Browsing Posts in Generale

Reading Time: 2 minutesOggi inizia ufficialmente il VMworld EU 2016, con la giornata dedicata ai vari partner (considerando anche la ricollazione dell’evento globale Partner Exchange). Come ci dovremo aspettare da questo VMworld? Qualche annuncio c’è già stato, in particolare l’annuncio relativo alla partnership con Amazon per l’offerta di public cloud. Ma durante l’evento ci dovremo aspettare (finalmente dopo 3 edizioni di VMworld, contanndo sia quelle americane che quelle europee) qualche novità sulla nuova versione di VMware vSphere. Inevitabilmente ci saranno maggiori informazioni (rispetto a quelle già annunciate all’edizione americana) e forse anche nuovi annunci su tutta la parte […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIs (system) virtualization becoming legacy or old style? Sounds a strange question, but there are three main trends that are changing the role and the weight of virtualization in the IT: Competition and more choices and options: VMware vSphere is still the leader (in most cases), but other hypervisors like Hyper-V and KVM are growing fast and become mostly features comparable. Cloud management and cloud services: in most cases virtualization is hidden by the managemed and also for IaaS cloud virtualization is not necessary mandatory (see also virtualization is not cloud). Container and microservices: are […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is just a week before the new edition of VMworld EU and also if lots has been announced during the US edition, we can expect some interesting news also at this event. For me will be a good way to meet again lots of friends again, visit some booths to learn more from sponsors, pass some time in the community area and try to see some sessions. This year, I don’t want to write a complete pre-conference guide, old posts like VMworld 2015 EU or also VMworld 2014 EU tips tips are still valid.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNeil Anderson, from Flackbox, has realize a free ebook on ‘How to Build a NetApp ONTAP Lab… For Free’. In it he provide a complete step-by-step instructions, with screenshots, about how to build a fully ready and complete NetApp simulator lab from scratch, using NetApp’s latest operating system ONTAP 9. Almost all NetApp features can be practised and tested using the lab. You can use it as a study tool or for testing features before deploying them in your production environment. The book is available on this site.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOctober is a big month for vBrownBag in Barcelona with the OpenStack Summit and also the VMworld EMEA with a lot of TechTalks. The ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics. TechTalks are ten-minute presentations by community members at an industry conference. They originated with sessions not being accepted for the main conference catalog. TechTalks are limited to ten minutes; they deliver the very core of an idea. Keeping presentations short also means we can do a lot of sessions in a day. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIl VMUG.IT torna a Roma, dopo l’evento del 2013. E cercheremo di bissare il successo dell’evento di Napoli, sia in termini di contenuti che di partecipazione. Questi i dettagli del prossimo VMUG.IT Meeting di Roma Quando: lunedì 26/09/2016 Dove: Best Western Hotel Universo, a pochi passi dalla stazione Termini Come: link di registrazione

Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough Linux is used in several storage solutions, the native filesystems lack of modern features like deduplication or compression (compression extented attribute is present from some decade, but it’s implementions is still limited or missing). Most storage solutions use other filesystem (like ZFS), or also other operating systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris branches, or also Windows Server (like DataCore). Now Permabit Technology Corporation announced the availability of its Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) for Canonical’s Ubuntu Server.

© 2025-2011 vInfrastructure Blog | Disclaimer & Copyright