Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc. Hand that data sheet to a highly-intelligent, well-educated lay-person and you will get a blank stare….
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WWT GeekDay 2013
I had the privilege this week to attend the opening keynote and SDN panel of WWT’s Geek Day. The SDN panel was made up of heavy hitters from Cisco, VMware, HP, and Embrane. They each presented their vision and solutions for SDN, then teamed up for questions. The session was…
A Salute to Greatness
There are two things I’ve spent my life doing: being a class clown (laughed at or with is your choice) and building my career. Since I was 16 I’ve worked no less than 40 hour weeks and more consistently been immersed in IT upwards of 80. I have rarely taken…
Much Ado About Something: Brocade’s Tech Day
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending Brocade’s Tech Day for Analysts and Press. Brocade announced the new VDX 8770, discussed some VMware announcements, as well as discussed strategy, vision and direction. I’m going to dig in to a few of the topics that interested me, this is no way…
Thoughts From a Tech Leadership Summit
This week I attended a tech leadership Summit in Vail Colorado for the second time. The event is always a fantastic series of discussions and brings some of the top minds in the technology industry. Here are some thoughts on the trends and thinking that were common at the event….
WWT’s Geek Day 2012
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The Business Suit: Spinach and Kryptonite
For VMworld this year I decided to pack heavy. I spent the week in suits rather than my typical IT polos and jeans, slacks and shirts type attire. No particular reasoning for the change although the factors were along the lines of: change of pace, stepping it up, and ‘It’s…
Thoughts From a Global Technology Leadership Forum
I recently had the privilege to attend and participate in a global technology leadership forum. The forum consisted of technology investors, vendors and thought leaders and was an excellent event. The tracks I focused on were VDI, Big Data, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Networks, Cloud and Collaboration. The following…
Passwords Are Doomed: You NEED Two-Factor Authentication
How many people use eight-character or less passwords with the first letter being capital and last entries being numbers? People are predictable and so are their passwords. To make things worse, people are lazy and tend to use the same passwords for just about everything that requires one. A study…
Additional Private Cloud Blogs
For those that are interested and unaware I’ve been blogging for Network Computing for about a month on their Private Cloud Tech Center. You can find those blogs here: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud-tech-center. You should see a new one there every week or so. I will continue to publish content here as regularly…