VMworld Europe 2014 General Session Live (day 2)
In the general session today VMware customers will share their real-world success in a session with President Carl Eschenbach, transforming their businesses with software-defined architectures and solutions. VMware’s CTO Ben Fathi and other VMware technology evangelists will show just how today’s software-defined architectures…
Want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales force? (Updated)
If you want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales Force now seems the time again! Back in Juli 2009 I had the first collisions with the Oracle Sales force about licensing Oracle on top of VMware environments. Instead of trying to help…
VMworld Europe 2014 General Session Replay
If you missed todays VMworld Europe 2014 General Session the replay is now available. You can learn what’s possible in the enterprise from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and the latest on how the new Software-Defined approach is reassessing old limits with new possibilities…
VMworld Europe 2014 General Session – Live
Today VMworld 2014 Europe kicks off with the VMworld 2014 Europe General session. The theme for this year is “No Limits”. Follow the VMworld 2014 Europe General Session live, here, on VMGuru. From the VMworld.com site: The Mobile-Cloud era has arrived—and it’s all about software. Software…
VMware Workstation 11
VMware announced it is going to release VMware Workstation 11 in December this year as the successor of workstation 10! The IT world is changing faster and faster nowadays. To keep up with all new possibilities like using the power of public clouds. VMware Workstation…
End-User Computing track on VMworld 2014 Europe
VMworld 2014 Europe is rapidly approaching. If you are interested in End-User Computing than there is an EUC track with lots of interesting sessions on the schedule. Within the EUC track their are two different currents, technical or business. In the technical current you see…
Trend Micro to help tackle Shellshock vulnerability
A brand new vulnerability has been discovered that will have widespread impacts. Trend Micro to help tackle Shellshock vulnerability. The vulnerability, known as Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169), is found in Bash, the dominant shell for Unix and Linux (default), and can also be found in…
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance. Often when designing an infrastructure there is a choice to be made between the two options. Go for the easy and fast to deploy appliance or go for the scalable and flexible installation. Where with the previous version of ESX…
Introducing vCloud Automation Center 6.1
VMware is Introducing vCloud Automation Center 6.1 today at VMworld US 2014. With vCloud Automation Center 6.1 VMware continues to invest in delivering an extensible, multi-vendor cloud automation framework that allows IT to deliver personalized business relevant infrastructure, applications and other IT services with the…
Patrolling the Cloud border with HyTrust Boundary Controls
With more and more workloads (applications and data) virtualized and cloudinized the need for patrolling the border with Hytrust Boundary Controls is desperately needed. Virtualization and the cloud make data security more complicated. Virtual machines are by nature dynamic and highly portable. The benefits of virtual…
VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule Builder Live!
The VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule builder is Live! It offers access to over 115 technical and content-rich sessions and labs. Covering the latest in virtualization innovations in the data center for storage, networking, security, management, workforce mobility and hybrid cloud services. You’ll also have the…
VMworld 2014 Europe Registration Now Open
For over a decade VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout…
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect port licensing explained
When you are designing a Cisco UCS Unified Computing environment you will use several components which will work together. One key object in the whole chain is the Fabric Interconnect which connects the chassis, used storage and uplinks to Datacenter Switches like the Nexus 5000…
7 Things You Should Know about licensing Windows 2012 R2 on VMware
Microsoft has adjusted her licensing policy once again regarding the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 in combination with virtualization and cloud environments. I get a lot of questions regarding how to handle licensing Windows on VMware. Licensing of Windows server products with virtualization technologies…
Updated: Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform
More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5.5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website…