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
2022 Tech Trends In and Around the World of Data Protection
Late last year, I was part of a working group that aimed to come up with the top tech trends in data protection for 2022 and beyond. Being a Technologist, part of my job is looking forward at emerging trends in technology and seeing how they fit into current day operations and what enhancements, if […] Read More
Migrating WordPress the Easy Way!
Yes… I still prefer WordPress! Just like how I prefer running MacOS these days for its relative simplicity and minimal operating overheads, so to have I come to the realisation that WordPress is still the best choice of platform for this blog. I have toyed with Ghost and in fact I am running a few […] Read More