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Cole Kmet Trade Rumors: Will The Bears Repeat the Greg Olsen Mistake In 2025?
The Chicago Bears are once again at the center of a controversial tight end trade rumor. This time it involves Cole Kmet, one of the team’s most consistent offensive weapons. With the selection of Colston Loveland at No. 10 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, speculation is swirling about whether Kmet could be on the move. For Bears fans, this story feels all too familiar. The Greg Olsen trade from 2011 still haunts the franchise. Could history be repeating itself?
A Rallying Cry for Palestine
Brandon Gordon · Follow 3 min read · -- I set out to write a piece about the wonders of plot twists hidden within the folds of horror cinema. However, my mind continues to replay videos of people burning alive. And no, the images engraved in my mind aren’t from some trauma-riddled movie. The images I refer to come out of Gaza. And while I’d love nothing more than to praise or critique filmmakers on their various achievements on screen, there are more pressing matters that need attending.
Thoughts on An Execution
Yesterday I was reminded of where I live. Usually it’s easy to get distracted by the monotony of everyday life. So much so that you lose track of the bigger picture and the constant fight that we’re all in. Only the difference this time is that I was aware. In fact, many were. A few weeks ago it was brought to my attention that a man, who happened to be Black and muslim, was set to be executed after being convicted of murder back in 2001.
Social Entrepreneurship: Collaborative Co-Creation for Social Impact
The landscape of entrepreneurship continues to evolve, showcasing a force that surpasses mere profit motives and places a premium on societal transformation. Social entrepreneurship, propelled by a dual commitment to financial sustainability and addressing pressing social issues, distinguishes itself for its collaborative nature and its focus on co-creating value within communities.
Rightsizing VMs with VMware Aria Operations
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about rightsizing VMs with VMware Aria Operations, formerly known as vRealize Operations. That blog post has been very popular, but new features have been released since then, improving rightsizing even more.
Learn about VMware Aria Hub and Receive Cloud Management Gear as a Gesture of Our Appreciation
Want to learn more about VMware Aria Hub? During VMware Explore Europe 2022, go to the Hands-on-Labs area and request HOL-2301-08-ISM (VMware Aria Hub – A look at what’s next in Multi-Cloud Management). At the completion of the lab, you will be able to order Cloud Management gear as a gesture of our appreciation to be shipped to you*. *This Cloud Management appreciation campaign is only available during VMware Explore Europe 2022, November 7th thru November 11th, 2022.
What are You Playing For?
When going for a relaxing walk in nature, you don't wonder if you're 'any good' at walking in nature. Walking in nature doesn't have a purpose or outcome you're trying to achieve. , and the only point of it is to enjoy the adventure. "There's no more to going for a walk than what you're doing right now." Is life really any different? Is your job really any different? Key takeaways Life is a series of games and you can choose which games you play and which you check out from.
vRealize This Live! Cloud Migration Planning with vRealize Operations
In case you didn’t hear, the VMware Cloud Management Business Unit has launched a brand new Live Stream called vRealize This Live! Join us every other Wednesday on the VMware Cloud Management Youtube channel for great demos and live conversations with you. This week, John Dias walked us through cloud migration planning using vRealize Operations. Some key takeaways from this episode are… Rightsize those VM’s before you migrate. Understand what outcomes your business expects from the migration.
Esko School Announces Hybrid Model Learning
August 26, 2020 11:44 am Brandon Gordon Top Stories, Twin Ports ESKO, MN -- The Esko School board voted Tuesday on their learning plan for the fall. That plan incudes a Hybrid learning model for high school and in-person model for elementary students The Hybrid model will be broken up to two groups in alphabetical order.
Three Count: The Horror Show At Extreme Rules (7/19/20)
All Photos Courtesy Of WWE Three Count is a new regular series that will see Brandon Gordon provide his biggest takeaways from major events. This edition kicks us off with The Horror Show At Extreme Rules. The twelfth annual Extreme Rules pay-per-view took place in the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla. featuring seven main card matches (eight including preshow), four of them being for championships.
ROI Dashboard for vRealize Operations 8.1
Brandon Gordon posted 17 minutes ago On a recent call with a customer, I was asked for help showing the value of vRealize Operations from a financial perspective. Cost management has been a native feature within vRealize Operations since the 6.7 release, but the costs needed to show the Return on Investment (ROI) are available in multiple locations. Potential cost savings from reclamation are shown on the Reclaim page for reclaiming idle VMs, powered off VMs, VM snapshots, and orphaned disks.
