VM-Aware

Sometimes it is nice to meet the people behind products that you use all the time. Especially when they are smaller companies with approachable staff.

Veeam are at VMworld showcasing the new version of Veeam Reporter amongst other things. (more…)

Firstly let me say, that I find the Storage Virtualisation vendors very confusing. I understand the technology and am very keen to start implementing it where appropriate. However, I cannot get a straight answer from any of them on where their competitive advantages are.

What I mean is, they all say “we can do this and they can’t” despite the fact that the “they”, they are talking about told me 2 minutes previously that they can. Clear as mud? Exactly! (more…)

A major announcement here at VMworld is the decision to break out the VMworld exhibiton to include a dedicated European event.

VMworld 2008 will take place in Cannes, France between February 26th - 28th. (more…)

Having just got out of the Best Practices for VMware HA seminar, I’ve learned of some new developments. Some people will see as essential, some are just cool. The presentation by Nitin Suri was extremely informative and very helpful to give some guidelines about how to configure HA (more…)

All I want to say here is, you have got to love a city where a street band are playing a note perfect acoustic rendition of Paranoid Android. Not only that, but it is so loud you can hear the drums 3 blocks away.

I love this city!

I got talking to an Alliance Representative at Acronis today and I mentioned that I use their software at home. He seemed quite pleased that he had met someone that had first hand experience of their software.

They seem to be looking for ways into the Virtualisation market and are looking to seriously compete with the likes of DoubleTake and Vizioncore. (more…)