Author Archives: Gabriel

SNLDD #7: When is it Time to Jump Ship?

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Gabriel

Updated: This session will be happening on 7/19. Stay tuned. Keeping with the tradition of sporadic epsidoal content, this week on #SNLDD Episode 7 the team will discuss the concept of “Jumping Ship” or changing jobs. So just a few … Continue reading →

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The Journey To Leadership Starts With Having Vision

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Gabriel

In 2009, Gartner released the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services. At that time,  Amazon Web Services, AWS for short, appeared as one of the Visionaries in the space. I have to wonder, if at that … Continue reading →

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vExpert Weekly Digest – MARVIN Mania & Docker-o-Rama

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Gabriel

In this weeks edition, lots of discussion around VMware’s foray into the hardware world with MARVIN. Docker appears to be popping up everywhere, I hear more buzz around it than Big Data at the moment, and the concept of containerization, … Continue reading →

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SNLDD#6 Getting Fired for prosperity and profit

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Gabriel

Like all things I do, this is sporadic, and spontaneous. Remember Conan knew what was best in life, I’m guessing that fluctuated as well. All that said, this week lets talk about getting shit-canned, how it happened, why it happened, … Continue reading →

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vExpert Weekly Digest: Let the Hiatus End

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Gabriel

Arise from ye slumber, like a bear who hibernates in winter., a new Episode of vExpert Weekly Digest is here.  I must apologize to all 5 people who read this blog for the lack of updates. Not only has life … Continue reading →

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VMUG-ED in April, or In This Post I Drop Names

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Gabriel

April is a busy month. Preface: You may ask “What’s with all the name drops”  in this post? Well, these are all people I would suggest you follow on twitter. Think of this is an elongated #FF. I have linked … Continue reading →

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vExpert Weekly Digest – vExperts 2014 Edition

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Gabriel

Alas, April Fools and  Troyers cat and Troyers dog be damned, the 2014 vExpert list was announced after a near solid day of teasing by the a fore mentioned pseudo animals. And what a list it was, 745 vExperts in total, … Continue reading →

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Startup Life: A Years Worth Of Activity

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Gabriel

So this marks my one year anniversary with the Hyperconverged Infrastructure company SimpliVity. Since the dotcom-bust, this is the first real “start-up” I’ve worked at, though I use the term start-up only in the sense that the company was bringing … Continue reading →

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vExpert Weekly Digest – March 23rd 2014 – Stop the VSANITY!

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Gabriel

Bumping up against the end of the quarter and I’ve been crazy busy, alas I had some downtime this morning and pulled together another edition of the vExpert Weekly. This week, you guessed it, MOAR VSAN! Lots of VSAN, in … Continue reading →

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#SNLDD Episode 5: Becoming a Corporate Sellout

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Gabriel

Once again, free time permits a new episode of Saturday Night Live Deep Dive. This week the topic will be “Becoming a Corporate Sellout” As usual, obligatory alarming headline is being used to generate traffic. Unless you have lived under … Continue reading →

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