by Chris Minnis | Jun 2, 2016 | Software
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect We’ve all heard the rumors, OpenStack is hard. To get it up and running in your environment is painful, and guaranteed to have a couple of false starts before you get it right. At least that’s what we’ve heard… Open source, especially...
by Chris Minnis | May 31, 2016 | Software
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Most of you are quite familiar with VMware’s killer feature, vMotion. Many of you employ advanced features in your environment like Storage vMotion and Distributed Switch, but I see very few of our customers using vSphere Fault...
by Chris Minnis | May 17, 2016 | Cybersecurity & Networking
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Not just any kind of cool, relevant cool! Only the geekiest of us get excited by networking products, right? OK, but Meraki isn’t the normal networking product. Sure, Meraki makes familiar devices like wireless access points, Ethernet...
by Chris Minnis | Apr 26, 2016 | Software
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect First, let me say that I have been a VMware believer, evangelist and supporter since 2001. I still remember the first time I understood what the then singular product of ESX Server would do for my IBM x440. The virtualization and...
by Chris Minnis | Apr 25, 2016 | Cybersecurity & Networking
Chris Minnis Enterprise Architect Network Virtualization… the Software Defined Network… both terms are touted as goals for all of our data centers to aspire to. Cisco is a beast in both the networking and server business, and VMware literally invented the X86...
