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Book Review: VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive

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The Host Resources Deep Dive book by Frank Denneman and Niels Hagoort has been one of the most widely anticipated books in the VMware community – previous deep dive books by Frank (co-authored with Duncan Epping), tantalising blog posts and captivating presentations have whet the appetite for the last year or so. Having sat through some of these presentations at VMUGs and VMworld I can tell you the depth and understanding that the authors bring to the table is immense.

I have not rushed to write a review of this book for two reasons, firstly I wanted to do it justice, and that meant that I needed to read it properly. The second reason is that this is a big book with well over 560 pages of content, and that requires some time!

Not a light read…

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The Speed of Change in IT Infrastructure (Opinion)

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Over the past 6 months I have been dwelling more and more on the obvious speed of change and development in IT Infrastructure. What do I mean? Well each year there is the new hotness, the next thing/innovation you are told you need or should have.

In most cases the innovations and new tech are ground breaking awesomeness and most certainly offer new opportunities for the infrastructure masses.

I am all for progress, if you are not moving forward and regularly looking for sensible ways to improve what you do and the infrastructure you use then I really do think you are in the wrong industry.

However what I am beginning to take exception to is the insistence each time that if you are not doing/adopting the next new thing in a short space of time you informed you will be irrelevant before you know it. (insert suitable words that exclaim you are not one of the cool kids)

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There is no one cloud solution to rule them all..

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theoneringI have been musing this a little while and decided to write this post/rant/opinion post, feel free to post your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

OK so here it is, one thing I have observed for a good while now is how much noise there is about how -you- should be in the cloud (Public) and if you are not you’re already dead.

I call Bull****!

Public, Hybrid and Private clouds are solutions not final destinations, regardless of whether you are a customer, partner, or any other third thing you should be purely focused on what is best for you or (if you provide IT services) your customer. It is plainly obvious to me that in -all- of the customers I have visited there has been no appetite or reason to mass adopt any single one solution/option as it simply would not fit how they do business and function day to day. There will of course be exceptions to this rule but they are indeed exceptions not the norm.

As I have heard in the past, the reason you don’t hear lot’s about Private cloud success stories is because they are Private (the clue is in the name) not every customer wants to shout about it for reasons and lets not forget the speed of business is in no way on a par with the speed of IT innovation.

It is reckless to blindly suggest to folk that only one type of cloud will meet all their needs. Public cloud is here to stay but the sweeping statements about it being the final destination for everyone is nonsense. All three cloud types are here to stay, they give customers choice (which is critical).

From my point of view, it is my professional duty to provide my customers with informed and appropriate solutions for their needs. For many I know this is plainly obvious but with all the noise at present I felt I needed to at least write something about my thoughts on the matter.

Again feel free to comment if you wish I am keen to hear what you think.