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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Network Certified Implementation Expert (VCIX-NV) certification was something different compare to other “advanced” level certifications in other VMware paths: only a lab based exam (the deploy, configuration and manage part) and you have done! Other VCIX paths require both the admin (now simple called deploy, but it’s not only deploy related) and the design exam, and recently both intermediate exam has been called again VCAP exam (see this post).

Reading Time: 3 minutes Compared to vExpert 2015 announce, this year VMware is really sharp and today they have announced the vExpert 2016 list for the first half of the year. Also this time I’ve been confirmed as a vExpert. The list is available on this VMware blog site: vExpert 2016 Award Announcement. Note that also this year, like the 2015, the vExpert program as slightly change again  with one application every six months… So new people will be announced in the second half of this year.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: Puppet Camp 2016 – Amsterdam (February 4) IoT Tech Expo Europe – London (February 10-11) Cisco Live 2016 – Berlin (February 15-19) Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2016 – Berlin (February 15–17) Mobile World Congress – Barcelona (February 22-25) Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2016 – London (February 29 – March 1)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Altaro (a company with an interesting backup solution both for VMware and Hyper-V) has recently published a short interview with 9 vExpert on their views on VMware VSAN and Hyper-Convergence solutions. Hyper-Convergence is the concept of putting storage and compute within the same chassis, with the idea that scale-out storage and computing will be much simpler. There are many companies that are starting to delve into this space, such as VMware with VSAN, Nutanix (one of the pioneer of this kind of approach), and now also Microsoft with Storage Spaces Direct.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: Cloud Architect Alliance – Amsterdam (Jan, 14) Bett 2016 – London (Jan, 20-23) London VMUG Meeting – London (Jan, 21)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Holiday are finally arrived and new years is approaching. Usually it’s time to make the biggest (or the most obvious) predictions for the next years (in  IT, trying to do predictions longer than 5-10 years could be quite difficult considering how fast is changing). I don’t really want to make my own guest on what could happen. For sure will be interesting in the virtualization world, considering that the beta of the next VMware vSphere is running and that 2016 will be also see the new Windows Server 2016.

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