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The time for improvement

Jan 25, 2022 · 5 min read ·

A recent exchange on Twitter started me thinking about when do I take the opportunity to introduce something new, or better, into the projects I’m working on. How do we balance a project deadline against the longer-term benefits of improving and automating?
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Virtual vs In-person Conferences

Apr 24, 2020 · 3 min read · cleur2020 vmw2020 msignite2020 #lonvmug ·

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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.
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Note Taking at Conferences

Jan 21, 2020 · 4 min read ·

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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.
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Improving Documentation via the Community.

Oct 31, 2019 · 3 min read · documentation microsoft github vmware powercli ·

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Have you ever had to deal with incorrect documentation? Or been frustrated by a typo? Or been annoyed that a how-to guide uses an old version of an interface?

Now you can fix it!

Hyper-Converged Cynicism

Jul 8, 2019 · 4 min read · vsan hyperconverged dell vmware ·

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Or “How I’ve come to love my vSAN Ready Nodes”
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Rise of the Full Stack Vendors

Oct 24, 2018 · 3 min read · rubrik microsoft dell azure aws msignite2018 ·

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In a recent Datanauts podcast Chris Wahl was discussing Azure and Azure Stack with fellow Rubrikan Mike Nelson and Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover (If you haven’t already, you can check out the podcast for yourself- Datanauts #148). Jeffrey made some interesting observations about the changes in alignment of some of the …

Happy 18th

Oct 16, 2018 · 4 min read · higher-education ·

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October 2018 marks my 18 year anniversary working in Higher Education IT (so yes, about the same time since this year’s Freshers were born). It’s been a long ride and things have changed dramatically from technology, personal, and industry perspectives in that time. In this post I’ll be discussing a …

IT in Higher Education

Nov 28, 2017 · 8 min read · higher-education application-virtualisation it-support ·

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After over 15 years working in IT within the H.E. vertical I’ve spoken publically a few times about our corner of the tech industry, with talks at VMworld in 2016 and a recent TechUG meeting and chairing a roundtable at a UK VMUG UserCon. This post covers the highlights some of the content of these sessions, it …
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2016, a year of industry friendliness

Jan 9, 2017 · 3 min read · vmware vmug nutanix aws microsoft dell ·

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You may have seen various posts in blogs and social media over the past few days about VMware staff accounts being blocked from joining the Nutanix community website, and the VMware User Group- VMUG- blocking Nutanix staff from leadership committees. I’m not party to the detail or the reasons behind these moves, but …

Knock Knock

Oct 24, 2013 · 2 min read · it support itsm ·

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In a large organisation it’s commonplace to have a large IT organisation with staff taking on specific roles in the infrastructure to deliver part of the IT service. However, it’s often the case where a colleague outside of IT will always go to their nearest IT person regardless
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