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What is VMware VAIO Technology (vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering) ?

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VMware VAIO stands for “vSphere APIs for IO Filtering”. It’s a new API framework technology present in vSphere 6.0 (6.0 U1 more precisely) allowing vendors to present capabilities for caching and replication to individual VMs. It’s a framework, not feature. But VAIO can be used not only caching but also for replication. If you remember, VMware has […]

What Is Erasure Coding?

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We’re hearing here and there the term Erasure coding. What is Erasure Coding? Erasure coding is present in Nutanix technology and shall be present also in the next release of VMware VSAN. The current VMware VSAN 6.1 has already added some cost effective features, for example allowing 2-node clusters for ROBO environments, including some cool support for […]

AirVM Cloud Management Solution – Interesting solution for vSphere, VCD, VCNS or vCloud Air

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AirVM is new company that offers cloud management solution. It can plugs into vSphere, VCD, vCNS or vCloud Air and provides you with services which aren’t present in vSphere for example. Services like self provisioning portals. AirVM Cloud Management Solution allows you to create a multi-tenant environment (without vCD) where you’re able to create self provisioning portals for […]

Best VDI platform? Omnistack 3.0 Shows 1000 logins in 1000 seconds

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Simplifity’s Omnistack 3.0 hyperconverged platform brings signifficant VDI performance increase over previous release. You could read all the new features, including data protection, introduced in Omnistack 3.0 in my earlier post about Simplifity here. Simplivity is in the hyper-converged market for some time now. Tightly competing VMware and Nutanix, they did not focused on VDI […]

vRealize Automation 7.0 Announced

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vRealize Automation 7.0 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona 2015. It’s the core part of the SDDC. vRA is in the middle of the stack between virtualized infrastructure and the end user applications. It gives an opportunity to have self-provision infrastructure with apps, spanned across multiple hypervisors, multiple types of clouds. vRealize Automation (vRA) 7 […]

vRealize Orchestrator 7.0 Announced

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Another announce during VMworld Barcelona 2015! vRealize Orchestrator 7.0 (vRO) has completed the suite with vRealize Business 7.0 (vRB) and vRealize Automation 7.0 (vRA). vRO 7.0 brings completely new, redesigned, what’s called now a Control Center. And HTML5 based UI!!! The Control Center is where you’ll configure the whole product, manages and creates workflows, analyze […]

vRealize Business 7.0 Announced – VMworld 2015

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VMworld Barcelona 2015 and a new announce from VMware concerning their New Cloud Management Products within the suite. There are significant updates in the Q4 concerning the management platform. The vRealize Automation 7 which has converged blueprints, simplified deployment, NSX integration, DevOps-enabled (built-in) and also vRealize Business 7.0 (vRB) which we’ll detail in this post. Also completely re-designed […]

Nutanix 4.5 Released – Now called Acropolis Base Software

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Nutanix has released version 4.5 of their software, previously named Nutanix Operating System (NOS) and now called Acropolis Base Software. The new release of Nutanix Acropolis Base Software 4.5 adds features that has been in tech preview, presented during the .NEXT conference held by Nutanix few months back. Features like Erasure Coding (EC-X) are good addition […]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Is Available for Download

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Exchange Server 2016 is here. If you’re maintaining Exchange Server in your organization, you should know that you must be at least on Update Rollup 11 for Exchange 2010 SP3 or later on all Exchange 2010 servers in the organization, including Edge Transport servers. Or if you’re with Exchange 2013, then you’ll need at least cumulative […]