I’m honoured to be recognized as a VMware vExpert for 2015…this is my 4th year as a vExpert and without doubt the passion that drives this community remains as impressive as ever. There are now over 1000 vExperts worldwide and while I have questioned the swelling of the vExpert numbers over the past couple of […] Read More
vExpert 2013
Almost exactly 12 months ago to the day I kicked off this site with this article describing my journey in virtualization leading up to my first vExpert 2012 Award. 27 posts and 1 year later I’m humbled again to be awarded with vExpert status for 2013. The VMware community is unbelievably strong and it’s safe […] Read More
vExpert 2012 – My Journey in Virtualization so far…
If you had asked me 2 years ago that I’d be writing as a VMware vExpert I would have thought you were crazy. At that stage my only exposure to VMware was on a co-lo server I was hosting for a mates start-up back in 2008. It was ESXi 3.5 back then and, compared to […] 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
Talking AWS Communities with Hero’s and Builders
Last week, I had the pleasure to sit down in a Twitter Space with Chris Williams and other AWS Community members to chat about Chris’s journey from a traditionally VMware/Infrastructure background to one in which he now lives and breaths public cloud and cloud native technologies. Not only is Chris deep into the technology… but […] Read More
vSphere 7 Update 2 – Tanzu and vSAN Enhancements
I haven’t done one of these VMware Update release posts in a while… Having attended the #vExpert pre-brief a couple weeks back I thought there was enough relevant goodness to share. It’s been such an interesting time in our industry over the past 12-18 months and this vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Update 2 release […] Read More
First Thoughts – VMware Cloud Director Service
One of the early benefits of being part fo the vExpert Cloud Provider subprogram, was that we where given a chance to get a first look and use of Cloud Director Service. This is basically hosted vCloud Director for VMware Cloud on AWS. These days we are dropping the little v from VMware Cloud Director […] Read More
NSX Bytes – What’s New in NSX-T 2.4
A little over two years ago in Feburary of 2017 VMware released NSX-T 2.0 and with it came a variety of updates that looked to continue to push NSX-T beyond that of NSX-v while catching up in some areas where the NSX-v was ahead. The NSBU has had big plans for NSX beyond vSphere for […] Read More
NSX Bytes – What’s new in NSX-T 2.1
In Feburary of this year VMware released NSX-T 2.0 and with it came a variety of updates that looked to continue to push of NSX-T beyond that of NSX-v while catching up in some areas where the NSX-v was ahead. The NSBU has big plans for NSX beyond vSphere and during the NSX vExpert session we saw […] Read More
Veeam Vault #8: VMworld 2017 Edition…Still Best Of!
I’m sitting in the airport lounge waiting to board the first leg of my 26 hour journey to Las Vegas for VMworld 2017 and I thought it was no better time to write the next edition of my Veeam Vault series. This will be my fifth VMworld as as I wrote earlier in the week…I […] Read More