Microsoft is VMware’s Biggest Threat
When I interviewed for an Analyst role at Gartner Inc., I had to participate in a panel defense of an unpopular position. I had to show that I could hold my own in conversations with customers, analysts, and vendors. The …
VMware Public Cloud Enables Infrastructure as Code
Are VMware public cloud options such as VMware Cloud on AWS cloud washing? Each of the major cloud providers has released a public cloud offering loosely based on VMware Cloud Foundation. However, VMware vSphere isn’t a private cloud. vSphere is …
Can Managed Service Providers Cloud?
Managed service providers (MSP) offer a compelling deal. An MSP may write a customer a check in the first year of a contract in some arrangements. In the traditional outsourcing model, they will hire a subset of your staff and …
Serverless Functions on vSphere?
What’s the most unlikely place to find Function-based computing (Serverless)? What if I told you VMware has a Functions as a Service platform that’s relatively popular. So popular that the company that leads the underlying project won Best of VMworld. …
Do I Still Hate Kubernetes as Much?
According to the Kuberati, vendors bullish on Kubernetes, I’m a server hugger. I think much of that perception is due to my reputation within the VMware community. I’m a former vExpert and VMware certification holder. After all, my old twitter …
We’ll Never Buy Another Server
What did we learn from building a software-defined data center (SDDC) with bring your own servers and storage? The primary learning – it’s not worth the engineering effort. Spend your time on more valuable engineering efforts.