Last November, Altaro released a new version – version 8, of their solution to backup virtual machines. Eight versions in nine years prove Altaro’s continuous effort to offer a mature product used by more than 40,000 clients and globally recognized. In two of my previous posts, I emphasized main features… Continue reading
Like some of my regarded fellow Virtualists (Stan Markov, Ivo Ivanov, Aylin Sali) I also decided to take a peek over the fence into a different world, world of startup companies – Runecast Solutions. Credit to IBM My big thanks belong to IBM, namely the Client Innovation Center in Brno,… Continue reading
To all fans of our blogging platform www.thevirtualist.org, we are happy to run for a place in Top vBlog 2016 contest and even happier in case you support us and click the poll voting for our platform. Just to pick the most favorite articles of yours (the most read in 2016): 10 things you need… Continue reading
Long time expected is becoming reality today: WhatMatrix® launched for production after tens and hundreds hours of hard work spent by volunteering experts of virtualization – and 4 of them also The Virtualists – Roman, Jan, Dusan and Gica. And this is materializing into a new ‘crowd-sourced consultancy’ service www.whatmatrix.com.… Continue reading
The Virtualist at NetApp Insight 2015 This year we had a chance with Jan Hosek and Michal Klimes to visit NetApp Insight in Berlin as well as VMware VMworld in Barcelona. In this article, we will compare these two events from several different views. Although both companies are not direct… Continue reading
In this part of our ‘Interviewing’ series we’ll look at the non-technical part of the dialogue between the potential employee and employer. As Aram did for the technical part I will also look from the interviewer side. The purpose is to probe candidate’s business attitude. Needless to say that job interview is a… Continue reading
Hello Readers, with some delay, this is a Part 4 of ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts. In previous part I covered questions for a Second Level Support engineer, in this part I will talk about the Third level. Third Level (Level 3) vSphere support engineer. First lets talk about… Continue reading
WhatMatrix Virtualization Comparison – Hypervisors (Update – Open Beta 26.8.2015) The Story started during the last VMworld 2014 in one of Barcelona Pubs where I met the WhatMatrix core team we spoke about our common virtualization hobby and doing web-projects. We started to work together and now I’m pleased to show you what… Continue reading
This is a Part 3 of ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts. In my previous post I covered some of the questions which I ask when interviewing for a Junior Engineer position. In this part, I will cover questions and scenarios intended for a more advanced, Second Level… Continue reading
VMUG sessions in the Czech Republic are not that frequent to take place, which is pity, as it is a good platform for information exchange and update on some technical pieces. Not many system admins from this part of the world are lucky enough to have a chance to go to VMworld directly… Continue reading
