Virtualization is Life! has hit post #300 and I thought I’d take this opportunity to list through some numbers and top posts since I launched this blog as Hosting is Life! back in April of 2012. Before going through the listing below I’d like to thank the extended VMware Virtualization Community for allowing me to […] Read More
The Anatomy of a vBlog Part 2: Plugins, Site Optimizations and Analytics
Part 1 – Building a Blogging Platform Having looked at hosting platform and operating system suggestions in Part 1, to conclude this two part series I’ll talk about how to make WordPress work harder for you through its plugin ecosystem as well as go through the site optimizations and caching improvements offered by CloudFlare. To finish off […] Read More
The Anatomy of a vBlog Part 1: Building a Blogging Platform
Earlier this week my good friend Matt Crape sent out a Tweet lamenting the fact that he was having issues uploading media to WordPress…shortly after that tweet went out Matt wasn’t short of Twitter and Slack vCommunity advice (follow the Twitter conversation below) and there where a number of options presented to Matt on how best to […] Read More
Cross Cloud: Why The VM Shouldn’t Be The Base Unit of Measurement
I’ve been sitting on this topic since the VMworld 2016 US Keynote where VMware announced the Cross Cloud Architecture. I posted some raw thoughts the day after keynote and have been reflecting on how the Cross Cloud Platform could impact on VMware’s vCAN business. As mentioned previously I believe it’s representative of how VMware is […] Read More
Work Life Balance: My Impossible Reality
I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for a while but haven’t been able to articulate myself in terms of the message I wanted get across until now. This post is about work life balance and how it’s so critical to maintain. This is about not letting yourself become consumed by work and career. […] Read More
Azure Stack – Microsoft’s White Elephant?
Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference is currently on again in Toronto and even though my career has diverged from working on the Microsoft stack (no pun) over the past four or five years I still attend the local Microsoft SPLA monthly meetings where possible and keep a keen eye on what Microsoft is doing in […] Read More
Top vBlog 2016: Aussie (vMafia) Representation
The Top vBlog for 2016 Results where announced a couple of nights ago and Australia had an ok representation this year, though the number of active bloggers on the list has decreased from last year. There where 321 blogs listed at vSphere-Land.com. I know of a lot more bloggers locally so if you have a chance head over […] Read More
CBT Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
[UPDATE] – VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it’s because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt compelled to write about the continued industry frustration with some repeat ESXi bugs. In February I wrote in general around the recent history of bugs […] Read More
My Top Ten Albums of All Time
Music for most of us is a passionate and emotional experience…When we listen to great albums and great bands we have the ability to be taken back to key moments in our lives. Music has the power to trigger emotive feelings that are generally buried deep down inside of us. Like most things in my life […] Read More
Quick Thought: The Lonely Traveler…Isolated No More! #WiFi
WiFi on planes is here…well its been around for the best part of a decade as I can remember paying $50 for a 30 minute stint back in 2006 on a flight from London to Singapore back in 2006 that didn’t actually work on my Microsoft PDA device. Fast forward ten years an Emirates offer […] Read More