Oscar Wahlberg, Senior Director Product Management welcomes us into the ‘What’s new with AOS and NDK‘ session. AOS 6.10 LTS is huge, 2 years+ of innovation since LTS 6.5. Performance improvements Ramya Prabhakar talks about NDK. Customers who are moving to cloud native/container workloads have a need to have the expected‘ AOS-esque functionality that we’ve […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024 (Day 1 pt3)
Deepak Goel welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)‘ session. Deepak is ex D2iQ, with years of experience in this space with some very large and complex customers. Deepak opened with a discussion around the Kubernetes Trends for 2024, some very interesting figures – https://thenewstack.io/the-2023-state-of-kubernetes-in-production/ We hear the term ‘Platform Engineering‘ again as levelling […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024 (Day 1 pt2)
Session 1 – Nutanix Cloud Manager Ramachandran Varadharajan (RV) welcomes us into the ‘Nutanix Cloud Manager‘ session with colleagues Vijaay (Product Engineering) in the room, and Pranav (Product Engineering). NCM sits within the larger Nutanix Cloud Platform – AIOps, Self Service, Cost, SecOps What are the Key Business Outcomes for the Hybrid Cloud Model? Reduce […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024 (Day 1 pt1)�
First up, an interactive session with Rajiv Ramaswami talking about all things Nutanix but before that Cameron Stockwell (Director, Product Management for LCM and Foundation) happens to be here from Australia and Sarabjit Principal Product Manager at HQ from India. Recapping the upcoming developments announced at Barcelona .NEXT 2024 – Multi-Cluster LCM – empowering Prism […]
Nutanix Technology Champion – Tech Connect Summit 2024
It’s day 1, we’ve arrived on site at Nutanix HQ, San Jose – via the local Starbucks for ‘It’s fall, have some pumpkin spice‘ rocket fuel. Reviewing the packed agenda, we’re in for a busy few days… further posts will cover the sessions. Topic Presenter Q&A with Rajiv Ramaswami Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO Nutanix Cloud Manager […]
Nutanix AOS 6.10 (LTS) Released
(spotted on Reddit, thanks djbills!) Nutanix have released AOS 6.10 (LTS), a long awaited release as the successor to the 6.5 LTS versions. There are so many wonderful things included in this release from the short-term supported (STS) releases between 6.5 and 6.10. A few highlights for me are: (and the move to Rocky Linux […]
Testing FreeBSD 14.1 on Nutanix AHV
A fellow Nutanix Technology Champion Jonathan had asked if anyone had tested FreeBSD 14 on AHV yet, FreeBSD 13 is shown on the compatibility matrix fine. (I am using AOS 6.8 here) I’ve not used FreeBSD in many, many years other than via an appliance such as NetScaler so I thought it’d be a useful […]
Restricting USB access with Intune
A customer asked for us to implement a total USB drive block on a newly deployed Intune environment, as opposed to the usual blocking of ‘write access’ or ‘ensure everything is bitlockered’. Using ASR within Intune the experience was a bit flakey, in allowing read access regardless of configuration. Lots of blog posts suggesting it […]
UK Weather & Disaster Avoidance
The UK (infrastructure) has a tendency to fall apart when it rains, is too windy, too cold, or too warm. We as a people seem to cope best with a moderately cool climate and without any surprises. In the last couple of weeks we’ve been unfortunate to receive a lot of inclement weather; cold, wind, […]
Microsoft Global Secure Access
I stumbled upon this little treat of a solution when looking for options to replace an aging VPN solution for a client with laptop users across the country all connecting back to shared resources within a datacentre. The customer use case is pretty simple: We’d already worked on making internal websites externally accessible through the […]