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What’s new in VMware Integrated OpenStack 3.0

30 August 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the (few) new products announce during the VMworld US 2016 was the VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) 3.0 release. OpenStack is an framework for providing developers with cloud-style APIs and tools on top of a choice of virtual infrastructure technologies. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

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Nutanix is growing with new acquisitions

29 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes So the rumor about the acquisition of PernixData by Nutanix is true and finally confirmed: Nutanix has executed a definitive agreement to acquire PernixData and the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Nutanix and PernixData share an architectural design philosophy that next-generation datacenter fabrics must keep data and applications close in order to drive the fastest possible performance and to deliver flexible, cost-effective infrastructure scaling. With this common vision, the two companies will develop an advanced data stack to replace traditional storage silos and high-latency networks with newer storage-class memory and advanced interconnects. These […]

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Results of the SwiftStack for Charity contest

26 August 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On July, SwiftStack has asked bloggers to use the Free Trial for a spin and post their experiences on their blogs, earning them an automatic $50 donation towards the charity of their choice. Between July 11 and August 11 there was an “engagement points” to award an additional $1,000 charitable donation to the winner, and $250 more to the runner-up. Here are the final results:

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Veeam Next Big Thing

24 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday there was the biggest product announcement in Veeam history: the new availability platform. A new set of products and tools that provide availability spanning the data center/private cloud and the hybrid cloud, both for managed clouds (service prodivers) or public clouds.

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VMware vExpert VSAN 2016

22 August 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On the second half of 2016, VMware has started new vExpert (sub)programs on different technologies. One was the vExpert VSAN. And finally the list of 2016 vExperts who received the VSAN award has been published. The program is build upon the vExpert program. To apply you must be a current vExpert as well as evangelizing VMware Virtual SAN. There will be an application once per year for each of the sub-programs. Applications for 2017 will open around February of 2017.

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VMware vExpert NSX 2016

19 August 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On the second half of 2016, VMware has started new vExpert (sub)programs on different technologies. One was the vExpert NSX. And finally the list of 2016 vExperts who received the NSX award has been published. The program is build upon the vExpert program. To apply you must be a current vExpert as well as evangelizing VMware NSX. There will be an application once per year for each of the sub-programs. Applications for 2017 will open around February of 2017.

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Nutanix Acropolis Version 4.7

18 August 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Nutanix has announced Acropolis Version 4.7 GA on June 28th (announcement details can be found here), but if you plan to use it it’s highly recommend downloading the latest maintenance release of this version, Acropolis Version 4.7.1 and start from it. The new version of the NOS (previous name of the Nutanix Operating System) adds a lot of new and interesting features.

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VMTurbo change its name to Turbonomic

17 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes VMTurbo was founded on the vision of assuring the performance of any workload, on any infrastructure, anywhere at anytime. Over the past few years, they’ve delivered a platform that empowers over 1,500 customers to deliver better application performance, agility, and efficiency. Now virtualization is something mainstream (or maybe it’s also become legacy, in some cases): several customers are moving beyond VMs to leverage containers and public clouds as they transition from monolithic to cloud-native applications.

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Rubrik announce it’s Cloud Data Management platform

16 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rubrik has extended the capability of it’s Rubrik Converged Data Management platform and introduce now its Cloud Data Management: a complete platform to deliver data protection, search and analytics, archiving and compliance, and copy data management capabilities for hybrid cloud enterprises. In this way now it’s cover not only the backup aspects and functions (like was at the beginning), but more new features, closing the gap with Cohesity, a similar solutions (still hyperconverged) but build from the beginning with more features (initially less in the backup space, compared to Rubrik) and confirming that a secondary […]

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Microsoft Azure RemoteApp is being retired

12 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes On August 12, 2016, Microsoft announced a plan to retire Azure RemoteApp. Based on customer feedback and market dynamics, Microsoft adjusted their strategy to focus more on the cloud platform that underpins finished desktop and application virtualization services.

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VMTurbo VMworld EU sweepstakes

3 August 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you plan to attend at the VMworld EU 2016 and you still don’t have the event’s ticket, you can try to apply for this opportunity from VMTurbo to have a free ticket. Enter for a chance to win two free tickets. Limit one entry per person. Eligible entries will remain in drawing pool for subsequent drawings if not drawn as winner Three Drawings: August 5, August 19, September 9

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VMware Certification Manager

1 August 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes With the high (and growing) number of VMware certifications, could be difficult track your certification expiration (actually only for the VCP certs), your transcript, or simple plan the right path in order to reach a desidered certification. But finally a new tool has been added to manage all your VMware certifications: the VMware Certification Manager.

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Symantec acquires Blue Coat

1 August 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute After the spinf-off of Veritas (now focused on the Backup and Data Protection part), seems that Symantec is more and more focused on the security and cloud aspects. Nearly two years ago they announced the intention to become the leading pure play security company. Today with the close of the Blue Coat acquisition they try to make that intention a reality. By combining the leader in endpoint, email, data loss prevention, and data center security with the #1 market share leader in Web Security and Cloud Generation Security.

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