Eclipse: 10 Years of Excellence
This month Eclipse turns 10 years old. Ten years ago, IBM donated the initial Eclipse Java IDE, which was then estimated $40M, to Eclipse Foundation. It has since grown to 273 open source projects and...
View ArticleVMware Partner Exchange 2012: Day One
Today is the first day of VMware Partner Exchange 2012 in Las Vegas. As usual, it started with keynotes, presented by Scott Aronson (Senior Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances), Paul Maritz...
View ArticleVMware Partner Exchange 2012: Day Two
Same as yesterday, the conference started with keynotes. The first one was by Carl Eschenbach, VMware Co-President of Customer Operations, followed by a motivational keynote by Bill Taylor, founding...
View ArticleVMware Partner Exchange 2012: Day Three
Today is the last day of VMware Partner Exchange 2012. There’s no keynote, therefore I went directly to breakout sessions. The first one I attended was “SRM 5.0 and vSphere Replication – Understanding...
View ArticleRecent Interview with BizTech Magazine
I just did an interview with Ricky Ribeiro, who is online content manager of BizTech Magazine. It was published last week as part of the Q&A series of Must Read IT blogs. In response to Ricky’s...
View ArticleHadoop Summit 2012: A Quick Summary
After the Churchill event on Hadoop for enterprises, I attended the Hadoop Summit in San Jose convention center. It’s one of the benefits living in Silicon Valley that I can attend various tech events...
View ArticleWhat VMware Didn’t Tell You About Nicira Deal
On this past Monday VMware announced to buy Nicira for $1.26 billion. Congratulations to many of my former VMware colleagues who joined Nicira and will return back to VMware soon. Overall this deal...
View ArticleWhat Are Cisco’s Options to VMware’s Nicira Deal?
VMware’s acquisition of Nicira posted a big risk on Cisco’s future control of networking market. The risk was in fact there from day one of VMware ESX with virtual switches and then distributed virtual...
View ArticleBehind vRAM – What’s VMware’s Deepest Fear?
The vRAM was the license model VMware used in vSphere 5.0. It basically limits the usage of virtual memory, which is different from physical memory, per license. When first announced last year, it...
View ArticleVI Java API Project Upgrade
During the past weekend, I upgraded the vijava API project to the new Allura platform provided by Sourceforge.net. That’s really a button click and then waited for incoming emails for status updates....
View ArticleTech Talk: vGhetto
This talk is by William Lam (@lamw) regarding his famous vGhetto project at our community meetup. Check out what vGhetto project is and what it means to you: Tech Talk: vGhetto originally appeared on...
View ArticleTech Talk: Reflections on the vSphere Management API – Ease of Use and...
This is the wrapping tech talk at our last community meetup by Jeff Hu who is the tech lead on vSphere APIs. Based on his 7 years of experience since the inception of vSphere API, Jeff shared his...
View ArticleSuccess Story: Cisco Data Center Network Manager
Today I got an email from Louis Jia who is a Sr. Development manager at Cisco. He told me that the product his team has been working on had been rebranded as Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)...
View ArticleHow to Save With New vSphere 5 Licensing Model
Disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts, and strictly mine. I missed the big launch of vSphere 5 on July 12 because I was having my vacation. When I came back, I found so many discussions around the...
View ArticleDeveloper/Administrator (devops) Meet up at VMworld 2011
As part of the VMworld #vMeetups in the Community Lounge, this developer/administrator (a.k.a. devops) meet up will take place on August 30th from 12PM to 1PM at VMworld Community Louge, located just...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Las Vegas: Day One
Today is day one of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The most important part is of course the keynotes by CEO Paul Maritz and Co-President Carl Eschenbach. The following is based on my personal note and has...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Las Vegas: Day Two
Today is day two of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. VMware CTO Steve Herrod got on stage with his technology deep dives into various products and new projects around the cloud story – “your cloud, own it.”...
View ArticleMoving on
Today is my last day at VMware. Looking back, it’s been almost four and half years since I joined VMware in June 2007. At that time, VMware was still part of EMC, and two months later it went IPO (to...
View ArticleMy Next Adventure
After leaving VMware and taking a short break at home last week, I am excited to be part of VCE solution engineering team as an architect at its Santa Clara office. For those who are not familiar VCE,...
View ArticleLearning Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
Yesterday I went to Microsoft Azure DevCamp in its Silicon Valley office. Like other developer events organized by Microsoft, it featured awesome presentations with nice overviews and demos by top...
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