Events I’ve attended
In one more sleep, plus a couple of hours, my journey to SFD5 begins. The tyranny of distance means that to get to any major tech event involves travelling 8,000 miles from where I live on the arse end of the world to where the rest of you live at… Read More
Woo! The lovely people at Tech Field Day/GestaltIT have invited me back for Storage Field Day 5, to be held in San Jose from April 23. It looks like I didn’t annoy my big bud Tom Hollingsworth (@networkingnerd) enough last time, so I get to try again! I also see… 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
