Yesterday I stopped by the VCDX town hall to catch up with some old friends and see the state of things since I left VMware. Some of the things I am going to say may upset some people. I bit my tongue a little yesterday afternoon, but as I was …
Read More »Professional Development Is An Investment
There was a recent announcement yesterday about an increase in cost for the VCDX Certification. This has resulted in a rash of posts and tweets talking about how it’s unfair, and now too costly. I won’t get into the fact the information was pre-released irresponsibly by a VCDX Community member …
Read More »My 2016 VCDX Workshops
Back in January the VCDX Program announced the 2016 schedule of events which also includes various VCDX Workshops around the world. I myself will be presenting two of them on the east coast, but we need to have at least 10 people registered to hold these. Since they are free …
Read More »Spring is here….must be time for change
Spring is traditionally the time for change and this spring is no exception to that rule for me. Many of you know that I always spend the time in my current role thinking about the steps that lie ahead. Well, after just over a year helping Karl Childs and the …
Read More »A Validation Plan Can Save Everyone Loads of Time
There is a reason why a Validation Plan is part of the VCDX Documentation. Funny thing is many people don’t seem to take it that seriously either for the certification itself or for actual use in a production environment. When I was growing up as a young IT boy starting …
Read More »Personal Thoughts on the VCDX Troubleshooting Removal
Breath in…..breath out….okay now that we have all taken a breath I will start. As I mentioned on twitter there is a lot of good changes coming to the VCDX program. Like last year many of these changes are being done rapid fire in Q4 so we can institute them …
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