My first time attending a Cisco conference. Hoping to get more information on Cisco ACI, the new 9k switches, some Contiv action, and if time allows a bit on Cisco Spark. I will post more as the week progresses.
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Redfish Standard Signoff
August 6th, 2015 
Christian Weidelman After seeing this being mentioned last year at HP Discover and a full double down by HP this year at Discover it’s great to see that it’s coming to life. Redfish isn’t just an HP thing, HP is one of the players in aiding in its development. Other promoters and supporters are Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, […]
Or Was It?
August 3rd, 2015 Christian Weidelman Yeah, so April, May, June, and July have gone and past with nothing to post. It took longer than planned, but I can now come out of incommunicado. We’ve made some technical changes at work that had to complete before I started posting again regularly. Expect now new topics as I venture back into the […]
Sell Sell Sell
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman You ever have a feeling that your on the precipice of something, but can’t see 6 inches over the ledge? That’s how I feel about IBM storage after the sale of IBM’s server business to Lenovo. You look at some of the post sale news articles, employee postings on the IBM alliance web page and […]
vSphere 5.5 U1 Has Landed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman 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.
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 […]
More Info on the Target Breach Detailed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman This is the best read I have seen so far… Business Week Target Breach This reinforces the thought that every IT person should have a minor in security for the their day-to-day job.
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 […]
Infinidat – Not Today
March 6th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Looks like they had to push the new site launch out a couple more days. Stay tuned sports fans, I believe it will be worth the wait.
Infinidat
March 5th, 2014 Christian Weidelman For those of you who have seen some of the discovery articles on The Register and are interested to find out more about the Infinidat product offerings then you are in luck. The Infinidat web site seems to have a countdown to something for 4 PM Central time this Thursday. Be there or be squared. […]
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. […]