Bitcoin has had quite the ride so far in 2021! Many thought it had had its run by late 2017, early 2018. While there is still a huge element of scepticism in crypto currencies, the fact remains that it has been the single best investment opportunity of the past decade. Those brave enough or with […] Read More
Overnight, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Veeam Backup & Replication 11 (Build 11.0.0.825). Seems like only yesterday v10 was released, but just over a year and week to the day, we have the much awaited v11 version of Backup & Replication. Before it goes GA, we give our providers a window […] Read More
February seems to be moving month here at Veeam these days! Once again we are close to a major release of Veeam Backup & Replication, with v11 just around the corner now. In preparation for the release we have seen the first of the update patches released for our supporting platform products. Importantly for our […] Read More
Since version 9.5 Update 4 of Veeam Backup & Replication we have had support to firstly move, then copy (as part of v10) backup data from what is, traditionally more expensive local storage, to cheaper storage backed by an offsite or on-premises Object Storage Platform. As part of v11 (Launching on the 24th of February) […] Read More
I’ve had a few people ask me about my initial experiences with my new Mac Mini M1 with Apple Silicon, so I thought I would write down my first impressions after the first week or so of use. This isn’t an in depth technical comparison post… if you want that, have a look here, and […] Read More
I’ve recently gotten my hands on the new Mac Mini M1 which comes with MacOS Big Sur as the default operating system. Being new, and on Apple Silicon, I expected a few compatibility issues with some of my older MacOS usuals. Microsoft Teams is not M1 optimized and runs under rosetta 2. Teams is a […] Read More
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