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2017 – A Personal Reflection

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 Matt 6 Comments community, Personal 6 min read

Last year I wrote a post summarizing my 2016 – this may not be the most interesting of topics for

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Vendor Relations

HPE is Going All In With InfoSight & SimpliVity – #HPETechDay

November 14, 2017November 13, 2017 Matt 2 Comments community, storage, vendors 4 min read

Last month I was invited to attend my first HPE Tech Day held in Anaheim, California. Actually, it was held

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Learning vExpert VMware

VCP7-DTM Learning Concept – Part 2: Horizon View Desktop Pools

November 7, 2017November 6, 2017 Matt 1 Comment Certifications, Horizon, vdi, vExpert 4 min read

When working with VMware Horizon, you’ll find the concept of desktop pools comes up fairly often. Honestly, they aren’t overly

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DataCore Divides & Conquers to Increase SQL Server Performance

October 23, 2017October 22, 2017 Matt 2 Comments TFD 3 min read

When it comes to IT, performance is not always solved by throwing more resources at the problem. A lot of

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Networking Tech Field Day

Riverbed shows that Wifi offers more than just connectivity

October 18, 2017October 17, 2017 Matt 2 Comments Networking, TFD, wifi 4 min read

Riverbed is synonymous with WAN acceleration, and rightly so. The company has been doing this, and doing it well, for a

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Networking Tech Field Day

Scale Computing is Simplifying DRaaS

October 10, 2017October 9, 2017 Matt 3 Comments DR, HCI, TFD 4 min read

Disaster Recovery is something that can be critical to every business, but not every business has a good DR plan.

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Learning vExpert VMware

VCP7-DTM Learning Concept – Part 1: Horizon View

October 6, 2017October 4, 2017 Matt 1 Comment Certifications, Horizon, VCP 3 min read

While studying for my VCP7-DTM exam, I found that there were definitely some core aspects that I had to wrap

Skyport SkySecure Appliance

Security From The Ground Up With Skyport Systems

October 4, 2017October 3, 2017 Matt 1 Comment HCI, security, TFD 4 min read

Imagine a world where you don’t need to worry about the security of your data. Concerns such as malicious attackers,

Turbonomicv6-Dashboard

Turbonomic 6.0 – Some Noteworthy Additions

September 27, 2017September 26, 2017 Matt 2 Comments 4 min read

Earlier this year at TFD 14 in Boston we were given a great run-through of Turbonomic’s new HTML 5 interface.

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TFD15 Primer: SkyPort Systems

September 25, 2017September 24, 2017 Matt 2 Comments HCI, security, TFD 3 min read

Skyport Systems, founded in 2013, will be participating in its second Tech Field Day event at TFD 15. While reading