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Using your Ignite Attendee benefits to extend your Office subscription

Oct 9, 2020 msignite2020 microsoft office365

As a benefit for attending the online (and free!) Ignite conference this year, Microsoft have rewarded delegates with some discount prices on “select digital downloadable products” at the company store. Amongst the X-box games there’s also a great deal on the Office Family subscription.

#vRetreat 8 Video

Jul 16, 2020 cohesity #vretreat

A video of the Cohesity vRetreat Session in July 2020 thanks to Patrick Redknap.

RTO With Cohesity @ vRetreat

Jul 9, 2020 cohesity #vretreat

How Cohesity’s Approach to VM Backup Affects the Recovery Time Objective

Datrium @ vRetreat May 2020

May 25, 2020 datrium #vretreat vmware aws

Last week I received an invitation to the latest in the vRetreat series of events. These events bring together IT vendors and a selected group of tech bloggers- usually in venues like football clubs and racetracks, but in the current circumstances we were forced online. The second of the two briefings at the May 2020 …

Snapt @ vRetreat May 2020

May 24, 2020 snapt #vretreat

Last week I received an invitation to the latest in the vRetreat series of events. These events bring together IT vendors and a selected group of tech bloggers- usually in venues like football clubs and racetracks, but in the current circumstances we were forced online. The first of the two briefings at the May 2020 …

Virtual vs In-person Conferences

Apr 24, 2020 cleur2020 vmworld2020 msignite2020 #lonvmug

In the current pandemic situation (April 2020) a lot of events, both small and large, have had to close their doors and move from in-person to virtual on-line environments. There’s been a lot of chatter about this on the interwebs, and how some people favour the way of conferencing we have been forced into adopting.

Cisco Live Europe 2020 Highlights

Feb 13, 2020 cisco cleur2020

A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity, thanks to a conference pass from the IT Blog Awards, to travel out to Barcelona for Cisco Live Europe. This video is my “highlight reel” of the event.

Note Taking at Conferences

Jan 21, 2020

When I’m in sessions at conferences I’m often a prolific note-taker. I find the process itself of writing things down has benefit as well as the resulting pages of scribbles. In this post I’ll discuss a few things that work for me, some of which you may want to try yourself.

UK VMUG UserCon 2019 Preview

Nov 14, 2019 vmug vmware #ukvmug

In two weeks time (Wednesday 27th November) the annual UK VMware User Group “UserCon” conference (#UKVMUG) returns to the National Space Centre in Leicester. I’m going to be there, and here’s a summary of five things I’m looking forward to at the event.

VMworld Europe 2019-Day 2 Keynote Highlights

Nov 6, 2019 vmworld vmw2019 vmware

The Wednesday General Session at VMworld Europe is usually where VMware puts the meat onto the bones of the Tuesday announcements and this year was no exception. Here’s a quick rundown of my highlights.