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During the last IT Press Tour #57, I’ve got the opportunity to learn about a swedish company: Hopsworks presented by Jim Dowling (CEO & co-founder). Founded in 2018, Hopsworks was founded by a research team from KTH, RISE, and MySQL.
Considered the pioneering platform for data and AI, Hopsworks integrates data science, data engineering, and machine learning into a cohesive platform: an AI Lakehouse.
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After only few months from the Linux Kernel 6.10, Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.11, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. This update arrives a few days before the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit takes place in Vienna, Austria.
Note that also the 6.10 version remain classified temporally as a stable branch, but this release will be a short-lived branch, supported for only a couple of months, before being succeeded by Linux kernel 6.11.
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As I mentioned in the Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 upgrade notes article, a Veeam Backup upgrade does NOT upgrade the embedded database (if you are using the embedded database deployment).
If you want to upgrade also the embedded database server part, you need to do it manually!
Starting with Backup & Replication v12, the default embedded database is PostgreSQL.
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Veeam Product Lifecycle is a little different compared to other vendors.
When a new major version came out in General Availability (GA) the previous version reach the End of Fix status. Only the End of Support deadline is pre-defined and documented when a product will be released.
This, of course, push the upgrade phase to be as faster as possible to still have hotfixes and patches.
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This book is part of Operationalize Your World (OYW), a workshop that Kenon Owens and Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok created back in 2016 as a free book (Iwan is the same author of the VMware vSphere Metrics, 4th edition book also available for free).
The VCF Operations Transformation, 4th Edition book describes that what you architect is SDDC, but what you handover as a business result to your CIO is IaaS. The transformation from SDDC to IaaS requires IT Operations Transformation. We transform from complaint-based to SLA-based, which requires fundamental process changes from alert-driven to insight-driven.
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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 310 companies with 540 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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XCP-ng is an OpenSource fork from Xen to provide a user-friendly, high-performance virtualization solution, developed collaboratively for unrestricted features and open-source accessibility.
XCP-ng is a Linux distribution of the Xen Project with pre-configured Xen Hypervisor and the Xen API project (XAPI) working out-of-the-box.
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