Bal Birdy

Bal is an Open Group Certified IT Architect, and VCDX #269, specializing in the network and security arena, with over 15 years experience in enterprise level network/system technologies. His goal has always been to maintain a holistic view of the architecture allowing him to understand how various technology streams may impact the networking/infrastructure space. Bal has a proven record of delivering on enterprise network designs, leading data center and site migrations as a result of business mergers and acquisitions, and vendor migrations e.g. Cisco to Checkpoint/Juniper. As part of this he worked across several business sectors: Utilities, Banking, Retail and Government, and can base designs around sector specific standards e.g. PCI-DSS, DSD and ISM. He is proficient in several technology areas including Cisco, Juniper, F5, VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. These skills are supported by non-technical certifications: Prince2 Project Management Practitioner, ITILv3, TOGAF 9.1 Certified and Open Group Certified IT Architect – Open CA. In addition to supporting the Livefire Team, Bal leads several innovation efforts within the VMware WRACE organization, including projects investigating the use of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, AI/ML and Interactive 360, to support customer and partner enablement.Certifications: BSc (Hons) Computer Science CCNP/CCDP VCDX-NV #269 Open Group Certificated Architect Member of the Associated of Enterprise Architects

Livefire On-Demand Q3 Update – V2T Training and VCN 2022

All Livefire Alumni …. we’ve released some of our content from last year as on-demand content that you can now access. Details of these can be found below, and for a full list of all our content is available from the on-demand menu item. Content has been delivered in a combination of Virtual Trainer, Video …

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Livefire On-Demand Content Update Q1 2022

All Livefire Alumni …. we’ve released some of our content from last year as on-demand content that you can now access. Details of these can be found below, and for a full list of all our content is available from the on-demand menu item. Intrinsic Security Livefire: A New Approach on Protecting the Enterprisehttp://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=451220&ui=www_edu VCF …

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Virtual Trainer Beta Results (and we are award winners)

For those of you unfamiliar with micro-learning, the principle is that our attention spans drop off quite significantly when we are watching online training after about 6-8 mins. So this is why most e-learning content is broken up into 6-8 mins chunks. However, there are inherent limitations with this approach. Firstly context, when you are …

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Beta Testers Wanted – Livefire Virtual Trainer Solution

UPDATE 05/01/2022 – Beta is now closed. It’s been a bit quiet on the Livefire blog site recently, and that’s because the team have been franticly busy supporting Partners and getting new content ready for all our new product releases. One of the key projects we’ve been working on is our Virtual Trainer Solution. We …

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Livefire Virtual Trainer: NSX-T and vRealize Automation

As the world enters the next era of the pandemic, accessing e-learning content is ever more important. At the end of 2020 we announced how the Livefire Team are using AI+ML and VR, to introduce a virtual trainer solution, which we fondly call Olive. Well our first e-learning offering is now available, via MyLearn, from …

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AI is taking over Livefire

We’re only joking, sort of … in this article we’ll talk about how we are starting to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Virtual Reality (VR) to support a programmatic approach to content creation, through the development of a Virtual Trainer solution. Some of you may be asking why utilize a Virtual Trainer? …

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