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Getting Chippy: Intel vs. AMD in 2019
January 3, 2019 | Keith WardThe year 2019 may well be the year during which the downfall of the x86 processor begins. Predicting the end of x86 is a bit like predicting the year of the Linux desktop, but this time around, something feels different. … Read More
HotLink Offers DRaaS to Reduce Your DR Blood Pressure
February 1, 2016 | James Green
I recently wrote about a product that leverages public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services to provide backup and recovery for on-premises workloads. Another such solution is HotLink’s DR Express, which for some time now has allowed the backup … Read More
Solving VMware vSphere Tools Are Outdated or Not Installed
April 24, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
One of the most common problems you’ll ever see in any VMware vSphere infrastructure is the error message “VMware Tools are Outdated or Not Installed”. For those who don’t know, VMware Tools are a suite of utilities that enhance the … Read More
Better Disk Image Deployment: SmartDeploy
December 19, 2014 | admin
Editor’s Note: The following post was authored by Nigel Hickey a vExpert, VCP5-DCV, VCA [DCV | WM | Cloud], Blogger and Infrastructure Administrator.
At one time or another you have likely spent all day building an image for a desktop, … Read More
Open Source: Projects to Watch (hint: OpenStack and Docker)
October 23, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
We’ve been seeing a lot of activity around open source projects lately. It isn’t that they haven’t existed before, but there is an increased focus on open source software that is proving to be a powerful adversary for the traditional … Read More
Monkeying with Infrastructure: How Netflix Dealt with EC2 Reboots
October 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As we’ve seen recently in the news, the shellshock vulnerability, also know as Bash bug, has become a new issue for servers around the world. Outside of that, there was also a Xen Security Announcement (XSA) that affected approximately 10% of Amazon … Read More
Top 5 VMware Admin Tips to Keep App Owners Happy
September 29, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In my last post, Storage Education and Learning Resources for VMware Admins, I provided numerous resources for VMware Admins to get up to speed on storage. Whenever you think about storage, and the rest of the infrastructure in the datacenter, you … Read More
Storage Education and Learning Resources for VMware Admins
September 18, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
You may be one of the many VMware admins who were unwillingly dropping into the world or storage when you wanted to take advantage of advanced VMware features like high availability (HA) and distributed resources scheduler (DRS). In my case, … Read More
MARVIN (aka EVO) Revealed! VMware Becomes a Hyperconverged Hardware Provider
August 31, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There has been a lot written in the last week as VMware unveiled its new hardware offering EVO:RAIL and the upcoming EVO:RACK which will be available in the coming months. This is an interesting step for the virtualization software leader … Read More
SimpliVity Puts the S in Cisco UCS; Announces New Relationship
August 24, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 3
This is a big day for the team at SimpliVity as they announce a new relationship with Cisco to provide the SimpliVity PCIe Accelerator Card and OmniStack feature set on Cisco UCS C240 M3 Series Rackmount server platform.
This is definitely … Read More
Welcome VMware to the Jersey Shore: vCHS Opens a New Jersey Data Center
July 7, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
This is definitely not the reality show that you would expect, but it is a strong move by VMware to continue to expand their vCloud Hybrid Service footprint by opening up their latest data center in the North-East region.
As … Read More
OnMetal: Single-Tenant Cloud the Rackspace Way
June 19, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Rackspace has announced something that will be exciting many customers where may have been on the fence about multi-tenant cloud and the concerns that they have around them. Today on the Rackspace blog was the story of OnMetal, a new way … Read More
When Zero Trust is a Good Thing: VMware NSX Security
June 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
As firewalls and security management become more integrated with virtual environments, there are big changes happening in how we design, deploy, and manage these products. VMware NSX is neatly integrated within the VMware virtualization platform as you can imagine, but … Read More
Marvin: VMware Hyper-Converged Platform?
June 9, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
This is no paranoid android, but it may be making some of VMware’s converged and hyper-converged hardware partners a little paranoid.
With the very recent trademark application, VMware may be signaling a very interesting expansion of the previous software-only company, … Read More
Opinion: Protect, *then* Perfect – An Inverted Approach to DR
June 5, 2014 | admin
Ed Note: The following is an opinion post by Shannon Snowden, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at Zerto.
One thing has been made clear to me while designing and implemention DR solutions like VMware SRM and Zerto over the past few … Read More
VMware vCenter Heartbeat Officially Flatlined
June 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 3
While the reasoning may not be fully known yet as to why it has happened, VMware has chosen to mark the vCenter Server Heartbeat product as EOA (End of Availability) as of June 2, 2014. It has been noted that … Read More
Breaking News: Scott Davis, Former VMware CTO, Joins Infinio as CTO
June 3, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 2
While everyone was watching WWDC yesterday to see what announcements were coming out, something was happening in the world of virtualization storage that had my attention in a much greater way.
As of 9:00 AM on Tuesday June 3, 2014, … Read More
The Dawn of Managed Cloud – Rackspace and the Upcoming Gartner MQ Report
May 30, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 1
I won’t be the first one to say this, but in the enterprise adoption of cloud I feel that this is where things may go: “Managed cloud is the new cloud”
As Gartner prepares to publish their Magic Quadrant for for … Read More
VMware vCHS is getting a pay-as-you-go makeover
May 26, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
For fans of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) model, you may have heard that there are some changes coming for the platform. There is continuous integration and continuous deployment already actively happening on the technical side, but the excitement … Read More
Opinion: The Infrastructure Continuum Continues
March 31, 2014 | admin 1
Editor’s Note: The introduction of VMware VSAN into the marketplace has vast implications for hyperconvergence and software-defined storage sectors. We’ve invited the leading players in converged infrastructure and software-defined storage solutions to comment on the marketplace as they now see … Read More
VMware VSAN – 5 Reasons It’s Unique: Video Interview, Pricing, Slide Deck, & VSAN Links
March 12, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Today, VMware officially launched their new sofware-defined storage solution for vSphere virtual machines – VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). Along with the release of VSAN is the release of vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Of course, the big news is the pricing, … Read More
Comparison: Zerto vs. Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & vSphere Replication
March 10, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 8
Virtualization has made disaster recovery tremendously less complex for companies, large and small. In fact, it’s not a stretch to say that virtualization has made disaster recovery “possible” at many companies, simply because prior to virtualization it was technically overwhelming … Read More
Designing the Next Generation vSphere Storage Systems
March 6, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Today, most enterprises are using traditional storage arrays (NAS or SAN) with spinning disk from a big name storage company like EMC or NetApp. In fact, I would bet that the vast majority of those companies have even bought new … Read More
Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
March 5, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 3
There’s a nasty little irony in the world of IT. While business units seek IT’s assistance in creating and leveraging data-based metrics programs to provide deep level analytics into how to improve the business, IT, in many cases, has yet … Read More
Using vSphere Changed Block Tracking with EMC Networker Backup
March 3, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA 2
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature that has been around for a while within VMware virtual machines. CBT is available if you’re running ESX 4.0 or higher with hardware version 7 or higher on the VM. Basically, VMware can … Read More
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Getting Chippy: Intel vs. AMD in 2019
January 3, 2019
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