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VMUG Advantage 2024 benefits

2 Gennaio 2024
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As you know the VMUG membership is completly free as also most of the benefits, including the online resources, local meeting and UserConf events (some events may have a fee depending by the local VMUG, but almost are for free).

But, if you want (and note that it’s not mandatory for VMUG membership), you can have more benefits by subscribing to the VMUG Advantage, that is an interesting way to stay on top of your technical skills with discounts on training, certifications, attendance at VMworld and on product licenses.

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What is Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)

1 Gennaio 2024
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To implement some encryption solutions (like VM encryption, backup encryption, storage encryption) you need to manage symmetric keys in a secure way.

Key management has always been solved with proprietary solutions. Each vendor have offered in the past their own key management server/client combination, but as the complexity of datacenters increased, this designed has shown its limits. If you have multiple components, all in need of security keys, why you would need to run multiple key management solutions?

But in order to have a common solution, you first would need a protocol to let all the different components and vendor talk to each other, and this is what KMIP is about.

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Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1

5 Dicembre 2023
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The release version of Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 is available for download at veeam.com/backupreplication-download.html starting from December 5, 2023. For more information see the release notes document.

It adds some improvements, some new features and some updates in the software compatibility matrix.

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Commvault announces Commvault Cloud

19 Novembre 2023
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During the recent SHIFT 2023 event, Commvault has charted the future of cyber resilience using the power of AI to achieve the most powerful cyber resilience across the hybrid landscape.

The event was an in place event (in New York City on November 8), followed by a series of global simulcasts on November 9 in local time zones.

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Hyperconverged infrastructure market share (2022)

1 Novembre 2023
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Some years ago, I’ve published a post about the Hyperconverged infrastructure market share (2018)… but what about now? How HCI has grow?

HCI has become a hot topic with several vendors that aim to be a leader in this area, or with several “magic quadrants” that try to define who is in.

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Dell acquires RVTools

7 Ottobre 2023
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RVTools technology was just acquired by Dell Technologies from its original founder, Rob de Veij.

Rob is still supporting the program as part of the Dell team. Dell is committed to keeping RVTools available as a no cost public download, so it can continue to be an open asset for the technical community.

RVTools has been a widely used utility for VMware environments for the past 15 years, helping users make accurate decisions around planning, deploying, and managing virtual infrastructures.

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Veeam announces a BaaS offer for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

5 Ottobre 2023
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Veeam announced two new offerings which combine the confidence and reliability of Veeam’s backup and restore capabilities with the ease-of-use of Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS).

The news is that those two offers are not delivered through cloud partners, but directly as a Veeam’s portfolio service called Cirrus by Veeam.

Cirrus by Veeam was acquired from CT4, an Australian company who developed the cloud-native service utilizing Veeam’s industry-leading data backup and ransomware recovery platform.

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