Browsing Posts published in September, 2012

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 […]

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

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, …

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 […]

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:

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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