Interview with Mattias Sundling about Dutch vGurus, Future of Cloud and Trends
During VMworld I had a nice fast paced interview with Mattias Sundling about why there are so many vGurus in the Netherlands, the future of Clouds, key takeaways from VMworld and IT trends in general.
AJ is getting married!
Today our good friend, colleague and fellow VMGuru-blogger AJ is getting married! Last Saturday we had some last minute fun with AJ, watch the evidence in the movie below. If you want to congratulate AJ you can do that using his FaceBook, twitter or e-mail….
Goodbye San Francisco, aquí vamos a Barcelona
It was a great week! VMworld in San Francisco delivered a lot of product announcements, news, nice articles, cool pictures and a lot of video. Jeremy and Eric have done a great job on VMworldTV, see their last video below. And from us…
How to fold the VMworld 2012 Blanket
Today we where handed a VMworld blanket for the lunch picnic. A lot of people including me where tormented to get the blanket in its original shape again. Unfolding is easy, but how to fold it? After being told by another dutch guy…
HyTrust Secondary Approval Preventing Major Disaster
On Monday I had a great meeting with Eric Chiu, founder and president, of HyTrust. We talked about the power administrators have in a virtual world nowadays. More and more data centers are turned into virtual datacenters (vDC) and are being automated too…
Demo of VMware Mirage
In yesterdays keynote, VMware showed a nice demo of VMware Mirage. Eric Sloof visits the Mirage booth to see what it is all about.
VMworld Labs, a look behind the scenes
Jeremy and Eric from VMworldTV take a look behind the scenes of the traditional VMworld Labs and the all new BYOD version.
VMware Enhanced vMotion demo
One of the most useful new features in VMware vSphere 5.1 is Enhanced vMotion. This new features enables customers to vMotion virtual machines to other hosts without the use of a shared storage solution. Check out the VMworld TV video below and watch…
VMworld Day 2 Highlights by VMworldTV
VMworld TV made a nice summary about Day 2 with all the highlights on a fast paced day with lots of news flying around. From the Keynote where Paul Maritz handed over the CEO title to Pat Gelsinger, announced the offical ditching of…
VMware discontinues vRAM licensing
It has only been two hours from the end of an action packed General session, opening VMworld 2012, but the pinnacle for me was certainly the announcement leading to the ‘Post vRAM era’. Almost one year ago VMware introduced their controversial and much…
VMworld 2012 – General Session
The announcement said that today was going to be a big day in VMware history. So I fired up VMware NOW and attended the General session of VMworld 2012 which started today in San Francisco. Before the first keynote starts the General session…
VMware releases version 5.1 of vSphere and vCloud Director
Today VMware announced a whole list of new major releases of their product portfolio. A few big features up front? How about these: No more vRAM limits, vRAM = GONE vMotion without shared storage the MonsterVM got even stronger, going for 64 vCPU’s,…
Microsoft SQL 2012 Licensing in a VMware environment – Part One
More and more Microsoft SQL Servers are being deployed virtually in a VMware environment, but how can you license them correctly? Microsoft changed their licensing again on April 1st, 2012. With the general availability of SQL Server 2012, the changes around SQL licensing are live….
Attend VMworld for free? Sign-up for VMware NOW.
Could not convince your boss to attend VMworld? But you do want to hear the latest product announcements and product news? You can! Just Register for VMware NOW, a digital experience where you can watch the Keynotes and then dive into the new demos and…
Unboxing the Synology DS1512+
Recently we received a request from Synology to review their DS1512+ high performance NAS. We’re very familiar with Synology as, we at VMGuru.nl, have been using a Synology DS411j for a while now. And having reviewed the QNAP TS-459Pro II and TS-869 Pro, I’m curious…