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Ravello on Oracle Cloud goes Bare Metal!

Ravello on Oracle Cloud goes Bare Metal!

September 22, 2017

Today Ravello announced that their nested virtualization solution, widely known and acclaimed by VMware technologists, is now available as a bare metal service on Oracle Cloud. What does this announcement exactly means, and beyond technological aspects what are the benefits of this solution? My regular readers may know about Ravello

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HPE Startup Investments – A winning strategy?

HPE Startup Investments – A winning strategy?

March 3, 2017

As you know I was invited at HPE Discover in November 2016 and at the time my vision of things for HPE wasn’t exactly idyllic. Yes, the innovations in the 3PAR line were great, but there was nothing unique going on. The Machine, a great scientific project, looked to me

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My move from Gmail to ProtonMail: a comprehensive report on gaining back my privacy

My move from Gmail to ProtonMail: a comprehensive report on gaining back my privacy

February 6, 2017

The more I’ve been working in IT, the more I’ve seen security disasters and the more I’ve become self-conscious about privacy and security. One of the largest pieces of our digital presence are our e-mail addresses. I’ve wanted to secure my e-mails and my privacy for a long time but the hassle of going

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Storage Administrators: an endangered species?

Storage Administrators: an endangered species?

June 3, 2016

With the radical transformation of the data center storage landscape, and the transition from traditional block/file storage towards software-based / software-defined solutions, plus the advent of object storage and cloud integration, the bastion of traditional storage administrators is under siege from all sides. Is there a future for the storage

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Personal Online Security for Beginners

Personal Online Security for Beginners

May 11, 2016

Security 101: In a world that is more and more connected, where our personal data and identity are stored in many places, it’s our duty to focus on security and do our best to protect our own data – and our privacy – with the tools that are available to

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Make MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Great Again!

Make MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Great Again!

April 13, 2016

Today I’m sharing my adventures with ongoing Wi-Fi issues with the Retina 13.3″ MacBook Pro (2015) and how, despite being the biggest lamer at Wi-Fi and networking you’ve ever met, I seem to have fixed the issue. I purchased my MacBook pro in early February 2016, the device has been used predominantly

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The FNG Survival Guide to the Corporate Galaxy

The FNG Survival Guide to the Corporate Galaxy

April 1, 2016

Yet another career/work related post, while I seek inspiration on the next technical article. Here you go again. You’re joining a new company, you have this job you’ve dreamed of for so long, or you’ve joined the company you’ve always craved to work for. You’ve made a serious enough impression

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Virtual Machines – Size matters!

Virtual Machines – Size matters!

March 25, 2016

Size doesn’t matters is not something I like to hear in my data center environment, at least when referring to virtual machines. Size indeed does matter, and what matters most is for a VM to be right-sized. This article will cover oversized VMs and proper compute resource allocation for virtual

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A rational approach to home labs

A rational approach to home labs

March 14, 2016

Let’s admit it, just like some crave for the car / plane / whatever of their dreams, there’s a non negligible share of IT folks who crave to have their own home lab. With many top-notch bloggers and IT professionals having their own jaw-dropping setups, it’s sometimes hard to resist

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VMware in five years: an hypervisor-agnostic company? (fiction)

VMware in five years: an hypervisor-agnostic company? (fiction)

February 12, 2016

With the news that VMware is reducing their line of vSphere offers, and the fact that they now consider vSphere as a non-strategic product, I was thinking about what the future holds for VMware. Please take this with caution, I am fully aware that vSphere is the leading hypervisor in

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vExpert 2016 – Some thoughts and a retrospective on 2015

vExpert 2016 – Some thoughts and a retrospective on 2015

February 8, 2016

Friday’s vExpert announcement madness has faded, so has the weekend, and it’s time to share some thoughts on the matter. I’d like to congratulate all the new and returning vExperts. For the seasoned ones it’s yet another accolade in an impressive list of acknowledgements. For others, it’s the result of the

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vExpert – what else beyond the title?

vExpert – what else beyond the title?

February 6, 2015

I have casually found out today that I have been acknowledged (for the third year in a row!) with the VMware vExpert accolade, of which I am both proud and humbled. Maybe you are a returning vExpert, if so, congratulations! But if you are a new vExpert, read below (and

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Professional crossroads, here we meet again.

November 28, 2014

There are some opportunities you shouldn’t let go. Two months ago I was at a very difficult moment of my life, struggling whether I had to accept a move as Business Consultant or risk being part of an organizational layoff. No matter how hard I tried to convince myself of

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VMware releases hyper-converged platform EVO:RAIL, joins Nutanix & SimpliVity

VMware releases hyper-converged platform EVO:RAIL, joins Nutanix & SimpliVity

August 26, 2014

VMware announced yesterday their new hyper-converged platform named EVO:RAIL. This wasn’t a surprise for those who tightly follow the news and developments in the virtualization world, as we had come to believe thanks to info gathered here and there (see various posts and tweets about Mystic Marvin project) that with the

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How to publish study notes with images from Google Docs to Kindle

April 25, 2014

Yesterday I finished watching the excellent Pluralsight “Designing VMware Infrastructure” course by Scott Lowe. I had taken a lot of notes on Google Docs while watching this course and I now wanted to push these private notes to my Kindle for offline studying. Problem was that I had added several

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