event has even started! VMunderground is an annual party organized by awesome folks, including Brian Knudtson and Jim Millard for this edition. And this year there's more than a party! Opening Acts is a joint production of VMunderground and vBrownBag. It's … [Read more...] about Cloud & General Virtualization Panel at #VMUnderground Opening Acts, #VMworld 2014
#VMEspresso with @SolarWinds at #VMworld: “Storage I/O is About to Get Crazy”
Storage interconnects are about to be revolutionized, and virtualization is the driving force. Traditional SAN and NAS has been augmented with technologies like VAAI to work with the “I/O Blender” presented by the hypervisor, but this is just the first step. Next comes distributed and converged storage technologies like VSAN. But this opens the doors to new I/O technologies … [Read more...] about #VMEspresso with @SolarWinds at #VMworld: “Storage I/O is About to Get Crazy”
Truth in Storage: Minneapolis and Chicago
This week I'm back on the road for another pair of seminars in my Truth in Storage series with Truth in IT. These seminars are really enjoyable for me, since I am able to talk Storage tech for hours on end. It's great to be back on the storage topic, after two years of trying to boil all of virtualization into one day! This week, I'm heading back to Minneapolis and … [Read more...] about Truth in Storage: Minneapolis and Chicago
PacITPros TechDays SF
This week I'm off to San Francisco to attend two events: Fusion-io promises to "change the way you look at flash storage" on Wednesday, and I'll be presenting on Microsoft Windows storage technologies at PacITPros TechDays SF on Thursday! I don't actually know much about the Fusion-io event. It's not secret, and I'm sure I'll be tweeting and blogging about what they say, … [Read more...] about PacITPros TechDays SF