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A real user review of the Apple Studio Display
Apple

A real user review of the Apple Studio Display

A real user review of the Apple Studio Display

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Mar 18, 2022 • 4 min read
The API Security Newsletter

The API Security Newsletter

I recently switched jobs and went from working in the virtualization/cloud industry to working in the security/API industry, hence I'm switching my Multi-Cloud Musings Newsletter to an API Security focused one. I'll also be using a different platform (https://twitter.com/revue) for the newsletter so you get

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Mar 7, 2022 • 1 min read
Multi-Cloud Musings - Newsletter #4 - Dec. 2021
MultiCloud

Multi-Cloud Musings - Newsletter #4 - Dec. 2021

Hi and welcome to the fourth Multi-Cloud Newsletter, summarizing the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last couple of weeks, with a slight VMware slant. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Dec 2, 2021 • 6 min read
Cloudflare Serverless fix to Google AdSense on the Ghost.io Starter Plan.
Cloudflare

Cloudflare Serverless fix to Google AdSense on the Ghost.io Starter Plan.

First of all, yes ads suck. I recently started using Google AdSense on my blog to recoup the costs of Ghost.io. I switched to Ghost from GitHub Pages which is completely free and a great way to host a static blog. I wanted some more flexibility however and also

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Nov 5, 2021 • 3 min read
Multi-Cloud Newsletter Oct. 2021 - issue #3
MultiCloud

Multi-Cloud Newsletter Oct. 2021 - issue #3

Hi and welcome to the third Multi-Cloud Newsletter, summarizing the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last couple of weeks, with a slight VMware slant. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Oct 25, 2021 • 13 min read
Running Windows 11 (and WSL) on Mac using VMware Fusion 12.2
VMware

Running Windows 11 (and WSL) on Mac using VMware Fusion 12.2

I needed a Windows 11 VM to do some testing and since I currently don't have any Windows hardware anymore I decided to use VMware Fusion on my (intel) mac instead. Follow the steps below to avoid the dreaded "this machine is not compatible with Windows 11" message because a

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Oct 20, 2021 • 4 min read
Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021 - issue #2
Newsletter

Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021 - issue #2

Hi and welcome to the second Mulit-Cloud Newsletter, summarizing the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last couple of weeks. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will only get the newsletter via

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Sep 21, 2021 • 6 min read
Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021
Newsletter

Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021

IntroductionWelcome to my first Multi-Cloud* Newsletter where I will try to summarize the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last weeks. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will only get the newsletter

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Sep 2, 2021 • 4 min read
Rubrik 6.0 Summer Release Overview
Rubrik

Rubrik 6.0 Summer Release Overview

Rubrik made the 6.0 Summer Release generally available a few days ago, in this blog post I wanted to provide an overview of some of the new features.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Aug 2, 2021 • 4 min read
Kubernetes Data Management with Rubrik
Rubrik

Kubernetes Data Management with Rubrik

Backup for Kubernetes has been a hotly debated topic over the years, pundits like to point out that container workloads are supposed to be stateless and as such backing them up isn’t strictly needed.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy May 21, 2021 • 3 min read
Protect Rubrik CDM with Microsoft Authenticator
Ransomware

Protect Rubrik CDM with Microsoft Authenticator

Rubrik released version 5.3.1 of the RCDM code a couple of days ago and one of the new feautures is the ability to protect all of your Rubrik login accounts with two-step verification by using the industry standard time-based OTP(one-time password) codes.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Mar 18, 2021 • 2 min read
Rubrik CDM 5.1
Backup

Rubrik CDM 5.1

An overview of the new features and function highlights of the new Rubrik CDM release, codenamed Andes 5.1, see what is coming down the line.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Aug 26, 2019 • 5 min read
VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP
VMware

VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP

With the recent announcement of the Google Cloud VMware Solution you now have the possibility to run a VMware stack on each of the 3 major hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP. In this post I wanted to compare and contrast the 3 solutions.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Aug 22, 2019 • 7 min read
Azure Storage through the lens of Microsoft's own hardware
Microsoft

Azure Storage through the lens of Microsoft's own hardware

Microsoft Azure provides very compelling cloud storage services, Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects (Blob), a file system service for the cloud (Files), a messaging store for reliable messaging (Queues), and a NoSQL store (Tables).

