12 months on from our 20 years as Cutter 2025 gathering, this week ahead brings the 2026 edition. We return to our home away from home to spend time together “doing the day job” but asking the bigger questions and finding the answers that pave our way for the year ahead. These annual get togethers […]
Work smart, not hard!
I, like most people spend a huge amount of time doing boring and mundane things. This leads to procrastination in avoiding those tasks – which is dangerous for those of us of a certain disposition as it normally leads to something destructive. So I needed to rebuild my home lab, because I may or may […]
Tech Connect 2026 is go!
Back in 2024 Nutanix Technology Champions were invited to Nutanix HQ in San Jose for 2 days of behind the scenes access, and discussions with some of the brightest minds in Nutanix. We also enjoyed social time together as a group including pinball and pizza (and a few cocktails) downtown. Well …. it’s back for […]
Be a good neighbour (customer or partner)
Whilst I am a huge advocate for being as ‘self sustainable’ as possible when it comes to working with partners or vendors – sometimes you can’t solve something on your own and you do need to ask their technical support folks for a hand. When that does happens though, be smart, do a bit of […]
Nutanix Xpert Day May 2026 (EUC Focus)
On Wednesday 6th May I was fortunate to join a group of likeminded folks from the channel for a day in London hosted by Nutanix featuring guest speakers from Omnissa and Parallels. Not quite Palm Springs for NerdioCon but it was still sunny…just. A hats off and thank you to Stu Bland and Ludmilla Dias […]
Design, & deploy defensively
Frequently I’m asked why I always recommend building and testing a defensive design, one that has a chance of surviving first contact. The answer is simple, I’ve been burnt, and seen others burned by design decisions that made sense at the time but didn’t stand the test of time or the ‘what if?’ test. A […]
New year faff, same story but different ending…
It all started a week or so ago with the having to restart my Windows workstation each morning before my day started because it was painfully laggy, and showing read latency on the boot disk that only seemed to ease up after a reboot, for a short while. Nothing fun in resource monitor to show […]
Upgrading old CentOS to new Rocky Linux
Today I was faced with a challenge, I have had an old CentOS 7 machine tucked well behind a secure enclave seeing out its days for a while now and sadly it has surpassed the life expectancy a few times so it was time to do something about it. The machine itself is a simple […]
VMware VCP-VCF Certification
Something I do like about Broadcom is the ease of accessing their training resources, and free of charge if you’re able to work with the self-paced online materials, and then just pay for the exam though the nearest test centre is a bit further away than my kitchen where I normally take my proctored exams. […]
Reflecting on 2024
It’s always a strange feeling in the lead up to Christmas each year as whilst we at Cutter don’t have a period of shutdown – a lot of our partners and customers do. This presents an opportunity for reflection when the world isn’t moving at 100mph, and a bit of breathing room to do those […]