Yearly Archives: 2023

Last week I had the great pleasure to attend the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic. This event is the highlight of the year for the Veeam Community and the atmosphere and energy it creates is enough to keep one fueled with IT enthusiasm until the next summit. So what is the Veeam 100? Well I have described it before but such a great Community needs to be mentioned again and again. What's more there is no reason why you too can't join the Veeam 100 as well, either as a Veeam Vanguard or a Veeam Legend. The Veeam Vanguards "The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community". You can get a full description here: https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.html The Veeam Legends "Veeam Legends are Veeam users and data protection industry experts who are passionate about technology, innovation and eager to further develop their career, while sharing their experiences with the community" Again you can…

It is getting close to that very special time of year. No I don't mean Halloween, I mean Veeam! Or to be be more precise the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic. Last year I took part in my first Summit and it was something that I will never forget. What is the Veeam 100? Or better put who are the Veeam 100? The Veeam 100 is an umbrella group that contains the Veeam MVPs (these are Veeam Employees who have gone beyond the call of duty), the Veeam Legends (Veeam users who have made large contributions in the Veeam Community Hub or in the Veeam R&D Forums, and last but not least the Veeam Vanguards (people who have evangelized Veeam in external platforms like blogs, webinars, speaking events and so forth). You can find them all here in the Veeam 100 Directory: https://community.veeam.com/p/veeam100directory So what is so special about this Veeam 100…

Introducing Micetro! I was privileged to attend Tech Field Day 27 in Silicon Valley in March 2023 Tech Field Day is a fantastic event where IT specialists from all over the world are brought together to view presentations from companies bringing us new exciting software and hardware like micetro. Men&Mice Men&Mice created micetro which is DDI software. That translates to DHCP, DNS and IPAM. When I heard of them my first thought was "if only they had been around back in the day when I was trying to administer systems with a team of less than 5!" However, after watching their presentation I realized these folks have a platform that is much more than just a life saver for those myriads of small IT crews out there trying to manage big systems. So what exactly is micetro and what are these folks from Men&Mice bringing to the proverbial IT table of tools. In a…