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Day 2 Keynotes at Partner Exchange

Apr 152009

This morning’s keynotes started off with Carl Eschenbach (on right below), EVP of Worldwide Field Operations, VMware. If you ever have the opportunity to see Carl speak, go. He’s a great presenter and very easy to follow. Carl opened up by discussion the VMware opportunity to our partners. He also made the new announcements about the upcoming updates to Partner Central, VMware’s partner portal. He discussed the upcoming changes to the partner programs and our focus on specialized partners. That is, Partners who have a specialty in one or more of four main areas, Virtualization Core, Virtualization Management, Business Continuity, or Desktop Virtualization. He introduced Brandon Sweeney (on left), VP of Channel Sales – Americas.
Brandon and Carl

Brandon walked thru the new portal and how are partners can use it to find the information that they need.

Afterward, Carl introduced Chad Sakac (in center below), VP, VMware Technical Alliance, EMC. Carl also introduced Ed Bugnion (on right below), VP and CTO, Server Access Virtualization, Cisco. Continue reading »

Site Recovery Manager by example

Disaster Recovery Comments Off

Nov 092008

One of my favorite things in talking to people is when they tell me how well the software I teach them about works. Even better is when someone will take the time to blog about their experiences. I have had a few customers become early adopters of Site Recovery Manager. One of the most memorable was a customer (let’s call him Virtual_JTW) whom I worked with in September. On a Friday afternoon we ran thru configuring and setting up SRM in his environment. We worked thru the configuration and integration with his Celerra storage. In the end, we passed with flying colors and his Disaster Recovery test was 100% successful. It was fun and exciting for me to watch Virtual_JTW’s reaction to the success of the test. He felt so impressed by the results and his subsequent demonstration for his Disaster Recovery team, he felt the need to blog on the whole experience. You can read his account of what happened as well as the test results here .