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Aug 1, 2019 • 4 min read
Rubrik and NetApp StorageGRID
Backup

Rubrik and NetApp StorageGRID

Rubrik and NetApp recently announced support for NetApp StorageGRID as an Archive target. Some things, like bacon and eggs, are just better together which is what I wanted to focus on in this blogpost.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Jun 18, 2019 • 3 min read
IT documentaries for inspiration, fun, and profit
Documentary

IT documentaries for inspiration, fun, and profit

I often find myself watching and rewatching documentaries related to my field(s) of interest, mainly the IT industry, and (computer) science in general. I find that doing so provides a certain inspiration to start tinkering with something new, or often times just to keep pushing.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Apr 1, 2019 • 3 min read
Exciting new discoveries from the Andes (Rubrik CDM 5.0)
Rubrik

Exciting new discoveries from the Andes (Rubrik CDM 5.0)

Just like discovering new animal species in what feels like already deeply explored and well understood territory, adding new insights and capabilities in technology can advance some historically held assumptions.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Nov 14, 2018 • 4 min read
Migrating my blog from WordPress to GitHub Pages and Jekyll
Blog

Migrating my blog from WordPress to GitHub Pages and Jekyll

Taking a look a what I was using and paying WordPress.com for I felt it no longer made sense to keep using the service. After looking at some alternatives I decided upon using GitHub Pages to host my blog. It will force me to use a certain toolset, and it’s free! :-)

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Jul 8, 2018 • 2 min read
Rubrik Datos IO and MongoDB
MongoDB

Rubrik Datos IO and MongoDB

In februari of 2018 Rubrik announced the acquisition of Datos IO, a startup with a focus on data management for an underserved part of the market namely (a.o.) NoSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Jun 18, 2018 • 5 min read
Everything old is new again.
SunMicrosystems

Everything old is new again.

My first job in IT, many moons ago, was at a company called MOTEC, it was a subcontractor of Telenet, one of the biggest ISPs in Belgium. We were responsible for building the cable based telephony systems that their customers used to make phone calls over the tv distribution network.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Jun 14, 2018 • 3 min read
Containers and persistent storage
Containers

Containers and persistent storage

As containers continue to rise in popularity beyond the developer populous the way these constructs are being used becomes increasingly varied, especially (but not exclusively) in light of enterprise applications the questions of persistent storage comes up more and more.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy May 8, 2018 • 6 min read
VMware’s Cloud Nativeness
VMware

VMware’s Cloud Nativeness

At first glance it feels like VMware’s efforts related to cloud native applications are meant to cater to the traditional admins, people who are mainly running virtual machines today but want, or need, to support other types of workloads as well.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Dec 31, 2017 • 10 min read
Rubrik's Masterless Cluster Approach
Rubrik

Rubrik's Masterless Cluster Approach

Rubrik has opted to build a truly scalable, masterless cluster, neatly leapfrogging legacy approaches of the past by taking lessons from massive-scale modern environments found at Google, Facebook and the like.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Oct 23, 2017 • 3 min read
Rubrik and Microsoft, rest assured.
Microsoft

Rubrik and Microsoft, rest assured.

Rubrik has been working with Microsoft’s solutions in various ways since version 2.3 with the initial support of Microsoft Azure as an archive location for long-term retention data.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Sep 6, 2017 • 4 min read
Rubrik Alta feature spotlight: AWS
AWS

Rubrik Alta feature spotlight: AWS

Rubrik has had a long history of successfully working with Amazon Web Services, we’ve had integration with Amazon S3 since our first version.

  • Filip Verloy
Filip Verloy Jun 14, 2017 • 4 min read
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