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How to roll back or downgrade VMware 4.x to 3.x
May 17, 2010 – 11:16 am | No Comment
How to roll back or downgrade VMware 4.x to 3.x

By Brian Suhr

I can’t think of too many reasons that you might need to rollback your upgraded host. But in case you do I have put together a few steps to show you the way.

Startup Innovation events in Boston
May 17, 2010 – 10:40 am | No Comment
Startup Innovation events in Boston

By Donald Dodge
June is Innovation Month in Boston. There are over 20 great events for start-ups and companies looking to innovate. I will be participating in several events including Angel BootCamp on June 1st, organized …

Beginners guide on how to setup HP MSA 2312sa Storage array
May 11, 2010 – 10:08 pm | 2 Comments
Beginners guide on how to setup HP MSA 2312sa Storage array

By Brian Suhr
I recently setup a HP MSA 2300 series storage array. It was the SAS model with 4 enclosure trays. I have to admit that I have not setup one of these with Fiber …

How to run EMC grabs on a VMware ESX host
May 11, 2010 – 9:58 pm | No Comment
How to run EMC grabs on a VMware ESX host

By Brian Suhr
This is something that I have to do on Windows boxes all the time, but less on our ESX boxes. In the past we used to just run the vm-support to collect the …

The natural evolution of a startup and why it is bad
May 3, 2010 – 1:33 pm | No Comment
The natural evolution of a startup and why it is bad

By Donald Dodge
Successful startups are founded by product people, preferably engineers. Once the product is done the Sales and Marketing guys take over the company to push market adoption and revenue. Then the Finance guys …

Automation in Your Virtual Infrastructure
April 22, 2010 – 10:19 am | One Comment
Automation in Your Virtual Infrastructure

By Mark Gabryjelski
I have been working with clients who have been able to roll out Virtual Machines with little effort. Now, people are looking to see what else they can do to add to the efficiency of the IT infrastructure that they have in place, and the next step for many organizations is to start to define their internal processes and then automate them.

VMware + Salesforce.com = VMforce?
April 19, 2010 – 2:51 pm | No Comment
VMware + Salesforce.com = VMforce?

VMware and Salesforce.com will be annoucing a mystery cloud computing product on April 27, 2010.
“Join industry leaders Marc Benioff, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, and Paul Maritz, president & CEO of VMware, for a live …

AOL dumps $850M Bebo acquisition – Why big M&A rarely works
April 19, 2010 – 12:54 pm | No Comment
AOL dumps $850M Bebo acquisition – Why big M&A rarely works

By Donald Dodge
AOL acquired Bebo for $850M two years ago. Today AOL said they will sell it or shut it down. What went wrong? Like many M&A deals, the Bebo deal factored in synergies and …