Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that enables you to run applications across vSphere-based cloud environments with access to a broad range of AWS services.
VMware is pushing on this service and its offer, and few weeks ago has actived the first “European” region in UK.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNimbus Data Systems, was a storage flash company founded on 2006 with their own flash devices with some intesting products (see for example Nimbus Data – High-performance storage).
After some years of shadows (The “latest news” on the front page of the Nimbus web site is a press release dated June, 2014), now the company it’s back again (with just the name Nimbus Data, but the same logo and the same CEO).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFeedspot, the content reader for reading all your favorite blogs and news websites in one place, has defined a list of the best sysadmin blogs from thousands of top sysadmin blogs in their index using search and social metrics.
This blog site is rated 11!
Reading Time: 5 minutesUntil now, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 have got a similar build evolution during the years. But Windows 10 seems to maintain this trend of continuous improvements, Windows Server instead need a new name…
Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2019 will be generally available in the second half of calendar year 2018. Starting now, you can access the preview build through our Insiders program.
Reading Time: 5 minutesMost people probably already know the terms Converged infrastructures (CI) and HyperConverged Infrastructures (HCI) that are both become quite common in the IT world, with several products and solutions that aim to be fit in those classifications. HCI has become a hot topic with several vendors that aim to be a leader in this area, or with several “magic quadrants” that try to define who is in.
But like happens with the Software Defined Something (especially the Software Defined Software) it’s not always easy to determine what really can fit in a classification and what not. For example, most of the storage solutions are software based, but this is not enough to define all of them SDS solutions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are almost fixed, there is a new critical vulnerabilities, this time specific only for several AMD CPU. There are 13 critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors discovered throughout AMD Ryzen & EPYC product lines. Yes, also the lates AMD CPU models!
Like with Meltdown and Spectre, there is a dedicated web site (amdflaws.com) that provide more detail about them.
Reading Time: 11 minutesThis is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the pro and cons of using GUI or CLI, with the example of VMware environment. See also the original post.
In several cases, a user can choose to use the CLI or GUI, in other cases, for example for some specific tasks, maybe it’s possible to use only one type of interface.
Also note that there are other types of interfaces like the API, but in this case, we cannot really consider a user interface. And sometimes the boundary it’s not so clear and easy to be defined, for example, several admins use the RESTful API not as a development tools, but much like as an automation tool, instead of CLI (or complementary to CLI).
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