vSphere 5.5 U1 has landed and brings vSAN and Hybrid Cloud integration support among many bug fixes. Find some of the details here. As always adopt the update after testing, measured consideration and a double of your favorite drink.
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Cloud Killed the Systems Admin
March 16th, 2014 
Christian Weidelman I tell you I have missed some great posts by The Register this week. I could not agree more with the ideas conveyed by Jack Clark in his article on The Register. People hear the word “cloud” and they see money saved, staff not needed and skill sets not required to get their idea turned […]
Azure gets cozy with Oracle
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman While not news that Microsoft and Oracle have been building tighter ties for a while now it has now opened up an announcement for Azure built images of Oracle. For those of us that get to deal with Oracle on occasion this provides an opportunity to work with Oracle without a larger investment. The […]
Big Thanks to a Few Trainers
March 13th, 2014 Christian Weidelman I was lucky enough to get to learn from some great guys from VMware over the past three weeks. A big thanks goes out to the crew at VMware Education. Brian Watrous Joe Desmond Rodney McIntosh These guys provided a great deal of information about vCAC, vCloud Director and VMware Orchestrator. If you get a […]
VCP Recertification
March 11th, 2014 Christian Weidelman It was only a matter of time, but it seems now that VMware is taking a page from other vendors to align it’s certification’s with its releases more closely. The announcement which can be found here details out how VMware will be working to make sure certifications for VMware professionals stay current an applicable. When […]
VMware Horizons DaaS Launched
March 10th, 2014 Christian Weidelman VMware’s much awaited launch of its Horizons DaaS product came to be today. This service is a product of the Desktone procurement last year and its integration into the Horizon suite. The official announcement can found here from VMware. Ever since I started hearing of the direction for Horizon suite I had concerns on how this […]
VMware VSAN has Arrived
March 6th, 2014 Christian Weidelman VMware is finally releasing its VSAN product next week. With today’s presentation the specs for VSAN have been released. A few bullet points below. I am highly interested in load testing this with VDI as this could be a cost-effective performance boost for VDI clusters I […]
You knew it had to Happen
March 20th, 2012 Christian Weidelman For all of you that have watched the birth and death of many Windows Operating Systems you just knew this had to happen eventually.Maybe not as famous as of the BSOD on stage of ole, but just as fun. Take a Spin over to the Register to read their scoop on a Metro UI demo. […]