Yesterday, October 16th, we took part in this very interesting Forum on managerial training at the STOA’ institute in the beautiful Villa Campolieto in Herculaneum. The event, organized in parallel with the conclusion of the management courses organized by the CEK-Lab (Continuous Education & Knoledge Laboratory), included seminar sessions of professional communities after the round […]
Citrix is now open to the standard format of Virtual Machines, which means that now a virtual machine is like a series of settings that exported to VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V will be the same thing, just use the appropriate conversion tool and the game (format migration) is done. OVF according […]
Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP’s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses […]
When we came across the embedded version of ESXi in Cannes, but then discovered that it was a pen drive mounted on a USB slot inside the server, we imagined that it was possible to mount the hypervisor on BIOS or on a flash specially mounted on the motherboard and that it would be very […]
This year we missed the event, but fortunately the organization sent us all the slides of the speeches, some really very interesting, such as the new networking technologies associated with storage (FCoE, Infiniband) or storage virtualization understood as efficient use by server virtualization systems, deduplication and green storage. Opening notes and introduction by SNIA – […]
At the SNIA event in 2007, we met some new storage realities, which are not so new, but certainly for the standard approaches we are used to with HP, IBM etc regarding the storage of large amounts of data in security and performance and scalability, it is a revolutionary approach. The fundamental difference between reliable, […]
A short meeting from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm, in a modest classroom of the La Sapienza University of Rome via Salaria, with about 40 participants; but very intense, with a lot of active participation, many questions, a lot of curiosity. MySQL, the most used and most widespread database in the world, used in the […]
Microsoft technologies for virtualization ASI Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Forlì Windows 2008 On May 29th in the Mazzini room of the ASI Scientific Pole of the University of Forlì, Microsoft with their most famous speakers (e.g. Piergiorgio Malusardi) presented a seminar on its 360° virtualization solutions. The seminar lasted a whole day from 10.00 to 17.00, […]
Taking advantage of the opportunities born from VMworld 2008 in Cannes while we visited the HP booth and talked about storage and blade systems with the very kind Kyle Fitze – Director, Product Marketing Storage Area Networks StorageWorks Division Barry Sinclair – Hp BladeSystem Platform Marketing Infrastructure Product Manager we have climbed all the commercial […]
We participated in the IBM Technology Center in Rome at the IBM Demo Day An update on the topics of: consolidation, optimization and simplification of the IT infrastructure, news related to technological platforms such as BladeCenter, System x superscale servers – based on the “Enterprise X-Architecture®” architecture – and Storage Systems, to support infrastructure solutions […]