Martijn Baecke

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Think©Loud New Post : Photon Platform Architecture #VMworld /cc @cloudnativeapps

Paradigm shift in thinking come with a change in technology. Same goes for the shift that Docker initiated by making containers mainstream. It’s nice to run a container next to your virtual machines with vSphere Integrated Containers, but when you really want to achieve massive scale and speed, you need to re-think your architecture.

This has been the thought process behind Photon Platform at…

Think©Loud New Post: Integrated Containers - The Next Step #VMworld /cc @cloudnativeapps

VMware has been working on integrating container technology into it’s core products. For this the descision was made to do it in an open-source project. This ofcourse is a different strategy for VMware as everything has been closed source until recently. The open source projecthas made progess over the last year and we are now getting to the point that it is actually becoming a product that can…

Think©Loud New Post : Datacenter-like experience on your laptop : VMware AppCatalyst (TP 2) #VMworld #vmwcna #VMware

A couple of months ago VMware released AppCatalyst. This is the slimmed down version of the popular desktop product VMware Fusion. It gives you the ability to run virtual machines on top of your Mac. Bringing you “datacenter-like” experience on top of your laptop.

This difference between Fusion and AppCatalyst is that AppCatalyst provides you with the virtualization engine and you can control it…

Think©Loud New Post : Cool Fling : Web UI for ESXi #VMware #ESXi

A lot of new stuff is released by VMware and of course everything is cool stuff, but sometimes something is released that you’ve been waiting for for quite some time. And in my case that’s a web console to control ESXi directly.

I’m using a Mac and always is a hassle to get access to get access to a user interface. There isn’t a client available for Mac and I first had to install the Web Client…

Think©Loud New Post: The virtual machine as the foundation for containers #devops #containers

Since containers got traction within the IT community,  especially with developers,  there have been discussion that it would make virtual machines obsolete.

“VMs (and with it hypervisors) are consumers of resources that can be used to run applications” is the general thought that comes to mind when you only take containers into account. Which is true is you are a developer and care about your…

Think©Loud New Post : Cloud Immigrant vs. Cloud Native Applications

Lately I’ve been having discussion with customers around the topic of Cloud-Native Apps. It’s cool to talk about these new developments, but it also raises a lot of questions with my attendees and they want to know what my opinion / definition is about Cloud-Native.

Most of the times I refer to the analogy of Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrant. This term was first coined by Marc Prensky with…

The rise of the manager of managers

“One ring to rule them all…” The phrase from Lord of the Rings to define the one ring that can control everything including the other rings with magic power. Kind of a nerd intro, but it’s a good analogy to describe what is currently happening in the space of IT infrastructure automation.

A few years ago every vendor had it’s own little product portfolio in which they excelled and made most of…