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CyberDuck Google Cloud Storage

Using CyberDuck and Google Cloud Storage

By on January 9, 2015 in Google Cloud

I have been playing around with Google Cloud Storage today, and I wanted to access Google Cloud Storage by using CyberDuck. For those of you who don’t know about CyberDuck, it truly is an awesome open source storage client that can be used on Mac and Windows to access pretty much anything storage related.  Think FTP, S3, WebDAV etc.  You can download Cyberduck here. Now the interesting part was, when I tried to connect CyberDuck to Google Cloud Storage, I had no clue about what my Username or Password (Authorization Code) was. Now other cloud storage providers give you secure access keys to simply connect.  Google Cloud Storage is a little more complicated to find this information.  I actually think this is a good thing, as security is critical for storage. As you can see in the screenshot above, you need a Google Project ID and an Authorisation code to connect […]

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LONDON VMUG

See you at London VMUG 22nd January

By on January 9, 2015 in Community, VMUG

I meant to post this last year but totally forgot. I will be presenting at the London VMUG on January 22nd.  I always enjoy attending the London VMUG, it has a great community presence, and lots of Great British Techies turn up. The VMUG will be held in the usual place: London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 33 Queen Street London, EC4R 1AP Click here for directions Some great meeting highlights too, check out the presenter list below: Puppet-Robbie Jerrom, VMware Presentation from Frank Denneman, PernixData and their customer, Cloudhelix Presentation by Simplivity Presentation by Unitrends 5 Starting Points for Cloud Adoption-Dave Hill, VMware Containers, DevOps and VMware-Andy Jenkins,VMware Bringing SDDC to Life-A Real World Development-Adrian Roberts, VMware Labs with Xtravirt and of course, who can forget about the legendary London vBeers.  Can’t quite beat a London vBeers. To register for the London VMUG click here My session details are: […]

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VMware vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems

By on December 11, 2014 in vCloud Air

Andy Steven who is a colleague of mine working in the EMEA vCloud Air team asked me what Operating Systems are supported in VMware vCloud Air? This isn’t the first time I have been asked this question, so I thought I would quickly publish the list, to provide easy reference to lookup which vCloud Air Operating Systems are supported. As most of you know, VMware vCloud Air leverages vCloud Director to enable the cloud capabilities needed to provide a public cloud service.  vCloud Director supports a wide variety of 32 bit and 64 bit Operating Systems. vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems The current Operating Systems supported by vCloud Director are: Microsoft Windows Linux Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Microsoft Windows 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Microsoft Windows 8.1 SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 Microsoft […]

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server hugger

Are you a Server Hugger?

By on December 1, 2014 in Cloud Computing

Question: Are you a Server Hugger? This conversation has come up countless times while at conferences, including VMUGs and VMworld.  Come on, lets be honest, are you a server hugger?  Its mentioned regularly out on twitter.  Duncan Epping was live tweeting from the Benelux VMUG and it was mentioned in a session he attended presented by Andy Steven: So lets ask the question again!  Are you a server hugger?… I would pretty much say yes you are.  Most people who manage IT infrastructure are server huggers.  You know you are, so lets just all admit it.  I will start.  Hello my name is David and I am a server hugger. During a number of my presentations I have given over the years, both myself and Chris Colotti have had this discussion numerous times.  Sometimes between ourselves.  What actually is a server hugger? Now if you google Server Hugger, the majority […]

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Veeam Podcast

Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover and David Hill

By on November 25, 2014 in vCloud Air, Veeam

Yesterday I recorded a Veeam podcast with Rick Vanover.  It was a great honor to be asked by Rick to take part in one of his podcasts.  They are extremely popular with the virtualisation community and I want to thank Rick for inviting me on to talk. This podcast is episode number 103 in the series and is titled vCloud Air: Explain it to me. Rick writes a nice introduction: In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts David Hill. David works in Technical Marketing at VMware and is one of the best when it comes to VMware technologies and vCloud Air is what he is focusing on nowadays. Rick and David speak about what vCloud Air is at the high level, how it is priced and how some of the specific storage features like SSD-accelerated storage are used in vCloud Air. The cool thing about Rick’s podcasts is that they are […]

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