As discussed yesterday I am lucky enough to be one of the delegates during the current Dell EMC Storage, Tech Field Day Exclusive event. Today the presentations focused on Dell EMC Power Scale, Power Protect and Power Scale use cases.
You can see my doodles from todays session below. Keep an eye out for posts covering my thoughts and opinions of the demonstrated technologies.
The second presentation from this afternoons vRetreat covered Datrium DRaaS. Their DRaaS offering allows you to replicate from any on-premises VMware infrastructure to a fully managed instance of VMware on AWS.
Yesterday VMware released a slew of new products focused on delivering modern applications, alongside virtual applications on any cloud. vSphere 7 has been completely rearchiteced with Kubernetes at its heart, enabled vSphere in conjunction with VMware Cloud Foundation 4 to run all of your applications across any cloud, on-premises or major public clouds.
You can watch the announcements here
I spent the day with the fantastic Paul Wynne at the Dell Customer Solution Center in Limerick Ireland. The trip was planned as a training exercise for some of the members of my team but as ever the trip was really informative and it was great to see the latest new technologies and business solutions available from Dell. During our visit we covered both VMware SDDC solutions and how VxRail interacts and enhances these capabilities, we visited the innovation center looking at the business aligned IoT solutions and much more.
My doodle from VMworld 2019 in Barcelona can be seen below covering
Building and managing modern apps
NSX Intelligence
Wavefront
CloudHealth
and more
Here is my doodle covering the day 1 general session from VMworld in Barcelona, VMware further executing on their vision of any device, any application on any cloud with intrinsic security.
Here is my first doodle from VMworld 2019 covering the partner general session. In this session VMware discussed their strategy and new partner programme.
VMworld is taking place in San Francisco, California this week, here are my thoughts from Mondays general session by VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger and COO Sanjay Poonen.
The initial general session of VMworld 2019 was used to further build upon the delivery of VMware’s vision of Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device with Intrinsic Security. We saw big announcements and updates in terms of Any Cloud, Any Application, and Intrinsic Security but maybe short of details regarding the traditonal EUC business in the initial general session.
Further commentary to come shortly at DefineTomorrow.co.uk
Below is my doodle from the third general session at Dell Technologies World. The session entitled optimism and happiness in the digital age documents the panel discussion including will.i.am that took place in the main stage.
The video below depicts my views and thoughts from this general session and the conference in general
In this video I discuss the announcements of the day, including:
The new Dell EMC Unity XT arrays
Improvements into the single cluster scale for Isilon now up to 58PB in a single namespace over 252 devices
An analytics engine for VxRail for proactive management and to ensure performance is maintained called ACE (Analytical Consulting Engine)
A brand new storage platform PowerProtect available in both an appliance the X400 which comes in a hybrid and all flash configuration or as a software only solution
14 new Latitude Devices on the 25 birthday of the Latitude brand
and much more
This doodle was created live during the mornings general session whilst the announcements were happening live
Some more details on the announcements was given during the media and analysts briefing, the doodle above was created during that briefing
Today we saw three major announcements from Dell at Dell Technologies World which is taking place at the Venitian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. All of today’s announcements focused on their relationship with VMware under the heading "better together". Whilst VMware remains a separate company they are increasingly working closely with Dell On joint solutions. Michael Dell emphasised that this special relationship gives them key differentiation to the competition.
Please see my video covering these announcements and my doodles from the day below.
Read about my thoughts on todays announcements in Define Tomorrow >> https://www.definetomorrow.co.uk/blog/2019/4/30/dell-technologies-world-2019-day-1-announcments
I was lucky enough to be invited to my third vRetreat, this time taking place at the home of Chelsea Football Ground Stamford Bridge and sponsored exclusively by Cohesity.
Covered in the doodle above
Cohesity Background
Tier 2 Storage
Test & Dev
Backup & Recovery
File Services
S3, SMB, NFS
Tiering
Cloud Deployments Options
Analytics Engine
Helios Analytics & Multi-Cluster Management
Office 365 Backup
Only for Exchange online at present
Multi-tenant Options for Service Providers
Smart Assist
One of my focuses at VMworld 2018 in Barcelona was to look further into IoT technologies and their impact on business and IT infrastructure as well as getting a better understanding of both VMware Pulse and VMware Edge compute solutions.
See my doodle below with some of my notes from the sessions I attended.
The first general session at VMworld 2018 covered every aspect of VMware’s execution of their vision, from the application to the device on any cloud and most importantly with intrinsic security.
My doodle live from the general session is below
You can watch this general session back at the following link =>
https://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/general-sessions.html
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
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.
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.
VMware CTO for EMEA Joe Baguley delivered the general session at VMware Empower in Vienna, he spoke about the need for change, VMware Cloud on AWS, edge computing, NSX, everything aaS and much more.
