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The first European edition of Nutanix .NEXT Conference is over… So which news are coming from this event?

First that there are enough numbers to make good European conferences, not only in the US… Several vendors already know it (see VMware with VMworld, but also NetApp and HP, to make some examples), but others does not bet on this region (see Citrix or Microsoft). There where a huge number of attendees, more than the expect number from the Nutanix. That’s a good sign for the future.

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This year there will be the first Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Europe (Vienna, 8-10 November), after the US edition in Spring 2016 (that was the second .NEXT US Conference). I’m very excited to attend at this event and I have a lot of expectation from it (see how was the first .NEXT Conference).

I’ve been invited (as a NTC) and I’m really curious to learn more about Nutanix products and technologies, their vision, their alliances, …. and of course to see a lot of friends.

The agenda seems very interesting and I hope that the level will be the same of the first .NEXT, with good overview in the general sessions and good technical level in the breakout sessions.

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Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) scenario is usually challenging due to some constraints (like limited budget, lack of local IT people, limited IT resources and stuff, …) and some possible risks (like the bandwidth or latency assumptions could be wrong and not enought).

But in most companies the solution must provide same enterprise level services, like a right level of high availability, data protection, scalability (maybe not locally, but having more offices with similar solutions, …).

In most cases a two nodes solutions with a virtualization level could be enough, but what about the data protection aspects? Which kind of solutions could be suitable for a ROBO?

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Broadcom ha annunciato la definizione di un accordo definitivo per l’acquisizione di Brocade, andando a completare la sua offerta di mercato (soprattutto nel mondo delle reti e delle schede di rete) con un’importante offerta nel mondo dello storage, soprattutto Fibre Channel tradizionale, ma non solo.

Segno anche di come l’evoluzione dello storage porti ad avere sempre più importanza del mondo delle reti e/o delle reti convergenti, ma come, nonostante tutto, il mondo FC rimanga comunque importante e strategico.

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Come già era stato annunciato alcuni mesi fa, l’intera divisione Dell Software è stata ceduta a Francisco Partners e Elliot Management. Questa importante divisione all’interno di Dell (che a onor del vero è sempre stata una “costola” con gestione separata rispetto a tutto il resto), include importanti prodotti e brand come Dell SonicWall (derivante dall’acquisizione di 4 anni fa), come pure Quest (sempre da un’altra acquisizione di 4 anni fa) e tante altre realtà (alcune delle quali con un futuro molto in dubbio).

Ora è finalmente chiaro che sia Quest che SonicWall rinascono con i loro nomi originali e come aziende indipendenti. L’annuncio di SonicWall, in particola, è più che positivo visto che, secondo me, un’azienda di sicurezza deve essere il più possibile indipendente (ed è curioso che negli stessi giorni si è annunciato anche la rinascita di McAfee, dopo il periodo di acquisizione da parte di Intel).

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Each big vendor has some kind of “community award” for individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of the specific vendor’s users over the past year.

Those kind of “technologies experts” could be book authors, bloggers (in most cases), leaders in some communities, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These people have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of the specific vendor’s technologies to their colleagues and to the community.

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Durante il recente Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld EU 2016 (dove sono stato invitato come delegato) ho avuto modo di (re-)incontrare Nimble Storage.

Rich Fenton (UK&I Systems Engineering Manager) e Nick Dyer (Senior Systems Engineer) ci hanno fornito un’ottima overview della loro tecnologia, incluse alcune interessanti novità sui prodotti.

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