Plan now to maximize the ROI in Kubernetes
Traditionally, I don't like to talk about return on investment... it was something that I always felt was used to justify a purchasing decision by pushes ven...
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Why the Kubernetes wave is not equal to Virtualization... but why that doesn't matter!
If you are engaged with the general IT community that deals with infrastructure, virutalization or cloud, you have probably heard the comparison between Kube...
Technology, Partnerships and Choice
Before I joined Veeam I spent all my career working for service providers. I spent my first 7 years working for a hosting provider working on Windows and Lin...
Garmin Down! - Dumbing Down Smart Devices Changes The Way We See IoT
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things have been hot topics for any digital transformation discussion in recent years. It’s no ...
Automation is Leading to a Future of AI Powered Backup
With emerging technologies on the rise, data is increasing at an exponential rate, posing a new challenge for today’s data management professionals. Though d...
2020 - Flying Cars, Automation, Uranium and not Playing to Win!
Hard to believe we are already almost half way through January and the year is 2020! I remember back to when I was a kid, or even a teenager and how long a y...
I went on Holiday (Vacation) and Managed to Switch Off!!
The jet lag has almost passed... I've nearly caught up with the backlog of messages on my various social platforms... expenses are almost done... and i'm abo...
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...
AWS re:Invent 2018 Recap - Times...they a̶r̶e̶ have a̶ Changi̶n̶g̶ed!
I wrote this sitting in the Qantas Lounge in Melbourne waiting for the last leg back to Perth after spending the week in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent 2018 . I ...
Office 365 Backups and the Opportunity that Exists for Service Providers
In recent weeks i've become reacquainted with an old friend...There was a time where eighty to ninety percent of my day job was working in and around Exchang...
What I've Learnt from 12 Months Working From Home
This week marks one year since I started at Veeam and it feels like that twelve months has flown by. Before I started here at Veeam I had only worked for loc...
Work Life Balance: My Impossible Reality
I've been wanting to write about this topic for a while but haven't been able to articulate myself in terms of the message I wanted get across until now. Thi...
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...
Top vBlog 2016: Aussie (vMafia) Representation
The Top vBlog for 2016 Results where announced a couple of nights ago and Australia had an ok representation this year, though the number of active bloggers ...
CBT Bugs - VMware Can't Keep Letting This Happen!
[ UPDATE ] - VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it's because this isn't the first time I've...
Quick Thought: The Lonely Traveler...Isolated No More! #WiFi
WiFi on planes is here...well its been around for the best part of a decade as I can remember paying $50 for a 30 minute stint back in 2006 on a flight from ...
The Change Message is on Repeat...I Reckon Evolve! - VMUG UserCon Take Away
Yesterday I attended the Melbourne VMUG UserCon for 2016 and had a great day catching up with community friends, presenting with PernixData and attending oth...
ESXi Bugs - VMware Can't Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time...there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Plat...
Another vExpert Post – Listen Up! It’s about the Advocacy
Last Friday Cory Romero announced the first intake of the 2016 VMware vExperts . As a five time returning vExpert it would be easy for me to sit back enjoy a...
Top Posts 2015
2015 is pretty much done and dusted and it's been an great year in for Virtualization is Life! There was a 300% increase in site visits this year compared to...
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...
The Power of Network Automation: How a Huge Low Turned into a Great High!
A few weeks back at Zettagrid we released our NSX Advanced Networking product that we have been working on for the best part of 12 months. I’m particularly p...
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...
vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!
The vCloud Director 8 SP Beta program has been going for a couple of months now and there has been decent activity in the Discussion Forums and also a good n...
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. ...
vSphere 6.0 Launch: What's in it for Service Providers #vmw28days
Today vSphere 6.0 was officially announced and will be GA in about 6-8 weeks...I've had limited time myself to tinker with the BETA in great depth, however I...
Working Through Frustration
The tweet below was posted last night...24 hours later I have found myself in a much better place and certainly free of the thoughts that caused me to vent a...
The Internet of Things...Flawed Hype!
Over the last 10-15 years there have been many buzz words and phrases conceived by IT professionals which are then hijacked by marketing spinsters that end u...
In Vendors We Trust! Storage is God...
I tweeted recently that IT Professionals at some level must love pain...All through my working life I've dealt with outages and issues that cause myself and ...
Differentiate...Or Die?
I spent the last week on holiday in the Wine Region of Western Australia’s South West . I've been holidaying down south since I was a teenager and I've seen ...
2013
Just thought I'd open the new year with a quick post about my expectations for 2013 from a technical/personal point of view. I've been a little slack in my B...
The Backup Delusion - Part 1
Ill put this right out there! I would rather live in a world without Backup and Recovery. I have burnt countless hours and hair follicles working my way thro...