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Design a ROBO infrastructure (Part 2)

28 February 2017
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Reading Time: 15 minutes This is the second part of a set of posts realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a ROBO infrastructure. See also the original post and the first part. Design areas and technologies In the previous post, we have explained and described business requirements and constraints in order to support design and implementation decisions suited for mission-critical applications, considering also how risk can affect design decisions. Now we will match the following technology aspects to satisfy design requirements:

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VMware vExpert 2017 benefits

27 February 2017
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Reading Time: 11 minutes VMware vExpert program recognizes people that have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. Contributing is not always blogging or Twitter as there are many public speakers, book authors, CloudCred task writing, script writers, VMUG leaders, VMTN community moderators and internal champions among this group. The primary reason for becoming vExpert certainly should not be related to any possible benefits of the program. And once confirmed you have to think more about what you can give rather to what is to be expected. But I’d be a […]

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Symbolic IO: the wow effect

24 February 2017
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Reading Time: 6 minutes During the last Technology Live! London 2017 I’ve see some presentations about new features or new products and was interesting see how those company has changed from the past. But last presentation was quite different for me: also because Symbolic IO was something new for me, but also because they really made an impressing presentation and demo! The company was founded in 2012 by Brian Ignomirello, the former CTO of Hewlett Packard’s Global storage team, in an effort to transform the current enterprise storage industry from focusing on hardware, cards, chips and processors to embracing […]

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Technology Live! London 2017

23 February 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Technology Live! is a one-day event organized by A3 Communication where up to four vendors showcase their technologies in action to a group of technical journalists, bloggers and analysts. A combination of presentations and demos allows each company to present its solutions with a much higher level of detail than is usually possible in traditional briefings. A highly interactive day for all participants. This year will start at London on 23, January 2017.

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My experience with VMCE-A1 exam

22 February 2017
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The VMCE-A1: Design & Optimization V1 (VMCE-A1) exam is the second requirement to acquire the Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) designation, after the VMCE-A: Design & Optimization V1 traning. Compared to VMCE exam is more costly, but it’s also another level. The exam must be taken at a Pearson VUE local testing facility with a time extention (30 minutes) for not native english (based on the Country of the testing center). Total time (without time extention) it’s 70 minutes, but it’s not a huge constraint.

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High available and performance Oracle on public IaaS using FlashGrid

21 February 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutes FlashGrid is a new company founded in 2015 by some industry veterans (coming from Veritas, Intel, EMC, HGST, VMware, IBM). FlashGrid is a software-defined storage technology company specializing on solutions for high availability high performance databases both on-prem or also on public cloud (for more information about their solution see also FlashGrid – Hyper-converged storage solution for Oracle systems).

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Vembu BDR Suite v3.7.0

18 February 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The new version of Vembu BDR Suite v3.7.0 is now Generally Available (GA) with new capabilities. Vembu designed VMware backup protects vSphere and vCenter environments using VMware vStorage APIs (VADP). Users can backup and replicate unlimited VMs from VMware vSphere ESXi hosts without installing any agents inside VMs. Direct Hot-Add and SAN transport mode provides faster data transfer speed with less resource utilization. VMBackup will auto analyze the VMware environment and assigns the appropriate data transfer mode. Backup VMs running in a Hyper-V host without installing agent on individual VMs. Vembu’s proprietary Hyper-V CBT driver […]

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