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Travers Nicholas on
Monday, 12th of July 2010 at 03:09:23 AM
15 EMEA based vSpecialists, too much caffeine, the smell of last night’s pizza, and a seemingly impossible list of tasks to accomplish – that was Geek Week Q2 2010.
As a vSpecialist at EMC, we attend a lab construction week as part of the on-boarding and initiation ritual. The instructions are simple: take this list of applications and infrastructure configurations, and work as a team to install and configure them all with the kit we provide to you before the week ends. There are multiple objectives for Geek Week, the main ones being; get the team working together, learn about integrating EMC, VMware, and Cisco technologies, and develop a good understanding of technologies that are not yet released, so we are best able to support our customers at product launch time. Continue reading Geek week : How to build an empire in 6 days
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nick on
Wednesday, 30th of June 2010 at 10:00:50 AM
Eric Hollis & Chris Horn discussing VCE
Ok, if you are at Cisco Live 2010 and have any interest in the new Private Cloud innovations or in Virtualization, I have a who’s who of EMC vSpecialists onsite that you must meet.
1. We have in one location two of the masters of the VCE SST team. These guys eat, sleep, and breath Vblocks all day. Chris Horn, and Eric Hollis are the busiest vSpecialists and other than maybe Chad Sakac or Wade O’Harrow, have more face time with customers looking at private clouds than anyone. I highly recommend swinging by booth 1671 and asking to meet them. Tell them Nick (@lynxbat) sent you.
2. There are people who are in the know at EMC, and then there is Stephen Spellicy. This guy is involved in helping with product development, [...]
Continue reading Cisco Live 2010 : Things to do in Vegas
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nick on
Tuesday, 29th of June 2010 at 05:52:09 PM
Watching John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, give the keynote presentation today at Cisco Live 2010 I was struck by two important things:
The focus on changing the way the consumer / business users utilizes technology The strong emphasis on the demand for a new model for business operations.
Both of these appear on the surface to be great marketing statements. But, what makes these different is the timing with the evolution of technology today.
I think the value proposition of the video on every business/consumer device is obvious. I know the Cisco Cius brings the capability to change the way interactions occur and collaberation begins. But, what affected me most was a simple statement that Mr. Chambers made:
“Today, change starts from the consumer and moves to the datacenter”
It just clicked for me [...]
Continue reading Cisco Live 2010 : It’s all about the Milk & Cookies
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nick on
Saturday, 10th of April 2010 at 04:25:19 PM
The greatest difference between the virtual data center and the cloud is how it is consumed. The greatest obstacle to the cloud can be a lack of synergy in how it is created.
Picture the house from the movie Up. In many ways I see the true innovation that will create the cloud and enable true infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as being a bit like this house. The effort to abstract infrastructure from physical and operational dependencies is like the effort of Carl, trying to free his house from its place attached to the earth. The breaking of this boundary is the demand for a better way to provide a service to business needs; to really provide infrastructure as a consumable service that truly aligns to financial and process models more effectively. Or, in a simple word: The Cloud.
The effort to break these dependencies [...]
Continue reading Up In The Clouds : Helium not Hot Air
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