This past July Spiceworks surveyed around 800 technology buyers across North American and European markets across a variety of segments for their 2019 State of Future Workplace Tech report. Among the findings are high levels of interest in deploying IoT, edge computing, artificial intelligence and block-chain based solutions by 2020. In positive current trends, organizations…
Spiceworks: Integrated suite of cloud-based tools
Also announced today at SpiceWorld Spiceworks also announced a free cloud based inventory application that integrates with their existing cloud based Help Desk and Remote Support applications. It will scan all IP enabled devices on a network giving the usual inventory details such as OS, hardware details and installed software. To get started with Spiceworks…
Spiceworks Platform: New AI capabilities
Spiceworks announced today the integration of A.I. into their platform to bring an increasingly personalized experience to the approximately 20 million people who utilize Spiceworks quarterly. Fast Answer pages is the first application, and groups the best answers for frequently asked questions together for quick access. To read more about how Spiceworks plans to utilize…
Installing Windows Server 2019 on ESXi 6.7
Ok, So lets get a Virtual machine running on ESXi, and what better to start with than a windows server? So I jumped on Microsoft’s evaluation center website and grabbed a copy of server 2019. With iso in hand (on disk anyway) lets connect to an ESXi host and start building. Firing up Vmware Workstation…
Pre SpiceWorld Thoughts
As I sit here watching some college football and trying to size up my expectations for SpiceWorld 2018 next week, along with what I hope to get out of my opportunity to attend, I keep trying to compare it to other conferences I’ve been to. In terms of attendance it seems bigger significantly than Infoblox’s…
SpiceWorld 2018 Preview
Long time no post! Since my last post I’ve gotten deeper in touch with my networking roots, and obtained my Juniper JNCIS-ENT and Palo Alto Networks PNCSE certifications. It’s from that intersection of networking and security enforcement in my day job that my interest in attending Spiceworks’ SpiceWorld 2018 conference in Austin, TX for the…
US Signal’s 2018 IT Resiliency Survey Reveals that 70 Percent of US Business Respondents Have Experienced Unplanned IT Disruption in the Last 12 Months
Resiliancy and avoiding unplanned downtime is a driving force for all of us in enterprise computing, Downtime can cost businesses vast sums of money. So it’s very interesting to see the results of the 2018 IT resiliancy servey… US Signal’s 2018 IT Resiliency Survey Reveals that 70 Percent of US Business Respondents Have Experienced Unplanned IT…
VMware vForum Online on October 9 2018
VMware is having their latest online vForum on October 9 2018. If you have never been to one of these, I come to think of it as a mini VMworld online. You have a virtual exhibit hall where you can see offerings from vendors and even chat with them. There are breakout sessions and even…
E8 STORAGE SETS ANOTHER NEW RECORD THIS YEAR IN INDEPENDENT BENCHMARK TEST
Ok, We all like fast storage, and E8 are blazing new trails with their shared NVMe storage solutions, facilitating distributed storage at mind bending speeds, Utilizing the massively parallel capabilities of the NVMe protocol. With massive overhead in the NVMe protocol E8`s potential for expansion and optimization make them a storage provider to watch.…
vBE – VM Backup Essentials
I have been given the opportunity to blog about a new product from Unitrends. The new product is called VM Backup Essentials, or vBE for short. Certain bloggers were provided a blogger release which I am going to post below. I will add my comments under each section as I downloaded the product into my…