In respond to the VCE alliance which had been gaining famous in town, NetApp had officially launched the VCN alliance yesterday to provide the 1st secure multi-tenancy solution worldwide to the potential customer. This alliance partnership are slightly different from VCE as there will not be a join venture company to sell this solution in 1 part number. They are targeting to sell this solution through the certified partner worldwide.
You can have a full view about the VCN alliance details from here.
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Just found this from Duncan’s blog today and I think is important to share with every VMware administrator. The security hardening reference guides are available from VMware now. You can read the full details from here. I will suggest all the VMware administrator to read this and consider to implement the necessary configuration to secure the virtual infrastructure. These documents are not final yet and still in draft version but I do find it is helpful for everyone to understand and consider about the security hardening from every aspect.
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Previously Oracle had decline to provide the official support if you virtualizing your database instance into the VMware virtual infrastructure. Today, there is an official announcement from VMware which confirm the official support from oracle will be provided even you virtualize your database server into VMware.
This is a good news for most of the ERP users especially when you have SAP running in your production environment.
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VMware had officially announced the acquisition on Zimbra to boost the company vCloud effort. Zimbra provide free email client and collaboration software to the users. Zimbra was previously owned by Yahoo Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, VMware will purchase all Zimbra technology and intellectual property. Yahoo! will have the right to continue to utilize the Zimbra technology in its communications services, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Calendar.
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Finally, I received my VCP 4 Certification today in my home mailbox. It take 3 months plus to reach me since I pass my exam at Sep 2009. I am happy to have it and will move forward to proceed with VCDX 4 when the certification exam is available later.
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