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Just some months ago Broadcom has announced a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Brocade merging networking with storage competency to build stronger company. Due to competitive overlaps, Broadcom plans to divest the IP Networking business. Brocade’s intention was to assist Broadcom in finding a buyer that will continue to invest in the strong portfolio that Brocade created.

Now Broadcom and Extreme announced that they have reached a definitive agreement for the purchase of Brocade’s Switching, Routing & Analytics (SRA) business unit, including the VDX, MLX, SLX platform family, Brocade Workflow Composer, and Network Visibility & Analytics product and service portfolios, following the closing of Broadcom’s acquisition of Brocade. We believe that Extreme is a great fit for our SRA business and represents a positive outcome for our partners and customers.

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After the public beta period, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 comes out with great features that improve VM backup and recovery, simplify VM backup management, and speed up VM backup and recovery.

The new version will add the following key features:

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Some months ago I wrote a post on some possible replacement for PernixData FVP because In August 2016 Nutanix acquite PernixData but without give a clear message of the future of this product (neither during the last .NEXT event in Vienna).

Finally I was able to talk with some Nutanix people from the PernixData division and I clarify some concerns about this acquisition.

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RedHat SDS solution has two different storage products, both open software-defined storage, with two different technologies:

  • RedHat Gluster Storage (formelly Red Hat Storage Server) provides a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data management platform, streamlining file and object access across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
  • RedHat Chef Storage provides a robust, highly scalable block and object storage platform for enterprises deploying public or private clouds. Voted No. 1 storage option by OpenStack® users

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If you are using the legacy VMware vSphere Client on Windows 10 you may have some issues with the VM console that display only a part of the screen and leave blank other parts.

You can use other clients (like the Web Client if you have vCenter or the Host UI if you have at least ESXi 6.0U2), but maybe you will have other issues (for example on ESXi 6.0 host UI console mouse may not work well or not at all).

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Resilient File System (ReFS) is a new Microsoft’s filesystem introduced for the first time in Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the “next generation” filesystem after the “old” NTFS (first NTFS version was for Windows NT 3.1). Starting with Windows Server 2016, ReFS is the default filesystem for some workloads and some solutions (like S2D).

To provide greater resiliency for its metadata, the Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows Server 2016 uses allocate-on-write semantics for all metadata updates. This means that ReFS never makes in-place updates to metadata. Instead, it makes all writes to newly allocated regions.

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SwiftStack is a complete, enterprise-ready storage product with OpenStack Swift at the core. SwiftStack delivers needed and innovative functionality outside the datapath, while OpenStack Swift components are in the datapath. The core engine IS OpenStack Swift. It’s not forked, fattened, or watered down.

SwiftStack is one of the lead contributor to the Swift project that has over 220 additional contributors. Swift is used to drive some of the storage clouds at companies like Comcast, Time Warner, and Wikipedia, to name a few.

After the announce of version 4, they have announce SwiftStack 5 with several new features:

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