Healthcare workers are finding themselves more overwhelmed than ever with COVID-19, and the Health IT Professionals that support these workers with technologies that must be online and high performing are equally stressed. There is no time for EHR (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, MEDITECH) or other system failures. All technology vendors must work in concert to deliver […]
Top 3 Ways to Identify Root Cause of Poor Performance issues in your Citrix or VMware Horizon Deployment
Enterprise troubleshooting is not an easy task with many enterprises. Administrators are typically left maintaining many different solutions, attempting to evaluate root cause manually, or are left with solutions that do not give broad visibility into all aspects of the deployed Citrix or VMware Horizon deployment. This can leave systems down for longer than necessary […]
A Closer Look at Azure VMware Solutions
When it comes to the data center, no one can deny that Microsoft and VMware are two of the biggest players. Over the last decade, we have seen a fundamental shift in the way infrastructure utilized, deployed, and managed. One of the biggest disruptor to the modern datacenter has been the moment of cloud - […]
Evaluate Information Sources in the Virtualization Community
You must evaluate information sources, it is one of the foundations of digital literacy. How can we be sure the information we read in a tweet or blog post (or hear on a podcast or see in a video) is reliable? Continually re-evaluating information sources is an important pillar of digital literacy, especially with topics […]
It’s getting cloudy at Dell Tech World
This week Dell Tech World is being held in Las Vegas. The Day One news was all about cloud. You can check out the press release here, and the official blog post introducing the Dell Technologies Cloud here. Let’s break down what this announcement contained. VMware Cloud Foundation now available on VxRail The thing that’s […]
Troubleshooting Insights for Success Within your Epic Deployment
Healthcare organizations that deploy Epic to support the patients that they see every day have a responsibility to ensure that Epic is always online and performing well. Take for example, a hospital that uses Epic for all its patient services to keep the patients healthy and to ensure their safety Epic needs to be online […]
Supercomputing 2018, a conference for enterprise architects?
I’m in Barcelona for VMworld as the 2018 tech conference winds down, but I’m eager to attend Supercomputing next week in Dallas. This conference has been around since 1988, and about 11,000 people attend. It is billed as the international conference for HPC (High Performance Computing), networking, storage, and analysis. That sounds like what most […]
vMotion for vGPUs
The introduction of vMotion for vGPUs was one of the exciting vSphere features announced at VMworld US this year. The announcements included a new vSphere edition (vSphere Platinum) and version (vSphere 6.7 Update 1). Security is the key feature of vSphere Platinum. It provides security at the hypervisor level with encryption in flight and at rest, TPM 2.0 (including virtual TPM 2.0). Access security […]
Your VMworld US 2018 Recap, Announcements and Sessions
VMware took the stage once again in Las Vegas in August 2018 as another VMworld came and went which was loaded with announcements and content. Lots of updates were shared for existing products as well as new products and even a brand new acquisition. Not only were there lots of technical content and and update […]
Three New vSphere 6.7 Features That Make the Upgrade Worth It
VMware has a long history of innovation, with many waiting with baited breath for new vSphere releases. From Storage vMotion to the VCSA, there has been so many interesting features released over the years. Each release alone is packed full of new features that can sometimes be hard to sort through, which is why I […]