Like many other VMware friends, I also received an email informing me I was awarded VMware vExpert for 2011. This is the second year for this award and I am extremely
grateful for the honor. Like every vExpert should; I want to thank everyone at VMware behind the great social media and community and especially thank John Troyer for his leadership. I don’t think people realize how much awesomeness has come out of the work John has done, because it is so difficult to quantify. I also want to thank Duncan Epping who was when I started, and still is an inspiration as a blogger and Twitter junkie.
Fair warning: it is at this point of the blog post I will get a little retrospective and sappy.
Sometimes it is tough to measure success outside of just projects, sales goals, or training milestones. I am often so obsessed with *the next thing* that I never take time to fully enjoy a sense of accomplishment for what I have done. For me, the vExpert email is a point where I can stop and think over what I did over the last year.
And so I encourage you to do the same. And not just in light of your career. Sit still for a couple minutes and think of all the things you have accomplished in the last year as a parent, professional, friend, and as a partner.
There are many ways to measure success in life and not all of them can be easily recognized. I can think of so many great people that helped me get to where I am now that deserve way more praise than I do. So since today is a day I am taking to feel good about what I have done; I encourage you to do the same.
.nick
Organic Cloud : Modeling After The Natural World
It is out of this day-dreaming that I often start thinking about current cloud designs and how I would change them. In my mind both public and private cloud have several core demands that have been around for a while and are an essential part of expectations in any computing utility. A simple list of these would be things like being cost effective, performant, reliable, secure, and scalable. I could spend a large amount of time defining the rules about what makes a good “cloud”. But instead I will move forward with the assumption that a cloud service provides the same or better relative utility while being cost effective to the consumer. You can find a great many blogs and personalities out there that do a much better job of defining a robust cloud service offering. My thoughts our more focus on how that actually happens. [Read more...]