Welcome to the Flackbox blog, where my aim is to help you build your cloud and data center career. If you’re looking to widen your knowledge across server, networking and storage technologies then you’ve come to the right place. I regularly upload training video tutorials featuring vendors such as Cisco, NetApp and VMware.

Cloud Resource Pooling – Tutorial

Posted on June 8, 2017 By

Cloud Resource Pooling - Tutorial

This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video and also text tu...

NetApp CIFS and SMB Storage Tutorial

Posted on June 1, 2017 By

NetApp CIFS and SMB Storage Tutorial

In this NetApp training tutorial, I will cover CIFS and SMB on NetApp storage. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp CIFS and SMB Storage Video Tutorial [youtube v = Q4n0TICXN0g maxwidth = 100%] [testimonial_view id=”2″] NetApp CIFS SMB   The terms CIFS (Common I...

Cloud Broad Network Access – Tutorial

Posted on May 25, 2017 By

Cloud Broad Network Access - Tutorial

This is the sixth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video a...

Cloud Rapid Elasticity – Tutorial

Posted on May 11, 2017 By

This is the fifth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video a...

Cloud On-Demand Self-Service – Tutorial

Posted on April 27, 2017 By

Cloud On-Demand Self-Service - Tutorial

This is the fourth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll begin taking a look at the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for th...

Defining Cloud Computing – Tutorial

Posted on April 13, 2017 By

Defining Cloud Computing - Tutorial

This is the third tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! We covered our traditional IT deployment models in the last couple of posts in this series: Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo ...

Server Virtualization Simplified – Tutorial

Posted on March 29, 2017 By

This is the second tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this second cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about server virtualization, using technologies such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Re...

Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo

Posted on March 15, 2017 By

Traditional IT Deployment Models - On Prem and Colo

This is the first tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this first cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about what we had before cloud, because to understand how cloud is different, you need ...