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Trend Micro Deep Security 8 available now

Erik Scholten — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:28:44 +0000

At VMworld last year Trend Micro already announced their new version Deep Security 8, but now it is finally available. Deep Security is specifically designed for virtual environments. Its agent-less architecture addresses AV storms, minimizes operational complexity of security and allows organizations to increase VM densities and accelerate virtualization and cloud adoption. Developed in close [...]

by Erik Scholten

Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:13:51 +0000

More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website page where you can search for specific applications and if [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Review QNAP TS-459Pro II

Sander Martijn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:19:40 +0000

Recently QNAP gave us the opportunity to review their QNAP TS-459Pro II NAS solution. We gladly accepted this opportunity and we got the NAS shipped to us a few weeks ago. The TS-459Pro II is a NAS device that is aiming at the SMB market. QNAP also has bigger versions in the TS line that [...]

by Sander Martijn

VKernel vOps 4.5

Erik Scholten — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:15:08 +0000

On December 19th VKernel released version 4.5 of its vOps management software. vOps 4.5 addresses the increasing volume of routine virtual machine management tasks in virtualized environments. This increase is caused by the enormous growth in the number of virtual machines. Nowadays we provision many more virtual servers than we ever had physical ones because [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMGuru.nl interview at VKernelTV

Erik Scholten — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:19:38 +0000

December 9th was the day of the annual dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein (NL). It was a great day with many interesting sessions, labs, great people to meet and of course the MonsterVM. During the day Edwin and I had the chance to talk to Alex, Michal and Lauren from VKernel. Besides a sneak preview [...]

by Erik Scholten

PHD Virtual Back-up & Replication 5.3

Erik Scholten — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:52 +0000

Last month PHD Virtual released version 5.3 of their Backup and Replication and PHD Virtual has really stepped up their game with this new release. There are a handful of new features and improvements but the biggest improvement is the enhanced scalability and performance. The performance for virtual machine backup and restore operations has improved significantly [...]

by Erik Scholten

New PCoIP firmware released

Erik Scholten — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:50:03 +0000

Today VMware’s partner Teradici announced a significant new releases from their PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com): Firmware 3.5.0 for PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP Host Cards. PCoIP Management Console 1.7.0 The new firmware update [...]

by Erik Scholten

Veeam Backup & Replication v6 released

Sander Martijn — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:20:24 +0000

This week Veeam released their latest version of their Backup & Replication software “Veeam Backup & Replication v6“. With their latest release they offer enhanced scalability and performance. They also add support for Microsoft Hyper-V so you can protect your multi-hypervisor environment with only one product, from a single console. New features in version 6 [...]

by Sander Martijn

VKernel acquired by Quest

Erik Scholten — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:41:47 +0000

Just 15 minutes ago I heard the ‘news’ that, last Wednesday, VKernel was acquired by Quest Software. VKernel will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Quest, building, selling and marketing the same performance and capacity management solutions. So, it will be business as usual for VKernel, except the new VKernel will be turbo-charged [...]

by Erik Scholten

CommVault support for vSphere 5

Erik Scholten — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:23:07 +0000

With the release of service pack 3 for Simpana 9, CommVault adds full support for VMware vSphere 5. Many organizations struggle with rapid data growth, expanding virtual server deployments and increasing data center consolidations because legacy backup and recovery solutions just can’t cope with the demands of new virtual infrastructures. With vSphere 5, VMware raises [...]

by Erik Scholten