Migrating to Windows 10 and more with Liquidware (@Liquidware)

Migrating to Windows 10 and more with Liquidware (@Liquidware)

At our annual conference 'Define Tomorrow' I met with Peter von Oven of Liquidware to discuss how their product set was helping meet and exceed these demands. Liquidware have a comprehensive suite of tools that help with three key stages of any workspace transformation project. 

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What is GDPR and how does it apply to your business?

What is GDPR and how does it apply to your business?

With the new EU data protection regulation due to come into force, we look at the changes it introduces and how it will affect your business.

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nVidia GRID

nVidia GRID

Back in August 2017 nVidia announced the latest version of their graphics virtualisation technology, GRID 5.0 together with the new datacentre-grade GRID graphics cards that have been released, the Tesla P6 and Tesla P40.

This blog post aims to give the reader an overview of nVidia GRID vGPU and a brief history and overview of the cards.

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Primary Components of NSX-V

Primary Components of NSX-V

This post is focused on NSX-V (NSX for vSphere) which from this point forward I’ll refer to as NSX. Future posts will cover NSX-T components and architecture.

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Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 3

Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 3

Just before Christmas (2017) Veeam released Update 3 for Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 in addition to  updates for Veeam Agent for Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux. The links to the KB release notes are at the bottom of the post but below is a quick summary of some of the features announced.

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Meltdown and Spectre CPU Exploits

Meltdown and Spectre CPU Exploits

For those who haven’t seen anything about this yet, details of two new exploits that could enable malicious code on websites to trick your computer or mobile devices CPU into giving away private information such as website passwords have been made public.

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Top tech news of 2017

Top tech news of 2017

2017 was a whirlwind of a year with acquisitions, new technologies, cyber-attacks and more news stories than you can keep up with. This blog post will look back at the past 12 months of tech and the biggest news stories of the year. 

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Storage Field Day 14 #SFD14

Storage Field Day 14 #SFD14

I was lucky enough to attend #SFD14 in Silcon Valley, covering technologies from Dell EMC, Scality, E8 Storage and Congruity360. In this blog post I unify the videos and doodles I created whilst there.  

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What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

Barry Coombs and Anthony Charman of ComputerWorld recorded a short webinar for those that couldn't join us in Bristol for the live. In this webinar, Barry and Anthony summarise the content from the day, in particular; VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX, data protection, Security and Workspace transformation including VMware Workspace ONE.

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Four security products to help your business in less than one hour!

Four security products to help your business in less than one hour!

In this short video, ComputerWorld specialists discuss how 4 technologies can help your business build a better security posture through, Anti-virus, Auditing, Patch Management and User Education. 

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VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 7 - Monitoring and Reporting

VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 7 - Monitoring and Reporting

In the final part of this series covering vSAN I’ll cover some of the features available to monitor capacity, performance and the health of the vSAN cluster.

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VMware VSAN - A Closer Look [Part 6– Compression, Deduplication and QoS]

VMware VSAN - A Closer Look [Part 6– Compression, Deduplication and QoS]

This post will look at what data reduction features are available with vSAN and how this can reduce the total amount of storage required. 

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My first experience of VMworld

My first experience of VMworld

This year was my first at VMworld Europe in Barcelona,  and during the incredibly busy week we saw lots of great announcements. This post will summarise my experience of VMworld 2017. 

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VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 5 - Failure Events]

VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 5 - Failure Events]

So far I’ve covered the various methods vSAN uses to protect data within a cluster and even across sites. In this post I will look at how vSAN handles failures and the processes involved to recover data to ensure the virtual machines redundancy requirements are met.

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Moving to the cloud, NSX, DR and more with iland at VMworld

Moving to the cloud, NSX, DR and more with iland at VMworld

At VMworld 2017 in Barcelona I caught up with Sam Woodcock Director of Systems Architecture at Cloud provider iland to talk about the show, the trends they are seeing with people migrating to the cloud, NSX, DRaaS and much much more. 

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Nimble Storage post HPE acquisition, Interview with Nick Dyer

Nimble Storage post HPE acquisition, Interview with Nick Dyer

Following the compleition of the acquisition of Nimble Storage by HPE, I met with Nick Dyer at VMworld in Barcelona 2017 to discuss the show, life with HPE and what's new / what the future has to hold for Nimble Storage. 

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@Tintri beyond storage interview at #VMworld 2017

The world of storage is changing with the movement towards the cloud and the rise of hyperconverged storage. We spoke about how Tintri have transformed to be much more than just a hybrid shared storage vendor. In fact we didn't even talk about speeds and feeds and the lastest piece of tin that has been launched! Try interviewing a storage vendor 5 years ago and these subjects not coming up!

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VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 3 -Data Availabilty]

VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 3 -Data Availabilty]

Now I’ve covered the high-level architecture of vSAN it’s time to look at how the data is structured within the vSAN datastore and how vSAN uses multiple hosts within a cluster to provide data redundancy. Not forgetting one of the biggest benefits with vSAN - this is all configured using policies that are configured at the software layer.

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