This content is 4 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.My regular readers or twitter followers may have noticed that besides data center topics, I talk about cryptocurrencies from time to time. I’ve written a beginner’s introduction about zCash mining earlier in 2017, and would now
This content is 4 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 4 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Note: this article has been updated on 19-Apr-17. zCash is a new decentralised digital cryptocurrency which aims to provide better privacy of transactions by allowing either transparent addresses (t-addresses) or zero-knowledge proof addresses (z-addresses). While it
This content is 4 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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.
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 5 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 6 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 6 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 6 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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