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The NSX Portfolio

Jul 24, 2018 nsx vmware vcenter azure

There’s an ever growing variety of NSX flavours as VMware expands the range of their Network Virtualisation and security platforms. A recent podcast highlighted these to me, and I thought it worth summarising here in a quick post.

Vendor Brief: Runecast

Oct 11, 2017 runecast vrealize vmware

This evening I was amongst a group of vExperts attending a webinar briefing from Runecast. The company is relatively new on the scene at only a couple of years old, but the product has created a stir in the VMware community.

OneDrive, Placeholders, and shared PCs.

May 12, 2017 microsoft onedrive higher-education

OneDrive now with Files On Demand

100,000 good reasons to virtualise those apps

Mar 16, 2017 application-virtualisation numecent software2 higher-education

A few years ago the IT department I work for set about revolutionising it’s software delivery methods using application virtualisation. As a University we were faced with the challenge of providing all applications to the staff and students on any PC- fighting the situation where “Package A is only …

The All New vSphere 6.5

Oct 18, 2016 vmworld vmw2016 vmware vsphere vcenter

A new version of VMware vSphere, 6.5, will be released shortly

Goodbye VMTurbo, Hello turbonomic!

Aug 17, 2016 turbonomic

Big news today from workload monitoring and management vendor VMTurbo - The name has gone and the brand is now called “turbonomic”.

Open Live Writer

Dec 9, 2015 microsoft open-source windows

Open Live Writer, an Open Source fork of the Windows Live Writer application, is now available. To check it works with this blog, here’s a test post.

Hybrid Identity Management

Sep 28, 2015 microsoft windows azure active-directory

Last Thursday I spent the day with Microsoft in London finding out about their latest developments in mobile working strategy, data protection, and BYOD integration at an Enterprise Mobility Workshop.