Posts in Virtualisation & Cloud
What does the future hold for wired and wireless networking with Dell and Ruckus
What does the future hold for wired and wireless networking with Dell and Ruckus
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I hosted an event with Dell and Ruckus regarding the future of your networking looking into wired and wireless use cases.

One of the most interesting subjects for me was the conversation around IoT and the demand on your network and infrastructure.

We will be digging deep into the future of your infrastructure, workspace and security at our next event taking place in Bristol UK with VMware’s EMEA VP and CTO Joe Baguley and many more. Register for free here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/define-tomorrow-2018-business-technology-conference-tickets-49089344551

Virtualisation & CloudBarry CoombsDell, Ruckus, DellEMCComment
VMworld 2018 US - Day Two General Session
VMworld 2018 US - Day Two General Session

Only half of the day two general session was live streamed, but above is my doodle covering what was featured. Sanjay Poonen VMware COO spoke about the engines that fuel VMware being innovation and the customer, VMware are the only company in NPS to be listed in the top 5 for customer satisfaction five years running. He also spoke about the growth of VMware and how every customer that has deployed VMware technologies has been able in turn been able to reduce costs, reduce complexity and reduce carbon. There were a number of customer references live on stage talking about how they are innovating with VMware tecnologies with a strong focus on the SDDC, VMware Cloud, PKS and NSX.

Events, Virtualisation & Cloud, WorkspaceBarry CoombsVMworld, VMWONAWS, VMware Clous, NSX, Containers, Workspace, Workspace ONEComment
VMworld 2018 US - Day One Keynote
VMworld 2018 US - Day One Keynote

As ever the first day keynote at VMworld was packed with thought leadership, announcements and demonstrations. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger took to the stage to discuss the super powers of technology, these were cloud, mobile, AI / ML and Edge / IOT. VMware have been slowly enhancing their long term vision of any device, any app, any cloud with intrinsic security and this years keynote further demonstrated that. 

We saw demonstrations and announcements in all areas with the release of vSphere 6.7 update 1 featuring updates for vSAN and more. We saw further demonstration of VMware's close relationship with AWS with AWS RDS (Relational Database Services) being made available on premises via vSphere in coming months. Close integration with vSphere, NSX and Kurbenetes with vSphere PKS and IoT edge infrastructures being treated as a first class citizenship bringing the IT to IoT with a demonstration of vSphere on ARM allowing for true enterprise class features such as FT, vMotion and HA being made available at the edge. 

Virtualisation & Cloud, Workspace, EventsBarry CoombsVMworld, vSphere, ESXi, NSX, Pat Gelsinger, Doodle, PKS, Containers, AWS, RDS, IoT, vmwareComment
South West UK VMUG with, HPe and StorMagic

Today’s South West UK VMUG was sponsored by HPE and StorMagic. HPE spoke to the VMUG audience about Infosight their Storage analytics platform included today within their Nimble storage solutions but coming to other HPE product lines in the future. 

StorMagic was one of my favorite presentations they spoken about their virtual storage platform that is designed for small, RoBo and IoT use cases. Their platform is designed to deliver high levels of availability with options for SSD caching and encryption for small virtual environments.  

Here is the doodle. 

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Alongside the sponsors we also had presentations from VMware’s Adam Boyle on vSphere and vSAN 6.7, VMware’s Lukas Winn and VMUG Leader Jeremy Bowman on GDPR / ISO 27001

Events, Virtualisation & Cloud, Storage & Data ProtectionBarry CoombsData, HPE, Flash, Storage, VMUG, AWS, VMwareComment
Zerto 6.0
Zerto 6.0

At vRetreat March 2018 we heard from Zerto regarding their latest release version 6.0. Version 6.0 further increases their functionality as multi-cloud data protection, replication and migration solution.

Below is a whiteboard video that I have recently recorded looking at how the Zerto replication technology works on premises. In the future I will create videos creating the other replication methods. 

In this video Barry talks you through a high level architecture overview of Zerto's software defined VM Replication technology
Storage & Data Protection, Virtualisation & CloudBarry CoombsZerto, Replication, DR, Azure, AWS, VMware, vRetreatComment
VMworld Barcelona 2017 General Sessions

One of my favourite aspects of attending VMworld is attending the general sessions, whilst they are now all streamed live I don't think you can beat being there live to get the full experience. 

This year the focus was firmly on the software-defined data centre, bringing to the cloud and transforming the workspace. 

As ever it was great to hear from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and COO Sanjay Poonen

Events, Workspace, Virtualisation & CloudBarry CoombsVMworld, Pat Gelsinger, KeynoteComment