Top 3 Must-See vSphere 6.0 Features

September 14, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

VMware vSphere 6® brings some great new features that will make managing data and storage much easier. The upgrades include tighter integration between products, much needed improvements to several core features, as well as the bundling of backup and recovery functions. The tighter integration between the vSphere products will bring some advanced technologies to many VMware customers depending on their licensing editions. Let’s look at three enhancements you should be sure to check out…

What’s the Difference Between High Availability and Fault Tolerance in VMware vSphere?

December 30, 2014 John Hales Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

High availability’s goal within VMware vSphere is to minimize downtime, not prevent it. This feature is available in all editions of vSphere except Essentials. It is designed to handle the failure of any or all of the following: Loss of a physical ESXi server. Loss of a virtual machine. Loss of an application within a […]

Top 4 Use Cases for Migrating Virtual Machines

November 17, 2014 John Hales Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

One of the advantages of VMware vSphere is that you can move a virtual machine (VM) from one location to another, across servers, storage locations — even data centers. Physical servers don’t have that ability and that can have many implications for disaster recovery, availability, etc.

How Cloud is Redefining IT Job Roles

January 17, 2014 Hank Marquis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Cloud is changing business and IT operating models. That means core IT job roles must change too. Here is what’s happening.

Virtualization for Newbies: Origins of Virtualization

October 17, 2013 Steve Baca Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The origins of virtualization began with a paper that Professor Christopher Strachey presented on time-shared computers at the UNESCO International Conference on Information Processing in June 1959. Time-sharing was a new idea, and Professor Strachey was the first to publish on the topic that would lead to virtualization. After the conference, new research was done, and several more research papers written on the topic of time-sharing began to appear. These research papers energized a small group of programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to begin to develop a Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). From these first time-sharing systems attempts, virtualization was pioneered in the early 1960s by IBM, General Electric, and other companies attempting to solve several problems.