Reading Time: 2 minutes After the announce of some months ago, VMware Horizon View 6 has been released for general availability (GA). The name has also sligtly changed in VMware Horizon (with View) 6.0, considering that the previous Horizon Suite is no more avilable. Editions are also little different: Horizon 6 (with View) is sold in three editions, VMware Horizon™ View™ Standard Edition, VMware Horizon™ Advanced Edition, and VMware Horizon™ Enterprise Edition.
Reading Time: < 1 minute After (several months) after the last CloudOps events, the CloudOps VMUG SIG will organize a new event on the integration between OpenStack and VMware Next CloudOps SIG Event: OpenStack & VMware | Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 7:00PM (CEST) or 10:00AM (Pacific Time). This webinar will be similar to the presentation of Salvatore Orlando (VMware Engineer) at the previous VMUG IT User Conference. Salvatore Orlando will present (this time in English) also this time. Don’t miss him.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chipmaker SanDisk Corp said it would buy the well know flash storage device maker Fusion-io Inc for about $1.1 billion. With this move SanDisk can doubled down on its strategy to target the enterprise and data centers, considering that Fusion-io is already used in the enterprise, with really big customers like Apple and Facebook. SanDisk is probably know more for the consumers products (lot of flash memory card are from this vendor), but has several interesting products also for the enterprise (see this post about their caching product).
Reading Time: 3 minutes Veeam Software announced (on 11 June) a new part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, called Veeam Cloud Connect. The new functionality is designed for Veeam Cloud Providers (VCPs), both current VCPs and new service providers, and gives an easy way to host backups for Veeam’s customers. Veeam customers get a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, but without the upfront capital investment of an offsite infrastructure.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hyper-converged architectures consolidate and manage computing, networking, and storage resources via software so they can run on any vendor’s server hardware. Several years ago they where (apparently) strange approach to storage implementation used mainly for cheap solution (using VSA, that lacks, in much cases, of right scalability), or for special user cases like ROBO or VDI (with solution like NexentaVSA for View). But starting with Nutanix (probably the first real player in those kind of solution) the idea of simple VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) has dramatically changed by introducing a large scalability with new scale-out (or web-scale, […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes In an old post about storage architectures is described in a simple way some basic concepts, including the scale-in (or scale-up) vs. the scale-out approach. They are different approaches in scaling with different implications. Unfortunately there is a simple an well accepted definition on what is a scale-out storage is (or not is): some are limited in specific contests (like this one only for NAS or this SNIA tutorial still applied to a NAS storage), other are too much vendor specific. But usually a scale-out storage imply: Multi-device (or multi-array) storage systems (aggregated in a […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some days ago (June 3, 2014), Infinio has announced a change in executive board with an important new entry: Scott Davis, former VMware CTO (storage and end-user computing divisions), joins Infinio as CTO. Infinio founder Vishal Misra (previous CTO), moves to the newly created role of Chief Scientist. Misra is also a professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University. Infinio has a really interesting storage acceleration product (see this post for the 1.0 version, but actually we are at 1.2 version) with a really innovative approach. Let’s see how this changes will accelerate […]
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