Project Fi
A few weeks ago I started reading about Project Fi, which is Google’s answer to mobile. Then I finally made the leap and ordered one of the required phones (Nexus 6p or Nexus 5x) and activated my Project Fi account. …
Lauren Malhoit Blog
Thanks for visiting Lauren Malhoit’s blog. I hope to share with you all things virtual that I encounter in my real world (and sometimes not so real world) journey through the data center. I’ll be sharing content from many virtualization vendors and cloud providers as well as several open source projects.
VMware to Cut 900 Jobs
Yesterday VMware confirmed that it would be laying off 900 people, about 5% of its workforce. Generally speaking, that’s really not so horrible or uncommon for a larger company. I don’t think VMware is going anywhere any time soon, but …
Microsoft Announces Tech Preview for Azure Stack
Microsoft announced today that it will be releasing a Tech Preview of what they’re calling Azure Stack. While Microsoft has had some success with their public cloud, Azure, they’re banking on companies not actually going full public cloud, whether that’s …
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Cisco Live Berlin
February 15th marks the date of the Cisco Live Europe conference taking place in Berlin, Germany this year. It’s going to be a great one, too! Lots of announcements from the Insieme BU (ACI and Nexus 9000/3000). I’m sure there …
Netwrix Offers IT Auditing through CenturyLink’s Cloud Marketplace
Netwrix Auditor will empower CenturyLink Cloud users with complete visibility into cloud IT infrastructure.
Programmability in NX-OS
A few months back I wrote about a book sprint I was a part of for Operating Cisco ACI. Cisco ran another book sprint recently and we’re now reaping the rewards in a book called Programmability and Automation with Cisco …
VMware Announces Bug in vRealize Suites
If you’re using vCAC, vCenter Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Automation…you get the idea, then you probably want to be aware of a deserialization vulnerability announced recently by VMware. http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0009.html Several different versions are affected, but there are patches available. The …
Nutanix Announce IPO
Nutanix, a huge player in the hyperconvergence market, has announce its intent for public offering. On their S1 form they said they are looking to make $200 million by going public. Nutanix has been around for several years, they have …
NetApp Acquires SolidFire
Last week NetApp announced it is acquiring SolidFire for $870 Million. Almost a billion dollars seems like a really good price for both companies involved…not too low, not too high. SolidFire has taken in about $150 million in fundraising over …
ACI Series on vBrownBag Part 2
Second in my ACI series for vBrownBag I talk about virtualization and how it integrates with various hypervisors. This is not one of those “we all have APIs” so it should integrate type of things. This is actual integration for …