Browsing Posts published in October, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute The European edition will be in Barcelona from 17 to 19 October 2012.

Reading Time: 2 minutes In some previous posts I’ve described the Dell KACE product family, included the Dell KACE – K1000 and KACE – K2000 products. As I’ve written, one of the limit of the K1000 was the lack of (official) support for mobile device. This limit will be filled soon (estimation release data is Oct 9, 2012) with a new product: Dell KACE K3000 MDM (Mobile Device Management) Appliance with some interesting features. Single-step secure setup that gets you up-and-running in minutes

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the previous post I’ve described the challenge in the SMB segment and some possible scenarios. And how is VMware addressing this challenge? One of the news of the last VMworld, was the attention of the SMB segment with several sessions specific for it, group discussions, business cases and so on. But it’s not limited to VMworld, the attention is growing due to the challenge of fit in the the SMB requirements (that in most cases are quite similar to the enterprise requirements!) and the constrains (where usually are limited budget and limited IT stuff) […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes 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 budget, but also the IT staff and skills. Evolution: and SMB may have big trend in evolution (or involution). Note that also in SMB, disaster recovery, business continuity, availability and security aspects have still to be considered. This kind of […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes VSA (VMware vSphere/Virtual Storage Appliance) is a solution, introduced in version 1.0 with vSphere 5.0, to transform local storage in shared storage. Basically a VA on each node use a local datastore to export it via NFS. But most important is also make a replication to another node. I’ve already talk about it in a VCP exam objective (VSA 1.0 questions are part of VCP5 exam), but honestly the VSA 1.0 had several disadvantages: Cost: from my point of was too high (expecially for the position of this kind of solution). Disks usage: is first […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: Canalys Channels Forum EMEA – Barcelona (Oct, 8-10 2012) VMworld Europe 2012 – Barcelona (Oct, 9-11 2012) MongoDB 2012 – Munich (Oct, 16 2012) Citrix Synergy 2012 – Barcelona (Oct, 17-19 2012) IP Expo London – London (Oct, 17-18 2012) TEC2012 – Barcelona (Oct, 22-24 2012) Powering the Cloud – Frankfurt Am Mein (Oct, 30-31 2012)

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