We are entering interesting times in the cloud space! We should no longer be talking about the cloud as a destination and we shouldn’t be talking about how cloud can transform business…those days are over! We have entered the next level of adoption whereby the cloud as a delivery framework has become mainstream. You only […] Read More
vExpert 2019 – Why The vCommunity is Still Important to me.
Overnight, applications for the 2019 VMware vExperts where opened up and as per usual it’s created a flurry of activity on social media channels and well as private communications such as the vExpert Slack. There is no doubting that IT professionals still hold the vExpert award in high regard…though it’s also true that others have […] Read More
Top Posts 2018
2018 is done and dusted and looking back on the blog over the last twelve months I’ve not been happy with my output compared to previous years…i’ve found it a little harder to churn out content. Compared to 2017 where I managed 90 posts (including this one) this year I was down to 83. My goal […] Read More
2018 Year of Travel – A Few Interesting Stats
This year was my second full year working for Veeam and my role being global, requires me to travel to locations and events where my team presents content and engages with technical and social communities. We also travel to various Veeam related training and enablement events throughout the year as well as customer and partner […] Read More
Top vBlog 2018 – Last few Days to Vote!
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
AWS re:Invent 2018 Recap – Times…they a̶r̶e̶ have a̶ Changi̶n̶g̶ed!
I wrote this sitting in the Qantas Lounge in Melbourne waiting for the last leg back to Perth after spending the week in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent 2018. I had fifteen hours on the LAX to MEL leg and before that flight took off, I struck up a conversation (something I never usually do […] Read More
Backing up 6.7 Update 1 VCSA to Cloud Connect Fails
A few weeks ago I upgraded my NestedESXi homelab to vSphere 6.7 Update 1. Even though Veeam does not have offical supportability for this release until our Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 release there is a workaround that deals with the change of vSphere API version that out of the box, causes backup to […] Read More
Hybrid World… Why IBM buying RedHat makes sense!
As Red October came to a close…at a time when US Tech stocks were taking their biggest battering in a long time the news came out over the weekend that IBM had acquired RedHat for 34 billion dollars! This seems to have taken the tech world by surprise…the all-cash deal represents a massive 63% premium […] Read More
Quick Fix: Specified vCloud Director is not supported when trying to add vCD 9.1 to Veeam ONE
Back in May when VMware released vCloud Director 9.1 they also depreciated support for a number of older API versions: End of Support for Older vCloud API Versions vCloud Director 9.1 no longer supports vCloud API versions 1.5 and 5.1. These API versions were deprecated in a previous release. vCloud Director 9.1 is the last […] Read More
Released – Runecast Analyser 2.0
Earlier this week, Runecast released into General Availability version 2.0 of their vSphere analyser platform. I’ve been a keen follower of the progress of Runecast since their inception a couple of years ago. There was a space in the market to be filled and they have been able to improve in the initial release by […] Read More