Tag: VMWare

HomeLab – The Next Generation

This is the “Lab” I’ve used for probably the last 5 years or so. It’s a Dell Precision T7400 with 64G of PC5300F memory and Dual Xeon X5460 Quad-Core Processors, 8x 2T Seagate SATA Drives, 2x 500G Samsung EVO850 SSD disks, and runs VMWare ESXi 6.0 nicely. Not a bad toy, in the grand scheme. …

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Jumping the shark

This may be a more well-known reference than I earlier thought. I grew up watching Happy-Days.  The show was great until the episode where Fonzi jumped the shark-tank.  After that it pretty much went down-hill quickly. Hence the term “Jumped the shark” or “Jumping the shark” has come to mean any single event that marks …

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VMWare shakeup…

Ok, first off, full-disclosure. I am a VMWare (NYSE:VMW) stockholder. Not much, but enough that I sat up and took notice when the news hit this week.  I also work indirectly for EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), so I have my loyalties there as well. VMWare CEO Diane Greene Departs The news that CEO and co-founder Diane …

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