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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 […]

VMware Tools 10 release – Not Tighten to ESXi Releases Any More

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VMware has released VMware Tools 10 as separate download through MyVMware. As you know, previously each time there was new release of VMware ESXi, then there was a new release of VMware tools. Both of those were tighten together and never released separately. This is now changing and VMware tools 10 and higher versions will […]

Free VMworld 2015 Sessions on YouTube

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A very large number of Free VMworld 2015 Sessions on YouTube has been made available from VMware. This year it’s really a lot of sessions comparing to other years. It’s probbably due to a very large number of sessions at VMworld altogether. This is good as not everyone can attend VMworld and to follow the […]

VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Released – Last Big Update?

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VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 has been released. Perhaps last big update for vSphere 5.5 has been released by VMware. Both vCenter server and VCSA are updated, supporting new guest OS (CentOS 7.0, Oracle Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 14.10, Windows 10, RHEL 6.6, RHEL 7 .1, CentOS 7.1, Oracle Linux 7.1) and also the possibility to access logs via […]