One of my favorite stories is one attributed to Christopher Wren, the architect behind St Paul’s Cathedral. The short version of the story is that Wren was visiting the worksite for  St. Paul’s Cathedral.  He came across a bricklayer diligently working away and asked him what he was doing and he replied he was laying bricks.  A little bit later, he came across a second bricklayer and asked him what he was doing, and h…

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Rich Miller made a point I wanted to echo in a recent post:”Maritz and the VMware organization has proven their ability to retake some thought leadership and generate momentum.”Heading into VMworld, there were certainly some questions hanging out there with the changes in leadership and other competitive pressures. However, Paul and his team did an outstanding job re-casting the conversation and sending several thousand re-charged e…

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New Data Center Show Airing TODAY! (10-14-10 at 10 AM PST) Its interesting to now be talking about moving ‘beyond’ with regards to virtualization.  Its been such a hot topic with such a wealth of new technology-new problems that reveal themselves only to be addressed in creative ways. Welcome to the shownotes for our latest Data Center focused show…this one is a deep dive around multiple new technology announcements.  If for so…

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Almost 2 years ago , we not only launched  a new product , but more importantly a new concept – We called it “unified computing ” and named the products Unified Computing Systems (UCS) At that time , the media highlighted the fact that Cisco was entering the server market , and of course the incumbent providers were prompt to claim how fool we were They said that” it couldn’t  be done” . But we insisted and even declared “There…

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Next Monday (May 9th) we will back in Las Vegas ! Not that I like so much gambling — not that I am a big fan of the Eiffel Tower , but this is obviously where the high tech companies organize the conferences these days EMC World 2011 – Interop – Cisco Live – VMworld 2011 ! And as everybody keeps talking about cloud computing , I guess we will very soon call this city the “cloudy city” ! So next stop is EMC World at The Venetian. As you cer…

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