I decided to start a new category – Friday Funny! My goal is every Friday to post something related to tech that is humorous (at least to me). To start off this new addition to the blog, I give you…
I got to sit down with Matt Crape and Luigi Danakos on the last day of HPE Discover 2018 to recap the show and share our thoughts. Bure sure to Follow them on twitter and check out Luigi's blog post.…
While out at HPE's Discover 2018, I wanted to talk about what Veeam architecture would look like in a HPE datacenter. This architecture features 3PAR / Nimble arrays, which Veeam has deep integration with, as well as StoreOnce for archival…
Recently, I purchased a Synology 1817+ to be used as storage for my homelab. Previously, I was using an older, and much slower Synology, RS812, as well as a running vSAN on my single host. While vSAN performance was great,…
Now that the Veeam Azure proxy is deployed, and we have some workloads protected, it's time to test a restore. There are a couple ways to initiate a restore within the Veeam console, but all roads lead to the same…
There are many reasons to run virtual machines in the public cloud, and more and more companies are taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability that it offers. So, in this small series, we are going to look at using Veeam…
Earlier this year, I was invited out to Oracle to hear the Ravello and Oracle Cloud teams present their vision for the future. As I mentioned in my blog, I was quite surprised about what they had planned, and what…
It seems like lately, all the buzz had been around the cloud, especially public cloud. At VMworld 2017, there is certainly no exception to that. In fact, in the morning keynote, AWS was onstage alongside Pat Gelsinger announcing VMware Cloud…
VMworld 2017 kicks off today at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Normally there are some major announcements that are made each year during the first general session, and I"m looking forward to those. However, last week VMware dropped some…
This week I have been at HPE Discover 2017 in Las Vegas. HPE released new details on their prototype memory-centric computing platform, The Machine. The Machine is the world's first computing system that allows any CPU to access any RAM,…