I recently had the chance to catch up with Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) at VMware Partner Exchange. Amy heads up a video based initiative called ‘Engineers Unplugged’ which focuses on having informal conversations with people within the IT industry and covering a broad range of IT topics, everything from troubleshooting labs through to Cloud Computing, Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). In this TechHead video I speak to Amy about Engineers Unplugged is and what type of … [Read more...]
Access TrainSignal IT Training Content with a Monthly Subscription
I’m not sure how long this has been available, though I have just noticed that TrainSignal, who are well known for their quality video based tutor led IT learning material, now offer a monthly based subscription model for accessing their catalogue of online course material. For US$49 per month (you can cancel after a month) this is pretty good value, as I have used TrainSignal training videos before to supplement my VMware exam preparation and found it very effective. They also offer an … [Read more...]
Blogging New Year’s Un-Resolution…
Well, here it is… the start of another year. Happy New Year to you all ! I hope the Christmas holiday’s and time off work proved to be relaxing for you. 2012 was another exciting year for me, both personally and professionally, though it wasn’t so successful for getting spare time to create decent regular quality content on the blog. However, the lack of me putting fingers to keyboard to write new posts was made up for by an ever expanding list of blog post ideas, some of … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas to all you TechHeads!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! Hope you have a great Christmas and All the Best for 2013! More regular content coming this year! … [Read more...]
Whoops! Competition winner announcement…. finally.
Whoops! It would seem there has been a slight “technical” hick-up here at TechHead HQ. The winner of a competition I ran a while back was never publically announced. I had a blog post announcing the winner all scheduled to auto-post whilst I was away with work … and you guessed it, the blog post never posted! It only just dawned on me that the winner hadn’t been in contact to provide their address, though admittedly this is kind of hard to do when you don’t know you’ve even … [Read more...]
Take a tour around Google’s Data Center
Ever wanted to take a look around one of Google’s data centers? I know I have, as the amount of infrastructure required to make Google’s many online services tick would be no doubt very impressive and on a scale that I personally would never have experienced before, and I have seen around some pretty large data centers (or at least I like to think so). Start your own personal tour around Google’s North Carolina data center by watching the video below and also using Google Street View by … [Read more...]
Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs – Rap Battle Video
Time for some Friday afternoon fun… I saw this video recently and thought it too good not to share. Besides, I can’t be serious all the time on the blog. It’s a rap parody of Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs – very cleverly done indeed and will no doubt appeal to all my fellow geeks out there. Technorati Tags: Bill Gates,Steve Jobs,padrody,rap,video … [Read more...]
TechHead – the past year… A brief review
Well, here we are once again at the end of a very busy, exciting and tiring year. I get to the end of every year thinking that it had been more hectic and faster than the one before, though this past year has been exceptional both with work commitments and also selling and then moving house. The result of this has been less time to dedicate to my home lab and also blogging, which you may have noticed with the decline of regular posts. I have tried to keep semi-regular posts … [Read more...]
Where is Simon?
What a crazy couple of months it’s been at work! You can probably tell from the lack of blog posts on the site that I have been busy doing other things, namely working with a small group of others from the EMC vSpecialist team to create a VMworld EMC hands on lab offering for the upcoming VMworld events in Las Vegas and Copenhagen. Plenty of hard work and brain power has gone into creating an engaging (we hope attendees will agree) though informative and relevant 60 minute lab … [Read more...]