Last week VMware debuted their new annual event, VMware Explore. Gone was the VMworld banners of years gone by, replaced with a slick new brand, promising inclusivity for developers, security folk and others alongside the thousands of VMware followers. Aside from the clientelle though, whats new?
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This week VMware announced vSphere+ with a lot of fanfare, but what is it, and why should customers be looking at switching their traditional perpetual on-prem licences to it? Read on and hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two….
Continue readingOne of the great things of being in the world of tech is not just appreciating the next product or feature coming into the products that your business is releasing. Don’t get me wrong – thats awesome cause you can see customers adopting and consuming those new features, but at heart, I’m still the kid who loves the latest thing. When I was younger it was Scalextric, but now as I get ever so close to my 40s I can appreciate a piece of new tech in a variety of industies. Read on if you’re a little geeky like me!
Continue readingLiterally the quickest post I’m ever going to make. But as a customer, this is something I didn’t know about as a customer, and its something I really wish I did. So why do you care? Cause its free access to the VMware products and services to play around with in your own time!
Continue readingSo VMworld 2021 has come and gone, but with it came a whole host of awesome announcements, new products and new features galore. Given the huge number of sessions, and that we don’t have all day and night to tune in, I thought I’d put up a blog post with a few highlights that I hope will be of use as a one-stop-shop!
Continue readingSo, my favourite event of the year is nearly upon us again (Sounds biased but I loved it even before I joined VMware). Again, its online, and although I miss the face-to-face side of things, registration is free so there are no cost barriers to attending, which is a great thing.
I’ve put together a list of some of the more interesting sessions and why those sessions are particularly exciting, so read on if this is right up your street! There are currently 891 sessions available right now, so unless you’re crazy, you’re going have to choose carefully. This should give you a helping hand I hope!
Continue readingVMC on AWS has been live in EU-London for over 3 years now, and a lot has changed in that time. Hundreds of new features, numerous new releases every month – the platform has matured nicely and fits superbly into a cloud-first strategy. But why choose VMC on AWS over say, traditional colocation, private cloud or self-hosted datacenters?
Continue readingI see many customers looking to move their entire document and communication to Microsoft 365, and although its a wonderful platform with a list of benefits as long as the eye can see. There are some things to look out for. Hopefully in a few months / years I’ll be able to look at this post and all will have been resolved, I guess we’ll see….
Continue readingIt’s 2021, my 15 year anniversary in operational IT. I decide to make a bold move – a complete change career wise. I step away from the customer world, away from the day-to-day severity one calls, away from leading a team, and away from pretty much everything I’ve learnt – or have I?
Continue readingFor as long as I can remember vSphere was what VMware was famous for. Just a mention of virtualisation and everyone mentioned ESX, ESXi or VMware’s name. Obviously times have moved on, competition has increased and VMware’s portfolio has diverisified somewhat so it looks like the commercial team decided now was a time to modernise their purchase options. This is just a few of my thoughts as to why, from a customer perspective, I find this pretty useful.
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