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Removing disaster recovery from your business with OneCloud
Mike Preston of mwpreston.net writes: Let’s face it! We all have enough to worry about with our production environments! We’ve got servers, storage, switches, fabrics, subnets, hypervisors, cabling –...
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Rubrik brought Apple simplicity and Google scale together, you’ll never guess...
Mike Preston of mwpreston.net comments: Now, all the time I hear people moan about backup solutions, shrug them off and say they are boring – I for one am not one of those people – I find the backup...
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Configuring VMware vROps For The First Time
Justin Warren of eigenmagic comments: This is part of a series of posts sponsored by VMware. Read my disclosure statement here. You’ve got vROps installed after reading my last post on how to do it....
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Hyperconverged like you just don’t care
Alastair Cook of Demitasse writes: Living in a small city, in a small country, I see a lot of small businesses. These customers will never have a virtualisation specialist on their staff, they barely...
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Hyperwashing: What Makes a Solution Hyperconverged?
Alastair Cooke writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: Whenever an innovation or buzzword gets popular, it is natural for marketing to pile on and apply the word to products. We are starting...
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HowTo: Platform9 + Ravello + VMware
Justin Warren of eigenmagic comments: RavelloSystems provides a cloud-based platform for spinning up a test-lab quickly and easily, and it supports VMware’s vSphere/ESXi hypervisor through nested...
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SaveTheTree – Docker in enterprises
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: First up…. this has nothing to do with saving trees – at least of the botanical variety. This has everything to do with Docker in the enterprise!...
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External Platform Services Controller, The New Standard?
Craig Kilburn of vmFocus comments: Depending on the size of the environment, you might see one or many vCenter’s with embedded services. External services such as SRM, vROPs, Horizon View would then...
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ZeroStack – Simplified and Automated OpenStack
Teren Bryson of packetqueue.net comments: The public cloud providers offer very easy to consume services, already built in their environments and on their hardware, as secure as we can call anything...
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ZeroStack – A Better Way to do OpenStack
Chris Evans of Architecting IT writes: My first opportunity to see OpenStack in action was a 2011 event at Vinopolis in London (sadly Vinopolis closes at the end of this year, so that experience won’t...
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Simplifying Private Cloud – Easier said…
Keith Townsend of The CTO Advisor comments: I started to repeat the claim that OpenStack is hard. Truth be told, Private Cloud is hard. Regardless of the cloud management platform, executing a...
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OMG OMG VMware Announces VSAN 6.2! ONE VSAN to Rule Them All! (Well, Kind of)
Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist comments: Wow, we’re finally here! Version 6.2 has arrived and woot is it a hoot! (That wasn’t intended to rhyme, but welcome to the party regardless! This blog...
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Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex
Dave Henry of GeekFluent comments: Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of...
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Running your app on Windows Server Core Containers
Simon Timms of Western Devs comments: Most of the day I work on an app which makes use of NServiceBus. If you’ve ever talked to me about messaging, then you know that I’m all over messaging like a...
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Don’t waste money on automation before looking at processes
Keith Townsend of The CTO Advisor comments: There’re so many stories of failed ERP projects that some question if ERP ever delivered value to the business. The projects proved much more complicated...
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Learning to Code
Jon Hildebrand comments on his blog: Fast forward all the way to today and I spent a vast majority of my time looking at code. Whether it’s PowerShell code snippets here for Cisco UCS Director tasks...
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Belated Post-Strata Thoughts 1: Hadoop is finally over…
Robert Novak of rsts11 comments: Last month I managed to attend a big data event as an attendee, for the first time in nearly two years. One upside to being a big data storyteller is that you don’t...
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VMware Photon Platform, Notes from the Field – Entry One
David Lloyd of Virtual Outlands comments: Photon Controller is a replacement to vCenter focused on the operational requirements of the container workloads, not virtual machines. Why you may ask? An...
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Docker Launches Kubernetes Killer
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: So Docker, Inc. just announced native clustering and orchestration. TLDR; I reckon it’s the biggest thing to happen to Docker since Docker, and I expect it...
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What does High Availability mean?
Matt Leib of Virtuallytiedtomydesktop’s Blog comments: Recently, when hearing of the AWS outage due to weather in the Sydney data center, I began thinking about HA, and the whole concept of “Build for...
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