Speak up at VMware Explore 2022

You have likely heard the news that VMworld 2022 is now VMware Explore 2022.  That’s 6 different events across the word that kick off with VMware Explore US in late August 2022 followed by events in Brazil (October), Europe, Singapore, Japan, and China (all in November).  Regardless of your feeling about the change, consider this…

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Make the Most of VMworld 2021

Before my first VMworld experience in 2017, I was completely overwhelmed with how to spend my time at the conference.  With so many activities happening, how do you decide?  Despite this being a virtual event yet again, I want to provide a framework for attendees to make the most out of this year’s conference.  Regardless…

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The Hidden Gems of a Virtual VMworld

I see an empty conference center where VMworld once sat. If you’ve never attended VMworld in person, it’s a completely overwhelming experience for the first time attendee.  Now that it’s virtual and free to attend, it’s more accessible to us all.  But it can still be overwhelming.  I wanted to take a few minutes to…

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The Next Wave: Exploring Tanzu Observability’s Integration with Azure Functions

This is part 6 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to successfully integrate VMware’s Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront) with Azure and explore the additional insights gained for our Azure Function environment.   Back in part 1, we explored Azure Functions and Function Apps via the Azure…

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Welcome to the VMware Documentation Tour!

Several months ago I started building a guide to using VMware documentation that was first a single blog post, launched into a blog series, and then morphed into a presentation at the Boston VMUG UserCon in September 2019.  I realized while preparing that there was a better way to organize the content and a number…

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