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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
New release by Veeam: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition

New release by Veeam: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition

Today Veeam announced a new feature for Backup and Replication: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition. Veeam Backup Cloud Edition turns every leading public storage cloud into an easy-to-use data repository for backups, providing a powerful and affordable alternative to tape and traditional offsite backup storage. This means you can backup your data to different public storage providers such as Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Rackspace,… By default they support 15 different storage providers. You can also add your own (for…

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New Fling: SilverLining by VMware Labs

New Fling: SilverLining by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called SilverLining – A vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for JavaScript. The download is available as tar.gz package and the total size is about 6MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: SilverLining provides a vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript. This allows you to build a simplified interface for vCloud Director that works from any modern web-browser that supports HTML5, CSS and Javascript. To demonstrate, there is a reference implementation included which one could use…

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New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

VMware released a Technical White Paper about VMware vCloud Director 5.1 which contains Performance and Best Practices. The document is about 28 pages. You can download it here. VMware vCloud Director 5.1 gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. vCloud Director 5.1 helps you…

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VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 released

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 released

VMware has finally released the vCenter Support Assistant. This is a really amazing free (!) product which will greatly help you create and manage a support case, a feature request,… And because of the smooth integration it will save you some time in the end ;-). What is it? VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 is a free (!) plug-in for vCenter Server. It provides an easy-to-use and secure interface for creating and managing support requests. The big extra with this…

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