Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and I discuss converged infrastructure stack, tech news and industry direction: http://www.thecloudcast.net/2011/06/cloudcast.html. It was a lot of fun to chat with them and we covered some great topics. Related posts: My First Podcast: ‘Coffee With Thomas’ Recent Conversation with the Founder of Tolly Group Shakespearean Guest…
Category: Quick Thoughts
Technology Passion
The May 24th IDC report on server market share by the IDC validated a technology I’ve been passionate about for some time; Cisco unified Computing System (UCS.) For the first time since UCS’s launch two years ago Cisco reported server earnings to IDC with amazing result – #3 in global…
The Cloud Rules
Cloud Computing Concepts: These are Twitter sized quick thoughts. If you’d like more elaboration or have a comment participation is highly encouraged. As I’ve run out of steam on this I’ve decided to move it into a blog rather than a page. 01: Cloud is a fad like computers, the…
World Wide Technology’s Upcoming Geek Day
Coming up very quickly is World Wide Technology’s (www.wwt.com) annual Geek Day, March 10th 2011 (http://www.wwt.com/geekday/.) I’m very much looking forward to the event for two reasons: It’s free to customers It’s totally focused on geeks interacting with geeks. The event is focused around live interactive demo’s from sponsor technology…
Cisco unified Computing System (UCS) High-Level Overview
I’ve been looking for tools to supplement Power Point, Whiteboard, etc. and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) suggested I try Prezi (www.prezi.com.) Prezi is a very slick tool for non-slide based presentations.  I don’t think it will replace slides or white board for me, but it’s a great supplement. It’s got a…
An End User’s Cloud Security Question
I recently received an email with a question about the security of cloud computing environments. The question comes from a knowledgeable user and boils down to ‘Isn’t my data safer on my systems?’ I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community. Does anyone…
Virtualizing the PCIe bus with Aprius
One of the vendors that presented during Gestalt IT’s Tech Field day 2010 in San Jose was Aprius (http://gestaltit.com/field-day/) (http://www.aprius.com/.) Aprius’s product virtualizes the PCIe I/O bus and pushes that PCIe traffic over 10GE to the server. In Aprius’s model you have an Aprius appliance that houses multiple off-the-shelf PCIe…
Promote Your Strategy to Boost Your Cloud Execution
Sitting on yet another flight during takeoff I was forced to read print because my Kindle could obviously disable the auto-pilot system and force us to crash land on a secret government island and start a horrible soap opera with a four letter title. Since Harvard Business Review isn’t available…
Where Are You?
Joe wrote an excellent guest blog on my website called To Blade Or Not To Blade and offered me the same opportunity. Being a huge fan of Joe’s I’m honored. One of my favorites blog posts is his Data Center 101: Server Virtualization. Joe explained the benefits of server virtualization in the data…
My First Podcast: ‘Coffee With Thomas’
I had the pleasure of joining Thomas Jones on his new podcast ‘Coffee With Thomas’.’ His podcast is always good, well put together and about 30 minutes. It’s done in a very refreshing conversation style as if your having a cup of coffee. If your interested in listening to us…