Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods ##* Update, the dashboards are currently Online (July 6th). This was built as an educational… Read More »Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods
Tanzu Mission Control – Adding a vSphere 7 Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster One of the great parts of my job is that I get to collaborate… Read More »Tanzu Mission Control – Adding a vSphere 7 Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
Import Azure Rate Card to vROPs I’ve been working with a customer over the last day or so to import their Azure cost information (or… Read More »Import Azure Rate Card to vROPs
How to get the available Azure VM sizes with – Get-AzureRmVmSize I was recently working with a customer who was struggling to get a list… Read More »How to get the available Azure VM sizes with – Get-AzureRmVMSize
The impact of gravity on the cloud, what am I talking about now… Gravity is defined as “the force that attracts a body towards the… Read More »The impact of gravity on the Cloud
Cloud Migration Steps to Success The future for many services will be cloud hosting. Services that are now hosted on on-premises infrastructure, will be able… Read More »Cloud Migration Steps to Success
I’m writing this from a lovely apartment in the medieval part of Barcelona, for I’m here to attend VMworld. This will be my third VM… Read More »VMworld Europe 2018
Having worn both my fingers and my laptop battery down trying to keep up with the previous sessions in the day, I didn’t live blog… Read More »VMware EMPOWER – General Session Day One
It’s widely acknowledged that to understand the present, and to try and predict the future you must know and understand the past.
The current data centre landscape is a complex place. Virtualisation of compute resources with VMware has been the de facto standard for over a decade. The move to software defined infrastructure has been gathering momentum and VMware’s vision for the software defined data centre (SDDC) looks set to augment vSphere offerings and continue to dominate the private data centre landscape.
So how did we get here? How did we go from that initial wow factor that came from first experiencing VMotion to the VMware SDDC? I think it all comes down to one building block.Read More »Software Defined – How did we get here?
As part of my day job I was asked to write a short article explaining why I think organisations should consider Azure for there public cloud services.
At a very high level the five reasons, that I believe are part of a compelling growing argument are;
As you can imagine reducing the list of Azure services to just five bite size discussion topics was very tough. It is probably no surprise to those of you that follow this blog, that I prepared information about more than the five!
So after the brake and in no particular order, here are the Azure reasons and services than didn’t quite make the final article, which appears on Xtravirt’s website.
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