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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is VMware’s unified SDDC platform for the hybrid cloud and it’s based on VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization technologies to deliver a native integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment or run as a service from the public cloud with consistent and simple operations.

The core components of VMware Cloud Foundation are VMware vSphere, vSAN (for the storage part), and NSX (for the network and security part).

It’s more than a simple products bundle, because it gives a full validate stack with a fast provisioning, but also a better lifecycle management.

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Note: on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO!

Announced during the last OpenIO Summit 2018, the new release OpenIO SDS 18.10 has been announced.

OpenIO SDS transforms commodity servers into large object storage and compute pools. They build a scalable solution designed to grow as you need, that can handle from terabytes to petabytes. This Object Storage solution became Open Source in 2012 (with AGPLv3 license). OpenIO is a pure (open) software object store.

Usually OpenIO SDS has a 6-month release cycle and now following the OpenIO SDS 18.04 released in August 2018, this new version version of SDS is now available with a long list of new features and improvements all throughout the software.

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Cloudera e Hortonworks hanno annunciato congiuntamente l’intenzione di fondersi in un’unica azienda.

Considerando che entrambe già erano leader nel mondo dei Big Data, l’operazione porterà alla creazione della più grande azienda in questa area, nonché alla distribuzione Hadoop leader assoluta.

Ma l’idea dichiarata è quella di creare un nuovo protagonista che offrirà una piattaforma dati di nuova generazione che include ambienti multi-cloud, on-premise ed Edge.

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Now that Network Virtualization and Software Defined Network are becoming mainstream, there is a new trend in networking: Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN).

What is SD-WAN? SD-WAN is best defined as traffic monitoring and management from physical devices to the application itself, capitalizing on flexibility and agility. This intelligent routing is abstracted into a virtual overlay, enabling a secured pooling of both private and public connections allowing for automation, centralized network control and real-time management across multiple links. 

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La Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 risale ad aprile 2018 ed ora, dopo l’annuncio bomba di IBM che acquista Red Hat, è stata rilasciata la nuova release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.

Diverse le novità riguardanti la sicurezza, miglioramenti nella gestione e funzionalità per la parte container, funzioni per l’automazione ed altro:

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Few months ago Runecast reach the v2.0 milestone of their Runecast Analyzer, a solution that provides software-defined expertise to mitigate service outages, increase security and compliance and reduce time in troubleshooting.
Now they are releasing the latest version v2.1 with new improvements.

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Ora che vSphere 6.7 Update 1 è stato rilasciato in General Availability (GA), mancava ancora l’ultimo “pezzo”, ossia vSphere Platinum che finalmente è in GA pure lui.

Annunciato al VMworld US 2018, VMware vSphere Platinum non è propriamente un nuovo prodotto, ma semplicemente una nuova edizione di vSphere che può essere anche vista come bundle di due prodotto.

VMware vSphere Platinum non è altro che l’insieme di vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Enterprise Plus (con una nuova edizione chiamata appunto VMware vSphere for Platinum) abbinata ad una soluzione SaaS per la sicurezza delle VM, chiamata VMware AppDefense (for Platinum). Il tutto in una singola licenza.

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