The Real (and Virtual) Adventures of Nathan the IT Guy:

IT professional


April 19, 2013  6:19 PM

Veeam Backup & Replication v7



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, Veeam

Veeam is excited to announce tape support coming in

April 19, 2013  6:06 PM

Video Codec H.265: 2x the compression rate of H.264



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional

One of the biggest things to take up the bandwidth in the world is video, we have come quite a way since the good ole mpeg/avi original days of Windows 95 (remember that Weezer Video "Buddy Holly")? One of the latest video codec that people use is h.264, but that is just the beginning. In...


April 18, 2013  1:54 PM

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2013



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, microsoft

MDOP 2013 Image

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April 5, 2013  1:50 PM

VMware KB Digest – Week Ending March 30th



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, vmware

Here I am once again with VMware KB Digest Snippets! Have you had any issues lately with your environment? We would love to hear about them and how they were fixed. Have you also checked out our


April 4, 2013  1:13 PM

Microsoft Technet Pro Subscription. Is it worth it?



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, Microsoft Windows, technet

Yes it is... If you do not have a Microsoft Technet Pro Subscription, and you consider  yourself an expert in IT, then I would suggest you get your hands on one. It only costs you 349 for the first year and 249 every year after that... What software do you get? Well pretty much everything, take...


March 7, 2013  1:52 PM

Windows Sysinternals Latest Updates



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, live.sysinternals.com, Microsoft Windows

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February 21, 2013  11:09 PM

Nathan is going to VMware Partner Exchange 2013!



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, vmware

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February 8, 2013  8:42 PM

Meet the BlackBerry Z10



Posted by: Nathan Simon
BlackBerry 10, IT professional

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January 29, 2013  12:39 AM

VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, vmware

Here we go VMware, tackling the application provisioning market, I have heard great things about VHAM 1.5, and am working on getting a solid PoC running in my home lab. I will tell you one thing, it is not for rookies that's for sure! VMware has been doing very well in the Readers Choice Awards...


January 9, 2013  1:38 PM

Top 10 VMware Performance Tweaks



Posted by: Nathan Simon
IT professional, VMware Infrastructure

Petri.co.il has been a very helpful site over the years, no matter what platform or application. Today I bring you Petri's top 10 Performance Tweaks, all of them are valid, but not all can/would be used in your environment. It sure doesn't hurt to read this though. Below you will find the list in...