Year: 2011

RT @mreferre: New Blog Post: “vShield products packaging explained (with a focus on vCloud Director)” http://bit.ly/dRAfMc

RT @Gartner_inc: Gartner: Four Risks CIOs Should Address When Contracting for Cloud Services http://bit.ly/eINnch

RT @rspruijt: #VMware View Client for #Apple #iPad is available: http://bit.ly/i0GPDp <- Now we just need an iPad 2 to try it...

VMware VMworld 2011 Call for Papers now open: http://goo.gl/JuAyi <- Maybe it's time for me to try and submit one or two abstracts...

Nimbula Director almost here (free of charge up to 40 cores): http://goo.gl/n9KDh <- The cloud orchestration space is getting hot

VMware to acquire WaveMaker: http://goo.gl/vbVZw <- Another piece of the VMware's PaaS puzzle is in place.

CiRBA DCI 6.1 is out: http://goo.gl/djR6G <- Another capacity management product going the right direction. W/ an interesting focus on risk

VMware announces vCenter Operations (former AliveVM): http://goo.gl/ffCiF <- a pleasing step in the right direction for capacity management

Reading now: “2011 Planning Guide: Data Center, Infrastructure, Operations, and Internal Cloud” from @dreeves1 – http://goo.gl/F999H

“Capacity planning, a dead end career move?” (LinkedIn discussion here: http://goo.gl/DNm88) Quite the opposite IMO.