VCritical

January 19, 2010 | 4 comments

VCritical was voted #12 in the latest vSphere-land top blog survey.

December 28, 2009 | 1 comment

The top 6 posts on VCritical by page view and by reader comments.

October 20, 2009 | 13 comments

The VCritical blog has been online for a year and has seen exceptional month-over-month growth as readers seek the truth about enterprise virtualization.

September 21, 2009 | 6 comments

Have you noticed the avatar images next to blog comments that make each author more easily identifiable? On WordPress blogs, these images are generally made possible through a service called Gravatar.  Most of the Top 20 Blogs at vSphere Land use WordPress — if you plan on commenting on the VM blogs, why not take [...]

August 4, 2009 | 2 comments

VMware vLaunchPad is now updated with the latest ranking of the Top 20 VMware bloggers. Congratulations are in order to all of the hard-working bloggers on the list — especially the top two, holding on to their positions from last time: Duncan Epping and Scott Lowe. Although the VCritical grassroots campaign was not effective against the masters, [...]

June 17, 2009 | 1 comment

Eric Siebert is soliciting feedback from the community as he prepares to update the top 20 blogs on his VMware vLaunchPad.  That means virtualization blog campaign season is here.  But, unlike those multi-year federal campaigns, this one is short — just two weeks. The candidates are out virtually knocking on doors — Duncan Epping, Eric Sloof, [...]

June 1, 2009 | 7 comments

Over the past few months, VCritical has climbed in the Google search rankings for certain virtualization-related queries.  One especially notable search term is SCVMM, since there are quite a few articles written about that product on VCritical.  In fact, VCritical normally appears on the first page of Google search results for SCVMM — result number [...]

May 20, 2009 | 5 comments

Since establishing VCritical back in September I have published 99 posts — this post is number 100. If you are a newer reader, you might be interested in taking a look at the Site Index — a single listing of all articles by title. And here are the top two posts of all time: Storage vendors unanimously applaud [...]

April 24, 2009 | No comments

I just discovered the Virtual Foundry blog, started by Robert Patton earlier this month.  Take a look at his intro post, titled “Dude, not another virtualization blog” and I am sure you will agree that this one has very strong potential.  I especially like his angle of investigating new topics with original content and his [...]

April 7, 2009 | 2 comments

Today I hit 100 followers on Twitter.  Sure, that is relatively low, but you have to start somewhere — the first 100 is always the hardest.  Are you on Twitter? Those interested can follow me: @eric_gray

March 19, 2009 | 11 comments

My son was born this past weekend, tipping the scales at 8 lbs. 13 oz. and a real blessing to our family.  He’s eating and sleeping like a … baby.

December 25, 2008 | No comments

Last week my department had our holiday party in San Francisco.  The photo above was taken in Union Square. I hope you are enjoying some time off.  Best wishes.

December 14, 2008 | 2 comments

I used my Sunday evening maintenance window to upgrade VCritical to WordPress 2.7.  I did a test run on my development site first and did not encounter any issues.  So far so good.  The new interface does seem more efficient. If you notice anything strange, please let me know.  Thanks for reading.

December 7, 2008 | 7 comments

Are you hesitant to start your own blog because you want to “do it right?”  Would you like to hear some step-by-step startup tips directly from an expert blogger?  If so, you are in luck!  No, I’m not talking about me, folks –  Brent Ozar, the SQL Server Expert who has been blogging for ages, [...]

December 1, 2008 | 5 comments

I launched VCritical a couple of months ago and as you might expect, the traffic has steadily increased.  Recently while doing some analysis on the traffic sources – not unlike Jason Boche and Duncan Epping have discussed – I noticed that almost a quarter of my site visitors arrive via Google searches.  An interesting side-effect [...]

September 30, 2008 | No comments

Welcome to VCritical This is a brand new site where I will be writing about virtualization (hypervisors, management) with a focus on VMware and competitors. A little bit more is available on the about and disclaimer pages.