I’m honored to be part of the vmware vExpert program (3 years in row) and I would like to say Thank You to vmware, that recognized me with this award!
This is valuable program for all IT professionals who are using vmware products and solutions. One of the respectfully award while there are only 1800+ members in this year so I’m proud to be part of the vExpert Community.
Official announcement is here
vmware announced new certifications for the VCP in 2019, including another new track:
VCP – DCV (Data Center Virtualization)
VCP – NV (Network Virtualization)
VCP – CMA (Cloud Management & Automation)
VCP – DTM (Desktop & Mobility)
VCP – DW (new) (Digital Workspace)
vmware certification are really valuable in nowadays and in most job requirements related to the vmware solutions & products, you need to have at least 1 VCP level done! My opinion is that they are still on demand so choose the track that you belong to and prep yourself for the new Certification 2019. You know that this is not all and after VCP track you will be qualified for more advanced vmware certifications that are VCAP (Design & Deployment) and the highest level VCDX. But first, good luck with your VCP track and wish your more success with next certifications!
Stay tuned!
Starting new year with another great award from the next generation Data Center & Cloud company – Nutanix. I’m honored to be selected for the third time in row as Nutanix Technology Champion for 2019. Thank you @Nutanix and Angelo Luciani for the great support for this unique community around the World.
This is the NTC 2019 announcement and I’m proud to be part of the list!
With few words what NTCs are :
Nutanix Technology Champions (NTC). This group of IT professionals, are from every cloud, application and technology group. Their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise help their organizations and the virtualization community to challenge the status quo.
Stay tuned …!
I’m truly honored that I am selected as Alibaba Cloud MVP – among of 311 MVPs (at present)Â around the World!
I’m thrilled whats new and how many things are happening in the Cloud Technology, especially to the Public Cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP and recently Aliabab Cloud that is one of the biggest player in the Public Cloud! Well, searching and going deep dive with Alibaba Cloud possibilities brings me in the situation where Aliabab Cloud selected me as MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Alibaba Cloud is one of the powerful public cloud provider that can give a possibility to build Cloud DataCenters & power your business, covering almost everything that you need related to the technology!
You can be part of this great community group as well, so you can check the program, benefits & apply for the Alibaba Cloud MVP here.
Stay tuned…
One of the greatest Tech event in the World, is going to be happened next month in the London – its Nutanix .NEXT Conference EU 2018 which will be held on 27-29 November 2018.
You can register for this great conference before it sold out like last year. So if you want to hear and learn more about the Enterprise Cloud technology – this is the place to be IN and you will have lot of the possibility to be more familiar what Nutanix do and how it can make your IT life easy!
Check the Registration details and Agenda …
Stay tuned and pre-register for the Nutanix .Next Conference in the US 2019 >>>
Had the opportunity to be invited from Stephen Foskett (Organizer in Chief at Tech Field Days) – Cloud Field Days at Cohesity – one of the attractive companies covering lot of the Secondary Storage Data including Cloud and supporting AWS, Azure & GCP. Cohesity as Data Platform company is taking care to bring simplicity in your data centers (on-prem & Cloud).
We had high technical presentation and live Demos – yes, live demos never fails in the Cohesity (at least till the last one that we had) with super technical staff: Rawlinson Rivera, Aaron Delp, Sai Mukundan, Jon Hildebrand, Sameer Nori, Dayanand Sharma etc.
Cohesity has lot of the Cloud solution for your Data in the Cloud like: Long-term retention (VM Migration) for Archive Data to the Cloud, Storage tiering to move cold Data to the Cloud, Test/Dev – provision new Apps or move on-prem Apps to the Cloud, Apps mobility across DataCenter & Public Cloud, Full Lifecycle Disaster Recovery for Failover & Failback + Granular Recovery using the Cloud for cost-effective DR, Multi-Cloud mobility so you can move data between clouds, Direct Backup to Cloud, (new) Cloud Native backup to automate backup of Cloud Apps.
So all above are ready based on Cohesity Cloud key capabilities:
Cloud Archive
Cloud Tier
Cloud Replicate
Cloud Edition
Cloud Retrieve
Cloud Spin (new) – spinning up on-prem VMs in the public Cloud, policy based for schedule/setup the backup to be converted and stored in the cloud without need to run Cohesity in the cloud so the VM can be activated in the cloud.
