Evolution of Apache CloudStack: From Cloud.com to Apache
The cloud computing landscape has witnessed a remarkable transformation with the emergence of open-source platforms. Among these, Apache CloudStack stands ou...
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Thoughts on 2023
NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast…Click Play if you would like to listen. I think we should all put a p...
Multiple Cloud Theory in the Hybrid World
NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast embedded above... Click Play if you would like to listen. Last week, ...
10 years of Success with the Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Program
Hard to believe that I've been using Veeam for over ten years now! This blog has been testament to how Veeam has always been close to Cloud and Service Provi...
Cloud Field Day 5 - Recap and Videos #CFD5
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at Cloud Field Day 5 (a Tech Field Day event). Joined by Michael Cade and David Hill, we took the delegates throug...
Quick Look - New Cloud Credentials Manager in Update 4
With the release of Update 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 we further enhanced our overall cloud capabilities by adding a number of new features and enh...
What Services Providers Need to Think About in 2019 and Beyond…
We are entering interesting times in the cloud space! We should no longer be talking about the cloud as a destination and we shouldn’t be talking about how c...
Hybrid World... Why IBM buying RedHat makes sense!
As Red October came to a close…at a time when US Tech stocks were taking their biggest battering in a long time the news came out over the weekend that IBM h...
First Look - Zenko, Multi-Platform Data Replication and Management
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon Zenko via a LinkedIn post. I was interested in what it had to offer and decided to go and have a deeper look. With Veea...
Quick Look - Backing up AWS Workloads with Cloud Protection Manager from N2WS
Earlier this year Veeam acquired N2WS after announcements last year of a technology partnership at VeeamON 2017. The more I tinker with Cloud Protection Mana...
Public Cloud and Infrastructure as Code...The Good and the Bad all in One Day!
I'm ok admitting that I am still learning as I progress through my career and I'm ok to admit when things go wrong. Learning from mistakes is a crucial part ...
VMware Cloud Briefing Roundup - VMware Cloud on AWS and other Updates
VMware has held it's first ever VMware Cloud Briefing today. This is an online, global event with an agenda featuring a keynote from Pat Gelsinger, new annou...
AWS re:Invent - Expectations from a VM Hugger...
Today is the first day offical day of AWS re:Invent 2017 and things are kicking off with the global partner summit. Today also is my first day of AWS re:Inve...
VMware Cloud on AWS Availability with Veeam
It’s been exactly a year since VMware announced their partnership with AWS and it’s no surprise that at this year’s VMworld the solution is front and center ...
Cloud to Cloud to Cloud Networking with Veeam Powered Network
I've written a couple of posts on how Veeam Powered Network can make accessing your homelab easy with it's straight forward approach to creating and connecti...
Attack from the Inside - Protecting Against Rogue Admins
In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resul...
Looking Beyond the Hyper-Scaler Clouds – Don’t Forget the Little Guys!
I’ve been on the road over the past couple of weeks presenting to Veeam’s VCSP partners and prospective partners here in Australia and New Zealand on Veeam’s...
VMware on AWS: Thoughts on the Impact to the vCloud Air Network
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...
Azure Stack - Microsoft's White Elephant?
Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference is currently on again in Toronto and even though my career has diverged from working on the Microsoft stack (no pun...
AWS...Complex Simplicity?
I came across a tweet over the weekend which showed a screen grab of the AWS product catalog (shown below) and a comment pointing out the fact that the sheer...
vCloud Air and Virtustream – Just kill vCloud Air Already?!?
I’ve been wanting to write some commentary around the vCloud Air and Virtustream merger since rumours of it took place just before VMworld in Auguest and I’v...
Ninefold: Going Head to Head with AWS and Using Opensource is Risky in Cloud Land
Today Ninefold (an Australian based IaaS and PaaS) provider announced that they where closing their doors an would be migrating their clients to their parent...
M$ Price Hike: Is the Race to the Bottom Over?
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft raised the prices of Azure , Office 365, CRM Online and other enterprise cloud services across Australia, Canada and Europe. ...
The Reality of Cloud - Outages are Like *holes...
It's been a bad couple of weeks for cloud services both around the world and locally...Over the last three days we have seen AWS have issues which may have b...
Platform9 Introduction
I came across Platform9 while wandering the back halls of the VMWorld Solutions Exchange last year in San Francisco…as a fan of the movie District 9 I was dr...
VMworld: Community Tech Talk - Differentiate or Die?
As mentioned in a previous post I was lucky enough to be able to present a #vBrownBag Tech Talk at this years VMworld. Even though the timing meant a smallis...
Veeam Cloud Connect
I've written a couple of posts around the pain of backup products and I've talked about a world where we backup independent of the Application. Storage platf...
Passion
During last weeks #APACVirtual Podcast ( Episode 70 – Engineers Anonymous pt1 – Engineer2PreSales ) the panelists (of which, I was one) where discussing...
Online Storage Wars - What's in it for Service Providers?
Last weekend I signed up for an account at MEGA . This is @KimDotCom 's new venture attempting to send a big F-U to the regulatory forces that are accusing...
VMworld - Where is the Zephyr?
There where some pretty big announcements and reveals at VMworld 2012, but unless I missed something (which was totally possible had any accouncement been ma...
First Look: Apache DeltaCloud
As I was browsing my Twitter feed last night I can across a tweet that talked about the 1.0 Release of Apache DeltaCloud. As described on the website : Delta...