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...

Have you ever thought you found a bug in a software product?  In my case, I was almost certain I had found one but learned the problem was me.  I want to share a story from this past week that help...

With the GA of vSAN 6.6 in late April, I was asked to give a talk at the DFW Mango Meetup back in May about all the new features in this release.  The power actually went out where we were presenti...