About Ather Beg

Ather is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect and works for Amazon Web Services. His focus is on all things related to cloud, technology, storage, virtualization and whatever comes in between. Being in the industry for over 27 years, Ather has been a vExpert for 10 years running and is also vExpert NSX/HCX/CloudProvider. He has also been an official VMware blogger at VMworld EU and US and is one of the founding members and contributor to Open HomeLab Wiki and co-hosts @OpenTechCast as well. Ather’s natural habitat is tech events like VMworld, Cloud (and other) Field Days, VMUGs etc. and he thrives on meeting like-minded people and having a good old chat about technology. He’s friendly and not dangerous at all so please do interact with him whenever you spot him in such surroundings.
24 10, 2017

How to move disk group to new Synology NAS

By |2017-10-24T11:25:58+01:00October 24th, 2017|Synology|17 Comments

Just wanted to do a quick post on how easy it is to move an existing Synology disk group to a different Synology device. I recently had to do that but the information available wasn't too clear, especially with regards to the safety of existing data etc. It started a few months ago when my [...]

21 09, 2017

Ravello on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure goes GA!

By |2017-09-21T17:59:41+01:00September 21st, 2017|Ravello, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere|1 Comment

A few months back, I reported the return of Ravello with exciting new capabilities in the pipeline. Being a big fan of the technology, I was very excited to know what’s coming and couldn’t wait for its release. Today, I am pleased to say that Oracle is announcing the general availability of Ravello on Oracle [...]

15 09, 2017

VMworld Europe 2017 – Day 2 & 3

By |2017-09-15T21:38:22+01:00September 15th, 2017|VMware, VMworld|1 Comment

I started Day 2 by posting coverage of Day 1 of VMworld and all things of note since after landing in Barcelona. Then there was the run to the venue. Coincidentally, I got the same seat in the keynote as on Day 1 and next to Barry Coombs and Megan Warren. https://twitter.com/AtherBeg/status/907860626831179778 The keynote was [...]

15 09, 2017

Open TechCast: EP7: A Bit of a COO – A quick Conflab with Sanjay Poonen

By |2017-09-15T21:22:42+01:00September 15th, 2017|Open TechCast, VMware, VMworld|0 Comments

I hope you enjoyed our interview with Pat Gelsinger a few days ago. Today, we have another special treat for you. On Day 2 of VMworld Europe 2017, we interviewed Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer - Customer Operations at VMware. In the interview, we talked to him about life in general but also at VMware [...]

13 09, 2017

VMworld Europe 2017: Day 1 and before

By |2017-09-13T06:42:11+01:00September 13th, 2017|VMware, VMworld|0 Comments

It's VMworld time again in Barcelona and I am here to meet all my like-minded colleagues. For many people, VMworld in Barcelona starts a little earlier; on Sunday with the vRockStar Party. This party is organised by Patrick Redknap and Marco Broeken (with other volunteers) and has now become a tradition and its popularity is [...]

13 09, 2017

Open TechCast EP6: Life, technology and everything with Pat Gelsinger

By |2017-09-13T06:05:59+01:00September 13th, 2017|Open TechCast, VMworld|0 Comments

We have a very special episode for you this time and I thought, it deserves a special mention. We were fortunate enough to get a chance to interview VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger at VMworld Europe 2017. We started with getting his thoughts on the brilliant VR-Powered Cloud Management demo in the morning keynote session but [...]

31 07, 2017

Review: Apogee MiC 96K

By |2020-04-13T13:40:26+01:00July 31st, 2017|General|0 Comments

You might know that I co-host the Open TechCast. Everyone on the show have "fancy mics" and I have my Jabra headset, which does the job but it's not great.  For that reason, I decided to get one too. Now, that much was easy but if you've ever tried looking for one, you'll know that [...]

31 05, 2017

Oracle Ravello Blogger Day – Part 2: Ravello

By |2017-05-31T11:40:08+01:00May 31st, 2017|Oracle, Ravello|0 Comments

I covered Part 1 of the Oracle Ravello Blogger Day in my previous post. This post is all about the second part of the day which was devoted what we were originally invited for: Ravello. Why the silence? To answer that question and start us off, Navin Thadani, VP, Product Development, Oracle Ravello Cloud Service [...]

24 02, 2017

CloudCamp London : Fragmentation Edition

By |2017-02-24T12:01:32+00:00February 24th, 2017|Cloud|0 Comments

The Unpanel (from left to right): Chiara Rustici, Mark Craddock, Adrian Colyer, Alex Tijhuis, Kuan Hon Not even Storm Doris could prevent me from attending the CloudCamp event, organised by Cohesive Networks and also sponsored by VMware Code. Due to major travel restrictions and no tubes, I wasn't expecting the turn out to be [...]

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