Webinar – Move To The Cloud

I’ll be running a live webinar on the 16th September 2020 in conjunction with Mark McGill from Delphix, where we will do a live demo of some really cool stuff with data virtualisation in the cloud.

Using Delphix with the public cloud (AWS in this case) we will demo how super easy it is to spin up secure dev/test/analytics environments of any size on demand.

I’ve been working on this as a solution for a customer over the last few months and the possibilities it opens up are numerous.  Gone are the days of the lengthy procurement process to get some tin in the data centre, or the request process to have VMs spun up, or the capacity planning headaches, or the on going costs even when you’re not using your infrastructure.

The public cloud solves all that but you mix it with Delphix and you also solve the problems of moving data around environments.  It literally takes minutes to spin up 1, 10, 100 new copies of a masked production database on server resources of your choice to meet your requirements right now.

I’m pretty excited about this so come have a look at the demo and see what you think.

Here’s the registration page.  If you can’t make it register anyway and you’ll be sent a recording to view at your leisure.

See you there.

 

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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Finally, after three attempts at sitting the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam I got to actually do it this week.  That’s not that I failed two times before, which I could have dealt with better, but the previous two attempts were remote exams via PearsonVUE where the online proctor didn’t show up!

It frustrated me enough the first time but the second time really did grind on me and I vowed not to try anymore online exams with PearsonVUE and wait for test centres to reopen, which some have now.

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Solving Puzzles

I didn’t realise it until I sat down and reflected on my most recent and arguably greatest ever (!) accomplishment that I am always solving puzzles in my professional life. We all are in some way on a daily basis.

Growing up in the eighties with two older brothers there was always a Rubiks Cube knocking about the house and I spent many an hour getting frustrated and never solving more than two faces of this simple but perplexing puzzle. I think at one point I teased all the stickers off, stuck them back in order and proudly presented my work to my oldest brother who clearly was not convinced.

Fast forward a “few” years… I saw a rubik’s cube on tv one Sunday morning a few weeks ago and realised I had unfinished business with this multi-coloured plastic cube of annoyance. I hate not seeing a challenge through and usually I persist until a solution is found, but it doesn’t usually take me 35+ years!

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DataOps Community

Just a quick post about the new Delphix DataOps Community platform that went live in August (2019). As described in this press release, it’s the “world’s first destination focused squarely on the topic of the emerging DataOps category”.

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Another Successful Delphix Training Course Delivered

A completely different (non-technical) short post today.  I recently delivered another successful Delphix training course for a large corporate customer and specifically for their global support team in Pune, India (actually there were six from the support team plus one from their build team and one from the core engineering team).  That’s another eight Delphix experts created!

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The New Delphix 5.2 Management Interface

Delphix 5.2 Login Screen

Delphix version 5.2 has recently been released and with it a complete new look and feel to the virtualization engine GUI.  Finally the guys at Delphix have completely removed Flash from the front end, a welcome relief, and with it have taken the opportunity to redesign the interface to make it cleaner, more modern and intuitive.  It’s been a long time coming but is it an improvement?

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