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7 Stages of a typical Tech Meeting
After 25 years of attending meetings within the technology space, myself and Matthew Steiner came up with this, which appears to accurately represent almost every meeting I ever attend. If you don’t go through these stages, you’re doing it wrong. 1 – Getting the conference tech working – Projector, audio, Webex, zoom – this can…
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NVIDIA NIM – “Mind the Gap”
Making use of AI, and specifically Generative AI is being hailed as the ‘next informational revolution’, and for a whole range of industries being able to ask questions of data that you couldn’t ask yesterday is going to be hugely impactful. However, in case you have not worked it out yet, it is very unlikely…
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All in on the Cloud ?
This article caught my attention today https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/14/linkedin-shelved-plan-to-migrate-to-microsoft-azure-cloud.html A story around how, of all organisations, LinkedIn marks the failure of 4 year programme (called Blueshift by LinkedIn) to migrate to Azure – going ‘all in’. The reality is that this is a story that is being repeated across the Industry at the moment, what was seen…
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VMware by Broadcom
I find myself writing this having not-long-ago had the press-release flash up on my phone to say that Broadcom has completed it’s acquisition of VMware, and after what seems and feels like the longest acquisition in history is ‘across the line’ as Top Gear would have said. When you hear Hock Tan and Broadcom talking…
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NVIDIA AI in the Data Center
Over the last few weeks I’ve taken the time to try to formalise some of the knowledge that I’ve had in my head just ‘swimming around’ and decided to jump into some of NVIDIA’s online training around AI in the Datacenter. It explores a range of the considerations for Storage, Networking, Compute and Management –…
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What does it take to write and deliver a keynote ?
For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of being asked to follow VMware’s CEO Raghu Raghuram on stage at our customer conference – VMware Explore. Each time I’ve been asked to deliver something aligned to a theme for the event, but avoiding something that looks like corporate narrative. It turns out doing this…
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VMware Explore 2022
So it’s fair to say that when VMware announced that the iconic ‘VMworld’ event (which had been running since 2004 when 1,500 pioneers came together in San Diego to learn about ‘Virtualisation’ in IT) was to be evolved into a new event with a new focus – VMware Explore, there were plenty who were nervous…
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A year into COVID. Home office overhaul !
Home-working is something that I’ve been used to since before the millennium, I started work in 1999 for British Telecom (BT) and for the majority of that time I was a contractural homeworker. It meant that BT considered my home office my ‘base’ and therefore they also provided me with a desk, chair, office equipment…
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Why Virtual Meetings might not be cutting it, and you’ve forgotten why.
So here’s a post I never thought I’d write, but as I’ve chatted about my experience with colleagues, customers and friends I thought I’d put some ideas down on paper. The other week, I went to a meeting, a real one, Face to Face. This was a meeting with a simple goal, but not a…
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Why you need to attend Spring One as an ‘infra person’
For many of you reading this, you’re asking what SpringOne is and you’re perhaps wondering why you’d be interested in attending an event focussed on technologies like Spring, Reactive, Java, .NET and more. It’s a ‘DEV’ conference right and what’s that got to do with me ?????? The answer is EVERYTHING. I worked in IT Operations…