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IT Press Tour #55

9 Aprile 2024
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ITPT Reading Time: 2 minutes

The 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.

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Beta release of VMware Host Client

8 Aprile 2024
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The VMware vSphere Host Client (or Host UI) was initially released as a fling in 2015, and then included as the default host client GUI interface with vSphere 6.0 Update 2.

A web HTML5 interface was needed in order to replace the legacy Windows’s based vSphere Client.

And was a good solution, light and fast enough… But after 10 years it becomes old and the user experience is too much different compared to the vSphere Client (HTML5).

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Quantum Myriad’s architecture 

5 Aprile 2024
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On November 29th, 2023, Quantum announced the general availability of a new solution, Myriad. Quantum boasts a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of software solutions known to unlock the true value of data.  A company with a pedigree in storage, Quantum offers solutions ranging from archiving to file and object storage, each targeted at a particular set of uses cases. In all its solutions, data is the chief strategy and center of focus. 

Some weeks ago I’ve got the opportunity to attend at the Quantum Tech Field Day Showcase and learn more about this innovative product.

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Veeam Backup is now supporting Oracle Linux KVM

4 Aprile 2024
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Veeam Backup & Replication support for KVM was limited, at the VM image level, only to Nutanix AHV and RedHat Virtualization (RHV)… until now.

Of course, is possible to use Veeam Agent to manage the backup of workloads on different type of hypervisors, but having a native image level backup support is important to improve backup speed, simplicity and also have fast recoverability.

KVM solutions are growing fast, but it’s a fragmented world, with too many variants and dialects.

Now Veeam is announcing the support for Oracle Linux KVM!

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XZ Utils Backdoor 

3 Aprile 2024
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XZ Utils (formerly LZMA Utils) provides a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools.

March 29, 2024 is a day that will hardly be forgotten by the open source community: Andres Freund disclosed his findings about the compromise in the XZ Utils, which would enable an attacker to silently gain access to a targeted affected system.

CVE-2024-3094 is a vulnerability discovered in the open-source library XZ Utils that stems from malicious code that was pushed into the library by one of its maintainers.

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Nexsan milestones

2 Aprile 2024
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Nexsan is celebrating 25 years of delivering storage solutions enterprises trust for their most critical data needs, backed by the innovation and reliability that has made the company a trusted leader in the industry.

It’s not usual see storage companies that has a so long history and still are playing an important roles today.

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Are tapes still relevant?

1 Aprile 2024
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More 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!

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