The Podcasting Setup

2 years ago I wrote my “mobile studio” post where I shared my 3-angle-camera-in-a-backpack setup. Almost every item in that backpack has been replaced by […]

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So now you’re a vExpert?

aToday you’ll see plenty of blogposts about the vExpert 2015 nominations. I am proud to say I’ve got a hat-trick now, being recognized as one […]

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vSphere 6 NFS4.1 does not include parallel striping!

Oh how happy are we that VMware FINALLY decided to add support for NFS4.1 especially since the NFS3 client’s major problem has always been single-session […]

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Snowflakes and Buzzword Bingo

It’s been a while but I’m back with another marketing rant! Some of you may already know my Fooled By Marketing Metrics which is probalbly a series I am […]

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This Burning Man is a rising Phoenix

This end-of-year post is not a happy one, but at the very least it will be honest. As you have always known me.  All in […]

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Flipping the Cloud Paradigm – part II

A little over a year ago I wrote “Are you a cloud paranoia”. The baseline of the post was that people don’t trust Public Cloud […]

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My checkbox is bigger than your checkbox!

This morning Josh Odgers from Nutanix published a blogpost where he rightfully pointed out that having support for a specific feature(set) doesn’t necessarily mean the […]

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The horror of Agent-Based system restores

A day in the life of a Data Protection Auditor STEP 1: List VM hardware details! vCenter (CPU/MEM/vDISK/vNIC) including vNIC & SCSI Controller type!!! STEP […]

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Ask Me A Question – button campaign

UPDATE: after reading this article you can go here where the project has been “open-sourced” and you can now participate by downloading the artwork or […]

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vSphere Storage Array FEEDBACK requested

I am working on a lengthy post/presentation related to UNMAP on all levels of the stack (from Guest Volume to Physical disk). During my research […]

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Is the End of the Federation the real question?

Sometimes you get this one single thought that triggers a whole blogpost. This week someone asked me what’s to become of the EMC Federation when […]

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VMworld wrap-up: the EVO-Family

The Announcements It’s hard for #vExperts, bloggers, industry experts, … to be surprised at these events. We are so close to it all the other […]

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