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IT Press Tour #55

9 April 2024
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ITPT

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 299 companies with 527 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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Are tapes still relevant?

1 April 2024
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Reading Time: 4 minutesMore than 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the question is backup to tape dead? The answer was no, but what about tapes usage now, on 2024? Data has grow and the demand of solution to manage cold data also. For this reason there is a high investment in cold data storage solution and tape is still relevant also today!

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World Backup Day 2024

31 March 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMarch 31st is the day to back up and better protect your data. It’s the World Backup Day! World Backup Day has a clear, compelling message that is just as relevant and timely for enterprises today as it is for individual consumers: “Be prepared against data loss and data theft.” The organizers of World Backup Day tout March 31st as “the day to prevent data loss.” Indeed, this should be a mandate every day. With data backup as king in a chess game-like strategy to combat cyberattacks, preparation is everything.

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Book review: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint

24 March 2024
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve was curious to learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS, so I decided to read a new book from Packt, released on Feb 2024, with the title: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure. The book is also available on Amazan at this link. It explores some use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure.

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Type of vSphere Guest OS Customization engines for Linux VM

21 March 2024
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings. Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names. For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines: But which one is used and which could be preferred?

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How to disable cloud-init on Ubuntu Server

15 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesCloud-init is a powerful configuration tools used in several Linux distributions, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase. There are two different approach to disable cloud-init.

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What is SONiC?

14 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSoftware for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. SONiC is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud: is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation).

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