With the event of the 21 May, VMware (with Pat Gelsinger, CEO, Carl Eschenbach, COO and Bill Fathers, GM, Hybrid Cloud Services) has announced a new vCloud Hybrid service. Built on the foundation of VMware vSphere and leveraging VMware’s software-defined data center technologies, vCloud Hybrid Service will provide an easy, fast path for VMware customers [...]
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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 [...]
The Cloud path is one of the new certifications paths from VMware announced during the last VMworld US. I’m not sure that it will remain an independent (from the -DCV) path also in the future, considering that VMware now is pushing on the vCloud Suite rather than only the single vSphere or vCloud Director part. [...]
This was another exam where I’ve lose the opportunity to try during the beta due to the lack of available time. But during the last VMworld EU I’ve plan to take it, considering that I require few time (for the exam) e was also with a good discount! The blueprint version 2.21 is still based [...]
Veeam has recently announced a new product cloud oriented: Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition. It includes several features, like: Supports 15 cloud vendors, including Amazon and Azure No cloud API’s to learn No re-design of local backup processes Encryption on the fly or at rest (configurable encryption up to AES 256-bit) Control bandwidth in [...]
The challenge! SMB segment could be a (big) challenge due to the following reasons: Requirements: in most cases are the same of the enterprise segment. For example the required availability and SLA are really close and may imply similar solutions to achieve it. Constraints: are really different and in most cases very strictly. For example [...]
Cloud computing is a way to use (and also deliver) computing resources (for a formal definition see The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing). For this reason there are different types of cloud based on which type of “computing” resources are provided. Mainly there are three big silos: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): usually it provides [...]
In the new vCloud suite 5.1 there are several improvements and new features in the networking and secuirity part. For vSphere 5.1 are mainly in the distribuited virtual switch (VDS) part with several news: Network Health Check support: helps detect misconfigurations across physical and virtual switches. Configuration Backup Restore: allows vSphere admins to store the [...]
Yesterday, during the live event, VMware has announced the new release of most of their Cloud Suite products (concept already introduced with the announce of the release 5). New release will be v5.1 for all products to adopt a uniform and consistency enumeration across products (View 5.1 was already released some month ago!). So this [...]
VMware today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DynamicOps, Inc., a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments – VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is [...]
With this first post, I will start a collection of link and notes about the VCP5 exam prep. I will use the official blueprint (the actual version is 1.2, and is still related to the beta exam, but probably it will remain the same). Let’s start from the part that is not included in the [...]
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