Happy Friday, Clint here, it has been a month or so since we last met at VMworld in Las Vegas where vBrisket had a huge presence! Well we’re really excited to announce our next vBrisket Community event on Friday, November 4th 2016 at the Grist House in Pittsburgh, PA! Now, just like all things vBrisket this event will feature BBQ, Beer and NETWORK AUTOMATION! Our great supporters over at Ari... »
Happy Friday fellow vBrisketeers! In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months or maybe you’re not as active in the IT Community as you should be, we here @vBrisket are planning a really awesome set of events all tying to VMworld 2016. PART I The 2 week extravaganza will begin as a bus ride starting in Chicago on Tuesday, August 23rd and wrap up in Vegas on Saturday,... »
vBrisket embodies the IT Community, our goal is to provide all of our members with premiere access to the best and brightest from around the world along with giving our members the opportunity to have their voice heard. That’s what community is all about! With VMworld 2016 and Las Vegas just a few months away, we’re getting closer to our #vBrisket Community Extravaganza! Are you active... »
Happy Monday vBrisketeers, remember with all of this crazy weather that April showers bring May flowers! We hope everyone had a fantastic winter season and is ready for the first vBrisket event of 2016. It is truly amazing the reach that our small little Pittsburgh IT Community has. When Jaison, John, Gabe and myself were looking for potential speakers we’re constantly in search for the R... »
vBrisket is proud to announce that we are a proud Premier Media Sponsor of the upcoming TechMentor event in Las Vegas! The event is March 7th – 11th and will be held at Bally’s! As a Premier Media sponsor vBrisket has the chance to send one lucky winner to this awesome IT Pro Training event. If you’re not familiar with what TechMentor is then allow me to fill you in! TechMentor p... »
System Center Universe…aka – SCU for short, is a Microsoft focused Community Event that is held annually and sponsored by Catapult Systems. Previous years events were rock solid community focused days stacked full of Microsoft MVP’s from around this world, this year won’t disappoint. This is a unique community event, it’s run LIVE in Dallas, TX for folks to attend, ju... »
Cameron Fuller and I (Clint Wyckoff) are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). This should be a pretty awesome episode of VEEAM LIVE as Cam and I have been working on a whitepaper together focusing on this exact topic: Making Operations Manager Actionable! Highlights fro... »
Hey fellow vBrisketeers! I hope all is well, as we ramp up for our big event later this week at the Pittsburgh Beer Market (BTW, it’s not too late to REGISTER NOW) I’ve been spending time this past weekend playing with the latest Technology Preview (TP) #4 of Windows Server 2016. Well first off you need to visit the Windows Server TechNet Evaluation Site to register and download the la... »
For the last 10 days I’ve been busy traveling and attending Microsoft Ignite in Australia, which was an absolutely fantastic event! Many of you might have heard, but last Thursday Microsoft announced the much anticipated Technology Preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016! The upcoming release of Windows Server has many awesome features that the virtualization and cloud computing industry have... »
For those folks that have upgraded their environments to the latest release of vSphere ESXi (Version 6.0) critical issues are becoming to become quite the norm. For years VMware was known for their solid QC processes and their releasing of Production ready hypervisor releases…UNTIL vSphere 6. The latest issue was announced this past week and is contained within vSphere 6.0 Update 1a. VMware ... »