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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the announcemens at the VMworld US 2012, VMware has announce new products versions for the Q4 2012: vCloud Connector 5.1 Basic Edition (free) Advanced Edition (that include also interesting feature to move VMs and keep in sync) vCloud Automation Center 5.1 (formerly Dynamic Ops) vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 vFabric Application Director 5.0 vFabric Application Performance Manager 5.0 The main thems where related to the IT innovation, where 84% of global executives believe innovation is extremely important to their growth strategies, but 94% are unsatisfied with their innovation performance! The VMware’s approach to cloud […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy speech of today vBrownbag Tech Talks is: Tuesday 11:15 – 11:30 “Challenges for Virtualizing Small Business” To follow the talk: Speech slides Video Live session Approaching the SMB segment VMware for SMB

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe challenge! SMB segment could be a (big) challenge due to the following reasons: Requirements: in most cases are the same of the enterprise segment. For example the required availability and SLA are really close and may imply similar solutions to achieve it. Constraints: are really different and in most cases very strictly. For example budget, but also the IT staff and skills. Evolution: and SMB may have big trend in evolution (or involution). Note that also in SMB, disaster recovery, business continuity, availability and security aspects have still to be considered. This kind of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics. This year there are also some live sessions directly from VMworld. If you will be at VMworld Barcelona and you have something technical you want to share or just want to come and do a quick chat with other folks in the VMware community you can sing on the Call For Speakers page. My scheduled speechs will will be: Tuesday 11:15 – 11:30 with the title “Challenges for Virtualizing Small Business” Thursday 15:00 – 15:30 with the title “New VMware […]

Reading Time: 1 minuteI’ve already write about the Powering the cloud event, helded at Frankfurt Am Main on Oct, 30-31 2012. The big news of this year is that I’m a speaker with a session. As you can see in the event agenda, my session “2B5: How to increase the availability of business critical applications using virtualization” will be on Wednesday 31st October 2012 at 14:00! Details: In this session we will discuss how is possible increase the availability of business critical applications running in a virtual environment. First we will introduce the different level of availability and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesBackup Academy, the free educational community resource for VM backup professionals, has now one year of history. In this year has delivered several courses and whitepapers (one also from me). And several people (more than 700 professionist) have obtained a certification vendor independent on backup aspects. So what will be the future of this community? Seems that the anniversary will like a matter of refreshing news about Backup Academy! Some interesting information about its possible future are on the celebration post: Backup Academy is meant to give you the extra resources you need to get […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the previous posts I’ve described the different types of virtualization and the different types of cloud computing. Due to the fact that usually IaaS provide VMs you can think that there is a direct correlation between virtualization (in this case system virtualization) and cloud. But this correlation could exists or also not! Virtualization is stricly related to the technologies and the infrastructure aspect. Cloud more on high-level aspects, like type of services, services level, …

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