Whiptail storage solutions
Last week I was able to attend a presentation from Whiptail in which they talked about their flash-based storage array. With their product portfolio they offer storage solutions that deliver high levels of speed for applications which produce high loads on storage. Whiptail positions itself…
Scense 8 released
Last week Scense released their latest version of their workspace management product Scense 8. In their latest release they have been working towards giving ICT management more control over workspaces that aren’t connected to the corporate network on regular basis. One of the biggest changes…
New: Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5
Last week Veeam made their newest version of Backup & Replication v6.5 available. Veeam published their latest version as having the “WOW-factor”. Let’s have a look at the new features and see if it really has the WOW-factor. First: Veeam Backup & replication 6.5 now fully…
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: overpromising and underdelivering
A few weeks ago Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 and with it also Hyper-V 3. The newest release of Hyper-V has some great improvements and new features which will in some cases definitely challenge VMware. To make use of these features and to manage your…
StarWind iSCSI SAN v6.0 – Beta
For some time now StarWind software is working on a new release of their iSCSI SAN which will be version 6. Currently the software is in it’s beta phase, but StarWind released some release notes containing some new features and improvements. First of is the…
StarWind and Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out Servers
Thursday 12th there was a press release by StarWind stating “StarWind completely eliminates the need for shared storage when implementing Windows Server 2012 Scale-out file servers”. At first, while reading the title, I was a bit confused. Starwind itself offers shared storage solutions with it’s…
RES HyperDrive released
In January of this year RES announced that they where working on a secure way to deliver ‘follow me data‘ and file-sharing with a product they call RES HyperDrive. As of Yesterday (June 5th 2012) RES HyperDrive is available. As was made clear in the announcement…
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Demo Day
Red Hat Benelux is organizing a demo day for their virtualisation solution “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization”. During this day they will present the latest news, present the road-map and future releases. Also on the program is a demo of RHEV and the presentation of a…
MigrationWiz: E-mail migration to the cloud
For a recent customers I have been working on migrating e-mail from several completely separated e- mail infrastructures to one Office 365 environment. To achieve this the customer has chosen to use a product called MigrationWiz. This product is offered as a web based service/cloud…
Review QNAP TS-459Pro II
Recently QNAP gave us the opportunity to review their QNAP TS-459Pro II NAS solution. We gladly accepted this opportunity and we got the NAS shipped to us a few weeks ago. The TS-459Pro II is a NAS device that is aiming at the SMB market….
One week until the dutch VMUG
It’s only one week until the annual dutch VMUG with a very impressive speaker line-up. Many international speakers are going to deliver great sessions and workshops at the Nieuwegein Business Center (NBC) on December 9th. If you’re interest and work involves virtualization and you haven’t…
Veeam Backup & Replication v6 released
This week Veeam released their latest version of their Backup & Replication software “Veeam Backup & Replication v6“. With their latest release they offer enhanced scalability and performance. They also add support for Microsoft Hyper-V so you can protect your multi-hypervisor environment with only one…
Update Build numbers database
With everyone being busy it has been some time since the last update of the build numbers database, but now I found the time and now it updated. Apart from some updates on products that where there already, I also added a few other products to the list. If you…
Updating VMware tools without reboot
A client was asking me if it was possible to install the VMware tools inside VM’s without having to reboot them right after. I knew it was possible and went looking for a way on doing so. During the search I found several scripts made…
View 4.6 vs XenDesktop 5
The competition in the VDI space is fierce and VMware is slowly closing the gap with the features their products are offering compared to the competition. Although the gap is closing VMware is still very much in the lead when it comes to setting up…