After posting my blog post about obtaining my AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA) certification, my blog sponsor asked me if I could write a blog post covering the AWS capabilities of Nakivo Backup & Restore. I immediately jumped at the opportunity because this is a nice and concrete use case I can build in my ...
Thoughts on the exam I originally planned to take the exam in 2017 but with some delay, I passed the AWS SAA exam this morning on my first try! I thought the exam was pretty tough but fair. I have not been exposed to AWS very much and the only hands-on experience was labbing around in ...
Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 New Features This blogpost outlines the new features which will be introduced in the upcoming v3.9.0 release of Vembu BDR Suite. Please have a look at the dedicated Vembu partner page on my blog for more details about the company and their products. The following sections provide some more details on the new ...
Common load balancing topologies Sometimes you stumble across something so obvious that you cannot believe you missed it. I had such a moment today. I have been discussing load balancing topologies with one of my customers in the last few days and in each discussion we stayed exactly within the predefined color lines: a one-arm ...
… or are they? Every (aspiring VCDX) architect knows design assumptions are the mother of all <….>. Yes, design assumptions are frowned upon and should be avoided whenever possible. But, in certain situations, assumptions can actually be real lifesavers. This blogpost aims to show you how assumptions – when used properly! – can really improve ...
Over the past decade, Vembu has been versatile in complying to the various requirements of customers. After recently releasing Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0, Vembu is now introducing some interesting non-technical updates to their portfolio and program. This blogposts highlights three recently announced updates: Vembu Perpetual Licensing Option With launching the latest perpetual licensing, Vembu looks forward to ...
AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote Day Three of AWS re:Invent 2017 was a real kicker. The keynote presentation by AWS CEO Andy Jassy was awesome. The keynote started a bit slow for me and I’m not a big fan of the whole “I’m bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher” thing with all the numbers, charts ...
NAKIVO releases v7.3 Boosts VM Backup Speed by 53X on Deduplication Appliance The new NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 adds support for deduplication appliances achieving VM backup speed of 3.2 GB/s on NEC Hydrastor in a customer environment.This latest version features a new type of backup repository with a special architecture optimized for deduplication appliances, ...
AWS re:Invent summary: Queues, queues …. queues everywhere On Monday, November 27nd, AWS re:Invent 2017 kicked of in Las Vegas. If I had to summarize the day in a single word, it would have to be “queue“. Twitter exploded yesterday with people complaining about the enormous queues at re:Invent. It was pretty crazy. There were queues for ...
