Archive for October, 2011

Cool videos on Technology, Virtualization and Storage

More and more cool videos are getting round that explain certain things around virtualization, cloud computing and storage better and better. I thought I’d sum up my personal favorites in a blogpost.

Older stuff: The Internet

A very old but still fun to watch is “Warriors of the Net”. This video explains how the internet works. Things like packets, firewalls and routers are explained here:



Warriors of the Net – The Internet explained.

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VMworld Party Copenhagen 2011 – What’s Hot & What’s Not

I heard a lot of different visions on the quality of the party of this years VMworld in Copenhagen. It seems that depending on where you were at the party, the quality differed a lot 🙂

I have been shooting some pictures along the dancefloor just in front of the stage… And it rocked!

Whats Hot, Whats Not

A picture says a thousand words. Or in this case, two pictures:

Whats Hot......And Whats Not!     Whats Hot…                                                                           …And VMware, really??? What’s Not.

Clearly, there were “some” differentiators this year round… Catching ducks in a pond without shotguns… VMware, REALLY???

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VMworld Copenhagen 2011: Steve Herrods keynote

It’s tuesday afternoon, and the sessions start to die out. Everyone is getting ready for Steve Herrods keynote. What’s new? What’s new since VMworld 2011 Vegas?

For a report on Steve’s keynote from Vegas this year, check out Steve Herrods VMworld Keynote Summary blogpost I did. So what IS new? Read about it right here! Read the rest of this entry »

Dutch VMUGgers: Get your free shirt @VMWorld Copenhagen!

For the past few weeks EMC, VMware and the Dutch VMUG have been planning this: Free T-shirts for all dutch visitors of VMworld!

We printed 200 shirts, I think they came out very nice! I have the honor to show the first sneak-preview of the shirts:

Dutch VMUG t-Shirts for VMworld Copenhagen

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RIP Steve Jobs – An Inspiring Visionary 1955-2011

I will probably be the last to say that Apple is my number one company. For some reason the “Reality Distortion Generator” found in every single Apple device does not seem to affect me. But the fact these kind of sayings exist today really say it all: Steve Jobs has done great things for the world of technology and was a great visionary. During his life a lot of revolutionary ideas and products have seen the light in a way that only he could have realized. Steve turned the world of technology upside down and inside out at the same time while others were just trying to keep up.

I just wanted to give my respects to someone who I found to be an inspiring visionary and business person.

The world of technology will not be the same without him.

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

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