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VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro are now free for personal use

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Note: on November 11, VMware has announce that VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro are now free for all use cases!

VMware Workstation and Fusion are Desktop Hypervisor products used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers for demo, develop, testing and learning purposed.

Those products give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn about technology, build and test software, complex systems, browsers, apps, games, and more.

And remember that first VMware’s product was VMware Workstation (1999-05-15 – VMware 1.0 – Supports up to 2GB of Memory)!

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Big news in VMware certifications

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Effective from May 6, 2024, there are some important news in VMware certifications: a new Certification Manager 2.0 portal page (https://cp.certmetrics.com/vmware/en/credentials/status), new New Certification Version Badges, Standardize Exam Fees for all exams, and the new Certification by Exam Only path!

The standard exam fee apply an all VCTA, VCP, and VCAP exams will now be charged a flat fee of USD $250.00. This new fee structure will take effect on May 6, 2024, and will apply to all new registrations, renewals, and retakes. There will be no changes to the exam content.

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VMware vSphere 8.0 IA/GA release model

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Starting with VMware vSphere 8.0 the release model has changed with a new Release Model to encourage the adoption of vSphere releases. 

VMware is moving to a new IA/GA (Initial Availability/General Availability) model to ensure our customers have all the information and lead time they need for successfully adopting and consuming the new releases.

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Quickwit: log search at PetaByte scale

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Quickwit is an unparalleled cost-efficient log search engine designed to solve scaling issues in actual log search solutions.

Those issues are mainly originated by the exponential grow of all data, including log datasets: in a data-driven world, terabyte datasets are the new standard. And large tech and cybersecurity companies already need to manage petabytes of logs.

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What is Leil Storage?

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Leil Storage is modern storage designed for backup and archival data. Leil is an Estonian company with the headquarter in Tallin.

With their solution, they are trying hard to revitalize, redo, and right many wrongs around the concept of backup and archival storage.

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Windows Server lifecycle and end of support (May 2024)

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Windows Server 2025 is quite close to be released (before the end of 2024), but what about the lifecycle of Windows Server products and which version is still supported?

Windows products are governed by both a Modern Lifecycle Policy or a Fixed Lifecycle Policy. Search for the product lifecycle for your specific Windows product and its corresponding Lifecycle Policy and end-of-support dates.

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Shared responsibility model in cloud services

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In a public cloud there can be different service models, but in all of them there is a common concept called: shared responsibility model. What does it means?

In an on-premises datacenter, you own the responsability of the whole stack, but as you move to the public cloud some responsibilities are transfer to the cloud provider.

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