AWS re:Invent is happening next week, starting Monday, November 26th. Sadly, I will not be attending, but I do plan on live streaming the event. If you can't go, you can register now and watch the live streams as well. In the past, re:Invest posts most of their content up on YouTube and I plan …
HashiConf Recaps
HashiCorp, a software company focusing on Open Source tools and automation, had their fourth annual conference today. During the conference, they released some news around some of their most popular products like Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad. Here are some of the highlights from the conference: Terraform Terraform 0.12 Alpha was released which provides …
StarWind NVMeoF
Who is StarWind StarWind is a software company that's becoming a hardware company. They are focused on SMB and ROBO and bringing them affordable enterprise-grade hyper-converged appliances. Before making this shift from software to hardware, they wrote some pretty cool tools like the V2V Converter and the Deduplication Analyzer. These tools, plus others are free …
Thoughts from Commvault Go
Commvault held their annual conference, Commvault Go, this week with some surprising announcements. I did not attend, but instead followed the tweets coming in through Twitter and listening to a couple of the videos posted from Tech Field Day recorded. I've bulleted some of the items I found most interesting. Tech Field Day was the …
NGD Systems from #SFD17
According to IDC, the world will create 163 zettabytes of information by 2025. The world is moving fast and demands more capacity. The storage industry is moving to NVMe SSD storage, but there's only so much silicon in the world to fulfill these orders. I had the opportunity to attend Storage Field Day 17, hosted …
#MSIgnite Day 1 Summary
Here's a quick summary of the announcements that happened at #MSIgnite Microsoft decides to partner with Adobe and SAP for an Open Data Initiative Not my normal space of expertise, but seems like they are partnering up against other CRM competitors. I guess three are better than one? Office 2019 is going to …
Kromprise Systems Overview from #SFD17
What challenges businesses face Data has been exploding for quite some time and will continue to explode. When was the last time a customer came to you and said they had enough storage? It's estimated by IDC and EMC that unstructured data will grow to 40 zettabytes by 2020 and comprises of 70-80% of a …
VMworld 2018 – Day 1
VMworld 2018 conference is upon us. Like last year, I'm unable to attend the conference but I wanted to do a quick recap anyone else from home missed out. Here are a few of the key takeaways from today's Day 1 event. vSphere Platinum vSphere Platinum was announced which includes AppDefense and vSphere 6.7 Update …
Citrix Subscription Advantage
Recently I did an upgrade of a Citrix environment to 7.15. Citrix has provided a very well documented Upgrade Deployment guide and the steps to follow here. There are a number of pre-checks that you should do before upgrading the environment. Some of those things are taking backups of the database, snapshots of the virtual …
Unregister vCenter Server from SSO
I was helping someone bring up a vSphere 6.7 environment inside a vSphere 6.5 SSO domain for a project and the install went without a hitch. We installed the VCSA with embedded PSC and connected it to an existing SSO domain. This new vSphere was going to be used for a new VDI implementation. After …
