10Zig 5818v Windows Embedded 8 Thin Client Review

13 mei 2013 by Leave a Comment
Windows-8-Embedded-Preview-

10ZiG announced their first WE8 Thin Client, the 5818v. This device is using a new D2550 dual core Intel Atom Processor and therefor has a extremely low power consumption. The 5818v comes with 2GB of DDR3 RAM,  16GB of local storage, 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet and Intel GMA 3650 graphics. This extremely small form factor WE8 Unit, the 5818v, offers dual monitor support as standard, is VESA mountable, and has optional internal 812.11b/g/n wireless. After unboxing and powering on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMware View Tagged With: , ,

Storage Field Day 3 #SFD3 Day 2

25 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
25-4-2013 8-42-09

Presenter 1: NexGen Storage Yesterday Fusion-IO acquired NextGen Storage. Both CEOs are here talking to us right now! Presenter 2: Starboard Storage Starboard Storage has 3PB under management. Handling 4,000 AD users at a single site 25% of customers use FC, 70% use NAS, 90% use block. Starboard announced today version 3.2 of the Starboard OS along with new Starboard AC2000, AC4000 and AC4500 hybrid storage systems. The new AC Series systems include CacheControl, which delivers up to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech Field Day Tagged With: , ,

Storage Field Day 3 #SFD3 Day 1

24 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
foto

Prensenter 1: Exablox Today’s first presenter is Exablox. Exablox OneBlox is the industry’s first scale-out object-based appliance that is accessible with Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) network protocols for organizations of all sizes. Exablox was in development for the last 2 years. Today at Storage Field Day 3 they are out of stealth mode. Exablox, One System = Cloud management and Scale out object storage appliance. Exablox Design … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech Field Day Tagged With: ,

Storage Field Day 3 is just one week away! #SFD3

16 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
storagefieldday

Storage Field Day is an Gestalt IT event that brings together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. These independent thought leaders so called delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. I'm so delighted to have been invited to attend another Storage Field Day Storage Field Day 3 Details The next event I’m attending is Storage Field Day 3  (April 24 thru 26 April). You can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Storage, Tech Field Day Tagged With: , ,

Nexenta 3.1.4 and beta Nexenta NFS VAAI Plugin released

4 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
nexenta01

Along with the release of NexentaStor 3.1.4, Nexenta Systems today officially released the NFS VAAI beta plugin for VMware vSphere 5.x via the community NexentaStor.org forums. VAAI-NAS is still not widely supported in the NAS world, and of those that do, not all support all the primitives.  You can search the VMware Compatibility Guide for vendors that are VAAI-NAS certified. Quick Tutorial Here’s a quick tutorial to install the agent in NexentaStor and the plugin in VMware ESXi. ** … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: , ,

My take on Tintri, VM-Aware Storage

3 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
tintri-dashboard

As a new Tintri Partner and Tintri Certified System Engineer number #101, I decided to take a closer look at Tintri Storage. Tintri granted me access to their partner lightning lab and I got some hours to spend on this amazing piece of storage hardware to play around and see first hand what it was all about. Being one of the first companies with VM-aware storage, Tintri is ahead of the game by far. VMware is also pushing the adoption of VM-aware storage with their upcoming virtual … [Read more...]

Pages: 1 2

Filed Under: Storage, VMware Tagged With: ,

PHD Acquires VirtualSharp and adds ReliableDR to their Portfolio

2 april 2013 by Leave a Comment
virtualsharp

PHD Virtual Technologies has announced today that it has acquired VirtualSharp Software a Virginia-based provider of Automated Disaster Recovery software for virtualized environments and private and public clouds. With the acquisition of VirtualSharp, PHD Virtual delivers transformational technology for virtual backup and disaster recovery assurance providing the easiest, most affordable solutions for data protection and business continuity, automatically certifying achievement of Recovery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Software Tagged With: ,

Updated Fling: Auto Deploy GUI now supports vSphere 5.1

25 maart 2013 by Leave a Comment
VMware-Auto-Deploy.jpg

I was struggling with Auto Deploy recently. I wanted to use the Auto Deploy GUI on my lab environment which is currently version 5.1 and this was not YET supported… Just found out there is a brand new 5.1 version which you can select from the dropdown: Features The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: ,

New Amazing Fling: View Pool Manager

25 maart 2013 by Leave a Comment
view-pool-manager_thumb.png

View Pool Manager is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups. One of the biggest challenges VMware View administrators face in large deployments is desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has Active Directory security groups with the number of users a given desktop pool will support. As employees leave/join the organization, security groups require maintenance to ensure the number of users in each group … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMware

Apply and Become VMware vExpert 2013!

21 maart 2013 by 1 Comment
vExpert

Today John Troyer (@jtroyer) – Social Media Chief and Community Evangelist @VMware opened the gates for a new round of vExpert Nominations. To apply you need to nominate yourself and describe all the hard work you have put into the VMware community last year. This itself is not that easy to do… try to remember what you  did last year… The past couple of years we have seen the number of vExperts increase from 252 back in 2009 to 326 in 2011 to 434! vExperts in 2012. I wonder how much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With:
«Older Posts