Category Archives: General

Here in the ANZ region we are known for trying anything new. Starting this week the APAC vBrownBag podcast is going to host the Storage Debate. Each episode I will propose a controversial idea about storage in enterprise IT and … Continue reading →

Since hybrid clouds are all the rage right now it seems appropriate that there is a public cloud service that lets you easily manage your private cloud. Platform9 has just launched product to do exactly this.

With  two weeks to go until I leave for the conference my schedule is starting to fill up. Like a lot of people VMworld is a busy time for me with too much to do and not enough time.

I’ve been a fan of Veeam since the long distant days when FastSCP was the killer app for getting ISOs onto datastores. Veeam has been a great supporter of various community activities I have organized, from the vBrownBag Tech Talks, … Continue reading →

  A few weeks ago I attended the AWS Essentials and Architecting on AWS courses. Both were really good courses and lead by John Balsillie who is a friend from VMware training days. The biggest thing I noticed is that … Continue reading →

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I am now offering my own workshops. The first workshop is for people who work with vSphere but mostly care about what is inside the VMs. This workshop is for support and … Continue reading →

I’m starting a new series of blog posts, these are all about when things went wrong and needed to be fixed. The point of these is to help you learn from other people’s mistakes and avoid them in future The … Continue reading →

For the last eight years I have been a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI). This certification allows me to deliver VMware’s official courses at VMware Authorized Training Centres (VATCs). Over that eight years I’ve taught over two hundred courses with students … Continue reading →

I have read a few blog posts by my friends talking about how they planned their careers and chose what community activities to get into and what work to do involved in order to get into a dream job. Now … Continue reading →

I’ve started a new project called Notes For Engineers. It is a video training blog which will feature frequent updates of small learning pieces. A feature of these videos is a hideous pink colour scheme that is inspired by the … Continue reading →