Native API Integration –Â Integration with public Cloud snapshot APIs for the native backup of cloud applications.
All of these operations can be done via their super simple GUI just in few clicks and super monitoring dashboards.
So in general Cohesity supports all public Cloud providers like AWS, Azure & GCP so regarding the Cloud it has Dataplatform Virtual Edition for the ROBO/Edge as well as DataPlatform Cloud Edition for AWS, Azure, GCP and Compatible Cloud (S3/NFS). Also you can scale very fast (Web-Scale), it has Global Deduplication, you can Clone and Snapshot in infinite way, Global indexing for all objects, Security and QoS. – One Software Platform for Multiple Cloud Use Cases.
I can say that the Cohesity is super player in the Global market to cover your Secondary Storage in anyway that you can imagine!
Recently they just announced the new stuff that is Cohesity Helios – Unified Global Management for Edge/ROBO – onPrem – Virtualization – Cloud & much more.
Stay tuned …
Last week it happened, again one of the very unique and attractive event in the California, USA …it was Cloud Field Day 4 #CFD4 as part of the events series Tech Field Day.
I’m honored that have been invited again from the Organizer in Chief at Tech Field Day  Stephen Fossket – Thank you for the invitation, it’s always awesome to meet you in person & your crew as well as other delegates!
This time we had everything related to Cloud (Storage, Networking, Data Protection, Monitoring etc) so we had great companies to present their solutions and products:
Cohesity, Veritas, Aviatrix, LightStep & SoftNAS
About delegates – what to say, all of them very focused on the Cloud technologies with true experience about it, we talked and give our feedback for the company’s solutions, so here they are: @AtherBeg @vDestination @DugiDM @jpiscaer @KeithWardWrite @KenNalbone @LFoverskov @nickjanetakis @stingray92 @RaffaPol @nathaniel_averyÂ
More to say, it wasn’t just the event about the Cloud, we had a great time and lot of fun visiting lot of the places like: Seti Institute, Apple Park, Docker Inc, Doing TFD podcast, Startup Escape Room in San Francisco etc.
For full coverage of the this event check Nick’s post (friend of mine & TFD delegate) … here
Stephen’s photos from Cloud Field Day 4 >>> Check here
For more in details you can check here
Stay tuned …
Recently vmware just announced the vSphere 6.5 Update 2 with lot of the enhancements and with this update, vmware again brings in mind that you need to do upgrades and updates while the support for the vSphere 5.5 will end on September 2018.
Some of the enhancements on vSphere 6.5 U2 are:
Also some specific support for the vCenter Server Appliance:
Important Note:Â Upgrading from vSphere 6.5 Update 2 to vSphere 6.7 GA is not supported.
As well as >> Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 Update 2 from vSphere 5.5 requires a minimum version of vSphere 5.5 Update 3b prior to performing the upgrade.
Official update and more info >>>
Stay Tuned …
Last week in New Orleans (US) Nutanix did lot of the great announcements for its vision & mission on their incoming products and solutions as well as those existing with more enhancements:
Nutanix Beam > new stuff from Nutanix, to simplify Multi Cloud optimization & management with intelligent consumption planning, so you will have better Cloud control (Nutanix – AWS & Azure)!
Nutanix Flow  > SDN – Software Defined Networking solution, go beyond Micro-segmentation with Nutanix & Netsil (acquired by Nutanix) supported from AOS 6.5 released in April.
Nutanix Era > Databases made simple with 1 Click database Clone/Refresh, Database provisioning and Life Cycle Management (LCM) so you will be able to start with Copy Data Management, initially support for Oracle and Postgres databases … and will be expanded over the time to include MS SQL Server and MySQL.
Nutanix Xtract > support for migration from AWS EC2 to Nutanix AHV…
Nutanix X-Ray > Nutanix is going Open Source with this automation test platform and as latest version will support MS Hyper-V & Storage Spaces.
Nutanix Calm > Apps Automation & Multi Cloud Management (AWS, Azure & Google Cloud Platform GCP).
Acropolis File Services (AFS) > support for NFS v4 and much more on API.
Acropolis AOSS (Object Storage Services) – new stuff and for more info check it here.
Check more in details in Nutanix Blog posts …
We will see what’s NEXT in the Nutanix NEXT Conference 2018 EU in London … check and register if you want to attend & see you there!
Stay tuned …
Dukagjin Maloku 