What’s going to be top in tech in 2023?

What’s going to be top in tech in 2023?

Tech specialists Barry, Anthony, Kam and Oli share their expert pearls of wisdom for the top trends IT teams should think about when creating their IT strategies over the next 12 months.

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My focus and top tips for VMware Explore 2022

My focus and top tips for VMware Explore 2022

This year I am extremely lucky enough to be heading out to Barcelona for VMware Explore! After three years since VMworld 2019, I am excited to immerse myself in the event, to connect with the community and learn more about VMware!

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Creating a developer self-service platform with vSphere 7 while maintaining governance

More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next five years than in the last 40 years. Most of these workloads will follow the cloud-native paradigm. In this session, Frank Denneman covers the way you can turn your vSphere clusters into a self-service platform for developers while still maintaining control over your vSphere infrastructure.

More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next five years than in the last 40 years. Most of these workloads will follow the cloud-native parad...

First Look at VMware on Azure

First Look at VMware on Azure

Join Shannon for an overview of Microsoft’s next evolution of Azure VMware Solution (AVS). The AVS solution is a first party service offered on bare metal servers in Azure.

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VMware Horizon on Microsoft Azure

VMware Horizon on Microsoft Azure

Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure provides customers with the ability to pair their existing Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure with the VMware Horizon Cloud Service™.

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Less troubleshooting, more innovating with RuneCast - #vRetreat

Less troubleshooting, more innovating with RuneCast - #vRetreat

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the latest vRetreat event hosted by Patrick Redknap. The first sponsor of the event was Runecast hosted by Kev Johnson.

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Introducing NSX-T 3.0: What’s New

Introducing NSX-T 3.0: What’s New

In this blog we take a look at some of the key new features released in NSX-T 3.0. This release is jam packed with new functionality to help you secure workloads running both on-prem and in the cloud with full support for vSphere 7.0.

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Using AMD CPU’s in vSphere Hosts

Using AMD CPU’s in vSphere Hosts

AMD CPU's offer much greater core density than Intel CPU's and are increasingly gaining market share, due in no small part due to Spectre and associated exploits present in the Intel CPU chipset that do not affect AMD’s chips.

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Day 2 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

Day 2 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

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.

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Megan's Day Three VLOG at VMWorld

Megan's Day Three VLOG at VMWorld

Today was my third and final day tat VMworld! I cannot believe how quick this week has gone and how much I have had! Take a look at my VLOG summarising my day!

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NSX Basics – Introducing Service Composer

NSX Basics – Introducing Service Composer

Service Composer is a component within NSX that allows the automation of security policy. In this video demonstration I will show you how to use Service Composer to configure a security policy that can isolate a virtual machine if a virus is found.

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NSX Basics - Creating firewall rules to control RDP Access

NSX Basics - Creating firewall rules to control RDP Access

In this video demonstration I will configure the Distributed Firewall (DFW) to permit access to RDP only for a group of virtual machines. Using dynamic security groups within NSX manger allows new virtual machines meeting the criteria to be automatically protected when they are provisioned.

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NSX Basics - Creating a Firewall Rule to Block Ping Traffic

NSX Basics - Creating a Firewall Rule to Block Ping Traffic

In this video I will use security groups created in a previous demonstration to create a simple rule to block ping from a group of virtual machines.

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NSX Basics – Creating Security Groups

NSX Basics – Creating Security Groups

In this video I will walk through creating 3 type of security groups that can be used alongside the distributed firewall (DFW) to protect virtual machines.  

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BizTech Brief Season: 2 - Episode: 1

BizTech Brief Season: 2 - Episode: 1

I am back!! Whilst I have been very busy recently with VMUG, my blogging has taken a back seat, but what better time to pick this back up than in the lead up to the busiest time of year, kicking off with VMworld 2018 in Vegas?!

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Start with why

Start with why

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. 

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VMware UEM Troubleshooting

VMware UEM Troubleshooting

UEM has pretty decent in-built logging which can and should be used to initially troubleshoot both slow logon and application launch times.  As it crops up for me relatively frequently I thought I would do a video running through some of the processes I use.

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