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My experience with VCP-VCF Administrator exam

17 December 2024
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring last VMware Explore, brand new VCP certifications have recently been introduced, focusing on the product portfolio. Two are releated to VCF, one is for admins and the other is for architects. VMware VCP – VCF Administrator certification validates the skills required to deploy, manage, and support private cloud environments built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). This certification is designed for IT professionals expanding from traditional infrastructure roles to cloud administration. Candidates for this certification includes professionals responsible for implementing and maintaining VCF infrastructure, ensuring it meets organizational service level objectives for availability, performance, and […]

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Vendor’s community awards for 2025

16 December 2024
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Reading Time: 4 minutesEach big vendor has some kind of “community award” for individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of the specific vendor. Note that each award is usually annually and related to users contributions over the past 12 months and must be reconfirmed with a candidate submission (almost similar to the submission for new candidates). Those kinds of “technologies experts” could be book authors, bloggers (in most cases), leaders in some communities, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These people have gone above and beyond their day […]

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IT Press Tour #59

2 December 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe IT Press Tour (ITPT) is an intinerant tour of a group of US and European journalists travels to California, Colorado or other place to meet companies in the IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Data Management and Storage world and learn more about their products and solutions. In the last years, it starts also an European tour. Since the 1st tour edition, the IT Press Tour have met 321 companies with 556 different sessions! Some companies did multiple editions and adopted the IT Press Tour as a key marketing communication medium once a year.

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What’s happened at Microsoft Ignite 2024

23 November 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Ignite is the annual event that spotlights the updates and creations that enable customers, partners and developers to unleash the full potential of Microsoft’s technology and change the way people and organizations approach work. This year’s Microsoft Ignite features an array of new products and key updates that touch the new Microsoft Windows Server 2025, the continued growth of Microsoft Copilot, new capabilities in the Copilot + AI stack, exciting new tools for developers and new devices designed with powerful AI technology in mind.

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Linux Kernel 6.12 released

18 November 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter only few months from the Linux Kernel 6.11, Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.12, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. This update should become the next LTS release.

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What’s happened at VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona?

8 November 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Explore 2024 Europe (still in Barcelona) has just finished, but what’s news? Let’s start from some obvius things… first more Broadcom (and less VMware maybe) as you can see from the titles of the different press releases. And seems less attendees like the US edition (less than 5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).

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How using Rufus to create bootable USB device

6 November 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMost of the client and server now don’t have anymore the DVD/CD reader and in order to install an OS (or an hypervisor) you may need a bootable USB device. Note: for some server models you can use the out of band management interface (iDRAC for Dell, ILO for HPE, EMM for Lenovo, …). But how is possible build a bootable USB device starting from the ISO file?

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