Today I had a great session via the VMware EUC Champion group about – Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3. So VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an automated SDDC solution that includes ESXi, vSAN and NSX along with a SDDC Manager for provisioning. The new version is 2.3.1. The […]
Recently myself and @alburns73 contacted AWS to revive a user group in the North East of England. The group was active but appeared to have closed down. AWS cannot be ignores these days, thats clear for all to see even for an infrastructure guy like myself. with that in mind, the past […]
Today I woke up to a great email from @RickVanover this morning announcing I have been selected for the Veeam Vanguard program class 2018. The Vanguard program stared in 2015 and I have been keen to join since, the group is very active and includes a lot of community champions around the […]
Last year we had two very successful and well attended events but we sadly couldn’t organise a third, given myself and the other leaders work schedule. We instead focused our efforts on a one in early 2018 - February 22nd to be exact. Not long now to get registered, if […]
Recently it has been a privilege to be announced a Nutanix Technology Champion. Nutanix was something I first started to work with when NOS 4 was released, I was really impressed by the tech and completed the NPP to be able to partner up. More so then ever im talking […]
A slightly outdated post but recently i was lucky enough to be added to the VMware vExpert Cloud program with some really big names, its a privilege to be apart of the group and I look forward to getting involved. As part of the group there is a private slack […]
TL;DR - the last amount 3 years has been awesome! I thought I would get an updated version of the “about me” section and not to just update the previous page but to rather leave that out in the ether for comparison. Its coming up to 3 years since I […]
Day 2 key notes included a Q&A session where people could submit questions the previous day and they would answer some of them. They also demo’d a made up company called Elastic Sky Pizza which showed the breadth of the VMware offering including VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware AppDefence, vRealize Operations […]
Tuesday was the official day 1 which kicked off with the key note that even included a VR demo with Pat Gelsinger throwing a live VM around the cluster and into a AWS cloud using VMware Cloud on AWS. This actually worked well and was something different and whats cool is […]
It was that time of the year again - VMworld Europe in Barcelona. I always enjoy this event with great sessions and a great community presence, this year I was selected for a blogger pass which gave some extra access to certain areas. With a blogger pass however, you dont […]