Michael Otey's Blog

On October 1st 2014, VMware announced the latest release of their VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Player 7 Pro products. I met with VMware’s William Myrhang, senior product marketing manager and Bo Fu, senior product manager to talk about...

If you look around at any conference or meeting these days, one of the things that’s likely to jump out at you is how many people are using Apple laptops – either Macbook Pros or Macbook Airs – even in organizations where Windows...

This year's VMworld 2014 was an amazing conference in many ways. The growing attendance and excitement in the expo hall showed beyond any doubt that the VMware community is alive and well. One of the big trends from VMworld 2014 was hyper-conve...

At VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, Sumit Dhawan, Senior Vice President & GM End User Computing of VMware, met with me about VMware’s latest announcements in the areas of desktop and mobile computing.  Sumit talked with me about some...

There’s no doubt that VMworld is one of the tech industries’ most significant conferences. With more than 22,000 attendees representing 85 countries and 400+ technical sessions, VMworld continues to grow every year. “No Limits...

In June 2014, I attended a multi-cloud event cohosted by Equinix, one of the world’s largest datacenter colocation and hosting operators in collaboration with Redapt and the Northwest Tech Alliance (NWTA). The event was headlined by a panel dis...

Best known for their VMware backup products, this past May 20th Veeam Software announced the release of their new Veeam Availability Suite. The Veeam Availability Suite is the bundling of Veeam’s popular Veeam Backup and Replication product...