Want to participate in VMware vSphere beta? Now is your chance
For the first time, VMware has opened up the vSphere beta to the public. This is really cool. Although this is not an actual public beta, VMware wants to get as many members of the public involved to actually try the product and provide feedback. VMware vSphere beta This vSphere Beta will showcase some of the latest features included within vSphere and give you the opportunity to try them out. How to Join the Beta Navigate to https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere-beta and click “JOIN NOW!” button. Log in with your My VMware account. (Please register for an account if you don’t have one). Once you have an account and are logged in, please accept the Master Software Beta Test Agreement (MSBTA) and Program Rules screens if you have not already done so in the past. After doing this you should be in the vSphere Beta 2 community. Join Today: VMware vSphere Beta Landing Page […]
Codespaces is a reminder to us all, not just cloud consumers
How tragic, Codespaces.com is no longer a viable business. This is tragic, and a massive shame. It does serve as a critical reminder that security of our services and data is essential. It is the most important piece of running any IT service. Personally, I find it very sad that we live in a world where this kind of thing can happen. The note on codespaces.com website made me feel extremely sad and angry, but its the world we live in. As an ex-business owner, this was always my biggest worry. Someone trying to hold me or my business hostage, just for money. Most people run businesses (especially small or medium businesses) for the passion of what they are doing, and money is a by-product of that passion. To see this on the screen is extremely sad: However, it does prove to us all that security is key. When I […]
Introduction to vCloud Hybrid Service Data Protection
Just over a month ago, vCloud Hybrid Service launched a new offering called Data Protection. I wrote a blog article when the offering was released, which can be read here: vCloud Hybrid Service Data Protection but I wanted to go into a little more detail about the offering. vCloud Hybrid Service Data Protection So what is Data Protection exactly? Well Data Protection is an agent-less, self-service, policy-driven backup and recovery service with image-level backups to ensure all operating system, file system and application data residing within a virtual machine are captured as a snapshot image before committed to backup media. So how does it work? The below graphic gives you a high level overview of the procedure steps: In a nutshell: Data Protection uses snapshots to take the image level backup of Virtual Machines. When a backup is initiated, a snapshot is taken of that Virtual Machine. Once the snapshot is taken, […]
VMworld 2014 – See you there
Wow! Its that time again already! The VMworld 2014 content catalog has just been released. Its going to be a busy one for me this year for sure! I am extremely looking forward to VMworld 2014, this will be my first VMworld in my new role as vCloud Hybrid Service Technical Marketing! This year I get to talk about lots of cool cloud features, and what you can do with vCloud Hybrid Service! I cant wait. I do not have my schedule yet, but I have four sessions accepted. I hope you find these interesting, and come along. Session Number Session Title Abstract HBC2066 Architect the Hybrid Cloud for Exchange Email Services Enterprises globally are enthusiastically embracing hybrid cloud as both a way of reducing costs and improving the quality of service IT provides to its end customers. To achieve this, enterprises are looking to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to […]