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SDDC; The Harmony Remote of a Data Center?

April 9, 2013by keithnorbie Leave a comment

My wife hates my Logitech Harmony remotes.  I love it.  It’s hard to get everyone to unify on a concept but last I checked the Harmony remote concept is ruling […]

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Cloud, Management Software, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualization
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“Specialized” Storage; The move away from unified everything storage?

February 20, 2013by keithnorbie 2 Comments

The industry has been crazed by the notion of “Unifying” storage. NetApp has lead the charge as has EMC and others.  Above I’ve offered the classic “spork” as a symbol […]

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Cloud, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualization
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Jason Boche’s “Cloud” Magic

February 1, 2013by keithnorbie Leave a comment

Jason Boche is one of the world’s most recognized vmware bloggers (see this recent link).  Recently he even landed on a top 10 virtualization bloggers list with the likes of […]

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2012 in review

December 31, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about […]

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Mitel new Droid based solution; Telepresence Demo at Stratos Summit

December 17, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

At the Stratos Summit on 12/13/12 I had the pleasure to witness a bolt on to our VDI Showcase from Mitel.  We’ve had a long standing relationship with them on […]

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Demo; New Microsoft Surface Tablet & Windows 8 RT!

November 1, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

One of the real fun things I get to do within the @NexusStratos End User Computing Practice is check out some of the latest devices.  Let’s face it; devices are […]

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Uncategorized, VDI

VMworld Solutions Highlight; No SAN Nutanix

September 11, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

On the Solutions Exchange floor for vmworld 2012 I got an extensive run through of the Nutanix platform and software.  Since last vmworld I don’t know of any other storage […]

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Cloud, DR, Storage, Uncategorized, VDI, Virtualization, VMworld
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VMworld Highlight; vmware Horizon Suite & Horizon Data demo (formerly Octopus)

September 2, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

Desktop as a Service. Dropbox. Consumerization…. and so on. @NexusStratos (Tim Pfaff aka “The Angry VCP” & @jerridcunniff) and I presented “EUC Kung Fu” at the vmworld vBrownbag flash talks […]

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Cloud, Management Software, Uncategorized, VDI, Virtualization, VMworld

VMworld interview; Jon Spallone

September 2, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

Another awesome part of vmworld is running into people that are 1st-timers.  Jon Spallone is no average 1st-timer to vmworld.  This guy is a guru at Citrix!  I’ve followed both […]

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VMworld interview; Nicholas Weaver @lynxbat of EMC Office of CTO

September 2, 2012by keithnorbie Leave a comment

As I was concluding my presentation at vmworld 2012 vBrownbag session I came across Nicholas Weaver (nickapedia.com, @lynxbat) of EMC Office of the CTO.  This is the dude who made […]

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