Matt Bradford

Matt Bradford is a Senior VMware Healthcare Technical Account Manager based in New England. He is heavily involved in the VMware community as a three year VMware vExpert and a member of the Boston VMUG and Connecticut VMUG Steering Committees. Be sure to check out Matt’s personal blog at www.VMSpot.com and say hi to him on Twitter @VMSpot.

Recent Posts

Announcing the 2020 vExpert Cloud Management Program!

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The vExpert Cloud Management community is about to celebrate its first birthday! It’s been a tremendous first year with nearly 100 vExperts representing 25 countries from around the globe. For the uninitiated, the vExpert title is awarded to individuals who share their passion and knowledge for VMware technologies through the support of VMware User Groups, Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management January 2020 Blog Digest

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Welcome to the first vExpert Cloud Management Blog Digest for 2020! Every month we share a handful of blogs created by our vExpert Cloud Management Community. These blogs are written by industry professionals from around the vCommunity and often feature walkthroughs, feature highlights, and news for vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, and vRealize Log Insight. Read more...

Introducing New Features for vRealize Log Insight Cloud Dashboards

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Today I’m very excited to share with you some of the new features we recently introduced with VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud dashboards. For the uninitiated, vRealize Log Insight Cloud is VMware’s log aggregation and analytics service. vRealize Log Insight Cloud provides deep analytics capabilities for private and public clouds such as VMware Cloud on Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management December 2019 Blog Digest

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Every month we publish a digest of blogs created by our vExpert Cloud Management Community. These blogs are written by industry professionals from around the vCommunity and often feature walkthroughs, feature highlights, and news for vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, and vRealize Log Insight. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their time outside Read more...

The vExpert Cloud Management Zombie VM Hunt

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  Zombies are everywhere, needlessly consuming resources in every customer’s environment. Zombie VM’s are virtual machines that were provisioned and for one reason or another unintentionally not used. This can be due to stalled or abandoned projects or even incomplete decommissioning procedures. Despite being unused, Zombie VM’s continue to eat valuable Compute, Memory, Storage, and Read more...

Don’t waste your VMC logs. Put them to work for you.

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Managed services such as VMware Cloud on AWS save you valuable time and effort that might otherwise be spent managing infrastructure and focusing on your workloads. However, it’s just as important to know what’s happening in your VMware Cloud SDDC as it is your on-premises data center. Often, customers migrate or deploy applications to VMware Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management November 2019 Blog Digest

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  Every month we publish a digest of blogs created by our vExpert Cloud Management Community. These blogs are written by industry professionals from around the vCommunity and often feature walkthroughs, feature highlights, and news for vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, and vRealize Log Insight. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management October 2019 Blog Digest

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  VMware’s vExpert program is made up of industry professionals from around the vCommunity. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their time outside of work to share their experiences and useful information about VMware products with the rest of the community. In July of 2019, we spun off a sub-program called vExpert Read more...

What’s new in vRealize Log Insight 8.0

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vRealize Log Insight 8.0 is now available for download and includes a number of customer-requested features and enhancements. Log Insight is VMware’s on-premises log analytics tool which makes troubleshooting and basic security monitoring a breeze. If you’re not using Log Insight today, then head over to the product page and take advantage of the 60-day Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management September 2019 Blog Digest

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VMware’s vExpert program is made up of industry professionals from around the vCommunity. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their time outside of work to share their experiences and useful information about VMware products with the rest of the community. In July of 2019, we spun off a sub-program called vExpert Cloud Read more...