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DatacenterDynamics Converged recognises the need for cross-disciplinary cooperation in the data centre. From site selection and construction to outsourcing strategy and regulation through to how best to deliver the infrastructure for your mission-critical infrastructure – DatacenterDynamics Converged reflects the interaction of the following three elements for optimum data centre operation and management. The DatacentreDynamics census [...]

In a previous post (Approaching the SMB segment), I’ve already considered some solutions and approaches for SMB. Public cloud (especially in a SaaS form) could be an interesting way in several scenarios. The interesting aspects is that there are several services also for free, valuable both for personal use, but also for SMB (mainly for [...]

I’ve already introduced what is CloudCred and put some considerations and some doubts on its credibility and value. As each game is great when it’s short (here we talk about more than 3 months), but especially if is played according to certain rules, which do not always seem to be present (or at least not [...]

Starting from April, 23 is possible vote for your prefered VMworld sessions, choosing what you would like to ear or which people you want to see. Voting will close on Monday, May 6th at 5:00pm PDT.   During this time, all complete session proposals will be voted on by VMware Content Committee and the Public community [...]

VMworld 2013 is reaching to the 10 years as the premier conference for IT professionals, growing from 1,600 attendees in 2004 to more than 20,000 expected in 2013. Through the last 10 years VMware has extended the benefits of our market-leading technology across the entire data center—from compute, storage, networking, security and availability services to [...]

Interesting European IT events: IDC Virtualisation and Cloud Conference - Dublin (May, 2) Hackito Ergo Sum – Paris (May, 2-4) OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2013 – Amsterdam (May, 29-30) E2EVC Virtualisation Conference – Copenhagen (May 31 – Jun 2)

How the new cloud era can/may change the role of the IT admin? Find out by joining a live twitter chat #CloudOpsChat on “The Changing Role of the IT Admin” on Thursday, April 25th at 11am PT. The event will be co-hosted by: Nigel Kersten (@NigelKersten), CTO at Puppet Labs Andrea Mauro (@Andrea_Mauro), Co-Founder of [...]

As happened in the previous years, there will be a VMware Online Forum 2013 edition that is quite similar to a vForum event (now called VMware Forum) with the main advantage to be just an on-line version that gives you a flexible, convenient way to expand your knowledge and experience the event in a way that [...]

In April you could be the big winner of a free full pass to VMworld 2013 either American (at San Francisco) or European (at Barcelona), depending on winner’s location. Just register to the Veeam content at this link! The winner will be selected on April, 22.

In the April 2013 issue of VMUG Voice Magazine, there is a Featured Blogger about me: In this space, VMUG Voice features prominent VMware- and virtualization-focused blogs. This month we feature Andrea Mauro and his popular vInfrastructure Blog. Mauro has worked in IT since 1996 and held several technical certifications (including VCP, VCAP, VCDX, MCITP, [...]

As written in the  official announce page, today was be the last day to nominate the candidates for the vExpert 2013 program (applications will be open from 21 March 2013 through 15 April 2013). But according with this blog, the deadline has been extended to the 22 April. As with last year, there are three [...]

According to the VMworld Call For Papers (CFP) announce page, today is the last last to submitting your session proposal. Describe your experiences and best practices. Include practical advice, key success factors, data points, an in-depth explanation of the challenges you’ve solved, and lessons learned on topics related to IT infrastructure, cloud operations, applications and [...]