Last Friday we moved to a new co-locating party. We experienced too much drop out in performance, connectivity or even power in the datacenter of our previous hoster. Therefore we decided to move to a first class hosting party, TransIP.

As far as we can tell, our web server is loading faster all over the world. But as you might imagine, we can’t check that everywhere for real. So let us know how you experience our website’s performance. Has it improved for you? Drop us a tweet via @vmguru_nl!

Wednesday evening is traditionally the evening for the VMworld party. At VMworld we work very hard but we party harder but yesterday it got a bit too wild. This morning I woke up with a large VMGuru-logo-tattoo on my arm

There’s just no limit to my dedication to VMGuru.nl I suppose ….

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VMworld 2012 San Francisco is already 5 weeks behind us and VMworld Barcelona is about to start in a couple of days. The US edition was packed with over 20.000 people visiting VMworld. To make sure everyone could follow everything 100% a lot of people have been working a round the clock to make it happen. I had the opportunity to have a glimpse of what was going on behind the scene just after the key note from Steve Herrod. So I witnessed a part of the sound checking for Jon Bon Jovi who was going to perform on the VMworld party on Wednesday. Lights and sound controlled to the max rolled on and off through the main hall, like a roaring lion. I must say it was great fun to watch.

Some fun facts around the General Session only are:

• 3 days to load in
• 3 days of show plus 1 Gigantic Party
• 1 day to load out
• 8,000′ feet of truss
• 10 miles of cabling
• 400′ feet of screens
• 23 million pixels
• 30 video projectors
• 10 Graphics computers
• 24 channels of Spyder Video processing
• 4 ME Ross HD video switcher
• 2 complete sound systems with 750,000 watts of sound going into 164 individual speakers

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Today our good friend, colleague and fellow VMGuru-blogger AJ is getting married!

Last Saturday we had some last minute fun with AJ, watch the evidence in the movie below.

If you want to congratulate AJ you can do that using his FaceBook, twitter or e-mail.

To ensure an exploding Inbox we placed his contact information below. Let’s flood him with so he has something to do during his honeymoon

Anne Jan & Tineke, we wish you both a lot of happiness and joy on your wedding day and in the future!

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Today we where handed a VMworld blanket for the lunch picnic. A lot of people including me where tormented to get the blanket in its original shape again. Unfolding is easy, but how to fold it? After being told by another dutch guy what the trick is to get the blanket in its original shape, we decided to do a little instruction cartoon for it. This is how you fold it:

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The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is a gathering with all the nerds, enthusiasts and bloggers to talk nerdy to each other about virtualization for about a day.

Our friend Erik Schils from the VMUG in Belgium is organizing such an event on the first of June 2012. And guess what: it’s totally free! There are still about 30 tickets left, so hurry up! Read on how to get one.

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I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a job like mine. For the VMTN vExpert Spotlight I answered a few of those questions.

Want to know how I rolled into the IT business, when I got involved with VMware, why I am blogging on VMGuru.nl and was rewarded vExpert 2010, 2011 and and now recurring in 2012? Read it on today’s vExpert Spotlight on the VMware Communities VMTN Blog:

vExpert Spotlight: Edwin Weijdema

One last take away: if you see our top banner here on VMGuru.nl, you see:

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun”

When you are trying to grow in your field of work and/or your life keep this motto in your mind and you will truly excel. If you love what you do, like us, you do it with passion and commitment.

Erik has been in the vExpert Spotlight last year you can read about his story here.

It is that time of the year again, the last voting was over a year ago where we made it, thanks to you!, to the 13th place. Voting is now open again for the top VMware & virtualization blogs.  It would be nice and a great honor to get us in the Top 10 this year. So if you like our blog please vote VMGuru.nl (Various) using the BIG button on the left.

We all know Eric Siebert from his vLaunchPad were he publishes his VMware Top blogs. Your votes will help determine the new top 50 bloggers on vLaunchpad. Votes are weighted so a #1 vote counts as 10 points, #2 vote counts as 9 points etc down to 1 point for a #10 vote. The total points for each blog will be added up and will determine the top 50 order.

New this year there will be voting in special categories to help distinguish certain types of blogs. The categories are independent of the general voting so first pick and rank your top 10 overall favorite blogs and then choose your favorite blog in each category.

This week our fellow blogger, Sander Martijn, felt he had to vMotion  to a new career opportunity. After working for Centric for 8 years, he has accepted a new challenge and signed a  contract at Nspyre in the Netherlands.

Sander, congratulations from the rest of the VMGuru.nl crew.

Although Sander is going to switch employers, he will continue blogging at VMGuru.nl.

VMware Next Step in End-User Computing roadshow June 2011 from Ton Hermes, Senior SE VMware on Vimeo.

The Future of End-User Computing goes much further than just delivering a vDesktop and vApplications to users. Users today are demanding more and more that functionality is available 24/7, where new functionality can be immediately obtained when needed and that they can use a device of their choice to work with.

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In my new job I meet many, many vendors and almost all of them have a partner program in which we can achieve bronze, silver, gold, enterprise, premier, business or any other partner status.

In reality the meaning of the term ‘Partner’ is interpreted in many different ways.

According to Wiki, a business partner is:

a term used to denote a commercial entity with which another commercial entity has some form of alliance. This relationship may be a highly contractual, exclusive bond in which both entities commit not to ally with third parties. Alternatively, it may be a very loose arrangement designed largely to impress customers and competitors with the size of the network the business partners belong to.

So, it’s an alliance between two business partners. I get that. An exclusive bond not to ally with other parties, hmm NO. In my line of business a partnership doesn’t imply that I can’t have an alliance with an other vendor. IT service providers collect large numbers of partnerships nowadays to impress others. This matches with the third line, it’s a loose arrangement to impress customers and competitors.

The problem I see with many vendors is the ‘loose‘ part.

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After 5 years at Centric Alex has accepted a new challenge and on May 1st he will be following Edwin, Anne Jan and myself to Imtech ICT.

At Imtech ICT his new job will be Solution Architect.

We are very excited that Alex is coming over to join our team and wish him all the best!

Congratulations Alex !!