Virtualization for Service Providers - Latest Comments

Re: New Role, New Challenge

mikestanley — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:52:12 -0000

So very excited and happy for you! Looking forward to more of your take on things from this perspective.

Re: Coming Soon, To An Event Near You…

Josh A — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:39:27 -0000

What? Not going to heckle me at Internet Summit, November 12-14th in Raleigh?
Hope to see you at some of these events.

Re: Whiptail: The Truth, the Whole Truth…Oh Who Am I Kidding?

Jay Cuthrell — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:19:41 -0000

That's a very exec thing to say.

Re: Whiptail: The Truth, the Whole Truth…Oh Who Am I Kidding?

Jeramiah Dooley — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:14:32 -0000

Interesting perspective from the CRN UK people linking to this post.

http://www.channelweb.co.uk...

Not sure which is scarier: being called a VCE exec (I'm not) or being mentioned in the same article as Chad Sakac (which makes me want to quit while I'm ahead).

Re: Old Complexity + New Complexity = Progress?

Jeramiah Dooley — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:07:45 -0000

Thanks Steve. I'm certain there are companies who run SAP and Oracle instances on lots of different hardware platforms, Nutanix included. Many/most enterprise customers, however, wouldn't trust those workloads on that hardware, especially when those workloads are the crown jewels of the business.

SAP is easily the #1 workload that customers buy Vblock Systems for, and with EMC being the #1 storage provider for SAP as well there's a huge amount of investment in making sure those workloads are as risk-free as possible. From the customer standpoint, the driver there isn't acquisition cost, or the religious avoidance of certain kinds of storage tech, it's how can you make sure these workloads are a bulletproof as possible, and how can you reduce the cost to own and manage the infrastructure that makes that happen. If you (or others) are interested, the customer case studies for Canadian Pacific, Columbia Sportswear, Eclipse Aerospace and Rompetrol are on the VCE website (http://www.vce.com/solution... and there's some obvious common threads that run through them.

There are workloads and companies for whom running everything on a Nutanix cluster is the perfect answer, and I'm confident in your ability to find those customers and sell stuff to them! My larger point is that in addition to not being a zero sum game (since both have API accessibility, would it be all that difficult to use both Nutanix and Vblock together if the workloads called for it?) it's also one where companies of different sizes, running different workloads, have different needs and risk profiles. Understanding that helps everyone, especially the customer.

Looking forward to seeing you at VMworld. Maybe we can do a Cisco video for old times sake. :-)

Re: Old Complexity + New Complexity = Progress?

Jay Cuthrell — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:12:23 -0000

Well "ever" could be defined in several ways -- notably in the startup world "ever" is a function of the effective runway afforded by the latest round... like Series C(omplicated), Series D(iluted), Series E(mpty), and Series F(scked). ;-)

Re: Old Complexity + New Complexity = Progress?

Steve Kaplan @ROIdude — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:24:17 -0000

Nice post Jeremiah. I do question your skepticism about large
enterprises ever running SAP & Oracle instances on a Nutanix cluster; in
fact that is already occuring today. On
the other hand, I agree with your skepticism regarding HP Integrated
Infrastructure Systems $500M revenue figure. I wrote a blog post about
this a couple of years ago http://bythebell.com/2011/0...

Steve Kaplan (@ROIdude)
VP Channel & Strategic Sales, Nutanix

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Larry Gonzalez — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:20:05 -0000

Understood!! Thanks a lot!

Larry

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:01:23 -0000

Hey Larry! The charts are indeed updating. You are the one and only vExpert in Costa Rica, but with a population density of 0.02% you don't make the top 10/15 cutoff for those graphs. Your data is in the system though, I promise! Thanks for participating!

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Larry Gonzalez — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:01:04 -0000

Is the chart still updating? There were many new vExperts that were having issues activating the account on the forum and filling the new profile, now that is solved so I wonder if ca get a refreshed chart (I still do not see my country, Costa Rica ;) )

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Andrew Miller — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:19:13 -0000

Took me a while but done...

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Michael Hart — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:15:19 -0000

Almost thought we were getting eliminated one by one...weave and bob, weave and bob.

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:12:17 -0000

There may be more, but only 67 who have been included in the group every year. Some from 2009 are once again vExperts after one or more years absence.

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Michael Hart — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:10:30 -0000

So there are only 67 of us left from the original 300 in 2009?

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Michael Hart — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:08:21 -0000

Consider it an Elite group. :-)

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

janerimmer — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:39:17 -0000

The easiest stat to compile is the female contingent of vExperts - I think it's only 5 :-(

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Artur Krzywdzinski — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:17:56 -0000

awesome stats, good work

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jimmy Hester — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:43:18 -0000

Whew! I was worried my math was broken.

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Luc Dekens — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:48:15 -0000

Great stuff ! It's becoming the vOpendata site for vExperts

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:06:48 -0000

So, yes. They dropped three zeros from each of the population numbers, meaning you get to add three zeros after the decimal point, making your math spot on. :-)

However, I'm going to leave it since the charts don't like numbers that small. :-) I'll make a note that it's per 1,000 people.

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:03:55 -0000

Hmmm... Let me look at the original numbers. Maybe they left off a bunch of zeros at the end... In fact, I'll be that's what it is...

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jimmy Hester — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:06:20 -0000

I'm not a math guy, but I think 199 US vExperts / 313,000,000 population = 0.0000635%

Feel free to mock my subpar math skills if I missed a zero somewhere, though. I'm always messing up some mundane detail.

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:13:23 -0000

My guess is that people have been updating their information over the last couple days, and that's changed the math somewhat!

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

cmegroz — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:35:02 -0000

Strange, you wrote that only 14 Companies have multiple vExpert, but we are 3, on my company and I cannot see it on the chart ... no way thanks for all

Re: 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

Jeramiah Dooley — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:43:41 -0000

Hell no. Post away.

I'd also encourage you (and all the rest of the vExperts) to put a link to your blog and cross-post new content to the Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/com...