By SteveinAWS, Powershell, Trend Micro, Veeam, Vembu, VMwareTag AWS, Barcelona, Cohesity, Dell, Hackathon, NetApp, Nutanix, PowerVKE, Trend Micro, Veeam, Vembu, vExpert, VMware, VMworld, VMworld2018
Stephen Hackers from Hot Wired IT Solutions affiliate partner to HTG (Howell Technology Group) made the trip to VMworld Barcelona 2018 with Kevin Howell (HTG), Graham Wight (HTG) and Tony Cota.
Overview
Tech Experts Meetings + Design Workshops + Vendors + Hall Sessions = A great experience and excellent value for money.
Things I learnt…
VMworld through my eyes
3. Picked up my VMware vExpert 2018 goodie bag
4. Attended multiple design workshops. Signing NDA… Sorry no secrets being shared here.
VMware design_studio
5. Entered the Hackathon .. Joined an amazing team of 8 experts. (3rd place)
Chris Porter, Christopher Lewis, Colin Westwater, Dave Simpson, Dominik Zorgnotti, Gareth Edwards, Tony Cota and Stephen Hackers (Me).
We created and launched #PowerVKE. PowerShell module to deploy kubernetes. This was successful in taking 3rd place at the Hackathon
Available on GitHub https://github.com/PowerVKE
Follow on twitter https://twitter.com/PowerVKE
24 hours on from the Hackathon and Will PowerVKE name change to PowerPKS??
6. Meet the Vendors.
Vembu stand
NetApp with Ducati ( I was always going to visit any stand with a bike being a biker myself)
Quantum
7. Vendor party
Cohesity was our option
Great night out and some interesting glow in the dark / flashing devices for the night. The Queen tribute act was definitely worth watching. The friendly atmosphere was fantastic
8. Meet the Experts.
I attended two of these excellent sessions on PKS (kubernetes) and vSphere on AWS. As a techy I felt I got more business value in these 30-45min 1-1 tech sessions than in some of the high level presentations attended. That’s not to say the high level presentations were worth attending as well, but I got to ask in the 1-1 my homework for actual work I’m doing or planning on doing.
9.The End
Then the trip was over. Such an amazing few days. Already looking forward to VMworld 2019……
What solution did you use??
I’m currently looking at the following products
Digital Shadows and Breach Alert both seem to scan the dark web and have the ability to search on specific criteria and alert within a few minutes when an alert is triggered.
Digital Shadows had a nice feature flagging domain names which in theory could be used in phishing attacks against your company. For example Stephenhackers.co.uk if the actual domain, but stephenhackers.live was just purchased.
Digital Shadows goes to flag other interesting information. For example latest vulnerabilities.
This research is to be continued……
Tag @stephenhackers on Twitter with other products your using or features you find add the most value to your business.
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# Targets a specific OU
# Lists computer names
# OU Variable to set
$OU_HotWiredUK_location = “OU=Computers,OU=HotWiredHQ,OU=UK,DC=test,DC=com”
# Out put CSV to c:\scripts\…
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#List Members of a specific AD group – output Username and User Full Name
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Create a batch file to check a text file is in the location specified, else run a task.
#This batch file checks to see if a text file is in a location, if it does not, then launch notepad.exe
Create IfNot.bat
Add the following :
If NOT exist “C:\Temp\IsThisFileHere.txt”\ (
notepad.exe
)
exit
