Barry is a Director and co-owner of ComputerWorld Systems LTD and an avid Blogger following everything to do with the virtualisation, storage, workspace and cloud industries.
Barry is a technology thought leader, leading strategies for not only ComputerWorld but also their customers. Barry regularly speaks and hosts events surrounding infrastructure modernisation, workspace transformation and security. Barry blogs at DefineTomorrow.co.uk, is host of the Define Tomorrow podcast and regularly creates TechDoodles at industry events.
Barry has co-authored three books focusing on VMware Horizon View and enjoys exploring technologies that enable users and increase productivity. He is currently spending most of his time looking at and advising customers on Microsoft 365 technologies, helping to drive adoption and customise these tools to meet specific business needs.
Barry has been awarded VMware's vExpert award for contributions to the VMware Community for every year since 2010 can be found on twitter (@VirtualisedReal).
Outside of work Barry is a proud father and husband who enjoys spending time with his family, photography and yet again more tech!
The Most Recent Blog Posts by Barry
On 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.
Throughout 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.
In 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.
In 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.
Throughout 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.
In 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.
Myself 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.
Today 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.
Barry 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.
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.
I’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.
The 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!!
All 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.
In 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.
In 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.
With 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.
Many 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.
In this video, Barry Coombs of ComputerWorld and Steven Peake of Barracuda broach the subject that many people are asking 'what a Web Application Firewall?' Barry and Steven also discuss how Barracuda have made it easier for organisations to adopt a WAF with their WAF-as-a-service technology with Office 365.
For those that missed our Define Tomorrow event in June 2018, this webinar summarises the event in under 1 hour.
Barry and George discuss how your businesses contacts have 'the right to be forgotten'. But what does this mean for your business and importantly, your IT?
In this video Barry and George discuss how Veeam are helping customers overcome the challenges of GDPR in regards to availability, resiliency of systems and disaster recovery.
In this video, Barry Coombs and George Kenny from Veeam Software talk about the GDPR legislation and what this could potentially mean the IT teams within businesses.
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.