IT Thinking – MyVirtualFunction

Successfully Working from Home

By functionwpPosted on February 3, 2017Posted in IT Thinking, LifeofanSE, Mobilty, Thinking Out LoudTagged Home Office, IT Thinking, LifeofanSE, Working from homeNo Comments

I’ve learnt quite a bit about working from home in the last ten years and thought is was about time I shared one of the secrets to my success. It will take longer to get used to than you will first admit. Working from home has some obvious benefits; no travel time, no interruptions, working all […]

Public Cloud Availability

By functionwpPosted on June 6, 2016Posted in Azure, Cloud, Consumerization, IT Thinking, MicrosoftNo Comments

If you are in the Australian IT industry it will not have escaped your notice that AWS has had an outage in a single availability zone in Sydney. This has created a large amount of coverage online, some outrage, some opinion and a lot of WTF moments. The volume of coverage goes to show how successful public […]

Where are the Innovators, Gartner Symposium 2014?

By functionwpPosted on November 22, 2014Posted in IT Thinking, Thinking Out LoudTagged Gartner, GartnerSYM, Innovation, IT ThinkingNo Comments

I’ve just come back from the Gartner Symposium ITXPO on the Gold Coast #GartnerSYM. This was my trifecta having been to the 2012 and 2013 events. Gartner opened the event with the keynote on Tuesday morning by hammering in hard their new definition of the market. With a brief introduction touching on constant change and […]

The Rise of the Complex Workplace

By functionwpPosted on June 10, 2014Posted in Citrix, Consumerization, IT Thinking, Thinking Out LoudTagged Consumerization, Enterprise, ITNo Comments

It’s been twelve months since I managed to find that time for blogging spot in the work life balance venn diagram. That point has arrived thanks in part to actually thinking about one thing for more that a couple of days, finding the time to do a little reading and spending a lot of time […]

9 Step Guide to Delivering a Successful Solution

By functionwpPosted on June 3, 2014Posted in Desktop Virtualization, IT Thinking, Thinking Out LoudTagged Delivering desktop solutions, Delivering IT solutions, Designing Desktop Solutions, Designing IT SolutionsNo Comments

The aim of this post is to produce a repeatable guide to designing an endpoint solution, where the endpoint is the interface to consume information. Step 1 – Understand the Business Survey your user base Speak to a range of business units Speak to people in different geographical locations Meet with peers in industry verticals […]

Flipping the Workplace

By functionwpPosted on July 1, 2013Posted in Cloud, IT Thinking, Mobilty, Thinking Out LoudNo Comments

Recently I’ve been working in the education space, it’s something I recommend for everyone at least once. The challenges are numerous, educators are innovators and it is interesting dealing with the technical demands of a user base heavily influenced by consumer trends. It was the university sector that first introduced me to reverse learning or […]

Are Mirco Apps Changing Everything?

By functionwpPosted on June 7, 2012Posted in Cloud, IT Thinking, Mobilty, UncategorizedTagged Applications, Data, Micro Apps, Mobility1 Comment

I come from a desktop / application background, I’ve spent most of my IT career working with one flavour or another of Citrix’s XenApp platform (I’ve been through all the name changes) and am currently employed by Citrix as a Systems Engineer in Australia. To that end I’ve spent a lot of time working with […]

Move out the way IT….

By functionwpPosted on March 7, 2012Posted in Cloud, IT Thinking, Thinking Out LoudNo Comments

If you are like me you have spent your life in IT. I started in desktop support, spent some time on a help desk, and then moved back into level 2 desktop support (I can’t remember the difference between level 1 and level 2 desktop support, I still spent a lot of time crawling about […]

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2/2 Not one cross word or complaint! This must be taking 100% focus. It's a 5 hour flight! I would literally be a complete mess. #amazing #thispersonrocks
1/2 Okay I'm at the back of a very full flight, it's hideous. But here is why #women are #superheroes. Across the aisle is a lady with her small child. The guy infront of her has put his seat back, the child is asleep on her lap, almost everyone that goes past is bumping them.
I must of upset someone at .@Qantas. Seated as far back as you can go and then served this. Whatever I have done I am sorry! https://t.co/fEijs4dx82
@MattBruceinWA @thatjoshboys Pffft. Platinum, life time Gold (Thats just Qantas I can go on) etc etc..... It's not a badge I wear with any pride it's a curse. 100% I'd rather be playing Fortnite with H., drawing with little A. or watching TV with A.
@thatjoshboys Another day, same story! https://t.co/RQXOz4NtKL