Improved block allocation mechanism on VMFS-6
Along with other improvements to VMFS-6, there is also a new block allocation mechanism which aims to reduce lock contention between hosts sharing the same VMFS-6 filesystem. To understand how lock...
View ArticleZerto Virtual Replication 5.5 Released
Zerto releasing a new version of their flagship product Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 (ZVR). The latest releases addnew features and enhancements to already a feature-rich product. One of those new...
View ArticleMicrosoft Has Problems as They Work to Improve Office 365 Support
The Challenge of Office 365 SupportA vast variety of organizations use Office 365 from 5-people businesses to the largest multinationals. The experience of the people working in those tenants range...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Red Hat Extend Partnership, Simplify Deploying Containers
What was once an oddity in the Microsoft world is now common practice. The company is no longer the enemy of open source technology but has now fully embraced the software and is also contributing to...
View ArticleHyperGrid Expands Customer Base, Partners and VMware Support in Advance of...
HyperGrid , the Enterprise Cloud-as-a-Service leader, announced the expansion of its partnerships, customer base and hypervisor support. HyperGrid... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleAvoiding the Five Biggest Disaster Recovery Mistakes
Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is critical for businesses of all types and sizes. This concept is a given but creating and executing good and comprehensive DR plans for most organizations is...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 14 Pro and Workstation 14 Player to Streamline Processes...
VMware, Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announced the latest versions of the VMware Workstation solutions... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleManageEngine Adds Migration Capability to its SharePoint Management and...
ManageEngine , the real-time IT management company, has enhanced its SharePoint management, auditing and reporting solution, SharePoint Manager Plus... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleA VMworld US 2017 To Do List
If you work in the virtualization or datacenter field (are they really different anymore?) you probably know that VMworld US 2017 is next week, August 27-31. While VMware may not be the only option out...
View ArticleDruva’s new $80M funding to advance growth and deliver greater customer value
With a special thank you to our customers and our steadfast execution as an organization, I am pleased to provide an update on our business and strategy. Data is the new oil. As enterprises look at new...
View ArticleUpgrade VCSA 6.0u3 to VCSA 6.5u1
Today, I upgraded a vCenter appliance on 6.0u3 to 6.5u1. I had been waiting for this forever as we wanted to get to 6.5, but had erroneously missed a line in the 6.0u3 release notes that said it could...
View ArticleAre We Really Concerned with Public Cloud Vendor Lock-in?
Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend Cloud Field Day 2, out in Silicon Valley. Cloud Field Day 2 brought a group of industry thought leaders together to speak with companies about their cloud...
View ArticleBureau of Meteorology Selects Zenoss Software as a Service
Zenoss Inc. , the leader in hybrid IT monitoring and analytics software, today announced that the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Australia's national... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleZerto Introduces Virtual Replication 5.5 - Driving Enterprise Resilience with...
Zerto, a leading provider of cloud IT resilience and application mobility solutions, has announced the general availability of Zerto Virtual... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleInstallation and configuration of EMC Storage Analytics 4.3 and VMware...
EMC Storage Analytics solution provides a single, end-to-end view of virtualized infrastructures (servers to storage) powered by the VMware vRealize Operations Manager analytics engine. EMC Storage...
View ArticleDruva Announces $80 Million in Growth Equity Funding to Redefine and...
Druva , the global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced $80 million of growth equity funding, bringing the total raised to Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleRed Hat and Microsoft Simplify Containers to Help Enterprises Accelerate to...
Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat, Inc. today announced an expansion of the two companies' alliance with plans for new initiatives aimed at enabling... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleParallels Desktop 13 for Mac Launches and is the First to Bring Windows Apps...
Parallels , a global leader in cross-platform solutions and creator of the No. 1-selling software for running Windows applications on a Mac, today... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleUpdate Your Policies!
It is time to update your security, data protection, disaster recovery, and all IT policies and guidance. So much has changed in the last year. Now we need to incorporate it into our IT guidance and...
View ArticleCisco UCS Manager 3.2(1d) Is Now Available
Cisco UCS Manager 3.2(1d) has been released! Personally, I always look forward to new UCS Manager releases, and the new features and functionality they bring. Letrsquo;s take a look at what we can...
View ArticleVMware AirWatch Is First UEM to Manage Chromebooks, Extending Cross-Platform...
Google and VMware today announced an expanded collaboration to help organizations manage, secure and enable Chrome devices with VMware Workspace ONE powered by VMware AirWatch unified endpoint...
View ArticleATTO's ESXi Thunderbolt Driver is now officially on VMware HCL
Last week I had received some great news from our friends over at ATTO Technologythat their ESXi Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel Driver has passed the VMware Certification process and is now officially...
View ArticleVMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.1 is Now Generally...
As we prepare to head VMworld 2017 in both Las Vegas and Barcelona, wersquo;re excited to announce that today, we’ve released the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.1 –...
View ArticlevArmour Exponentially Grows Patent Portfolio, Focusing on Application Policy...
vArmour , the leading data center and cloud security company, today announced 12 additions to its growing patent portfolio issued by the U.S. Patent... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleDisaster Recovery with VMware NSX-V and Zerto
Note, this is a reposting of the blog that I initially postedhere onhumairahmed.com. In a prior blog, VMware NSX and SRM: Disaster Recovery Overview and Demo, I described and demoed how VMware NSX and...
