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

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...

Sending AWS CloudWatch Logs to VMware Log Intelligence

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Sending AWS CloudWatch Logs to VMware Log Intelligence   This article was written by Senior Technical Account Manager, Nico Guerrera. See his full bio at the bottom of this article. As more and more customers move workloads to the cloud, we at VMware want to make sure that they can leverage their investment in our Read more...

ServiceNow Notifications with vRealize Operations 7.5

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vRealize Operations is a great tool for monitoring your infrastructure and applications. With its included alerting capabilities, you’ll know right away when things go wrong, when you’re running low on capacity, or if you’re out of compliance, just to name a few. Management Packs are a great way to easily expand your alerting capabilities to Read more...
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Metric Correlation with vRealize Operations

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vRealize Operations is a tool of many talents. It keeps an ever-vigilant watch over the performance and capacity of your VMware SDDC. Self-driving operations means that you can focus on other tasks while vRealize Operations takes care of the routine. Workloads can be balanced to avoid capacity constraints and performance bottlenecks. Configuration drifts can be Read more...

What’s New in vRealize Log Insight 4.8

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vRealize Log Insight is VMware’s log analytics tool which allows IT administrators to rapidly troubleshoot their applications and infrastructure. Intuitive search capabilities combined with dashboards makes data extraction easier and dare I say, a little fun! vRealize Log Insight is about to celebrate its sixth birthday since version 1.0 went GA on July 9th 2013. Read more...

vRealize Operations Custom Compliance Templates

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Keeping your corporate data secure is critical to any business. Personal information such as social security numbers, healthcare records, and credit cards are big business for thieves who sell this information on the black market. Healthcare, banking, and retail industries are high-value targets, but the truth is that any business is at risk. Just think Read more...

Forwarding Kubernetes Logs to vRealize Log Insight via Fluentd

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Credit to NICO GUERRERA for this blog post (Bio Below)!   As we all know, Kubernetes and container technologies are currently exploding in adoption in data centers and public clouds around the world. With such aggressive growth of this new technology, we need to make sure we properly operationalize it to ensure a successful deployment. A Read more...

VMworld 2017 – The Ops Perspective Part 3

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  That’s a wrap! VMworld US 2017 is officially over. It’s been a very exciting week with all the great announcements such as the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Services, PKS, and App Defense to name just a few!! We’ve heard about the future of operations management and the present with cool Read more...