My Third Year at VCE
VCE year 3
Next month I’ll reach my 3 year mark with VCE.
The VCE rocketship has only continued to accelerate since I jumped on board. I’m consistently amazed at what VCE has been able to accomplish in this short amount of time. There is still much work to do but I am happy and fortunate to be part of the team.
The vision from 2010 is the reality of 2013. Ubiquitous workload substrate and an everything just works datacenter world are not so much a destination but an ever advancing goal. Here’s to the vision of 2014 and beyond. Combinatorial optimization FTW!!!
To that end, VCE is launching the next generation of market leading true converged infrastructure solutions on September 17, 2013.
More, more, more
In the more category I am spending even more time in VCE Customer meetings with VCE Partners lately. This is on top of increased VCE cross functional team velocity. That means conversations with lots and lots of new VCE Customers and returning to meet with repeat VCE Customers.
Since my last timely post a few things have been consuming my time away from this blog.
- drumming up interest for my SxSW panel submission A Wheel Of Pain: How I Learned To Love Enterprise
- there are a few more places I’ve been publishing
- spending quality time with analysts
- whiteboard sessions with really smart folks
- random fun stuff 😉
Survey says: Buy a Vblock
What has been really great is seeing the wider audience of pundits, analysts, and the market realize that Vblock Systems from VCE are about accelerating the transformation that is taking place in the datacenter. In short — buy a Vblock.
Here is a sample of what I mean in their own words:
What makes this fascinating to me is I don’t know any other vendor that does this as aggressively. — Datamation
RT @treylayton: Another #Vblock headed for a mission critical computing environment #VCE #Cisco #EMC pic.twitter.com/T0jkLXNqND
— VCE (@VCE) June 10, 2013
Kinda cool when your customers love your product #Vblock #VCE http://t.co/FYAyRoNbVH
— Trey Layton (@treylayton) May 2, 2013
Having fun installing a @VCE vBlock today. Lots of toys @CiscoGeeks would appreciate. 32 UCS blades going in for now pic.twitter.com/GQ7jzT7ArW
— Nick Zurku (@nzurku) September 6, 2013
Want to see how VCE serves our customers? Watch a short (82 seconds) video on our Customer Support. -> http://t.co/qkkhnSHSDa #Vblock
— VCE_Channel_Mktg (@VCEChannel) May 20, 2013
Instant Replay
Okay. Per my usual blogging style around here, below are a few helpful instructional videos I’ve collected from my recent months on the road 😉
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