View ArticleioFABRIC Delivers Multi-Site, Multi-Cloud Data Fabric for Complete Data...
ioFABRIC Inc. today introduced ioFABRIC Vicinity version 3.0 of its multi-site, multi-cloud data fabric that ensures complete data protection and... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleVMware Celebrates 10 Years of Delivering Industry-Leading Innovations in Mac...
VMware, Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announced new versions of VMware Fusion solutions and the 10 th... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleFinancial Services Workshop @ VMworld 2017 US
Partners, donrsquo;t let your customers miss the first-ever VMworld Financial Services Workshop on Sunday. Itrsquo;s a great opportunity for your financial services customers and prospects to network...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sunsets GigJam, Never Found A Place To Party
In 2015 at its then named Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft showed off what the company hoped would be a new service to help streamline workflows and help users get work done. As of Septemeber...
View ArticleService Providers Validate Cloudian's HyperStore Object Storage Platform
Cloudian , the innovation leader in enterprise object storage systems, today announced that its Cloudian HyperStore adoption by global service... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleIllumio Launches the Next Wave of its Micro-Segmentation Technology Through...
Illumio today announced it is launching the next wave of its micro-segmentation technology with groundbreaking capabilities in visualization and... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleSolarWinds Enhances Systems Portfolio for Improved Application-Centric...
SolarWinds , a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced significant updates to the SolarWinds Orion... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleHow to experience VMworld 2017 without attending it
As much as everyone would love to attend VMworld many people can not go for a variety reasons but you can still get a lot out of the show even if you do not attend. I thought Irsquo;d highlight some of...
View ArticleSIOS Demos IT Analytics with Advanced Meta-Analysis and Integration with New...
SIOS Technology Corp ., the industry's leading provider of software products that help IT ensure the performance, efficiency, and high availability... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleNew KB articles published for week ending 19th August 2017
VMware vRealize AutomationUnable to view any groups in directory Sync Settings “Groups” tab after upgrading from vRA 7.2 to 7.3Date Published: 2017/08/14“The current data type SECURE_STRING for the...
View ArticleNew VM Import Tool from CloudShare Makes Migrating to Cloud Easier and Faster...
CloudShare , a leading supplier of specialized cloud-based IT lab environments for software training, sales demos and PoCs (proof of concept), and... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticlePay Parity, Gender Diversity and All Things Equal
The past few weeks have been a bumpy ride for the folks at Google - and before hand Uber was the center of a pretty big scandal. The gender-diversity thing is really getting out of hand. People are...
View ArticleAcronis True Image 2018 Brings Artificial Intelligence-Based Data Protection...
Acronis, a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection for business and consumers, today introduced Acronis True Image 2018 . The new release... Read more at VMblog.com.
View ArticleTop 20 Horizon View articles for July 2017
Provisioning or recomposing a linked clone desktop pool failsRemoving invalid linked clone entries automatically using the ViewDBChk tool in VMware Horizon View 5.3 and later versionsRemoving a...
View ArticleGetting ready for VMworld and Partner Exchange 2017
Working to clean up my blog and update things to help me live blog/tweet during VMworld 2017. Looking forward to a bunch of announcements and seeing tons of tweeps/vExperts/VCDX folks and others. It’s...
View ArticleWhat to look for at VMworld 2017
Every August, infrastructure professionals make a pilgrimage to VMworld – temporarily in Las Vegasrsquo;s Mandalay Bay due to construction in San Francisco – to hear what the oracles of VMware have to...
View ArticleJust in time for VMworld, Zerto releases Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5
Zerto today announced a new release of Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR), version 5.5 that has some cool new things in it. They have a whole page devoted to what’s new in 5.5 but I thought I’d summarize...
View Article@Spousetivities #VMworld – Why it’s important
Ok so let me get this started. I like conferences. I am an extrovert and love talking to people. But… I don’t like being gone for long periods of time without my wife. So back in 2010 I think I heard...
View ArticleOpenStack Sessions at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas
Don’t Miss Out!VMworld 2017 Las Vegas is just around the corner and we can’t wait to meet our customers and partners, and explore all the great sessions, workshops and activities planned for next week....
View ArticleA #VMTN Guide: How to Attend VMworld 2017, Without Physically Attending...
With VMworld quickly approaching, thousands of people around the world are checking in to flights, registering for sessions, podcasters are slating guests, Twitter & Facebook feeds are buzzing with...
View ArticleWhat is Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5?
Zerto reveal their new release Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 with lot of new features like support for vSphere 6.5 suite. DRaaS is a buzz word for many people and Zerto solves many challenges for...
View ArticleTech Field Day – I’ll Be At TFD Extra at VMworld US 2017
The name says it all. I mentioned recently that Irsquo;ll be heading to the US inless thanaweek for VMworld. This is a quick post to say that I’ll also have the opportunity to participate intheTech...
View ArticleHCIとパフォーマンス計測の美学 ー パート2 ー Microsoft SQL Server
本記事の原文はNutanixコミュニティのブログNutanix Connect Blogの記事の翻訳ヴァージョンです。原文の著者はNutanix社のSr. Technical Marketing EngineerであるAndy Daniel氏によるものです。原文を参照したい方はHCI and the Art of Performance Measurement - Part II -...
View ArticlevRA + NSX - Delivering App-Centric Networking and Security
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is the powerful automation engine in VMwarersquo;s vRealize Cloud Management Platform (CMP). vRA is designed to automate not just applications and service delivery, but...
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