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 …
AWS Summit in Chicago
What is AWS Summit Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts a week long conference once a year that's at the tail end of the year and it's called AWS re:Invent. Last year 50,000 attendees flocked to Los Vegas, where re:Invent was being hosted, to find out the latest and greatest offerings from AWS. Not everyone is …
Citrix AppLayering: vNIC goes offline
I ran into an issue that I want to share with Citrix AppLayering (Unidesk). I'm not sure if it was me, or if others have had the same issue. My original issue was when I created an image from the ELM and pushed it to Citrix Provisioning Services. PVS would start the VM, the OS …
AWS – Developer Associate Overview
I recently passed the AWS Developer Associate certification. I wanted to pass along my knowledge as well as all the other resources I used during my studies. The best thing is to obviously use the products and services by creating yourself an account and dig right in. This has been my second AWS certification, the …
