Is it time to upgrade your virtual infrastructure?

Is it time to upgrade your virtual infrastructure?

The start of a new year is always a good time to plan your housekeeping, consider your approach and set the strategy for the year ahead. This often brings about the question, "When should I upgrade my virtual infrastructure?". This article highlights the key benefits of upgrading your infrastructure.

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Creating a developer self-service platform with vSphere 7 while maintaining governance

More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next five years than in the last 40 years. Most of these workloads will follow the cloud-native paradigm. In this session, Frank Denneman covers the way you can turn your vSphere clusters into a self-service platform for developers while still maintaining control over your vSphere infrastructure.

More applications and solutions will be deployed in the next five years than in the last 40 years. Most of these workloads will follow the cloud-native parad...

Keeping control of your virtual estate with Runecast Analyzer

Keeping control of your virtual estate with Runecast Analyzer

Top help with the difficult take of keeping on top of and maintaining our virtual infrastructures, Runecast integrates with your VMware vSphere infrastructure to constantly check your virtual infrastructure against the latest updates from VMware best practice and security hardening guides.

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Primary Components of NSX-V

Primary Components of NSX-V

This post is focused on NSX-V (NSX for vSphere) which from this point forward I’ll refer to as NSX. Future posts will cover NSX-T components and architecture.

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What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

Barry Coombs and Anthony Charman of ComputerWorld recorded a short webinar for those that couldn't join us in Bristol for the live. In this webinar, Barry and Anthony summarise the content from the day, in particular; VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX, data protection, Security and Workspace transformation including VMware Workspace ONE.

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My first experience of VMworld

My first experience of VMworld

This year was my first at VMworld Europe in Barcelona,  and during the incredibly busy week we saw lots of great announcements. This post will summarise my experience of VMworld 2017. 

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How to refresh your data centre: a definitive guide

How to refresh your data centre: a definitive guide

Replacing a traditional infrastructure with a hyper-converged solution can save you time and money. Not only that, it can make it easier to expand your data centre in the future and support emerging ways of working.

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vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released

vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released

VMware have recently announced the general availability of vSphere 6.5 update 1. Full details around this release can be found in the reference links at the bottom of this post so I’ll just call out a few key points from these sources.

Over the last 8 months there have been several patches and fixes released to address bugs and issues in the GA release of 6.5, all of which are included in update 1.

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[VIDEO] Nimble Storage OS4, Cloud Volumes and much more

[VIDEO] Nimble Storage OS4, Cloud Volumes and much more

I had the opportunity to catch up with Nimble Storage's Nick Dyer, we spoke about changes in the industry, Nimble's latest firmware release and functionality as well as they recently announced cloud volumes technology. 

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vSphere 6.5 - Whats New?

vSphere 6.5 - Whats New?

During VMworld Barcelona earlier this week Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO announced the latest version of VMware's virtualisation platform vSphere 6.5. This is VMware's 5th update to vSphere in just two years. 

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Video with Atlantis Computing about their new CX4 and the Dell partnership

Video with Atlantis Computing about their new CX4 and the Dell partnership

I was lucky enough to be able to catchup with David Cumberworth VP of global sales at Atlantis Computing to talk about their new

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PernixData announce Architect, GA of FVP v3 and Freedom

Today I was lucky enough to be invited to London for the launch of PernixData's latest product,  a new storage focused analytics platform called Architect, set to be available in Q4. Architect allows you to have an in-depth insight into your storage health with promises to help you better understand issues and potential bottlenecks with design, deployment, operations and optimization of storage. With deep integrations into their storage acceleration product and vSphere it promises to be the single pain of glass for your ever changing storage and application environments. 

Also today PernixData have announced the general availability of FVP 3, their storage acceleration product with vSphere 6.0 support and a new HTML5 user interface as well as FVP Freedom, there free to use community supported acceleration platform. 

My doodle from today can be found below.

PernixData FVP 3 and Architect launch

PernixData FVP 3 and Architect launch

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