filipv.net blogfeed http://filipv.net/ I attended the Microsoft Community Event Experts Live Netherlands this week and came away impressed by the strength and diversity of the Microsoft Community and it’s ecosystem. The event was extremely well organized and had some great content and speakers. From the Rubrik side I presented a session on how... Mon, 06 May 2024 08:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/microsoft-rubrik/ http://filipv.net/microsoft-rubrik/ In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote his seminal piece in the Wall Street Journal on “Why Software Is Eating The World”, arguing that every company would become a software company. Today he is similarly singing AI’s praises, and published his article “Why AI Will Save the World”, notably on his “own”... Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/why-do-you-need-api-security/ http://filipv.net/why-do-you-need-api-security/ The Apple Studio Display is a bit of a strange device, it is basically a large iPad powered by an A13 Bionic chip. It also messes up your VPN services. I wanted to try out Google Bard, but since I’m based in Belgium, and the EU is pretty negative on... Wed, 31 May 2023 11:45:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/apple-display-vpn/ http://filipv.net/apple-display-vpn/ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s now-famous motto: “Move fast and break things”, meaning approaching work and innovation with an emphasis on speed and experimentation, feels somewhat counterintuitive to most enterprises’ day-to-day reality. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in regulatory scrutiny across various industries. From finance to healthcare... Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:27:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/move-fast-and-dont-break-things/ http://filipv.net/move-fast-and-dont-break-things/ There are many free resources available to help you pass the exam. Below are the ones I used to pass mine. edX, edX is a massive open online course provider created by Harvard and MIT. It has a bunch of free (especially if you don’t care about the certificates of... Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/passing-the-aws-cloud-practitioner-exam/ http://filipv.net/passing-the-aws-cloud-practitioner-exam/ I was waiting for this announcement for a while, I’ve owned The LG UltraFine 5K Display before, and was using an LG 32UL950 just before switching to the Apple Studio Display. I’ve also long coveted the Apple Pro Display XDR but couldn’t bring myself to spend that kind of cash... Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://filipv.net/a-real-user-review-of-the-apple/ http://filipv.net/a-real-user-review-of-the-apple/ 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 wanted... Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100 http://filipv.net/google-adsense/ http://filipv.net/google-adsense/ 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... Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:16:22 +0200 http://filipv.net/windows-11-using-vmware-fusion-12/ http://filipv.net/windows-11-using-vmware-fusion-12/ 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. AppFlows and 24H CDP support AppFlows is a new application on the Polaris SaaS platform (it went GA a few days after... Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/rubrik-6-0-summer-release-overview/ http://filipv.net/rubrik-6-0-summer-release-overview/ Rubrik just held its yearly user conference Forward during which we announced our Kubernetes data management solution. In true Rubrik fashion we wanted to make this very easy to setup and use. Backup for Kubernetes has been a hotly debated topic over the years, pundits like to point out that... Fri, 21 May 2021 08:42:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/kubernetes-data-management-with-rubrik/ http://filipv.net/kubernetes-data-management-with-rubrik/ 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. The Microsoft Authenticator app has been steadily extended... Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:16:00 +0100 http://filipv.net/protect-rubrik-cdm-with-microsoft-authenticator/ http://filipv.net/protect-rubrik-cdm-with-microsoft-authenticator/ My sneaky colleagues announced the new Rubrik CDM release, codenamed Andes 5.1, while I was on PTO so I’m a couple of days late with this post but still wanted to provide an overview of the new features and function highlights and show you what is coming down the line.... Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:24:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/rubrik-cdm-5-1/ http://filipv.net/rubrik-cdm-5-1/ 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, but before we do that let’s discuss... Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:48:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/vmware-cloud-on-aws-azure-and-gcp/ http://filipv.net/vmware-cloud-on-aws-azure-and-gcp/ 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). Consuming these services from within the public cloud is pretty... Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:57:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/azure-storage-through-the-lens-of-microsofts-own-hardware/ http://filipv.net/azure-storage-through-the-lens-of-microsofts-own-hardware/ 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. Additionally I wanted to provide some background and a deeper look at the NetApp StorageGRID solution.... Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/rubrik-and-netapp-storagegrid/ http://filipv.net/rubrik-and-netapp-storagegrid/ 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. I’ve compiled a list of... Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/it-documentaries-for-inspiration-fun-and-profit/ http://filipv.net/it-documentaries-for-inspiration-fun-and-profit/ The Andes or Andean Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Every year numerous new animal... Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:00:00 +0100 http://filipv.net/exciting-new-discoveries-from-the-andes-rubrik-cdm-5-0/ http://filipv.net/exciting-new-discoveries-from-the-andes-rubrik-cdm-5-0/ 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... Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/migrating-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-github-pages-and-jekyll/ http://filipv.net/migrating-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-github-pages-and-jekyll/ 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. Before jumping into more specifics about what Rubrik Datos IO is enabling for NoSQL databases, let’s... Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/rubrik-datos-io-and-mongodb/ http://filipv.net/rubrik-datos-io-and-mongodb/ 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.... Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0200 http://filipv.net/everything-old-is-new-again/ http://filipv.net/everything-old-is-new-again/