Win a Free VMworld Pass San Francisco
Win a Free VMworld Pass Want to go to VMworld this year? Can’t get the sign off from your manager? Now is YOUR chance to win a free VMworld Pass to VMworld San Francisco 2014 Win a Free VMworld Pass VMware has just launched the Cloud Academy today and are offering the chance to win up to five full conference passes. Its a really exciting initiative. VMware’s Cloud Academy gives you the opportunity to learn all about the hybrid cloud from some of the industries most recognised experts on cloud computing, while offering you the bonus chance to win a VMworld pass at the same time… How awesome is that! All you have to do to be entered into the draw is to take a 20 question test based on the content you have watched, and get 18 out of the 20 questions right. The quiz will run from July […]
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, […]