vExpert 2015 Honour

I am duly honoured to have become a vExpert for 2015. My first time round too. Back when the program was first launched I worked at VMware, and employees weren’t eligible to become one. I figured that meant my chances would be slim to none of getting the nod in the future. However, I was really surprised  last week to learn that I was to receive the honour this year! There are truly many more people that contribute to the virtualizsation community than I, and I am energised by the award, and hope to get involved even more this year. To all those that received a nod for this year, congrats ! It’s a very nice feeling to be amongst such an esteemed fellowship. I am inspired and thankful to the community who almost daily produce great articles that assist me, educate me or provoke thoughtful discussion. But in reality I…

vBrownBag 2014 vForum Sydney Tech Talks

Last week I participated in the vBrownBag Tech Talks initiative that Craig Waters organised. The idea was a 10 minute talk on any topic you like. I chose to talk about “Copy Data” which is near and dear to my daily life. I have watched a number of these as they are pretty easy to consume which is good. The format makes it quick enough to create some content, and best of all consume for the viewer ! The ones I’ve watched so far and highly recommend are: 1. Dave Lloyd – Software Defined Storage 2. Boris Jirgens – All Flash Storage 3. John Martin – It’s time to ditch the LUN 4. Josh Odgers – SCSI protocol emulation on NFS 5. Michael Webster – Enterprise Apps [caption id=”attachment_144″…