When is the last time you remember having a dream of some sort of achievement?  Maybe it was what you wanted to be when you grew up as of Kindergarten graduation, or perhaps it was something else. ...

August 29, 2017 - I was there the day they stopped whispering.  It was the day episode 140 was recorded at a podcast booth on the VMworld show floor.  In my mind, this had all the makings of a grea...

I remember attending the VMUG UserCon in Dallas / Fort Worth for the first time back in 2013 and hearing Damian Karlson speak about vBrownBag.  At the time I had never heard of vBrownBag, but one t...

This year I was blessed to present a session on Shadow IT at Spiceworld 2017, and I have to say it was an amazing experience.  The best part about it was getting the attendees involved.  I expected...

The work day is almost over when you’re interrupted with an emergency.  A certain time sensitive financial function of one of your information systems isn’t working.  As luck would have it, the err...

This year was the first time I was able to attend VMworld US, and it was an amazing experience.  Just before the conference, I was contacted by someone at Spiceworks and asked to write a few articl...

After finding out I was approved to attend VMworld this year, I signed up to present a vBrownBag Tech Talk on VMware vSAN.  Just a few weeks before the conference, I was lucky to secure an official...

I’ve seen a number of blogs lately recommending sessions to attend for this year’s VMworld.  And then there are a number of blogs people have written for the first time attendee which have been ext...

I recently had a flashback to my days as a high school math teacher.  Every once in a while I would have a student tell me he / she spent a lot of time studying for a test and somehow managed to no...

What do you do when one of your most critical applications isn’t supported by your backup vendor?  Do you find a new backup vendor, change applications, figure out a different solution, or cry sile...