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#vBrownbag Tech Talks Barcelona – My speechs

29 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics. This year there are also some live sessions directly from VMworld. If you will be at VMworld Barcelona and you have something technical you want to share or just want to come and do a quick chat with other folks in the VMware community you can sing on the Call For Speakers page. My scheduled speechs will will be: Tuesday 11:15 – 11:30 with the title “Challenges for Virtualizing Small Business” Thursday 15:00 – 15:30 with the title “New VMware […]

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Powering the cloud – My speech

28 September 2012
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Reading Time: 1 minute I’ve already write about the Powering the cloud event, helded at Frankfurt Am Main on Oct, 30-31 2012. The big news of this year is that I’m a speaker with a session. As you can see in the event agenda, my session “2B5: How to increase the availability of business critical applications using virtualization” will be on Wednesday 31st October 2012 at 14:00! Details: In this session we will discuss how is possible increase the availability of business critical applications running in a virtual environment. First we will introduce the different level of availability and […]

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VCDX5(-DV) Transcript

26 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Some hours ago I have received an e-mail from VMware Technical Certification Team to my VCDX5-DV certification (DV is the datacenter virtualization path) in my official transcript:: Your online transcripts will reflect your VMware Certified Design Expert 5 – Datacenter Virtualization status as soon as you: –  Confirm your shipping address –  Consent to transcript release –  Accept the VMware Certification Agreement Note that finally the VCDX5-DV path has been published (and also the upgrade path has been confirmed). Seems that VMworld Barcelona will be the last opportunity to defend a VCDX version 4, from […]

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VMworld EU 2012 – Some informations

25 September 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Just two weeks until VMworld EU at Barcelona! Here some informations. Location Note that it isn’t the (old) “Fira de Barcelona” (close to Montjuic and Plaza de España), but is the new Fira center, called “Fira Gran Via” and quite far from the “old” one (this is probably the right point on GoogleMaps). It is still called “Fira Barcelona” just because is another venue (see the official site). VMworld EU will be at North Entrance Hall 8! Use GoogleMaps to find how to move from your hotel (both bus and train are available options). From […]

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Nimbus Data – High-performance storage

24 September 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutes During the last VMworld US, I’ve spend some to to visit several booths to know more about some vendor that are not present in my Country (or in the entire region). One of them was Nimbus Data Systems, company founded on 2006 (at South San Francisco, and now with offices also in Netherlands and UK). It develops the award-winning Sustainable Storage® systems, an intelligent, efficient and fault-tolerant solid state storage platform engineered for server and desktop virtualization, databases, HPC, and next-generation cloud infrastructure. Their points for storage systems are: performance, efficency and simplicity! If the […]

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Liquidware Labs: VDI solutions

21 September 2012
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Founded in Atlanta in 2009, Liquidware Labs is one of leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. Now it has offices also in Chicago, Vich (CH), Surrey (UK). The Liquidware Labs executive team is comprised of veteran technologists and experts with hands-on knowledge of virtualized environments and solutions (most of them are from VizionCore, Quest, PHDVirtual, …). Because of their decades of combined software solutions experience and depth-of-expertise in virtualization and thin technologies, our management is constantly asked to provide their perspective […]

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One year of Backup Academy: past, present and future

20 September 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Backup Academy, the free educational community resource for VM backup professionals, has now one year of history. In this year has delivered several courses and whitepapers (one also from me). And several people (more than 700 professionist) have obtained a certification vendor independent on backup aspects. So what will be the future of this community? Seems that the anniversary will like a matter of refreshing news about Backup Academy! Some interesting information about its possible future are on the celebration post: Backup Academy is meant to give you the extra resources you need to get […]

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DataCore SANsymphony-V 9

19 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minute DataCore SANsymphony-V is a storage virtualization solution (a good definition could be that it is a “storage hypervisor”) already introduced a previous  post. Now has been released the new version 9 with several enhancements and features.. For more information see: Product page What’s New in SANsymphony-V R9

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Virtualization is not cloud computing

19 September 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In the previous posts I’ve described the different types of virtualization and the different types of cloud computing. Due to the fact that usually IaaS provide VMs you can think that there is a direct correlation between virtualization (in this case system virtualization) and cloud. But this correlation could exists or also not! Virtualization is stricly related to the technologies and the infrastructure aspect. Cloud more on high-level aspects, like type of services, services level, …

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Cloud computing types

18 September 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 VMs a virtual datacenters resources (like storage and networking), and also the infrastucture need to manage them. An example of this kind of cloud is Amazon EC2. Platform as a service (PaaS): in this case a developer platform is provided […]

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Virtualization types

17 September 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutes With the term virtualization usually we are talking about System Virtualization, where a physical system is “partitioned” to permit multiple environments (using virtual machines). But virtualization is more generic and include different types:

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Dell Storage Forum 2012 Paris

14 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As written some months ago, after the London edition, this year there will be another European Dell Storage Forum at Paris from 14 to 16 November. Again there will be a partner only track, from 13 to 14, and other days will be for customers and partners. The entire agenda is now available, for both tracks. With more than 60 sales and technical sessions, 5 product roadmaps, 3 plenary sessions, 16 hours of hands-on labs and three complimentary training courses, you’re sure to get insights for growing your storage profits with Dell. And it’s a […]

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VMworld EU 2012: Why attend

12 September 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The US edition is already finished, and there is less than a month to the European edition of VMworld 2012, this year (for the first time) at Barcelona (October 9-11). The reasons to attend at this event could be similar to the reasons to attend at the VMworld US, plus of course the opportunity to visit Barcelona that this an awesome city! In the European edition that is shorted (three days instead of four), there is also an addition day (on Monday) dedicated only for the VMware Partner, and this could be another reason (if […]

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