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Reading Time: 5 minutesSystem virtualization remain the foundation of several datacenter infrastructures, although somebody thinkgs that virtualization is not cool anymore. For the on-prem deployment VMware (by Broadcom) vSphere is still the main solution with a large adoption (over 60% according with several analyst), but after Broadcom acquisition and all the changes in the licensing model and licensing price, some customers are looking for some alternatives.

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter only few months from the Linux Kernel 6.10, Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.11, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. This update arrives a few days before the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit takes place in Vienna, Austria. Note that also the 6.10 version remain classified temporally as a stable branch, but this release will be a short-lived branch, supported for only a couple of months, before being succeeded by Linux kernel 6.11.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis book is part of Operationalize Your World (OYW), a workshop that Kenon Owens and Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok created back in 2016 as a free book (Iwan is the same author of the VMware vSphere Metrics, 4th edition book also available for free). The VCF Operations Transformation, 4th Edition book describes that what you architect is SDDC, but what you handover as a business result to your CIO is IaaS. The transformation from SDDC to IaaS requires IT Operations Transformation. We transform from complaint-based to SLA-based, which requires fundamental process changes from alert-driven to insight-driven.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe IT Press Tour (ITPT) is an intinerant tour of a group of famous 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. Since the 1st tour edition, the IT Press Tour have met 310 companies with 540 different sessions! Some companies did multiple editions and adopted the IT Press Tour as a key marketing communication medium once a year.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas 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 relases. And seems less attendees (5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).

Reading Time: 4 minutesIPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere ships with many metrics and properties. If we take object by object, and document metrics by metrics, it will be both dry and theoretical. You will be disappointed as it does not explain how your real world problems are solved. You’re not in the business of collecting metric. Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok made an impressive book on VMware vSphere Metrics and now is at its 4th edition!

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