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#VFD3 – VMTurbo bring resources broker capability in your infrastructure

11 March 2014
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VFD-LogoDuring the third day of the third edition of Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3) the last company that we (as delegates) met was VMTurbo that is a well known company in the big virtualization ecosystem.

The core founding team started VMTurbo in 2009 (the initial company was called SMARTS but was soon acquired by EMC), realizing that the rapid growth of virtualization in the datacenter was redefining the management requirements for companies of all sizes. The VMTurbo platform first launched in August 2010 and since that time more than 9,000+ cloud service providers and enterprises worldwide have deployed the platform with 530+ customers. VMTurbo is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, and Globespan Capital. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts, with offices in New York, California, the United Kingdom and Israel.

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VMware announce the recertification policy

10 March 2014
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VMware has introduced a new certification policy (is effective as of March 10, 2014) that require a re-certification every two years. Actually this does not differ too much from other vendor’s technical certifications.

Note that, at least in this phase, this only apply to VCP certifications (and not like other have written also to VCAP or VCDX):

VMware is implementing a recertification policy for VCP certification. To recertify, VMware Certified Professional (VCP) holders must pass any VCP or higher-level exam within two years of earning their most recent VCP certification.

Some people have several concerns about this announce, but just read more carefully the VMware recertification policy to understand its real impact and meaning.

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Tech Field Day is a community event for the community

7 March 2014
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Tech Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public. The world of media has changed, with social media and blogging gaining special importance.

But first to all, in my opinion, is a community event for the community: each session is live and available on YouTube and Vimeo some hours after, completely for free and to everybody (and you cannot miss them as also explained on this post: why you need to be watching Tech Field Day).

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#VFD3 – Coho Data bring a cool solution in the storage arena

6 March 2014
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VFD-LogoDuring the second day of the third edition of Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3) one of the company that we (as delegates) met was Coho Data that is a (new) cool company in the big storage arena. Their beginnings as Convergent.io with a specific goal of shifting the way that storage is built and managed. This session also match the announcement of the General Availability (GA) of their Web-Scale Storage Appliance for the Enterprise.

Formally they are a software company, but the solution is a storage appliance already packet with both the hardware part and the software part (there are different reasons for this choice, ma mainly for simplify the HCL and have predictable performance in their scaling approach). The entire architecture is well described in their web site or in the #VFD3 video.

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#VFD3 – Ready for the Virtualization Field Day 3

5 March 2014
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Only few hours left until the third edition of the Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3), scheduled on March 5-7 in Silicon Valley (California). As written, for the first time I’ll be a delegate and I’m very excited and curios about this type of events. Also the Tech Field Day sessions are often streamed live, and recordings will be available after the event and could become available also for non delegates. In most cases they become a must to understand some technologies (see this post on why you need to be watching Tech Field Day).

VFD-LogoVirtualization Field Day is one type of the Technical Field Day events, organized by Stephen Foskett and his team, with the purpose of bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Virtualization Field Day (VFD) focuses on server and desktop virtualization and management technologies and will be really interesting be part of this event and this group of people.

This event will be a good opportunity to know better some vendors and their products. But also to meet other people and share experience and impressions: delegate list has several well know names (Marco Broeken, Alastair Cooke, David M Davis, James Green, Scott D. Lowe, Paul Meehan, Eric Shanks, Rick Schlander, Jeff Wilson, Eric Wright). continue reading…

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VMUG.IT – User Conference 2014

3 March 2014
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After the great success of the first Italian VMUG User Conference, there will be the second edition on May 7 2014 still in Milan.

A VMUG User Conference is not your regular VMUG meeting, it’s a full blown conference, with separate tracks and prominent guest speakers. A good opportunity to learn more, share experiences, and make networking.

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March 2014 IT events

1 March 2014
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Interesting European IT events:

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