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May 27, 2012  5:12 AM

Mike’s Music – A Compendium!



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

Well, it’s been a very long time since I’ve done a “Mike’s Music” post. Mainly because one of my favorite music shows (Jool’s Holland) has been on a break – and then when the show came back I was bit uninspired… Anyway, the previous episode had a stonking return to form which is...

March 26, 2012  8:04 AM

United Airlines – Mileage Awards – A Strange and Terrible Saga…



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

Over the last...


August 20, 2011  2:11 AM

Stack Wars: The cloud OEMpires strike back



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

I’m sorry, I just had to rip off the same title of an article I wrote for TechTarget recently. Like my pun? I was inspired by twitter storm as folks tried to think of film titles where they could work in some aspect of cloud or virtualization. My topic is about how the various OEMs are aligning...


December 14, 2010  3:51 AM

Cloudy Thoughts



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

I’ve been thinking about the cloud a lot in the last year – and speaking to both the sellers of cloudy software, as well as customers thinking of going down the cloud route. For sometime I’ve though the cloud might be more attractive to SMB customers – not so much the private cloud...


November 18, 2010  10:20 AM

UPDATED: vCloud Director in your “Man Cave”… Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

I’ve written a two-part article on how to get VMware’s vCloud Director up and running in your “man cave”. For those who uninitiated that is not a medical term – but a phrase we use here in the UK to describe the man’s small office or hide away filled with bits and bobs, batteries,...


October 7, 2010  6:43 AM

Mike’s Music – The Jolly Boys sing Lou Reed’s Perfect Day



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

It’s been some time that I posted some music to my site. I’ve been listening to a lot John Lennon recently. Things are slowly picking up for the anniversary of his death – there was a recent drama about him in the period just before he met Yoko… which inspired me to go out and get a...


February 8, 2008  9:06 AM

Team Fusion



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

Peter Kazanjy – who works for VMware Fusion Product has drawn my attention to a new blog for VMware Fusion – “Team Fusion”… Its located here: http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/ Fusion has really peaked my interest in MAC. To the...


April 20, 2006  2:02 AM

Citrix Access Gateway on VMware



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

Brian Madden has written a very interesting article generally on the Citrix Access Gateway. He also goes on to discuss the merits of running within a VMware Virtual Machine. The executive summary? Yes, you can – but performance will be poor – and you would be involation of the license...


May 5, 2005  4:37 AM

SAN Configuration Guide



Posted by: MikeLaverick
Cloud

This week I almost bought a second-hand SAN for my two ESX servers I run here – nothing fancy just a MSA1000. Unfortunately, the system was purchased a while back when HP/Compaq were using Emulex Cards. It took a while for the seller to get back to me with their version numbers. With all this...