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VMware certifications upgrade rules

19 March 2015
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Reading Time: 3 minutes With the new major version of most VMware products (the last was vSphere 6.0) there are, of course, new version of the main certifications (that mean also new exams). As written this was not the only change, because also some name has been changed (including the VCAP exams that now become VCIX). The VCP itself has been changed a lot, not only for the re-certification policy, but recently also the two different exams: a core one and one specific on each technology (for each path). Finally VMware announce also the migration paths from v5 certification […]

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Nutanix launches the new certification: Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX)

18 March 2015
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Nutanix announced a cutting edge technology certification, the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX). This flagship educational program, set to become the most rigorous technical qualification in enterprise computing, creates a new standard in IT certifications and highlights the increasing adoption of multi-hypervisor environments in enterprise datacenters. NPX is a peer-vetted, hypervisor agnostic certification designed for veteran Solution Engineers, Consultants, and Architects. It’s an higher level (or a next level) compared to the Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP).

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Veeam Endpoint Backup with Veeam repository

17 March 2015
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Reading Time: 5 minutes As you probably know, some days ago Veeam has released the RC version of their free tool Veeam Endpoint Backup (announced for the first time on Oct 2014). Veeam Endpoint Backup is a free data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical machines, both client or server, but actually limited to “recent” version of Windows (mainly from NT 6.1 release). Comparered to the beta version, this new version add a lot of new features, including:

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Book review: VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

6 March 2015
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Reading Time: 3 minutes As you probably know, VMware vRealize Operations is a suite of products that automates operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. This suite derive from the VCOPS (vCenter Operations Mananagement) core and has been recently rebranded in the new vRealize suite name. The new v6 of this suite bring not only a new name, but also a lot of changes and improvements and a good book that cover this aspect are more than welcome. Unfortunately there are so much and actually one of the few is the […]

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Voting for the 2015 top VMware & virtualization blogs

3 March 2015
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Eric Siebert (from Sphere-Land.com) has open again (see the related post of previous year), a contest for voting the ‘Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs’. This contest is becoming a recurring and estemeed in the VMware & virtualization world (see also the history of the top blog voting over the years). Last year over 1400 people voted from 60 different countries, with over 320 blogs dedicated to VMware and Virtualization – this is definitely an impressive number which is a real indication to how passionate people feel towards the VMware range of products and virtualization in general. This year the content […]

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March 2015 IT events

1 March 2015
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: Mobile World Congress 2015 – Barcelona (March, 2-5) Cloudscape VII – Brussels (March, 9-10) Cloud Expo Europe & Data Centre World – London (March, 11-12) SMAU Berlin – Berlin (March, 12-13) CEBIT 2015 – Hannover (March, 16-20) Gartner CIO Leadership Forum – London (March, 16-18) V6 World 2015 – Paris (March, 17-18) De Nederlandse VMUG User Conference – Hertogenbosch (March, 19) SambaXP 2015 – Göttingen (March, 19-21) WHD.global 2015 – Europa-Park, Rust (March, 24-26)

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My experience with VMCE Exam 8

10 February 2015
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) is a technical certification introduced by Veeam to documented proof that an engineer possesses the necessary level of expertise to correctly architect, implement and configure Veeam Software Solutions. If you start from scratch, in order to gain this certification, you basically need to attend a course and pass the related exam (I’ve already described the entire process for the VMCE Certification and also some comments about the VMCE 7 Course). But VMCE needs a recertification on each new major version of Veeam Backup & Replication and recertification rules are pretty simple: […]

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