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Archive for October, 2010

You might have noticed that I haven’t been updating VM /ETC as often. In fact, my blogging has been non existent except for the occasional VIRTUMANIA posts, which I am also struggling to find time for anymore. I’m not making excuses, but the combination of the new position at Veeam, a flurry of new product releases, and my boys reaching the age where homework is no longer just coloring between the lines or cutting the dashed outline has made personal time a premium for me. It is what it is, but I recently heard a story that, in a stretched analogy kind of way, I think sums up my situation.

My channel rep for the Southeast territory used to be in the Navy. We had recently finished a day of meetings and presentations and were enjoying the MLB playoffs at a local bar near our hotel when he told me the following story. I am paraphrasing, but it went like this:

One of my rep’s shipmates had the night shift on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck. From what I understand, there are fork lift –like vehicles that are used to load and unload the weapons and cargo on the aircraft and jets. During some down time, this one seaman fell asleep sitting at the wheel of one of these vehicles. When he did, his body slumped forward on the controls causing the vehicle to roll overboard. Although the fork lift was caught in the safety net that apparently encircles the entire deck, the guy was catapulted over the net and into the water below. Since this happened mid ship, he was immediately sucked under the battleship towards the massive propellers.

Unbelievably, the guy survived unharmed! He later explained that before he knew what happened

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VIRTUMANIA Episode 26 features Patrick O’Rourke and Jeff Woolsey from Microsoft!. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 26 – Exploring What’s Next With Microsoft Virtualization Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com host special guests Patrick O’Rourke (@virtualization) and Jeff Woolsey. Both Patrick and Jeff contribute posts to the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog at blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization. This week’s episode focuses on Microsoft’s latest virtualization features with a lot of talk about the new 2010 products. Topics include managing multi-vendor hypervisor environments with System Center, the latest information about stateless applications with Server App-V, cloud computing with Azure and BPOS, tier 1 applications on Hyper-V, and finally backing up VMs, physical servers, applications and DR site fail-over with DPM. Virtumania is an Infosmack Production.

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