Those who follow me on Twitter were treated to the perspective of my new travelling companion, Blue Cow, during my trip to VeeamON. This week, I continue the tradition. Alas, Blue Cow was not allowed to join me, so Clarence the horse has come with me instead. Clarence is a… Read More
Multiple tech companies are in the news lately because they’re splitting off parts of themselves. HP, Symantec, and eBay are all splitting off major sections, and there’s speculation about EMC splitting off VMware, and maybe Cisco doing something similar. There was also a conversation about the topic on this week’s… Read More
For the first time ever, I’ll be at VMworld US this year, covering the event for iTNews.com.au. Well, assuming the US government lets me have an official journalist style I-visa after my interview in a couple of weeks. Since I’ll be getting paid (freelance, so only for what I actually… Read More
The centralised command-and-control method doesn’t work at scale. Many people have discovered this independently, from the Romans to the Chinese. It’s just not humanly- (or even computerly-) possible to track that many interdependent variables and make smart decisions. To manage a vast array of components, a central apparatus needs to… Read More
Scale sell a converged platform: compute and storage in pizza boxes that glom together to make a cluster of 3 to 8 nodes, like Voltron. It’s based on KVM, with proprietary bits added into the mix. Scale make a big deal about “no licensing” or, as they call it, a… 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 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
I’m procrastinating finishing an MBA assignment, so here’s how to get your shiny new Telstra 4G dongle working under Linux. I use Ubuntu, but these instructions should help you on other Linux variants as well. This process worked for Ubuntu 11.04, but I haven’t tested anything else. Let us know… Read More
I’m doing a lot of travel at the moment, attending to clients interstate. This means I spend a lot of time in taxis and airport lounges. I don’t quite qualify for QantasClub yet (give it another couple of weeks), so I can’t just plug into free internet access of any… Read More
Ok, I promised you that I’d explain how to get mobile broadband with the 3 network working in Australia. There some information out there about how to do this, but it’s a bit hard to find, and what’s there can be obtuse. Geeks really need to learn how to communicate.… Read More
