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…

A recent (automated for most users) update to Adobe Flash Player embedded within the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox browsers causes the VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x (all versions) to crash and not load. There is no fix as of today, as Adobe is working on a new Flash version to publish, but there…