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The cat is out of the bag.

Today I completed my 5th AWS Certification.

Does the following sound familiar to you?

I cannot believe it is over 3 years since I created the openstack-git-env container.

Some people say that once you write a book - you never stop at only one.

I hardly mix my professional and personal life here on this blog.

If you have been following the hints that I have been dropping on Twitter - you may have noticed that I am about to go public with a new book.

I am no IT conference novice.

The past few weeks have been a bumpy ride for the folks at Google - and before hand Uber was the center of a pretty big scandal.

<RANT /ON> I was rubbed the wrong way today - listening to a podcast.

This past week - I have been working a lot with an account team to provide an RFP for a potential customer, and it is quite clear that sometimes the sales teams do not understand what an As-A-Service solution means, and even more so - from the potential c…

I have been working on a project for a while that includes the deployment of a large number of moving parts that are in a significant state of flux.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appears to have been confusing people ever since 2012, when the term was first coined by Steve Chambers and Forrester Research.

There comes a time in one’s life where you ask yourself, “Is this it?

As you might have noticed, weeks 15 and 16 are missing – life just got in the way – my apologies.

I spent most of the half the week in Texas, and the other getting ready for Pesach.

I have spent most of the week here in Texas at an internal DevOps conference.

I am a bit late with this post – life has really gotten mad as I get ready for a trip to the US next week.

Crazy week – but one of the best I have had.

Well – another week has gone by – and winter is practically over here in Israel.

Honestly this week has not been my best – far too much going on at work – after work and yet there are always new things that I learn.

All in all this has been a good week – some ups, some downs – but knowledge is a never ending journey.

A week where our Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went to visit President Trump in the U.S. will always be an interesting one – no matter how you look at it.

Where has the time gone by?

Two days ago I decided to submit my candidacy for one of the two spots up for election (for the first time!)

January has come and gone – and of course this week is no different than the last – always something new.

Another week has gone by.

This week has been a busy one.

I was thinking of putting up a post about what I want to achieve in 2017 – but I think that I would really be kidding myself – trying to set expectations for the next 12 months.

We are constantly learning, evolving and improving (well at least I hope we are).

I am on my way to the summit – cutting it fine, as I will only be arriving after the keynotes have started on Day 1.

The world shook a few days ago, with the announcement of a partnership between VMware and AWS.

So if I am already on a roll with saying thank you, I wanted to share wiith you all a post I wrote on LinkedIn a month ago (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/saying-thank-you-maish-saidel-keesing) Reposting it here in it’s entirety.

Writing a blog is mostly fun, but it comes with a cost not only of time and effort but also some cold hard cash (or actually everything is paid today with a credit and it all just numbers on a spreadsheet..) be it for Webhosting, Domain registration – well

A short while back I participated in an internal event.

I assume that it has been apparent that I have not been active on my blog.

A while back I blogged about native virtualization on a Mac, and today I am pleased to host Clarence Chio with a guest post about a very interesting use case for using Veertu.

Background OpenStack has a vast community, globally distributed, spanning multiple time zones and all sorts and kinds.

I participated a week or two ago in the DevOpsJRS meetup in Cisco Jerusalem.

I was contacted today by Izik Eidus, an old acquaintance from Ravello which I was really impressed with their technology and introduced them in this post.

A short while back I tweeted the following: Has hell frozen over?

This is third post in the The Three Pillars of DevOps series Part 1 – The Three Pillars of DevOps Part 2 – Pillar #1 - Developers Part 3 – Pillar #2 - Operations Engineers Part 4 – Pillar #3 - Management In this post we will dive in to the third pillar –…

This is second post in the The Three Pillars of DevOps series Part 1 – The Three Pillars of DevOps Part 2 – Pillar #1 - Developers Part 3 – Pillar #2 - Operations Engineers Part 4 – Pillar #3 - Management In this post we will dive in to the second pillar –

Since this has been totally unavailable up until now (except for a select few), it is great to see that it now available for public download As has been said a number of times before (here and here), it was not possible to get hold of NSX unless you had s…

I apologize for plagiarizing the holy concept of The Three Pillars, but I do think that a foundation needs to be laid down for a healthy DevOps culture to thrive and even survive.

This is second post in the The Three Pillars of DevOps series Part 1 – The Three Pillars of DevOps Part 2 – Pillar #1 - Developers Part 3 – Pillar #2 - Operations Engineers Part 4 – Pillar #3 - Management In this post we will dive in to the first pillar –…

My new post on some PowerShell Profile tricks for VMware has been published on the Petri IT knowledgebase.

I love diving into numbers – especially when it has something to do with technology conferences.

This was a big piece of news last week.

Even though we still do not know what the next release of OpenStack will yet be called (due to some community naming issues) – this is still an event I am very much looking forward to.