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Reading Time: 7 minutesPotrebbe essere giunto il momento di investire in qualche certificazione orientata al mondo del cloud computing? Probabilmente la risposta è sì (e più passa il tempo e più diventa certo che sarà sì). Ma quale certificazione? Poiché esistono diversi tipi di cloud (sia nei servizi che nel modo di consumarli), bisogna fare prima alcune distinzioni e precisazioni. Tutto quello che riguarda il private cloud in realtà è già coperto da certificazioni tradizionali dei vari vendor. In realtà per la parte di management ed integrazione si possono avere strumenti nuovi con certificazioni nuove (si pensi ad […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesChe il mondo OpenSource sia importante nessuno lo mette in dubbio: ci sono aziende che ne hanno fatto un motto e un modello di business (RedHat in primis), ma ci sono aziende che lo stanno abbracciando vedendolo più come una risorsa più che un nemico (vedasi Microsoft nell’ultimo anno). In realtà bisognerebbe fare un distinguo tra software OpenSource e software libero (Free Software) che però richiederebbe post dedicati (rimando a questa pagina sul sito del progetto GNU). La verità è che a parte i concetti (assolutamente importanti e fondamentali), da un punto di vista del […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesNakivo has announced that it has released NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6.2. The new version provides full support for paid AWS EC2 instances, sold through AWS Marketplace. NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6.2 provides a simple, reliable, and affordable way to protect and recover AWS EC2 instances:

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware and Amazon have announced a strategic partnership that brings those two companies together to deliver a vSphere-based cloud service running on AWS. This service will make it easier for customers to run any application, using a set of familiar software and tools, in a consistent hybrid cloud environment. Currently in Technology Preview, VMware Cloud on AWS, will bring VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS cloud, and will enable customers to run any application across vSphere-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments. It will be operated, managed and sold by VMware […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the (few) new products announce during the VMworld US 2016 was the VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) 3.0 release. OpenStack is an framework for providing developers with cloud-style APIs and tools on top of a choice of virtual infrastructure technologies. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

Reading Time: 3 minutesCloudPhysics provide a SaaS service of data-driven insights for smarter IT quite powerful e with lot of features. One interesting feature is the Cloud Cost Calculators to better understand your public cloud costs and when they can be cheaper compared to the on-prem solution of also compared across multiple cloud provider. Now they announced that it has added Cloud Planning Rightsizer analytics to its Public Cloud Cost Calculators for enterprises who want to move to the public cloud and their channel partners. CloudPhysics’ Cloud Cost Calculators discover the configuration of every virtual machine (VM) in the […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesNAKIVO Backup & Replication v6 was released with some interesting features. Most are minor features, but there is one very huge and almost unique: it support native backup and replication of Amazon EC2 instances! Considering that Amazon EC2 is one of the most popular public compute cloud, which enables customers to rapidly deploy and run cloud-based instances. NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6 is one of the first to provide native backup and replication of Amazon EC2 instances and features:

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