Author Archives: Gabriel

Marketing masquerading as “Tech Journalism”, Or how not to write a stealth press release

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Gabriel

Let me preface this by saying that this may come across as snarky and malicious, but that’s not the full intent. I’m using this as a simple illustration of what bothers me about tech journalism. There is a trend I … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V vs VMware a response to Nate at TechopsGuys

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Gabriel

I read this post by Nate over at TechOpsGuys about Hyper-V vs VMware. It’s a good read and Nate brings several salient points to discussing the challenges facing VMware in the future as Hyper-V comes into feature parity with VMware. … Continue reading →

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VSPEX – The rebirth of the Mainframe/Mini in x86 form?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Gabriel

EMC has trademarked a new product name: VSPeX. So what the heck is it? Alternative: slow news day at El Reg. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that with EMC’s hardware and coding chops, and direct line into VMware … Continue reading →

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IO Analyzer 56k no way!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Gabriel

Install and configure VMware IO Analyzer: Quick note, in case you missed the Brown Bag last night, the Video is here. I go over the install process as well as some general QA about IO Analyzer there.   ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – … Continue reading →

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How a love of bacon and a trip to vmworld opened the world of Twitter to me.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Gabriel

In case you didn’t know, my twitter handle is @Bacon_Is_King. At first I had no intention of ever getting on twitter under the guise of thinking that “real men don’t tweet”. Then I started actually seeing that almost all the … Continue reading →

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Dell Marketing takes the “Cloud” to a whole new level

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Gabriel

Clayton Sotos – Visual Innovators from Visual Innovators on Vimeo. I don’t know if this is legit or not, but its hilarious. I will say this, fake or real, its beautifully shot, funny, and does manage to highlight the product … Continue reading →

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Marketers vs Academics opposite sides of the same coin.

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Gabriel

Greg Schulz (@ storageio) posted today about a UCSD study on the future of SSD/NAND Flash disk. As with anything Greg puts out, it’s a well thought out, sourced, and informative post. I’ve come to really value Greg’s opinion, and there … Continue reading →

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Symantec files frivilous lawsuit against Veeam and Acronis

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Gabriel

Symantec filed a lawsuit against both Veeam and Acronis claiming “patent infrigement” and loss of business. Full disclosure, I know a good number of people who work at Veeam. I also was a participant at their recent Sales Kickoff as … Continue reading →

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Digging deeper into per VM cost analysis

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Gabriel

I consider this pretty high level and overly general. I’ve written this more in the style of a memo form that I could provide to management as a way to help them understand the costs associated with virtual systems within … Continue reading →

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2012 vExpert Nominations are now open

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Gabriel

So while I twitter away all my free time studying for VCP5, which yes I will be taking on Feb 28th along with half the rest of the planet. I saw a tweet from@ChrisWahl (Wahlnetwork) that the vExpert nominations are … Continue reading →

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