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Officially the VMworld EU 2014 starts tomorrow (Oct, 14th), but today there is the VMware partner day, so most people are alredy at Barcelona and some activities, like hands-on lab or #vBrownbag TechTalk sessions are running.

Are announced over 8,000 attendees, more than 125 sponsors and more than 300 breakout sessions. So let’s see how goes this event and don’t miss my VMworld 2014 EU tips.

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Dell Fluid Cache for SAN is a complete, flexible enterprise application acceleration solution (announced during the past Dell Enterprise Forum) producing stable, unprecedented I/O performance which can help businesses and  organizations reduce online transactional latency, allow increased concurrent users, and improve computational performance for applications such as online transactional purchasing (OLTP) and virtual desktop interface (VDI).

Mainly is a host-side cache (that can work both as a read and a write cache) but completly build around Dell products and Dell software and could be used both for VMware vSphere (5.5) environment or also for Linux systems.

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Veeam Software, during the VeeamON event, has a announced Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, a simple and free standalone solution that enables users to back up Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external hard drive, a NAS (network attached storage) share or a Veeam backup repository.

One of the misunderstandings of Veeam Backup & Replication product is that it cannot handle the backup of physical system: this is not exactly true. For virtual machines Veeam remain still an agentless backup solution. But you can register Windows (or also Linux) physical machine inside your infrastructure and in this case you can handle a backup (“agent” based) limited only to files.

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CommVault Simpana is a single platform and unifying code base for integrated data and information management. I’ve wrote a post related to their announces during the past Virtualization Field Day (#VDF3).

The most relevant aspect compared to other products is that this is NOT only a backup program, but can handle different functions. All functions share the same DNA and back-end technologies to deliver the unparalleled advantages and benefits of a truly holistic approach to protecting, managing and accessing data.

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Some years ago, Veeam has introduced a “cloud” version of its Backup & Replication product (see Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition) and also a specific program for Cloud or Service Provider, but with the next version of the data protection program and the next suite (Veeam Availability Suite) there will be something more interesting both for the customer and the service providers.

I’ve already talk about the Veeam Cloud Connect but the implication and the possibility to build hybrid cloud solutions are quire interesting. During the last Veeam Technical Expert Club event this was one of coolest topic and was also the opportunity to clarify some concept (most is well-expleined on this official post, but some interesting points were explained during the conversation).

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RedHat has announced the global availability of Red Hat Storage Server 3, an open software-defined storage solution for scale out file storage designed for the biggest consumers of unstructured data in enterprises today including enterprise file sharing and collaboration, log analytics, such as Splunk, and big data, such as Hadoop.

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and the Open Source GlusterFS 3.6 file system, Red Hat Storage Server 3 is designed to scale to support petabytes of data without compromising on choice, cost and control. Highlights of the new capabilities of Red Hat Storage Server 3 include:

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As other companies and vendors, VMware is using the suite concept to identify a products collection with similar scope (or complementar functions) and usually with a common lifecycle plan (at least after that the suite is declared).

It does not mean that all the products in a single suite will have a common look & feel or same versions, but new release are (usually) handled in a common way.

The vSphere suite was probably the first one defined by VMware (before ESX and vCenter Server were two different products and with different versions) and after that more suite were announced.

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