WWE Most Valuable Players Since 2000: Part One (2000-2004)
The MVP award, known by many a sports fans as the most valuable player, is an award acknowledged as the top guy of their profession with a season that is considered a symbol of exceptional workmanship and praise by all. In WWE, the top guy of their respected brand is considered to be the MVP. Whether it is being a box office draw for the company, showcasing in-ring work, or amassing championship accolades, the MVP exemplifies it all.
VM Pricing with vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1
Brandon Gordon posted 11 minutes ago The financial aspect of deploying VMs is becoming more critical as usage of cloud increases. Showing the price of VMs to end users can help influence their behavior when requesting new VMs and maintaining their existing VMs. With the release of vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1, defining the prices of your VMs is now more powerful than ever. With vRealize Operations, there are two ways of looking at looking at VMs from a financial perspective.
The Bella Twins Are Hall of Fame Bound
As announced on the 21st of February edition of Friday Night Smackdown, on Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross’ talk show segment “A Moment of Bliss” and confirmed by numerous news sources from the likes of People Magazine to Bleacher Report, Nicole and Brie Bella are to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2020.
Rightsizing VMs with vRealize Operations
Brandon Gordon posted Just now Rightsizing VMs is critical to get the best performance of your vSphere infrastructure and your VMs. Rampant oversizing of VMs can cause contention at the host or cluster level, which manifest as CPU ready, CPU co-stop, VM swap, etc. Undersized VMs can cause contention inside the guest OS, which manifest as CPU queuing, memory paging, etc.
Managing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Operations
Brandon Gordon posted 1 hour ago So, you’re thinking about leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS (or maybe you’re already there). You might be retiring old HW in your datacenter, maybe expanding your dev-ops needs, or even hosting some of your business critical apps. Regardless of your reason to adopt a hybrid cloud, you’re starting to wonder how you are going to manage this new environment. How do you manage the performance or your hybrid apps? How do you ensure capacity and manage costs?
Best WWE Moments of the 2010s
The statement “Anything could happen in the WWE” is a motto that is shared by the higher-ups of World Wrestling Entertainment due to the magnitude of big moments that could happen at any time. The 2010s is a decade that had its fair share of ups and down and surely gave moments to remember and those for and fans and critics moments to talk about. Broken down by year, here are the best moments of the 2010s.
What-If Analysis with vRealize Operations 8.0
Brandon Gordon posted 7 hours ago There is more to capacity management for vSphere environments than looking at what’s currently running in your clusters. Clusters are always in flux with VMs and hosts being added and removed. There can be situations that require looking at migrating workloads to other datacenters or the public cloud. If you’ve run into any of these challenges, then you’re in luck, vRealize Operations helps with all of those situations with what’s called “What-If Analysis”.
VMware Cloud Management
Brandon Gordon posted 2 minutes ago Today marks general availability of vRealize Operations 8.0. I’m excited to tell you about the amazing features available in this release. Grab a coffee or tea and sit back because this is another huge release with lots of exciting new features. To start things off, we’ve improved initial onboarding. For new deployments, you’ll be greeted with a new initial onboarding page with some guided tours and great big suggestion to create your first Cloud Account.
SummerSlam Preview: Bayley vs. Ember Moon
Since Money in the Bank 2019, SmackDown Live Women’s Champion Bayley has been truly a fighting champion as a proud representative of the “Blue Brand.” By beating the likes of Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross, she regained some of her momentum lost after a rough 2017 which had her lose the Raw Women’s Championship to Bliss. Photo / WWE After a tag team match as Bayley teamed up with Ember Moon, defeating the team of Fire and Desire, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville.
vRealize Operations REST API: Create Application and Application Tier Objects
Brandon Gordon posted Just now I’ve been working with my colleague John Dias on a demo that involves deploying VMs via Cloud Automation Services and automatically configuring monitoring them with vRealize Operations. We needed a way to create Application and Application Tier objects during the provisioning process. Looking through the REST API documentation, there are no API calls specifically for creating Applications.
Allocation Model for Capacity Management in vRealize Operations 7.5
Brandon Gordon posted 1 minute ago Capacity management is a critical aspect of managing vSphere clusters. Capacity management goals can vary depending on the type of VMs running in the cluster or based on business requirements. Failure to manage capacity based on business goals can lead to capacity shortfalls or performance problems. In vRealize Operations 6.7 and 7.0, there was only the Demand model, but with the release of vRealize Operations 7.5, Allocation model is now available.
