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Recently I was told by someone who while they considered themselves as one of the “Have Nots”, I was living the good life as one of the “Haves”.  I was up part of the night thinking about this and it did not make sense to me.  We are all faced …

I have learned that my previous two posts were very helpful, but I made some assumptions in them that people knew what was needed in place to make it all work.  That being said I wanted to run through a quick guide to what is needed and how things are …

I wanted to post something quickly about the sessions I am currently speaking at this year for VMworld in San Francisco.  I’m excited to be in all these, but I will say with the new role it will be a VERY busy week for me.  I hope to see may …

Part 2 of this series on how to set up vSphere Stretch Deploy with vCloud Air will deal specifically with the requirements and workings of the vShield Edge Gateway component in the local vSphere infrastructure.  The reason I think this aspect is important is that from my experience most vSphere …

Now that I got my lab re-configured for just vSphere 5.1 only I wanted to simulate not only the use case for Stretch Deploy into vCloud Air, but specifically doing so when you only have a vSphere infrastructure.  Doing so has some different nuances you will need to consider that …

I am working on helping with some of the VMware Hybrid Service VMworld content reviews and I learned there will be three hands on labs that directly deal with the offering.  The three labs are: HOL-HBD-1301 – vCloud Air Jump Start for vSphere Admins HOL-HBD-1302 – Advanced Networking and Security …

There comes a time in everyone’s career where change must happen. For those that have known me and followed me you know I started out in Professional Services for a long time. From there I moved to the “Cloud Team” as we started to roll out vCloud Director back in …

So I decided to let the dust settle a little bit after last weeks VMware Hybrid Cloud Service announcement before I posted something this week.  I wanted to coordinate this post with the upcoming VMUG’s I am presenting at specifically on the Hybrid Cloud topic.  I was not intending to talk specifically …