This last week, I was fortunate enough to attend a Tech Field Day event, in Boston, Massachusetts. During the event, ClearSky invited us to their headquarters and took the time to present their vision and solution. I must admit, I…
I was invited out to attend the first ever Ravello Blogger Day at Oracle headquarters in San Francisco, California. The event was arranged by the Tech Reckoning team lead by John Troyer. To be completely honest, I was apprehensive…
After 15 years of working with various IT consulting companies, or VARs (Value Added Resellers) - I've decided it's time for a change. While I've enjoyed the time, and the opportunity to work with lots of different technology and…
Last week was Veeam's Availability conference, VeeamOn, in New Orleans, LA. I was able to get some time with Nigel Hickey and Matt Crape on the showroom floor and talk about the community that surrounds IT and virtualization. I…
While at VeeamOn 2017, I had an opportunity to talk with my fellow Veeam Vanguards. With the hot topic of WannaCry ransomware the week before, we decided to sit down and talk about ransomware, employee education, and backup protection…
On Tuesday, VeeamOn was kicked off the morning general session. If you aren't familiar, VeeamOn is the premiere availability conference, hosted this year in New Orleans; running for 2 days, with a third day dedicated for partner sessions. Peter…
In this episode, we cover some of the cluster level features, such as HA, DRS, and DPM - and talk about predictive DRS, as well as demonstrate live in the lab and HA failover, and DRS working to meet…
On April 5th, VMware announced that they would discontinue VDP, vSphere Data Protection - VMware's integration backup solution. Now, VMware will not have an integrated backup solution but instead will rely (as they should) on partner solutions that utilize official…
I ran into an interesting problem these last couple days trying to work with a certificate and McAfee's Web Gateway. Following the instructions to create a subordinate CA certificate and import into the Web Gateway console, I received an error:…
I was informed earlier this month that I was awarded the title of Veeam Vanguard again, for the 2017 year. This is indeed a great honor and I appreciate all the hard work that the team over at Veeam has…