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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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VMware vSphere 8.0.3 introduces several new features and also a new snapshot management.

One of the issues of VM snapshots is that people forget to delete them: according to VMware snapshot management recommended practices you shoul NOT keep snapshots for more than 3 days (I suggest to don’t keep them for more than one day, because usually you have backups as other possible restore points).

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VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas has just finished, but what’s news?

Let’s start from some obvius things… first more Broadcom (and less VMware maybe) as you can see from the titles of the different press relases.

And seems less attendees (5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).

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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on August 15, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a pioneer in software for hybrid cloud management and platform operations. The acquisition of Morpheus reflects HPE’s commitment to simplify IT complexity by expanding the hybrid operations capabilities available through HPE GreenLake cloud.

Unifying complete hybrid capabilities on a single platform like HPE GreenLake is critical as enterprises grapple with IT estates that are more heterogenous and complex to manage.

On August 30 the acquisition is completed!

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Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 (build 12.2.0.334) has been recently released and it’s already available for download.

But before upgrade to this version, it’s better read carefully the related release notes (and the upgrade notes included!).

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