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My World Tour is about to begin

It is getting to the exciting anticipation stage. Tomorrow I leave home for the first leg of my Hyperconverged World tour with SimpliVity. I will be speaking about how we came to need Hyperconverged solutions. I will be joined on … Continue reading

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HyperConverged Global Tour

In December I and a few other bloggers spent a couple of days in Boston as the guest of SimpliVity. We spent a while talking about their products now and what we thought would be good for the future. I … Continue reading

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Workspace Portal – Promote user to administrator

As I deployed Workspace I was a little concerned that the only administrator user ID is the one that you use to bind Workspace to AD. Naturally this is a service account and has a complex password. Remembering the service … Continue reading

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Integrating RSA SecurID with VMware Workspace Portal

When I’m working with any new product I look for bloggers who have used the product in similar ways. What I’m finding with the Workspace portal is that there is almost nothing out there. I will try to document a … Continue reading

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Interesting VMware View behaviour

I’m working on a project where we are integrating VMware View, the Workspace Portal and AirWatch for a very interesting mobility storey. For this deployment a device managed by AirWatch is considered to be a trusted device. The AirWatch browser … Continue reading

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Wrapping up some workshops

This week I am at home in Tauranga, a little rest between my September trip to US VMUGs and my October trip to VeeamOn and VMworld EMEA. I spent the first three days of the week running vSphere and SRM … Continue reading

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DR to the cloud with Zerto

I wrote an article a while ago for TechTarget about DR to the cloud, outlining a somewhat cumbersome way to use vSphere replication. Since then I have had a chance to talk with Zerto a couple of times about their … Continue reading

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This week, Chicago

I’m having a great week in Chicago. It is a long haul from New Zealand but as with all travel it is eventually over. I am here for the VMUG User Conference which was  on Wednesday. The 850 people who came along … Continue reading

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Final spaces for Chicago and Los Angeles Workshops

I have space left to deliver just two of my two day workshops while I’m in America next month. Chicago, September 18th and 19th Los Angeles, September 22nd and 23rd I have a great workshop for operations and support teams … Continue reading

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Workshops, Chicago and Los Angeles in September

I will be in Chicago and Los Angeles next month to take part in the VMUG user conferences in those two fine cities. Before and between the VMUG conferences I’d like to book some training workshops. If you have a … Continue reading

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