Over the past few days I’ve been working on prepping my old 2014 Mac Book Pro for trade in for a new Mac Mini M1. I’ve had this trusty MBP since 2014 and was my go to travel lappy, but more recently it had become my desktop at home and as reported on Twitter and […] Read More
A Challenging Year for Community For a lot of us in the IT Industry, 2020 made it difficult to advocate technology like we had done in previous years. No doubting that the impossibility of in person events and distractions of the last twelve months have taken away the focus on extra activities in and around […] Read More
We have almost gone a whole week now in 2021 and it has not been the hard pivot that most were hoping for… in fact things around the world seem to be getting worse from the pandemic point of view… however the night is darkest just before the dawn! Looking back at the last twelve […] Read More
Four days into 2021 and I am doing my final retrospectives on the year just gone. I can’t/won’t even type in the year as most of you reading this wish it absolute hard and destruction. There are reasons why last year wasn’t that bad for me personally and I really don’t want to talk about […] Read More
While the Veeam Product Strategy Team had our wings clipped this year by Covid, together with Veeam as a whole, we adjusted to this by trying to get to the masses via different means. One of these was an idea that we had in the early days of the pandemic which was to bring members […] Read More
One of the positive things to come out of 2020 for me was the launch of Great Things with Great Tech. This was something that I had been thinking about for a long time and 2020 gave me the opportunity to pivot on my original idea and take advantage of the Podcast explosion as well […] Read More
For those in the gaming world, you would be well aware of the much anticipated release of Cyberpunk 2077… a game that was first announced back in 2013 and was even more hotly anticipated after the updated release trailer was featured at the E3 last year with Keanu Reeves featuring as an in game character. […] Read More
It has been a busy time at Veeam… which kicked off last week with the GA release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (VBO) version 5.0 (5.0.0.1063). This new version again builds on the 4.0 release that added Object Storage support for repositories as well as further enhancements around performance, reporting and APIs. Version […] Read More
Yesterday, Veeam made available Cumulative Patch 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 10a (build 10.0.0.4854 P20201202). This is the third cumulative patch for the v10 platform which is at v10a after that build was released in July. This contains a number of fixes but more importantly validates vSphere 7.0 U1 supportability. Having been downloaded over 500,000 […] Read More
I’ve always had an affinity with storage systems… that all started back at my first role with a three rack HPE Storage Area Network system that was cream coloured, big and slow… and when it crashed and burned it really crashed and burned. Since then I’ve dealt with all sorts of storage design and implementations… […] Read More