Football to .Next

As we wrap up the Super Bowl and realize that football  (both College and Pro's) is over (I can't get on board with the USFL just yet), it's time to look to something else! I just wrapped a great week of interaction and passing not one but two cert exams,…

Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023!

Just a quick post, but 2022 has been a great year on many fronts!  As we move faster to the end of the year, I always like to reflect back on what was achieved.  Getting to spend this week with one our Account Executives in the DC area engaging with…

FMCv 7.2 Upgrade on AHV

Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully!  After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into…

Zerto Linux ZVM - Finally!

Finally, Zerto has released a Linux based appliance for the Zerto Virtual Manager role.  Finally!   Now to be clear, I don't mean to use the term finally in a negative sense with Zerto, more of a sense of happiness that it's now available with the latest release of Zerto 9.…

Mastery in 2022

Well, it's been exactly a year since the last blog post to this site.  Oh, and it's also taken me a full year to migrate the blog from a self-hosted Wordpress site hosted by Amazon Lightsail, over to Ghost.   No, it didn't take a year to migrate, it just didn't…

Saved by Pure Storage

This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years.  Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized that we had our work cutout for us. * Backup…

Elevating Nutanix + eGroup in 2021

It’s been a while since I last published a blog post.  You know, 2020 got in the way big time.   Lots of excuses there for not finding the time to write some content… While 2020 was an interesting year for all of us, the train didn’t stop rolling…

Finding Your Normal in Disruption

Uncertainty.I think we can all relate to this definition right now. We’ve all got our schedule; we wake up, go thru a routine.   Maybe you’re a gym person in the morning, or get out and enjoy nature for a few miles.  Maybe you really enjoy that first…