I’m ok admitting that I am still learning as I progress through my career and I’m ok to admit when things go wrong. Learning from mistakes is a crucial part of learning…and I learnt a harsh lesson today! That Infrastructure as Code is as dangerous as it is awesome…and that the public cloud is an […] Read More
VMware Cloud Briefing Roundup – VMware Cloud on AWS and other Updates
VMware has held it’s first ever VMware Cloud Briefing today. This is an online, global event with an agenda featuring a keynote from Pat Gelsinger, new announcements and demos relating to VMware Cloud as well as discussions on cloud trends and market momentum. Key to the messaging is the fact that applications are driving cloud initiatives […] 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
VMware Cloud on AWS Availability with Veeam
It’s been exactly a year since VMware announced their partnership with AWS and it’s no surprise that at this year’s VMworld the solution is front and center and will feature heavily at Monday’s keynote. Earlier today Veeam was announced as an officially supported backup, recovery and replication platform for VMware Cloud on AWS. This is […] Read More
Cloud to Cloud to Cloud Networking with Veeam Powered Network
I’ve written a couple of posts on how Veeam Powered Network can make accessing your homelab easy with it’s straight forward approach to creating and connection site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections. For a refresh on the use cases that I’ve gone through, I had a requirement where I needed access to my homelab/office machines while on the road […] Read More
Attack from the Inside – Protecting Against Rogue Admins
In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resulted in the company going under and their customers left without their hosting or VPS data. The attack was calculated, targeted and vicious in it’s execution… I remember the incident well […] Read More
Looking Beyond the Hyper-Scaler Clouds – Don’t Forget the Little Guys!
I’ve been on the road over the past couple of weeks presenting to Veeam’s VCSP partners and prospective partners here in Australia and New Zealand on Veeam’s Cloud Business. Apart from the great feedback in response to what Veeam is doing by way of our cloud story I’ve had good conversations around public cloud and infrastructure providers […] Read More
VMware on AWS: Thoughts on the Impact to the vCloud Air Network
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS in the form of bare-bones hardware with vCenter, ESXi, NSX and VSAN as the core VMware technology components. This isn’t some magic whereby ESXi is nested or emulated upon the […] 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
AWS…Complex Simplicity?
I came across a tweet over the weekend which showed a screen grab of the AWS product catalog (shown below) and a comment pointing out the fact that the sheer number of AWS services on offer by Amazon was part of the reason why they are doing so well. The implication was that AWSs dominance was in part due […] Read More