Well, I thought it would be nice to discuss the attributes and features of VMware View4 new PCoIP protocol which will be released very shortly. In case you don’t PCoIP stands for PC over IP - and then intention is to deliver remote display protocol which rivals “legacy” thin-client protocols such as RDP/ICA with a [...]

techtarget.com has very kindly taken one of my chapters from my soon to be released book on vSphere4. The chapter was original meant to be VMware View3. Unfortunately, because of length and publishing deadlines - the VMware View3 chapter didn’t make the final cut my book. So techtarget.com very kindly offered to serialize it over [...]

Just in case you missed this there is a 1st meeting planned for the North UK VMUG Group. Signed up for the meeting here: http://www.vmug.org.uk/index.php?option=com_seminar&task=3&cid=2

Well, the legendary beta programme (that’s practically no-one I knew could get on!) is over and the product has has not GA’d. What I thought was a GA is actually an announcement… and you can register to do eval… probably in 60-days time (I’m joking actually there..) http://www.vmware.com/products/view/features.html Notable additions is the PCoIP (PC over IP) which [...]

This week I was asked in an email the following question: [By the way I hate Wordpress - even when I put paragraph returns in this post it ****ing well removes them!] Hope you been doing well. I have been busy, busy, busy. Got a question for you. Preparing to start a new vSphere farm and trying [...]

Occasionally, (more often than I would really like) I get people emailing asking me to help them on specific problems. Unless these are former customers/students I generally hit delete key!!! Sorry, I’m not being unhelpful but I’m not a one-man help desk guys! Then occasionally, when I’m bored/intrigued I do respond. It helps if email comes [...]

I want to draw ALL my readers attention to Stu Radridge’s blog and in particular to a particular problem in Windows 2008. Although I hate the phrase this is real heads up… Basically, Stu has discovered that VM created on ESX4 with “Virtual Hardware 7 presents virtual disks as SAN devices – not as local disks. [...]

I want to take sometime out from book writing, to share my observations about VCE. The book I’m (re)writing is the SRM 1.0 book, it’s been updated to the new version SRM 4.0 which is compatible with vSphere4. So you know this time I’m doing more work to make the book more “storage neutral” friendly - by including [...]

Well, I don’t really go in for this stuff normally. You know when friends FWD some really hysterical joke to everyone in their address book. You know, that kind of thing. But this one did make me laugh or was that snort with recognition. A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He [...]

Back by popular demand is my step-sons “iPage” cartoons which occasionally touch on IT related topics. Nathan recently graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in IT and some other stuff. He’s currently temping and working in a call-centre. Life really chokes in the job market front if your graduate at the moment - [...]

I’m catching up on my recordings on Sky+ box, and listening once again to Jools Holland’s Later. Anyway, due to a cancellation - this girl was brought into to do a couple of numbers. Well, all I can say thank god, for the cancellation. On the surface people will try to dismiss her as being to [...]

Well, by now you have probably heard of the shit-storm that is IBM’s outage which affected many Air New Zealand passengers. This website has a humorous take it on. Thanks to Dan Easton for drawing this to my attention. A moral in this for all the cloud advocates??? http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/case-against-ibm-continued.html

Well, it’s nice to see the engineers get some credit (shame his video is cut to ribbons!)… But I guess they have it fit on youtube.com The second video features the rather cute looking, Maria Basmanova (she’s the Senior Member of Technical Staff, and software engineer) . She discusses some of the features of SRM.

Well, not to be outdone by the recent launch of an Irish and Scottish User Group - the North of England has rose to the challenge! Although tagged a “Leeds VMware User Group”, then plan is to exume from the ashes of its abortive beginning a Northern User Group, so people like me who turn [...]

Unearth by my pal Vaughan Stewart of NetApp, from his twitter… http://www.cracked.com/blog/using-windows-7-may-lead-to-murder/