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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.

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.

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.

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).

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?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOmnissa ONE will probably be the first big official event of Omnissa, after the split from VMware. There where already two small Omnissa ONE events in APAC and US, but now the next will be in Europe, at Amsterdam (Postillion Hotel and Convention Centre) from Wednesday, 23rd October to Thursday 24th October!

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.

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