Veeam Community Podcast–featuring Me ! (J.F.V.I.)
I was asked last week to be a guest on the Veeam Communities Podcast , hosted by Rick Vanover. It was a nice change to be the interviewee rather than the interviewer. Rick , Doug Carson and I talked...
View ArticleHowTo: Install vCloud Connector (virtual-blog.com)
Thought I would write a quick how to step by step guide on how to deploy vCloud Connector and configure the plug-in with vCenter. Once I have collected them all, I will update the article with the...
View ArticlePHD Virtual Exposes New Features (Kendrick Coleman)
I was reading through PHD Virtual's Press Release today PHD Virtual Technologies Raises the Bar for Performance and Scalability of Virtualization Backup and saw some really cool features that I though...
View ArticlePHD Virtual Exposes New Features (Kendrick Coleman)
I was reading through PHD Virtual's Press Release today PHD Virtual Technologies Raises the Bar for Performance and Scalability of Virtualization Backup and saw some really cool features that I though...
View ArticleThe cat is out of the bag (Veeam Book) (Virtualize Planet)
Ok the cat is out of the bag. If you’ve not guessed it from the title of this post I’m writing a Veeam Book. In fact I’m about half way through. The initial book will cover Veeam Monitor, Veeam...
View ArticleVKernel expands performance, capacity management on Microsoft Hyper-V...
Recently, VKernel announced expanded support for Microsoft Hyper-V, adding updates to its VKernel Capacity Analyzer and VKernel Chargeback products. Beyond that, VKernel said its latest announcement...
View ArticleVMware vSphere ‘Unofficial’ Network Card Compatibility Matrix (TechHead)
There has been quite a bit of discussion on a few of my vSphere lab posts around what network cards work (and don’t work) with the various versions of VMware ESX/ESXi. As such I thought it useful to...
View ArticleBank announces consolidation programme (Blade Watch)
http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22579 Mizuho’s ATM network and online services were knocked out in March, leaving millions of customers unable to access their money in the wake...
View ArticleTalking about Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and everything else...
Irrespective of cloud, of service level agreements and contracts, a simple question one which might seem strange. Your service provider says it has full fault tolerance, disaster recovery, a series of...
View ArticleThe need to translate high availability to the virtual world (Blade Watch)
For the second time, I was talking to Chris, who continues to try and invite me over for lunch in Sunny Canary Wharf. He was having some what of a quandary. A user had phoned up and started making a...
View ArticleHow many sockets for my virtual estate? Is bigger better? (Blade Watch)
I was interviewing an IT Manager for an article as we sometimes do over at Bladewatch and I was asking their view on their virtualization project. It’s interesting to see what others experiences are...
View ArticleLooking at Veeam and I like it (Blade Watch)
We’re off to look at Veeam, it’s something that has been getting rather a following in the virtual space in the backup arena and as a production support guy, who knows the importance about backups,...
View ArticleHow To: Install multiple vCloud Director cells (virtual-blog.com)
There has been a few questions about this and I have also made a big mistake once by not following the correct installation procedure. This is a small subset of what is listed in the VMware vCloud...
View ArticleMicrosoft TechEd 2011: Virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint Server with Hyper-V...
Virtualization began as a way to consolidate a bunch of servers to less hardware but it was relegated to minor application servers. Over the years, however, virtualization has become, for many, the...
View ArticleFour products/services we’re looking at this week (Blade Watch)
So in reference to this post, we’re looking at four major products as part of the bladewatch research activities: Veeam – backup solution for VMware Dell PowerEdge C6100 server for cloud builders and...
View ArticleFour Tips for Increasing Clinician Electronic Medical Record Adoption With...
Everyday we hear about Virtual Desktops making a positive impact. Perhaps no where is this more true than in healthcare, where the need for always-on access and ease-of-use intersects with the...
View ArticleCitrix acquires Kaviza (virtualization.info)
In April last year, virtualization.info reported that Citrix made a strategic investment in Kaviza, for an undisclosed sum and no details about the terms of the deal. Citrix is now...
View ArticleCitrix “VDI-in-a-Box” for SMB due to acquisition of Kaviza (Thinstall Guru)
Citrix Systems announced it has closed its acquisition of Kaviza, makers of the market-leading all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for small and medium business. The acquisition adds a unique VDI-only...
View ArticleKaviza acquired by Citrix (J.F.V.I.)
I’ve been keeping a weather eye on the Kaviza “VDI in a Box” solution since I came into contact with it about 12 months ago – I really liked the way they offered a hypervisor agnostic VDI solution...
View ArticleRelease: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (virtualization.info)
Open source vendor Red Hat announced on May 19th the general availability of the first update of its distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 This release introduces bugfixes and security...
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