Thoughts from VMworld 2014

What a strange, weird and often times confusing week in San Francisco. As always, it's great to be able to reconnect to such a broad community. But it definitely highlighted that our industry as at a crossroads in many dimensions. Before the show there was a massive earthquake outside of San...
20 years into an IT career

It dawned on me recently that I've been part of this crazy IT community for 20 years now. My first job was in sales for a small reseller. When they asked me if I knew the 7-layer OSI model, I confidently said "yes" and later realized that I had...
Pizza as-a-Service is Misunderstood

I saw the image for Pizza-as-a-Service floating around from many of my colleagues over the last few weeks. It...
The Rise of Cloud Management as-a-Service

Sometimes I'm a complete blowhard, and other times my soapboxes start to materialize in the marketplace. I've been on my soapbox about Cloud Management as-a-Service a couple times in the past year (