K12 Virtualization…Don’t our Kids deserve the best?????

Okay, here goes, the first post to our blog, on K12Virtualization.com

VMWARE Evangelist, cheesecake officiando, and all-around nice guy Jason Boche’s blog is at http://www.boche.net/blog/.  I met him this year at VMWORLD and picked up one of his calendar’s from the Veeam both.  I suppose imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or at least I hope he thinks so….I want to be the K12 VMWARE and Virtualization Evangelist.

At any rate, this is the first post of what will hopefully be many….I have great friends and colleagues in the K12, higher ed, and so-called SLED space….I hope they will all contribute to the many and varied approaches to making IT for K12 (and their markets) more efficient.

Here is the challenge…I’ve heard VMWARE marketing say proudly that 100% of the Fortune 100 use VMWARE (and I do too, in my Public School System).  So if our kids are truly our future, don’t they deserve the best too?  And if you want to discuss alternatives to VMWARE, that is okay too….(but I think they (VMWARE) are the best…vSPHERE 4.0 all the way!!!).

Update–I also want to mention that VMWARE is now doing a great job at serving the Education Community and this includes K12 as well as Higer Ed.  Check out their section and the educational resources:

http://www.vmware.com/solutions/education/

In addition to providing substantial discounts to education, qualifying institutions can submit an application to use VMWARE’s products for teaching and academic purposes.

Cheers,

Mark L.