Category Archives: General

My thirty six hour travel to Barcelona has begun, I’m at Auckland airport waiting for my flight via Los Angeles and London. I’ve been looking at a few of the HP Discover tweets, there’s some messaging around a new style … Continue reading →

I am very happy to have been invited to attend HP Discover in Barcelona as a guest of HP. This follows from attending HP’s Storage day in Colorado and a Cloud briefing in Sydney in 2012 as well as the … Continue reading →

The vBrownBag TechTalks are back at vForum in Sydney, allowing community members another opportunity  to share their experience and learn from one another. The sessions will be recorded for posting to the vBrownBag YouTube channel and hopefully live streamed on … Continue reading →

Great news, the vBrownBag TechTalks are coming to vForum Sydney. For those familiar with TechTalks you can go straight to the signup form here. Tech Talks originated at VMworld 2012 where they provided an opportunity for community members, whose presentation … Continue reading →

I’m very please to thank Veeam, NetApp and VMUG for sponsoring the VMDownUndergroud party which aims to get virtualization folk to talk together before vForum in Sydney. The format is the same as the last two years, although the venue … Continue reading →

This week Gabe, one of my friends in the VMware community, received the bad news that cancer is touching his family again.  The same touch has been on my family so I feel for Gabe and his family. Some of … Continue reading →

Tuesday morning was another busy round of vBrownBag TechTalks, gettng more videos in the can. In the afternoon I was in front of the camera for a few comments with Colin Steele of TechTarget. Then off to take part in … Continue reading →

One of the important tasks in optimizing a master image for a VDI deployment is working out how to do updates. If the desktop VM is going to be disposable we don’t want the VM to do it’s own updates.  … Continue reading →

My main activity for day 1 was the VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) day.  Having been a VCI for seven years I still know relatively few other VCIs, so it’s always good to meet up and get to know some of … Continue reading →

After a busy Saturday morning in Tauranga I took the shuttle to Auckland to start my journey. For me VMworld is all about meeting up with people, the rare in person part of my involvement in the VMware community. This … Continue reading →