Flag Raising Ceremony Honors Veterans in Superior
A flag raising ceremony was held today at the Bong Center in Superior to honor a fallen veteran, as we are about a week out from Memorial Day. BY BRANDON GORDON, FOX 21 PHOTOJOURNALIST SUPERIOR, Wis.-A flag raising ceremony was held today at the Bong Center in Superior to honor a fallen veteran, as we are about a week out from Memorial Day. The Flag of Remembrance program is sponsored by the Superior American Legion Post 435 and honors the life and memory of one deceased veteran every week.
WrestleMania Preview: Winner Takes All - Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Becky Lynch
The 2019 Royal Rumble saw former 2x SmackDown Live Women’s Champion Becky Lynch last eliminating Charlotte Flair to earn her right as the #1 contender to any championship that she pleases. On the 28th of January edition of Monday Night Raw, Lynch decided on that night to challenge Raw Women’s Champion, Ronda Rousey. Since prior to Survivor Series 2018, Rousey and Lynch has been a match the public wanted to see after the announcement of their then-Champion vs Champion match post-WWE Evolution.
Enhancements to Virtual Machine Memory Metrics in vRealize Operations
Brandon Gordon posted 5 minutes ago Memory metrics for Virtual Machines have changed in recent releases of vRealize Operations to make managing your SDDC better. In this blog, I will explain these changes to help you understand how they help you. To start things off, let’s define a couple of important metrics.
Migration Planning with vRealize Operations 7.0
Previously, I showed how to perform What-If analysis for adding new servers with vRealize Operations 7.0. Today, I’ll show how you can perform What-If analysis for migration to VMware Cloud on AWS or native AWS. To begin planning, you can find Migration Planning after you click on Plan under the Optimize Capacity pillar on the Quick Start page. In this first scenario, I’ll look at migrating to VMware Cloud on AWS.
Physical Infrastructure Planning with vRealize Operations 7.0
An important part of managing your self-driving datacenter is dealing with capacity planning to prevent shortfalls in capacity. With the release of vRealize Operations 7.0, it is easy to perform What-If analysis for adding new servers. To begin planning, you can find Physical Infrastructure Planning after you click on Plan under the Optimize Capacity pillar on the Quick Start page. First, you must give the scenario a name.
Preview: WWE Hell in a Cell (9/16/18)
San Antonio – The home of the five time NBA Champions, San Antonio Spurs will have the privilege to host their first Hell in a Cell pay per view and the third time it being held in the state of Texas (as the 2010 and 2014 events were in the American Airlines Center of Dallas, TX). San Antonio will be seeing its first WWE Pay Per View action since the epic 2017 weekend consisting of NXT Takeover: San Antonio at the Freeman Coliseum and the 2017 Royal Rumble at the Alamodome.
BREAKING: Title Swaps Hands at Royal Albert Hall (SPOILERS)
Royal Albert Hall: South Kensington, London – As announced on WWE.com, Tyler Bate and Trent Seven, collectively known as the tag team Mustache Mountain, became the new NXT Tag Team Champions by defeating representatives of Undisputed Era in Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly in their native of England, marking the first time that an NXT title changed hands overseas since Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Samoa Joe in Osaka, Japan on the 28th of December 2016th edition of NXT.
Ring of Honor and AAA to Work Madison Square Garden
According to the Baltimore Business Journal, Ring of Honor is planning to do a show in New York’s most iconic arena in Madison Square Garden as an initiative to do show in bigger facilities. Holden Wilen, writer and reporter of the Baltimore Business Journal in a recent interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group INC. CEO Chris Ripley, that the company wanted to expand Ring of Honor in light of the massive deal that WWE struck with the likes of FOX that was worth $1 Billion for Smackdown Live alone.
Preview: NXT Takeover: Chicago II (6/16/18)
Chicago – There’s a place and a time for wrestlers in the WWE to bring their “A” game and one of those places is the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL which is right outside of Chicago. On the eve of Money in the Bank, the NXT superstars showcase their brand of wrestling to the Chicago crowd in a pretty balanced and well thought of match card, for NXT Takeover: Chicago II.
Hybrid Container Management for vCloud Director with VMware Harbor™
Continuing with the series of posts related to running Containers on vCloud Air Network (vCAN), this post covers VMware Harbor™. VMware Harbor™ is VMware’s enterprise-class registry server for Docker images. Private registry servers like VMware Harbor™, allow storage of Docker images without publishing them publicly on the internet and adds an additional layer of control that’s often desired in enterprise environments.
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