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2024: Balancing the Dynamic World of Data Protection and Cybersecurity

We are well into 2024 now, with January all but done and dusted… but before we really dive into 2024, let’s take a look ahead as we move forward into what could be a watershed year for technology. Last year’s technological landscape was marked by a whirlwind of innovation, driven primarily by the burgeoning field […] Read More

Remaining Authentic in the Land of Corporate Marketing

That is a tightrope of a blog title as ever i’ve written… so let’s see how this goes! I had the pleasure of joining host Jeremy Balius, on the Filament podcast which was released last week. I’ve known Jeremy for a number of years now and he has grown Filament into an impressive B2B Marketing […] Read More

Cyberbullying Meets Enterprise Level Security: A Lesson in Mitigation and Data Protection

In our digital era, data is the lifeblood that flows through the veins of both corporations and individuals. Security breaches, unfortunately, have evolved from rare events into everyday threats. What happened today on an insignificant Discord Server of someone close to me serves as a compelling lesson in data protection and mitigation for anyone willing […] Read More

Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 – Self Service, Immutability and Integrations!

The releases keep coming in 2023 from Veeam! This week, we have released the GA of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VBM) version 7.0 (Build 7.0.0.2911). This new version again builds on the previous releases that added a new Self Service Restore Portal, backup copy, new update mechanism and much more. Version 7.0 is focused […] Read More

Verge.io – A New Wave of Hyper-Converged Virtualization

 There is no doubt we are moving into a new era of infrastructure to host applications and workloads on. And as organisations start to move back to on-premises platforms from the public cloud it’s not necessarily vSphere that they are coming back to. RedHat is pushing hard with on-premises stacks such as OpenShift and […] Read More

Talking Cloud, Object Storage, DRaaS, Kubernetes and Security

One of the best parts about travelling to tech conferences, expos and shows is the opportunity to talk on various panels and be interviewed by media outlets. At Tech Expo Asia in Singapore a couple weeks back, Michael Cade and myself got an opportunity to appear on Cyber Security World (CSA) Live at Cyber Security […] Read More

Multiple Cloud Theory in the Hybrid World

 NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast embedded above… Click Play if you would like to listen. Last week, I was at an event in Singapore for Cloud Expo, and I was involved in a couple of panels. During the discussion, the narrative was around multi-cloud, hybrid […] Read More

Thoughts on X… A Better Way Forward

 Don’t call this a reboot! It’s no secret that i’ve been caught by the Podcast bug…in fact consuming information via audio has become the number one way that I absorb information. My Audible Library has grown, and I listen to a dedicated set of tech industry and business related Podcasts daily. As a content […] Read More

Ten Years of VMworld… and Travel

I’m currently heading over to the newly renamed VMware Explore and it’s not been lost on me that this is the 10th anniversary of my very first VMworld back in 2012. That was also my first overseas work-related trip… and it was also the first time to the USA. Though it feels like just yesterday […] Read More

It’s Been a While… Getting Back into the Groove!

I’m currently flying back from a week away in Austin Texas attending the first Veeam Tech Expo (inside technical training) in person since June of 2019. It was a long time between drinks to be able to get together with other workmates and just get back into our collective grooves. While we had VeeamON 2022 […] Read More

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