Don't Leave Your Disaster Recovery to Chance: The Importance of a Service Catalogue

Don't Leave Your Disaster Recovery to Chance: The Importance of a Service Catalogue

Having an effective, documented and tested disaster recovery plan is one of the most important tools for any IT professional who manages server workloads for their organisation.

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So what’s new in vSphere 8 and vSAN 8? Our experts give you the lowdown

So what’s new in vSphere 8 and vSAN 8? Our experts give you the lowdown

vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 are now generally available. So in this podcast, we explore the new features that these latest versions have introduced. ComputerWorld’s Barry, Kam and Jon discuss the features that caught their eye and their recommendations for upgrading. 

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Runecast Analyzer: An Introduction

Runecast Analyzer: An Introduction

In this session, Kev Johnson (Senior Systems Engineer at Runecast) will walk you through some of the key problems he sees in modern IT environments, and how Runecast Analyzer can really help to solve for them.

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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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Is it time to get out of the hardware game?

Is it time to get out of the hardware game?

You don’t need a global pandemic to tell you what you already know. There’s a seismic shift happening in IT. You are being asked to do more, deliver more, and do it at a lower cost. That’s why so many are turning to cloud for the scalability and flexibility they need.

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Deliver your datacentre migration project successfully (Microsoft Azure)

Deliver your datacentre migration project successfully (Microsoft Azure)

In this session I share tips on how to make sure you address those milestones and share practical experience of a datacentre migration.

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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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Dell EMC PowerStore - TFDx #PoweredUp

I was recently lucky enough to be one of the delegates for the TechFieldDay exclusive with Dell EMC. During these sessions invitees heard from a variety of speakers from Dell EMC covering the Dell EMC Power Storage portfolio.

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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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[PODCAST] Discussions with the experts at Dell Technologies World

[PODCAST] Discussions with the experts at Dell Technologies World

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. 

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Discussion around the upcoming Zerto 7 release

Discussion around the upcoming Zerto 7 release

In this video, Barry Coombs and Steve Blow discuss IT resilience with converging Disaster Recovery and Backup. Steve also gives a quick update about the main features of Zerto 7 which is due to be released shortly.

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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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