Monthly Archives: April 2012

One crazy month. A new job, and I’m now a vExpert for 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Gabriel

Sunday rocked to say the least. I woke up to find out that I was selected as a VMware vExpert for 2012. I am very thankful to have been nominated and to have been given recognition by the VMware community … Continue reading →

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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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