by Gina Rosenthal | Jul 6, 2017 | Gina Rosenthal
It’s July, and that means it’s officially time to start your VMworld planning. This is a show for which you really need a game plan. I’m not just saying this because I work for VMware now, I’m saying this from years of experience. VMworld has everything: You (or your...
by Gina Rosenthal | Jun 6, 2017 | Gina Rosenthal, Virtualization
Over the last several weeks, the stability of the “vCommunity” has been called into question. Is this still a community, or is it time to start anew someplace else? As is my custom, I think it’s worth looking at our history to understand the true...
by Gina Rosenthal | May 2, 2017 | Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
If you have built your career in the world of IT infrastructure, you know that our world has been going through a digital transformation for several years. It started with virtualization. Did you know in the early days of VMware, many people believed that hosting many...
by Gina Rosenthal | Apr 4, 2017 | Cloud, Containers, Gina Rosenthal, Open Source
The IT industry isn’t that old, so we don’t have a very long history. Even with the short history, we’ve been able to detect repeatable patterns in technology. The Negroponte Switch (about how wired signals become air-born, and air-born signals become wired), and...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 7, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
I’ve done it, and I bet you’ve done it too. As evidenced by the most recent AWS outage, even cloud engineers do it. I’m talking about taking down a system with a typo. I’m talking about configuration errors caused by human mistakes that take systems down. In my case,...
by Gina Rosenthal | Feb 7, 2017 | Gina Rosenthal, Strategy
Data scientist is the hot new job role. Some have even called it the sexiest job of the century. However, when you look at some of the job postings for data scientists, it seems like this job title could mean many different things. I’ve seen everything jobs advertised...
