Mal Everett Information Technology by Design

25/06/2017

Good advice here. Need help making these a reality?

Essential Eight Explained

03/06/2017

Handy

During the past few weeks, my NSX partner in crime, the Sr. Consultant Anderson Duboc and I have been working on a NSX Reference Poster and now it's my great pleasure to present you guys with the final result.

26/05/2017

Friday Funny: No 8 - for the Project Managers out here

The author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy knew a thing or two

24/05/2017

Might be time to patch some of those apps that tend to be "user managed"

Using vun flaw in VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time media players, a malicious subtitle file can hack your computer while you're enjoying movies

19/05/2017

Getting your backups offsite, into archival storage.

Certain number of clients still needs to backup to tapes, for legal purposes. Interesting solution from StarWind allows to Emulate Tape library with StarWind...

19/05/2017

Cloud ? Lets face it - it is very good for large players with workloads they shrink and grow, or are on a high growth path, or perhaps follow the sun around the worlds timezones. But for the rest of us ? Internet data is crazy expensive compared to the rest of world. Security, Data Integrity, Business Continuity, Patching, Upgrades and Migrations ? Are all issue we still have to handle. Let us help you manage your cloud transition.

11/05/2017

I guess the takeaway here is - your Telco supplier router is probably, almost certainly not patched. It may not be one of the vulnerable ones. This time. You need to make sure your Firewall is.

Administrators of sites using the popular blogging platform WordPress face a new challenge: hackers are launching coordinated brute-force attacks on the ad

09/05/2017

Last Friday I had the honor to join Pete Fletcha a.k.a. Pedro Arrow and John Nicholson on their always fantastic podcast Virtually Speaking. Unfortunately, John was ill that morning, but Duncan helped us out by taking a break from his vacation. We spoke about the upcoming service VMware Cloud on...

06/05/2017

Good new for this week ... VMware's vCloud Director has been a bit dormant over the last few years ... VMware just released v8.20, a minor release. But the product manager, from Texas, reckons its FULL STEAM ahead and period of re-invigoration for vCD. Good news for service providers.