Good read on latest server hardware sales

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/09/06/are-hyperscalers-and-clouds-builders-smashing-up-an-it-pangea/

Really Good technical compare and contrast.

Language is NSFW but the technical content is extremely impressive:

VMware vSan Performance:  http://www.cultofanarchy.org/vmware-vsan-greatin-fucking-things-re-investigating-vmware-vsan-4-node-cluster-performance/

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct:  http://www.cultofanarchy.org/microsoft-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-surprisingly-good-job/

Nutanix:  http://www.cultofanarchy.org/perfomance-test-nutanix-4-node-cluste/

Patching S2D clusters using CAU (MUST READ)

https://bcthomas.com/2018/09/you-need-to-change-the-way-you-patch-s2d-clusters/

Operations Jobs in the future.

Topic near and dear to my heart:  https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/09/05/no-operations-isnt-going-anywhere-but-its-going-to-look-different/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-operations-isnt-going-anywhere-but-its-going-to-look-different

Really looking forward to Server 2019 SDN Capabilities

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2018/08/29/sdnsecurity/

Test Microsoft SDN using Nested Hyper-V

https://cloudmechanic.net/2018/08/29/deploying-a-sdnv2-lab-on-a-single-host-using-nested-hyper-v/

Good article on setting Visual Studio Code for Powershell development

http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2018/08/powershell-paradise-installing-and.html