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Living in a small city, in a small country, I see a lot of small businesses. These customers will never have a virtualisation specialist on their staff, they barely have an IT specialist. These same customers find that their IT … Continue reading →

Why do backup products not come integrated into the storage that they require? Pretty much every backup product that you deploy wants a disk target to write to. That disk target has an x86 CPU in it and the backup … Continue reading →

One of the things I like about the PluralSight subscription model is that it is easy to add content to a course. Both for me to write the additional content but also for students to consume additional content.This week a … Continue reading →

Sometimes it is not the cost of having something that is important. Sometimes the cost of not having is far greater. Back in the dim and distant past I was a server support engineer. Once a month I would have … Continue reading →

A recent presentation started me on thinking about why we document our environments. We all hate writing the as built type documentation and seldom update it as things change so why do it? The fundamental reason is so that when … Continue reading →

Today held some exciting news for me, my first course was published on Pluralsight. My course is about the new features of Horizon View 6.0. So it covers things like the upgrade process from View 5 as well as the … Continue reading →

As you probably know I spend a lot of time travelling to interesting cities and making video of interesting people in the IT infrastructure business. This month it was my first trip to Vancouver where the openStack Summit was held … Continue reading →

I think that inline primary data deduplication is going to be a standard feature of storage arrays in the near(ish) future. Even for storing transactional workloads like virtual machines and tier-1 applications. As many storage experts will tell you the … Continue reading →

I spent a lot of April working on AutoLab and with Ravello Systems to get AutoLab available form public cloud. I have just released AutoLab version 2.6, which has support for vSphere 6. This is the fastest I’ve released support … Continue reading →

It has finally happened, I will be in Wellington when the Wellington VMUG is meeting. I will be speaking about progressing your career in IT. You can register here http://www.vmug.com/e/in/eid=1868 Joining me presenting is the unstoppable Rawlinson Rivera talking about … Continue reading →