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Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Study for VMware TAM shows compelling value

Ann Sayer posted 2 days ago

By Andy Nederveld, Americas TAM Practice Lead As the VMware Technical Account Manager (TAM) practice lead in the Americas, I have had the privilege of hearing from many TAM customers over the years regarding the multiple ways their TAM delivers results for them.  We recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study with TAM customers Read more...

DevOps: Container Build Pipeline – Conceptual Design

James Wirth posted May 7, 2019

By James Wirth, Consulting Architect Feature developers are concerned with reliably bringing application features from idea to production as fast as possible. If this process occurs too slowly or inconsistently, it can have many significant negative impacts on a business, including but not limited to: Inability to react to and capitalize on new market opportunities Read more...

Sockets, CPUs, Cores and Threads: The History of x86 Processor Terms

Iris Polit posted April 29, 2019

By Carl Olafson, Staff Technical Account Manager (TAM) Without diving too deeply into the details, the x86 architecture was a commercial product in the late 1970’s as an 8-bit CPU. Back then, the relationship of Socket to CPU to Core to Thread was 1:1. Over time, the definitions have been blurred due to advancements in Read more...

How to Avoid a Custom ESXi Image Patch Cycle

Ann Sayer posted March 4, 2019

By Chris Weber, Staff Technical Account Manager (TAM). Most customers use custom ESXi images to install new servers or upgrade to the next major release, and then our tools to install updates. When you add ESXi hosts you need to install from an image (or a disk created from an image.) Problem:  if you install Read more...

Blockchain for the Dabbler

Meredith Miller posted February 22, 2019

By Tom Scanlan, Architect, Professional Services Emerging Technology Blockchain is a platform that has a few key characteristics: it holds blocks containing data about transactions between parties it has a data structure that links those blocks together into a ledger of all transactions the block contents are cryptographically signed in such a way as to Read more...