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November 19th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Welcome to my humble corner of the web.  My name is Julian Wood, and I’ve finally decided to give blogging a try.

You can get hold of me via email: julian[at]wooditwork.com or twitter @julian_wood or see more detail of what I do on LinkedIn.

So…who am I?

I’m a freelance IT consultant living and working in London as an enterprise infrastructure architect, designing and building the interconnected computer related stuff people use every day and peddling my ideas to anyone who will listen.

I work mainly on virtualisation and Windows Server and surrounding technology projects with plenty of storage, networking, desktop, scripting in the mix and also loads of other bits and pieces thrown in for fun.

I started many moons ago in IT, the bug bit big time while I was playing with computers at school and has only grown!  I’ve written some programs used by actual people, worked as a do everything IT person and played as an IT manager.  I’ve done support, delved into technical project management and now try my luck at plenty of engineering / design / architecture (all the same thing I think).

I have a passion for putting together systems that are simple, flexible and scalable regardless of their size and thought it was about time I put down my thoughts and ideas….so thanks for stopping by.

Oh, and my disclaimer in case you need it… This is a personal blog, any opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the views of any company.

  1. Jane Rimmer
    October 28th, 2010 at 14:50 | #1

    Julian are you on Twitter? If so what’s your handle? Your peer group loved your preso at the London VMUG and tweeted lots if comments!

  2. Dave Marriott
    October 29th, 2010 at 08:40 | #2

    A great presentation at the London VMUG. Covered a lot of important detail.

  3. WoodITWork
    October 29th, 2010 at 14:16 | #3

    @Jane Rimmer
    Hi Jane, I’m @julian_wood on twitter. Was a pleasure to be able to present, thanks for inviting me.

  4. robert moore
    March 27th, 2011 at 23:54 | #4

    Nice to see a blog with lots of vmware and flex-10 content
    keep it up

  5. vmcreator
    June 25th, 2011 at 16:45 | #5

    Hi Julian,

    I am very new to HP Flex 10, and I have found your articles to be excellent in helping understand this technology. It does seem the majority of recommended / sold solutions encompass c7000 blade enclosures, BL460 C# blades, Cisco 3750-x switches and HP (Lefthand) P4000 / P4500 storage as the most popular configuration.

    Do you have any comments and/or insight to the Lefthand integration.

    I note Scott Lowe has already hammered the prospect of stretched clustering [ see Mike Laverick's site ] !!.

    I feel HP really need to write a proven white paper on integrating all this stuff. They have lots of independant white papers but nothing really that matches the quality of EMC and Cisco.

    Best Regards

    Bob

  6. November 24th, 2011 at 18:47 | #6

    Hey there! I fully agree with your thoughts. I’ve just shared it on Facebook.

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