Over lunch with a colleague yesterday, I accidentally coined a new term that I’m rather amused by: Eye of Sauron Management. You’ve probably experienced it yourself: upper management are fixated on some particular area of the business, or a specific project. It consumes their attention, and so everywhere else just… Read More
I was catching up on some reading backlog over the weekend, and noticed a parallel I’d not seen before: The IT industry right now is quite similar to industry in the USA in the 1970s. Similar in several interesting ways. Firstly, American companies in the ’70s had grown fat and… Read More
Simon Sharwood (@ssharwood) is APAC editor for The Register and a regular at the Melbourne VMUG User Conference. We spoke about “What Hath VMware Wrought” and what automation and cloud means for IT pros and their future career prospects. He shared his thoughts on what it all means, and we… Read More
Josh Odgers (@josh_odgers) is a VCDX from Melbourne, Australia, and a regular at local VMUG meetings. He works for converged systems startup Nutanix in their R&D division. He spoke to me about the value of network virtualisation, and how it may start in the datacentre, but will expand out into… Read More
In this interview with Scott Lowe, we discuss how collaboration across IT silos is more necessary than ever, and is a trend that won’t be reversed. Virtualisation admins may not need to learn BGP peering, but they’ll need to understand networking more than they do today. Similarly, other teams, like… Read More
In this interview with Michael Webster, we cover why the VCDX certification is so different to other certifications. We also discuss how pursuing the VCDX can help safeguard your career, and how you’ll learn things well beyond simply designing vSphere deployments. Michael blogs at Long White Clouds and can be… Read More
In this interview with Chris Wahl, we cover why we don’t eat shrimp at 7am, how to pronounce Melbourne, and how he got involved with VMUGs in the first place. Listen in and learn how maybe one day you too could fly halfway around the world to present at a… Read More
The Melbourne VMware User Group User’s Conference is over for another year, and we set a new attendance record, with 374 people there for at least part of the day. There was a real buzz to the event this year. The venue was full of people early in the morning,… Read More
