I excited to be a speaker at Pure Storage’s Pure EVOLVE 2013 conference in San Francisco later this month. I’ll speak about why my employer (a hospital) selected Pure Storage’s SSD SAN, the mixed workload that it’s running (VMware View and Microsoft SQL databases), and the performance we are receiving.
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VMworld Hands On Labs problems
I’m at the VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco. One of the historic benefits of VMworld conferences in the past have been their hands on labs. Not this year. This year their labs have been riddled with performance issues and customer frustration. On Sunday, I and about 500 other attendees stood in line for 2.5 …
NASA badges
When I was a kid my grandmother would give me a new NASA badge/patch on birthdays and holidays. I thought they were cool 30 years ago and feel the same today. My mom found them recently and re-gifted them to me on my 40th birthday earlier this year. In light of NASA’s recent accomplishment of …
Indianapolis Colts Win
It’s been a difficut year to be an Indianapolis Colts fan. Before tonight, they have lost 13 games this season. I guess we should have been going to the games all along. While there, I took some images to stitch together to form a panorama. Turned out okay.
VMworld Performance lab had performance problems
Last night I barely completed my first VMworld 2011 lab, “Improve Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning for Your Virtual Environment,” because the lab itself was having performance problems. It looked like about a quarter of the lab workstations were vacant. There were lines of attendees waiting, so there wasn’t a shortage of interest. WiFi access at …
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