January 23, 2017
Cisco UCS Director Catalog Request
Cisco UCS Director Catalog Requests are the entire reason for having a cloud management platform in the first place. It’s…
January 17, 2017
AWS Step Functions
This year at AWS re:Invent Amazon announced a new service called Step Functions. According to AWS, Step Functions is an…
January 12, 2017
A VMUG Response – Clearing the Air
Many of you read my previous post about leaders being removed from VMUG for working for vendors that compete with…
January 10, 2017
What Capabilities are Needed for a Startup Storage Company?
At this point I assume everyone is tired of hearing about storage arrays. They seem to have saturated the…
January 7, 2017
I Don’t Like it When Mommy and Daddy Fight – VMUG Edition
VMware Users Group (VMUG) has been an important part of my career and an institution that has been close to…
January 2, 2017
To an Agile New Year
Another year has come and gone. The aspirations that we had for our past trip around the sun have been…
December 19, 2016
Unbelievable Gift for the Home Lab
If you follow me on twitter, you’ve probably seen a little bit of back and forth between myself and a…
December 12, 2016
Is Everything Pay-as-You-Go?
A recent vendor product briefing during Tech Field Day 12 got me thinking about the term “pay-as-you-go”. In my line…
December 5, 2016
Decouple Disks and Compute with DriveScale
I was pretty unsure of the value proposition from DriveScale in the weeks preceding Tech Field Day 12. Maybe the…
November 29, 2016
AWS PowerShell Console with XAML
I’ve always liked the idea of taking a series of Microsoft PowerShell scripts and putting them behind a user interface…