Is your Teams environment becoming overwhelming and chaotic? Don't worry, we've got you covered. In this episode of Adopt 365, hosted by Barry, Anthony, and Megan, we delve into organising your Microsoft Teams environment.
Read MoreOn this episode of the Adopt 365 Podcast we cover the often-overlooked features of Microsoft 365, that will help you and your colleagues be more productive.
Read MoreThroughout the podcast, Barry, Mike and Paul discuss their experience of the show, the conversations Mike and Paul are having with customers while they man the 'Meet the experts' area as well as their roles within the Dell Solutions Centre in Limerick.
Read MoreIn this video, Peter von Oven of Droplet Computing demonstrates how easy it is for a user to access their applications and data through the Droplet Computing Container. Whether it be on a Mac, Windows or Linux device, online or offline, the experience is seamless.
Read MoreIn this video Barry Coombs and Peter von Oven, Founder and CTO of Droplet Computing discuss the need for users to access any of their data and applications on any device and with any connection, whenever they need too. Peter explains how Droplet Computing are tackling these demands and are Enabling applications to be delivered across multi-platform devices, online and offline.
Read MoreThroughout the episode, the trio discuss not only the importance of encouraging more women to join the technology industry but also the role that men need to play in mentoring and sponsoring women throughout their careers in tech.
Read MoreIn this video, Barry Coombs is joined by Ross Laing of Bitdefender to discuss the consistent rise of cyber security threats, including user error and threat hunting.
Read MoreMyself and Barry were lucky enough to be invited to the first vRetreat event of 2019 recently. The event was held at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football stadium. For more information about what Barry and I thought about the day, the technology and the stadium, watch our video below.
Read MoreToday was our second and final day at IGEL DISRUPT. Today was focusing all around the industry, what challenges people are facing, what technology they are seeing enter the market and ultimately what technology they think will be leading and interesting in 2019.
Read MoreBarry and myself were lucky enough to be invited to attend IGEL’s annual EUC conference DISRUPT this year which is taking place in Munich, Germany. The conference is all focused around changing the way we work, ripping up the rule book and innovating in ways we have never done before when it comes to technology and in particular Workspace Transformation.
Read MoreBarry Coombs of ComputerWorld met Steve Blow of Zerto at VMworld 2018 in Barcelona to discuss the latest updates coming to Zerto 7.X, including how Zerto wil...
In this video I (Barry) catch-up with Steve Blow Technical Evangelist at Zerto to learn more about what is coming to Zerto 7.X.
In the forthcoming 7.X release Zerto are further building upon their IT Resilancy Platform to include backup alongside their ability to other replication and mobility on premises and to and from the cloud.
One of my main focuses from VMworld 2018 in Barcelona was IoT, specifically I was looking to better understand use cases that are going into production, architectures for the ‘things’, gateways, edge computing, data storage and analytics and how to manage, maintain and secure the IoT environment.
In this short video Barry Coombs of ComputerWorld talks about the lessons learnt regarding IoT at VMworld 2018 in Barcelona.
You can see some of my thoughts from the sessions I attended in the Doodle below.
Use Cases
IoT use cases are driven by a business or a personal need to analyse data for insight or to monitor something. There were fantastic examples given during VMworld specifically around how IoT was being used in healthcare to help give patients freedom whilst the healthcare workers are still able to ensure their safety and well being.
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Infrastructure
The infrastructure for IoT is different depending on the specific use cases, the infrastructure starts with the ‘things’ or the senors. The specific requirement will dictate which sensors and the quantity however usually the sensors will interact with some form of a gateway due to the sensors either being propriety wired or using wireless using WiFi or more commonly a low energy form of wireless connectivity such as bluetooth low energy (BLE) or ZigBee. The gateway is able to aggregate the sensors from the differing forms of connectivity and forward on to the data storage and analytics location.
Depending on the use case you may also require edge computing to provide an element of analytics and decision making at the edge. These edge computing infrastructures will differ depending on the task but VMware are currently working on delivering ESXi on ARM based platforms to allow smaller, affordable but highly available virtual environments for these use cases. >> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/27/vmware_esxi_ar64/
Security
If you manage to figure out your use case, collect the data with the correct sensors and infrastructure and you are able to get the answers you require with the correct analytics your work still isn’t done. We all know that security in end user computing and IT in general is a major concern, however if you look at the nature of IoT being disparate, involving many connected components and also not being directly monitored (Used) by humans the attack vector for IoT is massive. This is where VMware Pulse comes into play, VMware Pulse aims to be your management plane for your IoT infrastructure, on each of yours sensors or gateways an SDK Python based agent is deployed allowing the Pulse infrastructure to monitor and maintain your ‘things’. Pulse is able to ensure the ‘Things’ are communicating, working within normal parameters and are up to date, think of Workspace UEM (AirWatch) but for IoT.
VMware Pulse IoT Center is a secure, enterprise grade, IoT device management and monitoring solution that helps both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) organizations to onboard, manage, monitor and secure their IoT use cases from the edge to the cloud.
This is the very beginning of the IoT journey for myself, I would like to further understand the gateway and sensor technology as well as the management of the IoT infrastructure with Pulse. Watch this space as I learn more.
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Martijn Smit for VMworld TV live at VMworld 2018. Martijn asked me about my career, blogging, the VMware Community and much much more.
Read MoreI’ve recently been involved in several conversations with customers and within ComputerWorld regarding office space and the future of the office.
Whilst this isn’t an area I profess to be a specialist in, it does tie in with something that’s close to my heart. That is “workspace transformation”. Or to use a less fancy phrase, the way we work and get stuff done.
Read MoreThe time has come, If you are managing your users desktops in the same way as you were 5-10 years ago, you've got it very wrong! You no longer own the device or host application the user is using but it's still YOUR responsibility!!
Read MoreAll too often technical conversations start with the what (What technology!) and forget about the why or the how. I think this can also be true of the tasks we undertake on a regular basis as well. We are too quick to get on, get it sorted, complete the task and don't actually stop and think why am I doing this.
Read MoreIn this video, Barry Coombs and Steve Peake discuss and demonstrate the Barracuda platform of Sentinels. Sentinels is an additional layer to your email security platform that uses AI and machine learning of your emails to understand when an email could be a threat, even without a malicious link or attachment. This video shows the simple platform and demonstrates the clear message your user will receive when Sentinels detects a possibly suspicious email.
Read MoreIn this video, Barry Coombs and Steve Peake discuss and demo the Barracuda cloud to cloud backup platform and discuss how the platform makes the task of backing up your data within Office 365 easy understand and do.
Read MoreWith cyber attacks becoming more targeted and intelligent than before, your email security may not be able to detect the underlying threat within an email. In this video, Barry Coombs and Steven Peake discuss how Barracuda's Sentinel and Phishline products can help your business be more secure and help your users detect potential threats.
Read MoreMany people are under the impression that Office 365 automatically backs up your data, however this is false. In this video, Barry Coombs and Steven Peake discuss why it is critical to your business to backup your data within Office 365 and how Barracuda make this task an easy and painless process.
Read MoreJoin us as we explore the innovative world of Copilot, diving into its various versions, standout features, and the benefits they bring. Consider this episode your guide to integrating Copilot seamlessly into your organisation, equipped with essential tips on data governance and organisation-wide templates.
In this tech-packed conversation, we demystify the intricacies of modern management and unveil the power duo – Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot.
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