Category Archives: General

One of my little projects for the Easter break has been playing with the Windows 8 consumer preview.  I installed in on my netbook, an HP Mini-311 which has an Atom CPU, 2GB RAM and a 128GB SSD.  This is … Continue reading →

Today is the fifth birthday of this blog!  Around 150 posts have gone up here and it’s grown from nothing to around a hundred subscribers and hits a peak of 1500 page views per month.  The last couple of months … Continue reading →

This week is all things Microsoft and virtual. Including Windows 8, HyperV v3 and Dynamic memory. Details on the Podcast web site as usual http://apacvirtual.com/

My fifteen year old daughter feels let down by a New Zealand song from my youth.  The song is called “History Never Repeats” by Split Enz.  Of course we know that nothing is more certain than repeats of history.  So … Continue reading →

The eagled eyed will have spotted a rash of excitement over the virtualisation twitterverse.  The VCAP5-DCD exam enters it’s beta phase this month. Current VCAP4-DCD holders who have also completed the VCP5 certification have been invited to take part.  Since … Continue reading →

It’s 2012 and we’re back.  Time for vBeers in Auckland.  Come and talk geek with a beer in your hand.  Looks for the vBeers sign and say hi, we don’t bite newcomers. All the details on vBeers web site

One of the hardest parts of designing a virtual infrastructure for VDI is getting the storage right.  This is where the price of doing VDI can become very obvious so it’s tempting to try to cut costs.  Unfortunately not having … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday evening in New Zealand and I’m looking back over a somewhat surreal week.  The whole thing began just over three weeks ago with a tweet from Calvin Zito asking for independent bloggers who might want to know more … Continue reading →

I’m in Ft Collins Colorado for an HP Storage Tech Day.  This is my first sponsored community event and when Calvin Zito invited me I jumped at the chance to be here.  Getting to spend a couple of days surrounded … Continue reading →

If you follow virtualization blogs then you will have seen that Eric Siebert has opened voting for the top virtualization blogs.  This year I have entered both my blog and the APAC Virtualization Podcast.  Please cast your vote at vSphere … Continue reading →