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A meno che venerdì scorso non eravate in vacanza in modalità completamente off-line (beati voi), di sicuro saprete del venerdì nero (informaticamente parlando) che ha letteralmente paralizzato molti servizi informatici in tutto il mondo (ad esempio il settore trasporto, con voli cancellati o in ritardo di molte ore).

Il problema, secondo stime di Microsoft, ha interessato 8,5 milioni di computer basati su Windows. Ma Microsoft non centra, se non indirettamente (perchè solo i sistemi Windows sono stati colpiti).

Il blocco informatico non è dovuto ad un attacco, ma è bensì stato causato da un problema a seguito di un aggiornamento di un particolare software di sicurezza usato in molte aziende medio-grandi, questo aggiornamento ha portato all’inevitabile blocco di molti sistemi Windows, con la classica schermata di blocco di Windows (BSOD – Blue Screen Of the Death).

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VMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event: from cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions.

But why attend at this kind of events?

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VMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event, and as usual, after the US edition there will be an EU edition. VMware Explore 2024 EU will be at Barcelona from 4th to 7th November!

From cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions.

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Linus Torvalds ha annunciato oggi il rilascio della versione ufficiale del kernel Linux 6.10, l’ultima versione stabile del kernel.

Alcune delle novità sono descritte in questo post e questo post.

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VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines (running Windows and Linux) and from other virtual machine formats.

Actually the most recent version remain the Converter 6.6 updated on Feb, 22 2024.

Considering that one of my most requested article was VMware Converter guest OS support, I decide to make an updated version.

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VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is the final release to support Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in VMware SSO as explained in the VMware KB 314324 (Removal of Integrated Windows Authentication).

Note that also all IWA related functionalities like Windows Session Authentication (SSPI) will be removed in a future ESXi release!

IWA was deprecated in vSphere 7.0 and wth vSphere 8.0 GA there was a warning message during the vCenter upgrade:

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Veeam Backup & Replication 12 supports different malware detection methods that works in different way and can be used together to reach different scopes. Note: new features have been added in version 12.3!

The first main diffecence is that some works inline (during the backup process on the source data) and other works with a post-processing directly on restore points saved on the repositories.

For this reason also the load of those malware detection activities can be on different Veeam components, basically on the proxy servers for inline methods and the mount servers for the post-processing methods.

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