Home Lab with Proxmox Synology and K3S

​The latest VMware saga and the discontinuation of ESX free version has many people searching for possible home lab alternatives. When it comes to learning Kubernetes, you can always use single node clusters but there are times when you want to expand your setup to resemble production with multiple nodes. Of course, you can leverage projects […]

VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE

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? […]

THE VEEAM 100 SUMMIT

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 […]

Men and Mice DDI Software

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 […]

Don’t Neglect! Protect MS O365!

In my recent Kube Vanguard Vlog I talked about just how important modern day digital communication and data have become. Losing this data can be catastrophic to your business and personal lives. Microsoft does not backup your O365. They have what is known as the shared responsibility model which you can read more about here: […]

VEEAMON 2022

VeeamON 2022 is in the history books and what a conference it was! While I did attend an in person conference in October (Kubecon NA, Los Angeles) this was the first one that seemed almost covid free and brought back deja-vu scenes of years gone by. The value of in person events cannot be understated. […]