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As you would expect day 1’s announcements were the biggest ones due to the keynote speeches and it being the first real day of VMworld.But even so there was still some really interesting news coming out yesterday , some additional information about...
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Just a very quick posting to remind/inform all of those in and around the London area who weren’t fortunate enough to be allowed to go to VMworld US or like myself are going to the one in Copenhagen that vBeers is tonight . If you’ve never heard...
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School holidays over so it’s time for another meeting! Heralding a call to return back to some of the more fundamental aspects of Silverlight development, I’m pleased to announce that the next meeting will feature Guy Smith-Ferrier (who organises the...
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As you can imagine the first real day of VMworld US has been massive and there has been some really exciting news, some of it unexpected(at least for me) and others not so unexpected (view 4.5) First has to be the keynote speech by VMware Chief...
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I am pleased to announce that after many nights in local taverns debating hot topics The Fantastic Tavern has launched it's website. www.thefantastictavern.co.uk This is just the beginning and we have much more work to do but it is a good start. On the...
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Monitoring applications provided by PaaS such as Azure should in theory be all about the application as the underlying platform isn’t your problem. Well it’s true that you don’t have control of the actual Platform (Platform in this context being the Virtual...
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Yes I couldn’t think of a better title so I altered my normal title for this weeks proceedings :) . Due to there being so much information coming out of VMworld and certainly a large amount more in the coming week I thought it may be helpful for...
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What Does Gartner have to say about this? In the blog Windows 7- To Virtualize or not to Virtualize - that is the question! I talked about a golden opportunity for organizations to move to virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) instead of following a traditional...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) was released in mid June. Here is a release announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2010/06/19/sql-server-2008-r2-best-practices-analyzer-is-now-available.aspx BPA is designed to...
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Just some general notes around this retailer, after finding a news article (linked ahead). Nordstrom's new approach to combining web-based and store-based inventories is earning them some significant success - Nordstrom Links Online Inventory to Real...
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As you would expect the virtualisation communities are abuzz with talk of VMworld US starting next week in San Francisco. I’m going to be watching with a very keen eye to all the news and tweets from fellow virtualisation experts(not that I am...
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Some members of our team have been busy designing and building an online portfolio that we can use to showcase our creative work. It is still work in process but we decided to release what we have to date so you can watch it grow www.givenspaceandtime.com...
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Whether 'tis nobler to rollout a standard Windows 7 desktop,... OR to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by virtualizing desktops end them? Many of the current discussions we at EMC Consulting ( Cloud & Virtual Data Center Practice ) are having...
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So yesterday, I wrote a blog about an advert I had seen. That blog is here . The advert had angered me because I thought it represented poor process and execution around centralised marketing. In fact, it appears I was wrong. On further research the headline...
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It's an ok car. In fact, it's probably quite an attractive car, despite the rather unconventional angle of this pack shot. It's even got red brakes like a real sports car. She has red lipstick too. See what they did there? Hey, I'm not going to criticise...
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Back in May I presented to the UKAzureNet group about how we at EMC Consulting had developed the See The Difference website using many technologies including Windows Azure. Part of this session included some information on how we had consumed data we...
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I am often asked "What is The Fantastic Tavern?" I have my way of describing it but thought I would ask the man who founded it ( Matt Bagwell , EMC Consulting's Global Creative Director) to describe it in his own words. I also asked him who it should...
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Last night, a gathering of New York flavoured Taverniers met at BUtterfield8 (thanks for the nachos) to discuss the nature of ideas and what manifesto might exist between creatives, agencies and clients to ensure that the right ideas make it. I must admit...
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Fortune 500 has done their annual ranking and I am proud to announce that EMC were voted 3rd most admired in the computer industry. Well done team!! Most Admired Rank Company Overall score 1 Apple 7.95 2 Hewlett-Packard 7.74 3 EMC 6.86 4 Xerox 6.51 5...
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It has been a crazy couple of weeks lately due to a data centre relocation I’ve been working on and due to this I haven’t had as much time to post new information and hence the delay of this next “instalment” of All Things Virtual. Firstly a massive...
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Consultancy Skills Event – Thursday 5 th – Friday 6 th August 2010 Last Thursday I made an early journey round the M25 to Sunningdale in Berkshire for a much anticipated Consultancy Skills course run by Tim Barker and Peter Murphy. The course was held...
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I am visited my parents last week and there was a large thunderstorm one night. Because of the thunderstorm, their cable-box/DVR died. The local cable company showed up in the morning and replaced it the old box with a new one. One of the first things...
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A few months ago I was on an engagement where I was trying to automate the setup of several batch jobs for the first time since the late 1990's. This was the first time being back directly administering a Windows Server box since 2000 as well. On the...
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In several recent discussions with security groups and agencies within private and public sector, the issue of security has of course come up. There are several facets to security, but the specific issue was regarding ‘breaking out of the hypervisor’...
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Since my last update we have recruited a number of excellent people (67 this year and counting...) and been given the go ahead to recruit a few more so here is an update for you. Application Architect Design & Development Microsoft Solutions Architect...
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