This article is the first part of a series of two articles covering Oracle Cloud Strategy. This article will cover the Oracle Ravello Cloud Service (ORCS). The second article will cover the broader Oracle Cloud offering and will draw my analysis and conclusions about the general Oracle Cloud Strategy.
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. As the title says, I’m in for a very special week in June! I have the pleasure
Today you may have catched an announcement on the TECHunplugged website stating that I am joining forces with Arjan Timmerman and Jane Rimmer as a co-organizator of the TECHunplugged conference series. As you know, the TECHunplugged conference was started a few years ago by my friend Enrico Signoretti and he was joined
We did it again! The second Czech VMUG meeting will take place in Prague on 6th December 2016. The selected venue for this event is again Hotel Barcelo in Prague 4. Instructions to reach the hotel are included in the VMUG event page (see link below). Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks will be
I will spend most of next week in Vienna, Austria to attend the European edition of the Nutanix .NEXT conference, held by hyper-convergence leader Nutanix. The event (which is already sold out) will take place at the Hilton Vienna (Am Stadtpark), with most of the agenda spreading over two days. I am
If you’re, like me, based in EMEA you should know that besides VMworld in Barcelona there is one event that you should absolutely attend. My friends from the Italian VMUG Chapter are organizing their now traditional VMUG User Conference in Milano on 15th November 2016. While it is a free
This is the last post in a series of three articles dedicated to VMware cloud strategy following the VMworld Europe 2016 announcements. After reviewing the VMware Cloud on AWS offering and VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture, it’s time to draw a line and have an overall look at VMware Cloud strategy. Let’s
In Part 1 of these series on VMware Cloud strategy we covered the VMware Cloud on AWS offering, this article will focus on the Cross-Cloud Architecture. For the sake of briefness I’ll use the CCA acronym later on (note: this is not an official VMware acronym). I strongly recommend you
This article is the first of a series of two articles that will cover my opinion and analysis on VMware cloud strategy as announced at VMworld Europe 2016, it will specifically cover the VMware Cloud offering on Amazon AWS. The next article will cover VMware Cross-Cloud offering. First of all, let
I have been graciously invited by Calvin Zito (a.k.a. the HPEStorageGuy) to join the HPE Discover conference in London. HPE Discover will take place from 29-Nov-16 to 1-Dec-16 . Those who know me a bit better may ask “Why HPE?” and “Is there anything really exciting going on there?” I’m going to
Are you going to VMworld Europe 2016 in Barcelona? If yes, the chances that we will meet there are high: I had the luck and privilege to be granted a VMware Blogger Pass. I’m very excited about this new opportunity and am deeply grateful to the VMware folks who considered
First of all, I’d like to thank all the persons involved. I never thought that I would be able to organize this event and that we would have it go on smoothly and have so many people joining. We tweeted about the event using the #VMUGCZ hashtag on Twitter. A
Yes, we did it! (or: we are trying to) 🙂 After taking some courage and with the influence of the italian VMUG friends + meeting the VMUG HQ colleagues in Milano we decided to organize our first Czech Republic VMUG meeting! The venue is now selected and the program is
As you may know, I was for two days in Milano last week to attend the ICT Festival 2015 and the VMUGIT UserCon 2015. Several articles have been written that accurately describe both events, so I will focus on a different topic (keeping however my event impressions below). Why was
After a long period of hibernation (read: intense work), I’m taking a 2-day break to Milano to attend ICT Festival 2015 and (mainly) the VMUGIT UserCon 2015. Looks like this blog is turning into a travel blog… So, why am I going there, and why should you too? First of