While I had resisted the temptation to put out a blog on this years Top vBlog voting I thought with the voting coming to an end it was worth giving it a shout just in case there are some of you who hadn’t had the chance to vote or didn’t know about the Top vBlog […] Read More
VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive – A Must Have!
Just after I joined Zettagrid in June of 2013 I decided to load up vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman on my iPad to read on my train journey to and from work. Reading that book allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of vSphere through the in depth content that Duncan and […] Read More
Attack from the Inside – Protecting Against Rogue Admins
In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resulted in the company going under and their customers left without their hosting or VPS data. The attack was calculated, targeted and vicious in it’s execution… I remember the incident well […] Read More
Service Providers Be Aware: Samba Vulnerability is out there! SambaCry
Having worked in and around the service provider space for most of my career when I heard about the Linux variant of WannaCry, SambaCry last week, I thought to myself that it had the potential to be fairly impactful given there would be significant numbers of systems that use Samba for file services in the wild. In fact this […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.20.0.1
Last week VMware released an update for vCloud Director SP (Build 5439762) and while the small version increment suggest a small release, it actually contains a couple of important new features and introduces support for VVOL datastores which hopefully will get vCAN Service Providers looking at VVOLs a little more as well as a new […] Read More
VeeamON 2017 Wrap
VeeamON 2017 has come and gone and even though I left New Orleans on Friday afternoon, I just arrived back home…54 hours of travel, transit and delays has meant that my VeeamOFF continued longer than most! What an amazing week it was though for Veeam, our partners and our customers…The announcements that we made over the […] Read More
Veeam DRaaS v10 Enhancements: vCloud Director Support!
Today at VeeamON 2017 we announced two very important enhancements to our DRaaS capabilities around Cloud Connect Replication and Tape Backup for our Veeam Cloud and Service Provider partners that help customer minimize the cost and reduce recovery times during a disaster. The press release can be found here, however as you could imagine I wanted […] Read More
Veeam Vault #6: Pre VeeamON 2017 Edition! New Logo, Update 2, VAW and Vanguard Roundup
Time flies quickly when you’re having fun! VeeamON 2017 kicks off in New Orleans kicks off in just a few days and to say that it’s been a hectic period for the Technical Product Marketing Team and anyone at Veeam involved with VeeamON would be an understatement. All the hard work being done behind the […] Read More
Quick Thought: VMUG is now part of DTUC
I awoke this morning to the news that an announcement was made at DELL|EMC World that VMUG had been rolled into a the recently formed Dell Technologies User Community (DTUC – doesn’t quiet roll off the tongue now does it?) …I also awoke to a lot of VMware community backlash on Twitter not only in response […] Read More
vCloud Air Sold to OVH – Final Thoughts On Project Zephyr
I’ve just spent the last fifteen minutes looking back through all my posts on vCloud Air over the last four or five years and given yesterday’s announcement that VMware was selling what remains of vCloud Air to OVH Going over the content I thought it would be pertinent to write up one last piece on VMware’s attempt to build […] Read More