In June 2017, I had the pleasure of attending the always informative EUC PTAB meetings at VMware HQ in Palo Alto, CA. Not only do you get to interact with partners across the world but you get "futures" from various VMware product groups. This PTAB focused on the EUC product line, focusing primarily on Workspace … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – San Francisco, CA | VMware EUC PTAB
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2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
On our About page, I mention many things....perhaps bordering on TMI. Do you really care that I have a Stephen A. Smith type affection for Aaron Rodgers?!? If Adam ever comes into work and says to me, "Ben Roethlisberger is a better QB than Aaron Rodgers!", our friendship may end! I'm just kidding of course, … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
I could be dead wrong, but I imagine that many customers begin their AWS journey using on-demand instances in order to "test the water" to avoid making rash long-term commitment. Now let's assume the initial testing of an organizations application(s) in AWS is successful and the organization is ready to go "all in" the cloud, … Continue reading AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
Some time ago, I mentioned to Adam that I thought it would be fun to do a "5 Questions with....." interview with partners that we meet and/or customers we work with as we are constantly meeting and working with interesting people. The plan is to start the interview with a basic introductory question, then dig … Continue reading 5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?
"There's no compression algorithm for experience. You can't learn certain lessons without going through the curve." Andy Jassy, CEO AWS There's no substitute for experience, I'm sure this is a lesson we've all learned many times. I had a refresher course in this recently while trying to further refine a CloudFormation template I've been working … Continue reading Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?
AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC319 — GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting Deployments CloudFormation
Here are some raw notes from GPSTEC319 -- GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting and Building Automated, Reusable Reference Deployments with AWS CloudFormation what they learned from building over 50 reference deployments by automating deployments, we can reduce human error A day in the life of IT (stages) discover solutions to a business problem (partner, vendor, … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC319 — GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting Deployments CloudFormation
Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering
Last week, AWS announced support for Inter-Region VPC Peering: Amazon EC2 now allows peering relationships to be established between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different AWS regions. Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases and Lambda functions running in different AWS regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, … Continue reading Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering
AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure
I must be getting tired. Honestly, I thought posting my session notes would be a pretty straightforward task but because I love documentation so much, I've made it harder than it needs to be. My note taking problem is that I try to jot down everything as opposed to what may ultimately matter. Anyway, on … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure
AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC321 — GPS: VMware on AWS Cloud Technical Deep Dive & Native AWS Services Integration
As you might guess, there was a lot of interest in this topic as the session was filled to capacity. At a high-level, VMware on AWS architecture was reviewed along with how to use native AWS services with VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) workloads with the goal that those attending would walk away with practical … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC321 — GPS: VMware on AWS Cloud Technical Deep Dive & Native AWS Services Integration
AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy
Here's a couple interesting fun facts in the form of numbers from yesterday (11/27), 6.46 and 0. Going to and from the various sessions, I walked 6.46 miles yesterday and I had 0 desserts. 0 desserts! I had a dessert Sunday night, a good one called "The cookie jar". The cookie jar was a big, … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy