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EMC World 2014 Las Vegas

Funny as it sounds to me I have never presented at EMC World before.  I’m pretty excited about my first time as either a presenter or an attendee.  What makes this one cool for me because I will be presenting on all the new Recover As A Service (RaaS) components …

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vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Sizing Considerations

I’ve already fielded a number of questions on this topic and I want to start by saying this is not an “Official” recommendation hence why I am posting on my personal blog since this is more about considerations than actual calculations.  The trick with anything like this is running the …

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7 Things To Know About vCloud Air Disaster Recovery

Well, there you have it vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is now generally available!  I’ve been working behind the scenes on this for some time since before it was in Beta, and I’m proud to say I have been part of this launch.  I plan on continuing to record some more …

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Common vCloud Air Questions

Every day I see an email thread or 10 about questions related to various aspects about vCloud Air.  Primarily it has to do with what a user has access to within the service.  I figured I’d do a quick personal blog post to address some of this.  I know where …

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vCloud Air Native Installer in vCenter

Most people noticed that Update 1 for vCloud Suite was released.  However there is one small addition I’d like to point out to those that have not manually installed already and that is the vCloud Air Plugin.  As of vCenter 5.5 Update 1 the installer is now available in the …

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Proud to Present at Varrow Madness

Okay so I’m pretty excite to be invited to the annual event known as Varrow Madness with my good friend and now CTO of Varrow “The” Jason Nash.   This actually came out of a conversation for a 2-day, 4 hour deep dive customer session I did for them earlier …

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Top vBlog 2014 Voting is Now OPEN

Yep….it’s that time of year again.  Not for voting for your favorite politician, but for your favorite Virtualization Blogs!  I will admit I picked back up a lot more blogging than in 2012 in 2013 thanks to the joining of the vCloud Air business unit.  What I have found is …

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Building the Foundation of a vCloud Air Lab

Before Partner Exchange 2014 I was spending a lot of time building out a vSphere “On Premises” lab in Washington.  The reason for this is the Technical Marketing Team wanted to be able to build and document use cases for the use of vCloud Air and everything you can do …

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