New VMware Partner program, the hunt for competencies
Earlier this year VMware announced their new partner program. In the past there were a whole bunch of titles/statuses you could achieve at VMware, VIP or VAC, Premier, Enterprise or Professional, VAC-only. That’s all going to change. The requirements to become a Premier, Enterprise or…
Emulex releases 10Gb/s Ethernet and iSCSI adapter
Today Emulex announced the general availability of their new OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) Product Family, specifically the OCe10102-I 10Gb/s Ethernet iSCSI Adapter and OCe10102-N 10Gb/s Ethernet Adapter are very interesting. The Emulex OneConnect UCNA is a single-chip, high performance 10Gb/s Ethernet adapter that…
New articles published for week ending 10/25/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thin client comparison – is thin becoming fat?
A few years ago I didn’t pay much attention to the thin clients. If a customer wanted them fine, you choose a model started a pilot, bought the thin client and you were done. As we now see that Green Computing is no longer a…
Harry Potter in the VMware era
Earlier this week the following message popped up in my twitter: ‘@Microsoft: Amazon says Windows 7 is the biggest pre-order product of all times, even over Harry Potter in the UK’. Comparing Harry Potter to Microsoft? Hmm, this got us thinking, what if we compare…
vFoglight training
My week started on a down with me being ill for two days but it finished on a high with two days of Vizioncore vFoglight training. The training was given by Paul Jackson, an external consultant, with a bit of support of Danny Claproth from…
VMware View & Citrix XenApp, the similarities & differences.
Last week I held a presentation for our Sales department. As we sold a lot of Citrix Xantippe over the last few years they wanted me to tell them more about the differences between a VMware View and the traditional terminal server based Citrix XenApp…
New articles published for week ending 10/18/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thanks CDG, for pimping my life!
. Last Tuesday was a very good day for me. First of all because the VMware Partner Forum 2009 was very interesting and we got a lot of valuable information but most of all because I won an XBOX360 at the SBK08 competition at the…
VMware Partner Forum 2009
Today was a special day, VMGuru.nl celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary and to celebrate VMware organized a party, how thoughtful ;) Seriously, today we attended the VMware Partner Forum at Bussum in the Netherlands. So at 5:45 my alarm rang because we had to be…
VMGuru.nl 1 year anniversary
One year ago, October 13th, we announced our new website/blog called VMGuru.nl and October 15th we posted our first article ‘No guest customization after upgrade to Update 2’. Much has change since then…. The birth of VMGuru.nl When, in August 2008, I changed my Internet…
New articles published for week ending 10/11/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware Fusion 3 release
The Mac adepts amongst you probably already knew this, but VMware is coming with Fusion 3. It is scheduled to be released at Oct 27. VMware Fusion gives you the possibility to virtualize on Apple Macintosh computers. PALO ALTO, Calif., October 6, 2009 — VMware,…
The cloud and the future according to Microsoft
Last Friday we had a session with Microsoft about ‘the Cloud’. We already heard a lot about clouds, but I must admit that both Microsoft presentations that day were refreshing. Every cloud provider does his best to bring cloud thinking to the mind, but what…
VMware VCP410 second shot
Today VMware Education Services announced that they will allow a second shot for those who have failed their first attempt at the VCP 410 exam. This second shot is free but you will have to register before you attend your first exam. It is a…