It is time again, time to submit your vBrownBag TechTalk for VMworld 2019. This year there was no general call for papers for VMworld. I am expecting a larger than usual number of submissions for TechTalks and will be more selective of session acceptance. Community sessions need to show definite educational focus and value to[…]
The Cohesity office in San Jose is directly under the flight path to San Jose airport. For the week of the Build Day Live at Cohesity planes were flying close over our heads. It was also great for Jeffrey; his flights were from San Jose. Tracey and I had a bit more of a hike,[…]
The first appearance of vBrownBag TechTalks at re:Invent has snuck up on us. We have been invited by the VMware community team to be part of the VMware {CODE} booth at re:Invent and were able to grab six presentation slots for TechTalks, the full schedule for the {CODE} booth is in this blog post. The booth[…]
We have been running the vBrownBag podcast for years and we have also been doing vBrownBag TechTalks for years. Until now TechTalks were only accessible by visiting YouTube but now there is a new vBrownBag podcast, the vBrownBag TechTalks podcast. Now you can catch up on all the interesting TechTalks that you didn’t manage to[…]
For the first time, we will be making a small number of vBrownBag TechTalks at AWS re:Invent in sunny Las Vegas next month. We will be sharing a stage with the VMware {CODE} sessions and some VMware product presentations, thanks to VMTN for hosting us at re:Invent and helping us bring the vBrownBag community to[…]
vForum rolls into Sydney next week and the vBrownBag crew will be there, near the Dodgem cars making TechTalk videos. The TechTalk location makes more sense when you know that vForum Sydney takes place at Luna Park, a historic funfair at the north end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. If you are at vForum then you will find[…]
After a couple of years away, the vBrownBag crew will be at vForum Sydney this year making TechTalk videos and interviewing presenters from the main stages. If you will be at vForum you can volunteer to present a TechTalk by filling in this form. You can also see the TechTalks being recorded, although it doesn’t[…]
It is now nearly a month since VMworld USA and we are starting to think about VMworld EMEA, where there will be another full schedule fo TechTalks. You can already find many of these sessions in the Content Catalog for VMworld EMEA, just search for VMTN. This is also a great time to announce that[…]
VMworld US is over for 2018, and I hope everyone has recovered from the travel and the inevitable post-conference ills. I managed to not pack any decent shoes, just my travel slippers and a pair of sandals. As a result, I learned that new shoes and conference walking do not mix, the big blister on[…]
Another, very educational, Build Day Live event completed, and I still find that each event feels different. The Build Day Live with Supermicro felt like I was learning a lot about the company and not so much about the specific product that we deployed. I already knew that Supermicro is a server vendor in their own category, not an all-encompassing behemoth like some of the other big vendors but not just an assembler of components like some lower cost vendors. I knew that Supermicro designs and manufacture their servers and that their engineering is top notch. What I didn’t realize was that the engineering and manufacturing happens in San Jose for products shipped to US customers. I didn’t know how good Supermicro is at re-using engineering across product families using modular designs. I also had no idea that there are a complete range of Supermicro data center network switches.
