Browsing Posts published in Novembre, 2018

Reading Time: 12 minutesThis is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and architecture of VMware vCenter and PSC topologies. See the original post. You can “federate” multiple vCenter Server systems using vCenter Linked Mode (introduced in vSphere 4.0) to build a single pane of glass and share information between vCenter instances, like view and manage the inventories of all the vCenter Server systems that are linked.

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the VMworld 2018 Europe, VMware has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Heptio, a leader in the open Kubernetes ecosystem. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2016 by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, two of the creators of Kubernetes, Heptio has applied its unique insight to a growing set of products, open source projects and contributions to upstream Kubernetes. This is complemented by Heptio’s work with organizations through training, support and professional services that speed integration of Kubernetes and related technologies into the fabric of enterprise IT.

Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is VMware’s unified SDDC platform for the hybrid cloud and it’s based on VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization technologies to deliver a native integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment or run as a service from the public cloud with consistent and simple operations. The core components of VMware Cloud Foundation are VMware vSphere, vSAN (for the storage part), and NSX (for the network and security part). It’s more than a simple products bundle, because it gives a full validate stack with a fast provisioning, but also a better […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO! Announced during the last OpenIO Summit 2018, the new release OpenIO SDS 18.10 has been announced. OpenIO SDS transforms commodity servers into large object storage and compute pools. They build a scalable solution designed to grow as you need, that can handle from terabytes to petabytes. This Object Storage solution became Open Source in 2012 (with AGPLv3 license). OpenIO is a pure (open) software object store. Usually OpenIO SDS has a 6-month release cycle and now following the OpenIO SDS 18.04 released in August 2018, this new version version of […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesCloudera e Hortonworks hanno annunciato congiuntamente l’intenzione di fondersi in un’unica azienda. Considerando che entrambe già erano leader nel mondo dei Big Data, l’operazione porterà alla creazione della più grande azienda in questa area, nonché alla distribuzione Hadoop leader assoluta. Ma l’idea dichiarata è quella di creare un nuovo protagonista che offrirà una piattaforma dati di nuova generazione che include ambienti multi-cloud, on-premise ed Edge.

Reading Time: 4 minutesNow that Network Virtualization and Software Defined Network are becoming mainstream, there is a new trend in networking: Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). What is SD-WAN? SD-WAN is best defined as traffic monitoring and management from physical devices to the application itself, capitalizing on flexibility and agility. This intelligent routing is abstracted into a virtual overlay, enabling a secured pooling of both private and public connections allowing for automation, centralized network control and real-time management across multiple links. 

Reading Time: 2 minutesLa Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 risale ad aprile 2018 ed ora, dopo l’annuncio bomba di IBM che acquista Red Hat, è stata rilasciata la nuova release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6. Diverse le novità riguardanti la sicurezza, miglioramenti nella gestione e funzionalità per la parte container, funzioni per l’automazione ed altro:

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