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Reading Time: 3 minutesA partire dal 6 maggio 2024 (da ieri quindi), ci sono delle importanti novità nelle certificazioni VMware : un nuovo portale Certification Manager 2.0 (https://cp.certmetrics.com/vmware/en/credentials/status), nuovi badge per le certificazioni, un prezzo standard per gli esami, e la muovo modalità di certificazione diretta tramite esame! Per una volta tanto ci sono notizie positive dopo l’acquisizione da parte di Broadcom e lo tzunami che ha generato negli scorsi mesi!

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a public cloud there can be different service models, but in all of them there is a common concept called: shared responsibility model. What does it means? In an on-premises datacenter, you own the responsability of the whole stack, but as you move to the public cloud some responsibilities are transfer to the cloud provider.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIGEL is a small upstart German hardware company evolved over 20 years to become a leading innovator of software for cloud workspaces and EUC world. As other big companies, they have a big international event called IGEL Disrupt.

Reading Time: 4 minutesMAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) is a new storage technology for long-term, online storage of persistent data that takes advantage of a newer generation of SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) disk drives that are designed to be powered on and off and improve energy efficiency. This allows denser packaging of drives in large-scale disk storage systems since only 25% of disks are spinning at any one time. MAID provides for the power management of disks drives, thus creating a new service level for retaining and accessing “archive/persistent” data.

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.

LTO Tapes

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!

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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