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Spectre and Meltdown bugs are something from the past (my last blog post was about some Meltdown and Spectre variants) or not? Of course that’s not true… we have only start to stratch the attack surface of CPU.
Now there are additional chapters of Spectre saga.
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Virtana (formely know as Virtual Instruments) provides in deep hybrid-infrastructure observability. The Virtana name pays homage to our VI legacy, but it also stands for Real-Time Analytics and Automation.
Today Virtana announced it has acquired Zenoss, a pioneer in real-time IT service monitoring and a leader in AI-powered event intelligence. This strategic acquisition aims to bridge the gap between service visibility and infrastructure control in hybrid environments. The increased scale of Virtana and Zenoss will enable greater opportunity for accelerated investment and innovation.
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Veeam Backup and Replication support PostgreSQL (only on Linux) using Application-Aware and Guest Processing.
Only in this way you can than use the Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL during restore, but note that it support only the following PostgreSQL versions on Linux machines: PostgreSQL 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. For more information see the system requirements.
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During the Nutanix .NEXT 2025 event (at Washington DC), Omnissa, a leading digital work platform company, has announced a partnership with Nutanix, Inc. to bring Omnissa Horizon to the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
A great move to extend the supported hypervisor, now that Omnissa is an independent company and no more related to Broadcom/VMware.
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Six years ago, during the Dell Technologies World 2019 event, I’ve met an interesting company: Liqid, founded in the greater Denver area by a team of experts with decades of broad experience in data center architecture and software design.
They were one of the fist company providing composable infrastructure leverages industry-standard data center components to deliver a flexible, scalable architecture built from pools of disaggregated resources.
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Scale Computing,is an interesting company in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, that I’ve followed from several years (Scale Computing: an alternative hyperconverged solution).
Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) is an HCI solution based on KVM that delivers simplicity, resilience, and scalability for IT infrastructure, from the data center to the distributed edge.
On April 16th, Scale Computing announced a new strategic collaboration with Veeam Software. As part of the Veeam Integrated program, Veeam and Scale Computing have joined forces to bring customers full support for the Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) within the Veeam Data Platform, expanding backup and recovery capabilities across Scale Computing’s rapidly growing installed base of edge and core infrastructure deployments.
Support for SC//Platform in the Veeam Data Platform is expected to be generally available in Q4 2025. A preview was shown at latest VeeamON 2025 and actually there is a private beta.
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Minimum viability, sometimes referred to as a “minimum viable company”, means having a keen understanding of just the most critical assets and what it takes to restore them to be operational after a cyberattack or incident.
The rise of cyberattacks is forcing organizations to rethink their recovery strategies. While detecting threats remains critical, a more significant challenge has emerged: making sure protected data is clean and available to bring a company back online. And that’s the scope of minimum viabilitity.
Developing a plan for minimum viability starts well before an attack and has basically three main phases: first an accurate and aligned view of the core processes and dependent systems, then understanding the cost of downtime for those core resources, and finally making clear and actionable plan to restore critical systems, data, and processes.
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