World renowned consultant, educator, and author Peter Drucker said, “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” When it comes to IT operational efficiency, doing things right means streamlining IT. By doing so, IT organizations can save time and expenses – devoting more resources to strategic activities. But, it’s not about cutting […]
Archives for November 2017
Citrix ShareFile: Helping Companies Define the Future of Work
2017 was a transformative year for Citrix ShareFile. ShareFile helps companies define the future of work by enabling simple and efficient content collaboration in the digital workspace. ShareFile continued to build value for customers with robust file sync-and-share features while delivering capabilities that allow customers and clients to work efficiently from anywhere. ShareFile also helps […]
Modernizing Applications from PoC to Production with Docker Enterprise Edition
Containerizing a single legacy application with Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) can be quite simple and immediately makes the application more portable, scalable, and easier to manage and update. Taking this application to production requires additional planning and collaboration with security teams, performance testing and likely requires detailed operations and disaster recovery plans. This part of […]
New Amazon EC2 Instances with Up to 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs (P3)
Driven by customer demand and made possible by on-going advances in the state-of-the-art, we’ve come a long way since the original m1.small instance that we launched in 2006, with instances that emphasize compute power, burstable performance, memory size, local storage, and accelerated computing. The New P3 Today we are making the next generation of GPU-powered […]
VMware Video: vSAN Operations Guide – Disabling vSAN
October 19, 2017 Webinar with David Young, Solutions Architect and Product Champion, and Brandon Lee, Solutions Marketer. Video Recording of a live demo of FSLogix and an overview of the latest release of FSLogix Apps featuring Roaming XenApp Email Search and OneDrive App along with Skype for Business Global Address List and Device Based Licensing. […]
How Hybrid Cloud Can Make it Rain for Service Providers
Do you remember the last time you took the wrapping off the box of a new software application, loaded it onto your machine, and eagerly waited for it to install? Probably not, or at least not without dusting some cobwebs off your memory. Much like the mainstream public has moved away from this slow process […]
The Software Defined Data Centre Explained – Video
Barry Coombs, presented the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) and the components that encompass this; Compute, storage, network and management. Barry spoke about the technologies with the SDDC including vSAN, VxRail, VMware Cloud foundation and vSphere 6.5. This video is from the fine folks at ComputerWorld Group. Share this:
Tips and Tricks of the Docker Captains
November 3, 2017 Docker 0 My talk at DockerCon EU was designed to provide the audience with a bunch of tips for making the most of Docker. The tips were inspired by suggestions, blogs and presentations by other Docker Captains as well members of the larger Docker community. The motivation for the talk was to enable […]
IoT and Blockchain: Ethereum Blockchain Will Accelerate The IOT
Blockchain has gained a lot of interest within the last years because of its transparency and immutability. This also helps a lot about the IoT economy to rise. Ethereum Blockchain gives a more secure place when compared to traditional systems against hijack and botnets. Developers are using Ethereum smart contracts for their aims. This is […]
VMware: Updating a vSAN Cluster using VUM
I wanted to shed some light on what some may think is a mystery or difficult task. How do I update a vSAN cluster using vSphere Update Manager (VUM)? The quick and simple answer is easily! The great thing about vSAN is that you already know how to upgrade and patch it since it is […]