Ray O 'Farrell

Advisor , former EVP Engineering and CTO of @VMware.

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Our National parks are simply amazing.
You walk about 1.5 miles in from a busy highway ( Tioga rd. YNP) and within minutes you’re in a pristine protected wilderness. @NatlParkService

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Had the opportunity to spend a few hours hiking California central coast area this week. Got to watch this hawk for about 20 minute as he actively hunted by Asilomar beach, then a great sunset over the Pacific from Carmel beach, finally a comet, looking west near Pebble beach.

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Sometimes the wild comes to you..busy parking lot, Monterey CA. this morning.

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The contrasting effect of wilderness adjacent to the giant smoke stacks from the old Moss landing Power Plant or the occasional distant passenger train slowly traversing the middle of the slough actually add to the experience and they do not break the spell here.

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Hiking the California central coast is full of variety. Hiked in Elk Horn slough last week. Lots of wildlife- , birds,wildflowers,rabbits , even a snake on the trail! Overall this place offers a quiet, sublime walk with miles of easy hiking.

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South Lake Tahoe, early yesterday afternoon.
Bear Picnic - completely unfazed by cars and people walking by.

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This is a Live shot from Yosemite today.
Sadly you may be prevented from seeing this for a while. National Parks may close if Congress fails to prevent a gov. shutdown. “ Gates will be locked , visitor centers will be closed and thousands of park rangers will be furloughed”.

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Wildflowers, Carrizo Plain, California,today. No AI was used in creating this video😀

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Happy 25th Birthday #VMware , Great to be here at the party on the Palo Alto campus - celebrating 25 years of innovation, Customer Passion and of course an EPIC2 culture. Thank you and congratulations to the world wide VMware team! @RaghuRaghuram

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The Lone Monarch.
From a population of millions in the 1980s the number of western monarchs has plummeted in last decades. It's early in 2022/2023 season but today I saw this single butterfly in a Eucalyptus grove in Big Sur - hopefully the first of many more this year.

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@lamw , we all know him as the #VMware blogger extraordinaire, the guy who can get Vsphere running all sorts of tiny x86 platforms. He helps so many #VMware customers every day - now Live on stage at #VMwareExplore2022 !

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Loved @kelseyhightower 's short talk on the journey from datacenter to VMs, to Cloud to Containers , to Kubernetes. Clear, Concise to the point - that's not just a lesson on cloud - but also a lesson in communication.#VMware #VMwareExplore2022

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Fantastic to see @AmandaBlev and @kitcolbert take the stage at #VMwareExplore2022. Talking about Cloud Smart - consistent management, infrastructure services, and security across your multi-cloud environment.

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On stage at #VMwareExplore2022 @RaghuRaghuram is "super pumped" 😀 to announce #VMware 's new products and especially the "Big One" - vSphere 8!

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@RaghuRaghuram takes the stage to kickoff #VMwareExplore2022 - "over the years with #VMWORLD we grew a community of datacenter professionals ..now this is expanded to all those who operate the multicloud universe - VMware explore is the event for this community" #VMwareExplore

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Gave my first #VMwareExplore 2022 presentation to industry analysts this morning with @RaghuRaghuram. It's great (and fun!) to be back to live events after nearly 3 years.
Stay tuned for some great tech announcements over the next few days from #VMware and its partners.

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California central coast today - hiking in the Redwoods (Mt. Madonna) this morning and watching the ocean fog roll into Big Sur in the evening. Now that's a good day!

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Evening , VMware campus , Palo Alto.

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@CareAndKickButt @PinnaclesNPS No , not this time - Did that in the past , it's a great hike but very hot. Your photos look like you had a nice adventure!

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Sometimes I forget about California's newest National Park -Pinnacles.
it's small but has some great hiking. Sort of feels like a mini Zion NP in someways. Give it a try ( get there early!) while the days are still cool. 'cos it can get pretty hot here in summer! @PinnaclesNPS

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@Gortees @PinnaclesNPS Someone once said that the best camera is the one you actually have with you 😀 - these are on an iPhone 11.