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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So, I am watching Captain Ron (hey, we all have our guilty pleasures) and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a customer back in Vegas at VMworld. The customer was giving me some friendly grief around the recent NetworkWorld lab test of the Cisco Nexus 7000 and the high availability features of the platform. At this point, you are probably wondering where Captain Ron figures into this…. …so, in pretty much every nauticall…

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In the next in our series of mini-interviews with Nexus 1000V customer, we have thoughts from Olivier Parcollet, IT Architect at SETAO. Those of you who went to VMworld Europe might have seen Olivier join Ed Bugnion during his keynote. Thank you, again, Olivier for your time.What was your overall impression of the Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch?Cisco Nexus 1000V fills the gaps that existed in virtual infrastructures and…

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What’s not to love about Cannes, France: the food, the wine, the French Riviera, the Nexus 1000V….huh? Yes, this week, Cannes is home to VMworld Europe where all things VMware are under discussion.Folks lucky enough to be at the event have access to a hands-on lab where they get a chance to play with the 1000V. We ran over 80 people through the labs and have had to expand the demo pods to deal the overflow–kinda like Vegas, where…

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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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