Category Archives: General

For those who missed the news TrainSignal has been acquired by PluralSight who are also in the business of web delivered training. It seems to me that this sort of online training as a service is going to be a … Continue reading →

I haven’t had a lot of contact with Dell gear recently, where customers have Dell gear I haven’t been called on to do any host deployments or troubleshooting. That might be a good sign, the best products for customers are … Continue reading →

The last few years have seen a huge leap forward in disaster recovery for many IT organizations.  The use of Virtualization and lower cost replication has seen DR move from being a nightmare to a standard business service.  As a … Continue reading →

This week I’m spending  little time with HP, they have flown me to Sydney to attend their Technology at Work event here. There are four streams to the show, Converged Cloud, Big Data, Mobility ad Software and Security. We are … Continue reading →

There seems to be a lot of companies with new storage solutions, lots of very smart people finding new ways to do make your storage better. Many of the startups are doing something very different to what the big storage … Continue reading →

Time does fly by when you’re busy. I’ve had an HP T310 PCoIP zero client on my desk for a couple of months and I’ve been using it but hadn’t written about it.  The unit was kindly supplied by HP … Continue reading →

It didn’t seem so long, but it took nearly two days from home to Texas by car, bus, plane and finally car. Getting to Austin the day before the event started was  great plan, I slept from 1am until 11:30 … Continue reading →

Much excitement in the Demitasse household, well OK it’s just me excited as the rest of the family don’t get to come along.  I’ve been invited to join Stephen Foskett’s band of merry men at Tech Field Day 9 in … Continue reading →

This week I started a new phase.  In the past I’ve done a little consulting work under my own banner or as a sub contactor for small pieces of work.  This week I started a long term relationship with ViFX, … Continue reading →

I did the VCAP5-DTD exam at Avonmore here in Tauranga today.  You can read about my experience of the exam in this post on ProfessionalVMware.com. I really like that I can do VMware advanced exams in Tauranga, 25km from home, … Continue reading →