Trend Micro Deep Security 9 on its way
During VMworld 2012 in San Fransisco Trend Micro announced the next version of their hypervisor based security product. They announced a lot of new and cool features and improvements which are probably gonna make into the final product. I just got a demo…
vFoglight Storage 2.0 released
Storage and server teams have historically had difficulty working together and often end up “finger-pointing” to each other. Today vKernel/Quest released the new vFoglight Storage 2.0 which can perform end-to-end performance monitoring across the entire data path from application to disk. Many issues…
VMworld Europe 2012 – General Session
(This article reflects the general session of Tuesday. It isn’t a literal transcript) Before the first keynote starts the General session was opened with a spectacular show with dancers and music, etc. First on stage is VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer Rick Jackson. It’s 11…
How to deliver Services powered by VMware vCloud (PAR1519)
The first day of VMworld Europe was, as always, reserved for partners. During this day a lot of partner specific sessions are presented. In the session “How to deliver Services Powered by VMware vCloud (PAR1519)” by Bart Schneider (VSSP manager VMware EMEA). Some…
Built to last: Why VMware vCloud (PAR2172)
Today was the first day of VMworld 2012 in Barcelona, Partner Day. After a few lab sessions I attended breakout session PAR2172 – Built to last: Why VMware vCloud should be the corner stone of your (customer’s) Private Cloud by David James. The…
VMware Cloud Computing Roadshow 2012
Nowadays Cloud Computing is the new buzz word. Numerous companies are now offering various new Cloud Computing products. Literature is buzzing and the Internet and blogosphere is exploding from Cloud-fever. For customers this is a very confusing time because what’s cloud, what’s not and how…
VMworld 2012 San Francisco behind the Scenes
VMworld 2012 San Francisco is already 5 weeks behind us and VMworld Barcelona is about to start in a couple of days. The US edition was packed with over 20.000 people visiting VMworld. To make sure everyone could follow everything 100% a lot…
Cisco Nexus 1000V switch for free
Last month Cisco announced version 2.1 of their Nexus 1000V virtual distributed switch. Now Cisco has announced a new pricing and packaging strategy the Nexus 1000V. From version 2.1, which is now in beta, there will be two editions of the Nexus 1000V, an Essential…
Review: Thecus TopTower N8850
Recently we had the chance to test a Thecus NAS Server. I had not heard of the name Thecus personally, but the other VMGuru.nl guys knew it. So I was the best guinea pig to be thrown at it. I had in mind I would…
Starwind named finalist for storage software of the year
This week StarWind Software announced that they were named as a finalist in the “Storage Software Product of the Year” category at the 2012 Storage, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing (SVC) Awards. These highly prestigious awards recognize the products, projects, and services as well as honor…
NEW Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (2012)
Two weeks ago VMware released the new version of their vSphere hypervisor, so it’s time to update our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison. It very impressive to see how quick VMware has reacted to the Hyper-V 3 announcements and has taken most of the wind out of…
Win a ticket to VMworld Barcelona
If you haven’t been able to convince you employer, wife or yourself to go to Barcelona and attend VMworld Europe 2012, this is your chance. Veeam is giving away a free pass to VMworld 2012 in Barcelona which, as you know, will take place October…
Imtech ICT promoted to VMware Premier Partner
When we joined Imtech ICT two years ago, the VMware sales was disappointing and we where demoted from VMware Premier to Enterprise Partner. After one and a half years of hard work we managed to get back on top and today we received the message…
10 things you should know about Cisco UCS
Two years ago the HP Vice President for Enterprise Servers Storage and Networking, Randy Seidl, said the following: “A year from now the difference will be (Cisco) UCS (Unified Compute System) is dead and we have had phenomenal market share growth in the networking space.“ Man,…
VMware vSphere 5.1 available NOW
At VMworld 2012 VMware announced the newest version of vSphere, version 5.1. Today this new version is finally available! So, in DOLBY DIGITAL available NOW ;-) You can download VMware vSphere 5.1 from the VMware download site. If you’re wondering what’s new in vSphere 5.1,…