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During AWS re:Invent 2017 event, VMware has announced a new service based on VMware Cloud on AWS. The new service brings VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Disaster Recovery as a Service to the AWS Cloud.

VMware Site Recovery™, a robust disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering that protects workloads between on-premises datacenters and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as between different instances of VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Vembu è un player forse ancora poco conosciuto nel mondo dei backup, ma con in realtà una discreta storia e un portfolio che copre dal mondo fisico (dove sono nati) al virtuale e anche al cloud.

Ora sono state annunciate alcune importanti novità sulla modalità di licenziamento di alcuni prodotti.

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Il WPC è la conferenza tecnica italiana molto conosciuta per i professionisti dell’IT ideata e organizzata da OverNet Education.

Dall’anno scorso, l’evento è tornato ad essere articolato su 3 giornate dense di sessioni e contenuti, il WPC 2017 (che rappresenta la 24ma edizione di WPC in Italia) è un evento che riunisce una community di oltre 400 IT Professionals.

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NAKIVO ha da poco rilasciato, dopo un periodo di beta, la nuova versione di NAKIVO Backup & Replication: la principale novità della versione 7.3 è l’architettura ottimizzata per le appliance di deduplica, come NEC Hydrastor, EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce e Quantum DXi.

Va precisato che non si tratta di un’integrazione nativa, bensì di una particolare configurazione del repository di backup pensato per semplificare il processo di deduplica.

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This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a ROBO infrastructure. See also the original post.

Introduction

The fabric of SAN (means Storage Area Network) with Fibre Channel solutions have always been a dedicated network, with dedicated components (like FC switches).

But, starting with iSCSI and FCoE protocols, the storage fabric could now be shared with the traditional network infrastructure, because at least level 1 and 2 have a common Ethernet layer (for iSCSI also layer 3 and 4 are the same of TCP/IP networks).

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In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of our Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.

As a result on 20th Nov 2017, Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk.

In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of its Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE), and Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.

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Starting with vSphere 6.5 you have some limitations with OVF format. For example you cannot export in OVA format anymore.

Note that you can still import in OVF or OVA. But you may have also some issues in OVF import.

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