VMware announces vSphere 5
Today VMware had planned a webcast named ‘Raising the bar. Part V’. It was a public secret that they were going to announce VMware vSphere 5 and indeed they did. But on top of that VMware also new released new versions of vCloud Director (1.5),…
Imtech ICT is Cisco Advanced Data Center Architecture certified
Today Imtech ICT announced that it is the first company in the Netherlands which has achieved the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco. Cisco Data Center Architecture Specialization tests knowledge in selling, designing, installing, and supporting the Data Center Architecture. This specialization recognizes Data…
VMware Next Step in End-User Computing roadshow June 2011
VMware Next Step in End-User Computing roadshow June 2011 from Ton Hermes, Senior SE VMware on Vimeo. The Future of End User Computing goes much further than just delivering a vDesktop and vApplications to users. Users today are demanding more and more that functionality is…
EMC Isilon 15PB Storage system
EMC has announced a new storage system called Isilon 108NL. The Isilon storage system consists of 36 disk 4U nodes which can be joined together to create a 144 node storage system with a capacity of 15 PB. It’s a scale-out storage system where each…
Can we beat Kasparov with a single virtual machine?
14 years ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue II chess-computer won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer achieving 11.38 GFLOPS running 30…
Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory released
Last Friday VMware released the Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory v1.0. With the plugin it is possible to manage Active Directory objects straight from within Orchestrator. For those of you that don’t know what VMware Orchestrator is: VMware vCenter Orchestrator provides out of the box…
VMware released vSphere 4.1 Update 1
Tonight VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server 4.1. Update 1 for ESX/ESXi contains a few new/improved features: Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot…
New Digi AnywhereUSB hub
At the client site that I’m currently working they are using these USB anywhere hubs from Digi. These USB hubs give you the ability to use USB on virtual machines over a TCP/IP connection. Each USB hub can service one virtual machine and holds up…
VMware abandons CPU based licensing model
With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware has released a new licensing model. The management products below change from a CPU-based pricing model to one that is VM-based. VMware vCenter CapacityIQ; VMware vCenter AppSpeed; VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager; VMware vCenter Chargeback. Until December 15th…
Dell EqualLogic 2010-2011 product roadmap
We recently received an update about the new stuff that is coming from Dell EqualLogic. Because a lot the information was under NDA so I can’t go into details or give you release dates. What’s here already? Last year Dell released the 10GB connections for…
VMware Fusion, an essential Mac app
Last week VMware released the new 3.1 version of their Mac workstation virtualisation application and according to VMware it is better, stronger, and faster than ever before and it is a free update for all VMware Fusion 3 customers. When I started my VMware…
VMware ThinApp 4.5 released
Yesterday VMware has released the new version of their application virtualization product, ThinApp 4.5 ThinApp 4.5 includes the following new features to improve usability, performance, and updates: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2, 32-bit Windows 7, and 64-bit Windows 7 operating systems. ThinApp version updates…
Intel presents 48 core CPU
Are you having trouble consolidating servers? Having troubles achieving the consolidation ratios you wanted? Maybe Intel has got the solution! Yesterday, Intel has presented a 48 core CPU!! Let’s do the math, 4 virtual machines per core, 48 cores that’s 192 virtual machines per CPU….
Free VMware Workstation 7 Fundamentals Course
For everyone who is new to VMware Workstation 7 and as a refreshment course for all other VMware workstation users, VMware has released a Free online course you can follow. I must say version 7 of VMware Workstation is a lot faster with starting up…
Emulex releases 10Gb/s Ethernet and iSCSI adapter
Today Emulex announced the general availability of their new OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) Product Family, specifically the OCe10102-I 10Gb/s Ethernet iSCSI Adapter and OCe10102-N 10Gb/s Ethernet Adapter are very interesting. The Emulex OneConnect UCNA is a single-chip, high performance 10Gb/s Ethernet adapter that…