KFC Woes in UK & AI (BAW7)

KFC, the famous chicken institution, is suffering a lot at the moment.  People hoping to feast on fried chicken in the UK have been hit by a nationwide KFC famine.  The famine has occurred throughout the UK as KFC UK switched their logistics provider from Bidvest to DHL last week.  All did not go smoothly through the transition resulting in […]

Updated Veeam Weekly Backup Report – Powershell (BAW6)

Back in 2015, I created a 3-day Backup Report for Veeam that was based on the ‘SysAdmin Modular Report’ (SAMReport) – this is the link to the original post for that report:  http://virtualworlduk.co.uk/3-day-veeam-backup-report-powercli/ That report has been useful for a couple of years but I felt that I could do better, without having to link back to the vCenter server quite so […]

Broadcom & Qualcomm – $120 billion takeover (BAW5)

As you may be aware Broadcom had previously offered $70 per share to Qualcomm share holders in an attempt to acquire Qualcomm which made the offered amount around $100 billion… the biggest acquisition in history… unfortunately Qualcomm refused the offer as it believed that Broadcom had undervalued the company. The battle goes on and apparently Broadcom are now offering around […]

Dell Secret Talks (BAW4)

Firstly, let me apologise for the delay in this post coming out.  Secondly, many people may have already seen this at the end of last week with regards to Dell having some secretive talks about their future. As you will all be aware, Michael Dell went through a phase a buying back shares to become a privately owned company, and […]

VCSA 6.5 – Greyed Out Migration Option (BAW2)

Whilst performing some Storage vMotion activities recently, I discovered an issue with 3 virtual machines in my environment where they were unable to perform a vMotion of any type due to the Migrate option being greyed out in vCenter.  I believe that this actually occurred because the 3 virtual machines in question had been in the middle of a Storage […]

The 5 levels of autonomous cars!! (BAW1)

In a slight change from my normal blog posts, I thought that it would be good to take a look at the emerging tech around autonomous cars.  I’m sure that autonomous cars will continue to evolve and will become the main type of car purchased in the future.  In reading a little more about autonomous cars, I’ve discovered that there […]