At VMworld 2017 Veeam was announced as one of only two foundation Data Protection partners for VMware Cloud on AWS. This functionality was dependant on the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 that contained the enhancements for it to interoperate with VMware Cloud on AWS locked down vCenter. This week 9.5 Update […] Read More
2018
Looking back over the past couple of years I haven’t written a forward looking blog post about the year ahead since 2015 and as I sit here working through my notes on the first workday for 2018 I though that for the good of myself, I should have a think about what I want to […] Read More
Top Posts 2017
2017 is done and dusted and looking back on the blog over the last twelve months I’ve not been able to keep the pace up compared to the previous two years in terms of churning out content. In 2017 I managed 90 posts (including this one) which was down on the 124 last year and the 110 […] Read More
A Year of Travel – A Few Interesting Stats
This year was my first 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
Homelab : Supermicro 5028D-TNT4 One Year On
It’s been just over a year since I unboxed my Supermicro 5028D-TNT4 and setup my new homelab. A year is a long time in computing so I though I would write up some thoughts on how the server has performed for me and give some feedback on what’s worked and what hasn’t worked with having […] Read More
AWS re:invent Thursday Keynote – Evolution of the Voice UI
Given this was my first AWS re:invent I didn’t know what to expect from the keynotes and while Wednesday’s keynote focused on new release announcements, Thursday’s keynote with Werner Vogels was more geared towards thought leadership on where in AWS want’s to take the industry that it has enabled over the next two to five years. […] Read More
AWS re:Invent – Expectations from a VM Hugger…
Today is the first day offical day of AWS re:Invent 2017 and things are kicking off with the global partner summit. Today also is my first day of AWS re:Invent and I am looking forward to experiencing a different type of big IT conference with all previous experiences being at VMworld or the old Microsoft […] Read More
VCSP Important Notice: 9.5 Update 3 RTM Is Out…With Insider Protection and more!
Earlier this week, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Update 3 for Backup & Replication 9.5 (Build 9.5.0.1335). Update 3 is what we term a breaking update, meaning that if a Cloud Connect tenant upgrades from any previous 9.5 version before VCSPs this will break backup or replication functionality. With that in mind the […] Read More
Awarded vExpert Cloud – A New vExpert Sub Program
Last week Corey Romero announced the inaugural members of the vExpert Cloud sub-program. This is the third vExpert sub-program following the vSAN and NSX programs announced last year. There are 135 initial vExpert Cloud members who have been awarded the title. As it so happens I am now a member of all three which reflects on […] Read More
What I’ve Learnt from 12 Months Working From Home
This week marks one year since I started at Veeam and it feels like that twelve months has flown by. Before I started here at Veeam I had only worked for local companies here in Perth, though the last two had national presence which meant some travel interstate and occasionally overseas for events like VMworld. […] Read More