Articles by Don Ward

Security 101 Series – Volume 1

September 5, 2018 Don Ward 0

Hello again my old friends! Since my last post https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-20-don-ward/ I’ve been keeping my head down below the parapet as I’ve focused all of my efforts on all things security including Cyber. I’ve also been given an ear bending (aka nagging) from my fellow blog founders (Graeme cough cough) to put out more (giggedy – I mean blogs) so it’s time to surface once again. Standard caveats apply to this post in that these are my opinions at the time of writing, subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the same opinions of my current or past employers. Since joining my new organisation Atos as a principal Cyber Security Solutions Architect, the learning curve has been massive and the […]

The death of an icon – literally

May 18, 2016 Don Ward 2

As I type this we are about to go to a special WebEx meeting for vExperts only but by the time you read this; VMware would have announced this on their blog and the gag can come off! So after enduring a huge amount of pain due to typical conference call pings/rings/background noise we eventually got down to business. The meeting is basically telling us we are going to get a new GUI to manage VMware estates however there can be only one (cue Highlander movie MEME). What does this mean? Well it means: VMware are no longer offering C sharp client (VI CLIENT) in the next release of vSphere So what is the low down and why did VMware […]

VMware Application Dependencies and Entity Relationship Diagrams MK2

May 11, 2016 Don Ward 0

From vBikerBlog.com OK ladies and gentleman it's been a while since my last post and that's primarily down to things like looking after babies and changing jobs. The reasons for the job change was primarily because I felt I needed to get more true enterprise experiences in order to achieve a true understanding of Enterprise Architecting. Most if not all of my work to date as been in the SMB spaces so therefore the amount of complexity hasn't really been relevant to the point where I felt it could justify me becoming a VCDX. Anyway moving on to the subject at hand. You may recall that previously I questioned VMware's stance on their concept and point of view when it comes to […]