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VMware vRealize Suite Updates Cloud Management Platform for Comprehensive Management of Applications and Infrastructure in Hybrid Clouds

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Cloud, DevOps, VMware, VMworld 2014-10-14

At VMworld® 2014 Europe, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a wave of new cloud management offerings and capabilities including updates to VMware vRealize™ Suite 6, a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud. VMware today also unveiled a major update of VMware vRealize Operations™ (formerly VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™), the new VMware vRealize Code Stream to enable DevOps teams […]

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Nutanix announces the first all-flash hyper-converged platform

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure, Hyper-V, KVM, metro, Microsoft, Nutanix, NX-9000, Virtual Computing Platform, VMware, vSphere 2014-10-10

Nutanix, the web-scale converged infrastructure company, announced two industry-first additions to its Virtual Computing Platform, taking aim at the most demanding applications and critical infrastructure requirements in the datacenter. The new NX-9000 appliance is the industry’s first all-flash hyper-converged platform, delivering scale-out storage for applications that demand exceptionally fast performance. With Metro Availability, Nutanix becomes the […]

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How Nutanix and VSAN EVO: RAIL differ on management and your designs

Alexander Ervik Johnsen EVO:Rail, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, Nutanix, Virtual SAN, VMware, VSAN 2014-09-30

Nutanix operates in the user space while Virtual SAN (which includes EVO:RAIL, of course) is embedded in the hypervisor kernel. Each design offers unique challenges and choices when designing, deploying and managing hyper-converged systems. Design VSAN is directly plumbed into the compute cluster. The storage available for the virtual machines running on VSAN hosts is […]

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Oracle on Nutanix best practices

Alexander Ervik Johnsen Cloud, Converged, deduplication, Nutanix, Nutanix Distributed Filesystem, Oracle, Virtual Computing Platform, VMware, vSphere, Webscale 2014-09-19

In this best practices document recommendations for the design, optimization and scaling of Oracle Database deployments on Nutanix. It shows the scalability of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform and provides configuration information on the scale-out capabilities of the cluster when leveraged for Oracle DB deployments. Extensive testing has been performed to simulate real-world workloads and conditions of an Oracle DB environment […]

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VMware Workspace Suite announced

Alexander Ervik Johnsen airwatch, Horizon, View, VMware, VMworld, vSphere, Workspace Suite 2014-08-26

At VMworld 2014, VMware, Inc. announced VMware Workspace Suite, a new integrated platform for managing applications, data and devices. Available now, VMware Workspace Suite offers a single, integrated portal to access AirWatch® by VMware mobile and content management solutions, and VMware Horizon. For end-users, the result is a unified experience across mobile and desktop devices, […]