One of VMware’s big technology pushes of 2018 into 2019 has been around VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). When the leader in virtualization collaborates with the leader in public cloud, some amazing things can happen. VMC has some great features and allows customers to move their VMware workloads into AWS easily and efficiently using the…

At its annual U.S. conference in Las Vegas, VMworld 2018, VMware announced new capabilities and feature enhancements to its offering, VMware Cloud on AWS. This post will briefly discuss some of my favorites. Expansion to Asia-Pacific Region Prior to the announcement at VMworld 2018, VMware Cloud on AWS was available in four regions: AWS U.S….

At a recent trade show, someone referred to me as a software-defined networking veteran. This struck me as odd, because I’ve only been talking about SDN for five years, but also as being true — because I’ve been studying it for five years. I started speaking about this technology because it was so clear to…

VMware recently released vSphere 6.7 and with it a number of great new features and enhancements to an already very successful product line. This post will briefly go over some of my favorite enhancements in this latest release. vSphere Client Enhancements (HTML5) Finally! Every administrator, architect and support technician has been waiting for an upgrade…

Over the last few years, hyperconverged infrastructure has grown from a niche product to a solution that should be seriously considered by any enterprise seeking to deploy a private or hybrid cloud. But what is HCI, and how can it benefit your organization? Simply put, HCI eliminates traditional storage area networks and uses internal or…

Over the last few years, the concept of “modern management” of PCs has grown. In a nutshell, modern management is using cloud-based services to provide various PC management functionalities such as inventory, policy enforcement, update scanning and deployment, and application deployment. Modern management is essentially using mobile device management (MDM) software to perform functions that…