I always liked this product in the past, and I wrote also some whitepaper for them. In the past days, StarWind has announced their new version 6.0 of their falgship product, the iSCSI Software SAN. In this new version there are some new valuable features: three-nodes High Availability (HA) architecture Management functions for HA device […]
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VMworld 2012: win a complete Home Lab from Veeam
While waiting for VMworld to begin (less than 3 weeks now) I’m looking around for booth / sessions / meetings and things to do while I’ll be there. I’ve already scheduled some meetings with some guys at Veeam, but there is now another reason to visit their booth: if you stop there (booth 1709) and […]
Nutanix NDA blogger session at VMworld in Barcelona
In the past week, guys at Nutanix EMEA have posted this tweet on their twitter profile: Attention bloggers, you are invited to @Nutanix_EMEA special NDA session #VMworld Barcelona on October 8th in the afternoon, hold the date! So, if you are going to VMworld in Barcelona next October, and you want to find out what it’s about, follow their […]
Nutanix, and the move to file storage
I was reading lately the last news from Nutanix (you can read it yourself here), and among the other enhancement they listed, a couple of them got my attention. When I first saw Nutanix in action (I talked about it here) I saw they where basically exporting iscsi disks from their VSA. Now, if you […]
VMweird, Tales from the Virtualization Crypt!
In twitter chat I had some weeks ago, we had one of the recurring rants about our day-by-day activities, silly requests by customers, boring meetings, and other stuff we deal with in our work, and we felt the need for a website to share our stories. Each of us has collected weird stories and anecdotes […]
This year will be VMworld US for me!
Hi all, this year I will go again to VMworld, but with a big news for me: I would not be in Barcelona for the european event, but I will cross the Atlantic ocean at the end of August to go to the US event! I will surely miss all my italian friends and VMUG […]
StarWind offers NFR licenses to VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix Certified Professionals
If you hold a VMware vExpert, VCI, Microsoft MVP, MCT, CTP, and CCI certification, Starwind offers you a free NFR license until 30th September. Starwind is a software sstorage solution based on MS Windows that can convert a simple server (both with local disks or used as a frontend for other SAN storages) in an […]
#Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 is out
Few minutes ago Veeam released its new Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 For those among you going to install it or upgrading from 6.0, there are some important news. New Console For sure the most notable news is the renewed console, completely redesigned following Microsoft UX (User eXperience) guidelines to streamline user interactions and […]