FEATURED by Michael Rink
Veeam Introduces Instance Licensing
Veeam is converting their subscription licenses to an instance licensing scheme. This does not affect perpetual licensing, but for the first time, Veeam will now allow customers to have both Perpetual and Instance Subscription licensing in the same centrally managed environment.
FEATURED by Adam Armstrong
News Bits: AMD, WinMagic, Snowflake, Carbonite, & Veritas
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AMD released the new AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q1 driver. WinMagic releases SecureDoc Enterprise Server 8.3. Snowflake triples revenue and customer base. Carbonite and Veritas announce reseller partnership.
February 14th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
AWS Introduces 5 New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released five new EC2 bare metal instances. Bare metal instances are ideal for workloads that need direct access to the process and memory resources. AWS also released lower cost storage, EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA).
February 14th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
DigitalOcean Launches Managed Databases
Today DigitalOcean announced the launch of its Managed Databases. The first offering released under their Managed Databases is PostgreSQL. Through this service developers will be able to create fully managed database instances in the cloud quickly and efficiently.
February 13th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
Cisco Announces 2Q19 Earnings
Cisco reported its second quarter earnings for its fiscal 2019, which ended on January 26, 2019. Overall the numbers are looking pretty good, especially compared to this time last year. The stock had a bit of a mixed day as it was downgraded from Morgan Stanley; it did however spike up in after hours trading.
February 13th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
Nexenta & Cisco Partner On Enterprise Files Services For HCI
Nexenta announced that it is partnering with Cisco putting its software-based enterprise file services on Cisco’s HyperFlex solution. This new solution has been tested, validated, and is ready to deploy offering HyperFlex benefits such as independent scaling and flexible cluster scaling that in turn should accelerate adoption and expand to new use cases through Nexenta's software storage solution, NexentaStor Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). The new use cases would include VDI, ROBO, and backup/DR.
February 13th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
Veeam Announces FY 2018 Results
Today Veeam Software announced record results for its fiscal year 2018. The company is claiming $963 milling in total bookings, up 16% year-over-year. Veeam also stated that it has added roughly 4,000 new customers per month over the last year.
February 12th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
Dell EMC Launches All-Flash Isilon F810
Today Dell EMC announced that it has expanded its flagship unstructured data storage system, Isilon, with another new all-flash version. The new Dell EMC Isilon F810 will bring all-flash performance to help users unlock the full potential of their unstructured data. The company also released new data management software, Dell EMC ClarityNow, to give users better visibility into their unstructured data both in the cloud and on-prem.
February 12th, 2019 by Adam Armstrong
Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services Announced
Today Lenovo announced what it is calling the first true ‘pay-as-you-use data center’ as-a-Service offering, TruScale Infrastructure Services. As one might have guessed, this service allows users to use and pay for data center hardware and servers, at their locations is an aaS manner. This gives new levels of flexibility to customers as they grow.
February 11th, 2019 by Guest Author
Home Lab Deep Dive: A Networking Student's Cisco-Centric Home Lab
My lab started about a year ago largely with Cisco networking gear. I'm a networking student; so among other things I'm taking classes for the CCNA. The way we have it broken up is into 4 parts. Cisco 1 and 2 cover the CCENT, and 3 and 4 cover the rest of what you need for the CCNA. I'm in Cisco 4 right now, so I'm just finishing up. In our labs, we have a rack full of gear for 2 people. It's really hard to properly learn networking in Packet Tracer. It's possible, but there's things it can't do, and you also don't learn what cables to use and such with it, since you can just have it select the best cable for you. I like to work with physical gear, and when we had labs that we didn't have class time for, I didn't like being stuck there later at night, since I'm 45 minutes from home.