Brian Ducharme
Brian is an event reporter for VMBlog.com and an expert in virtualization/cloud techonlogies. In his 15+ years of experience in the virtualization/cloud field he has interviewed hundreds of companies, users and executives. Brian has been an active member of the NEVMUG (NEVTUG) since 2006 and attends both vmworld and Citrix Synergy every year. Brian works full time as a Senior Software Engineer for Liquidware Labs.
Brian also spent 5 years as the managing editor of Virtual Strategy Magazine, an online magazine focused on the virtualization industry and has been with vmblog since 2011. He has a background in Computer Graphics, Marketing, Programming, Web Design, Mobile App Development, Linux Administration and is an active member of the NHJS group.
Sponsored Video: IT Hero or IT Zero with SvSAN 6
Dave and Larry are responsible for IT in their organizations. Larry's flying high after ditching physical SAN for virtual SAN across his organization. Meanwhile Dave's career is stalling. With a new deployment to come in Dave's organization will he listen to Larry and become an IT hero with StorMagic SvSAN 6?
Sponsored Video: Virtualization Manager - Take Out-Of-The-Box Alerts and Reports to vNext Level
In this episode, SolarWinds Head Geeks™ and VMware® vExperts, Thomas LaRock and Kong Yang, are joined by Chris Paap, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager PM. They will show you how to customize the out-of-the-box alerts and reports in Virtualization Manager for your unique VMware, vSphere®, and Microsoft Hyper-V® environments.
SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. We are committed to focusing exclusively on IT Pros, and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. Regardless of where the IT asset or user sits, SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain, and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the infrastructure from on premises to the Cloud. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our THWACK®online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.
Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.
Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 41,000 ProPartners and more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.
Solarwinds
SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. We are committed to focusing exclusively on IT Pros, and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. Regardless of where the IT asset or user sits, SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain, and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the infrastructure from on premises to the Cloud. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our THWACK®online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.
Veeam
Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.
Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 41,000 ProPartners and more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.
Sponsored Video: What is Zadara Cloud Block Storage?
Zadara Storage closes the gap between Cloud Block Storage and Enterprise IT by providing a high performance, high availability, primary elastic block storage service at Public Cloud providers (Amazon, Rackspace, and OpSource). By providing cloud block storage for databases, e-commerce platforms and other block-based applications without requiring application re-architecture, our solution enables Enterprises, SaaS providers and Government entities to take full advantage of the Cloud.
Sponsored Video: Lakeside Systrack
SysTrack, Lakeside Software’s End User Computing Success Platform, enables IT to continuously understand the state and optimize the performance of EUC environments, both physical and virtual. SysTrack empowers IT to maximize visibility, minimize costs, automate support, and make evidence-based decisions.
Sponsored Video: Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery
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This video describes how Liquidware Labs develops their solutions aligned to a proprietary methodology that takes all the guesswork out of POCs and pilots speeding you to the new desktop environment quickly. Then Liquidware Labs solutions continue to reap benefit by reducing cost and complexity of production environments, extending your investment and payback as you grow and scale your next generation desktop environment.
Velostrata
Velostrata is the cloud workload mobility company.
Velostrata software provides a non-disruptive, low-risk platform that brings unprecedented simplicity to public cloud adoption. Our patent pending technology uniquely decouples compute from storage, so IT managers can run applications natively in the cloud within minutes while controlling where storage resides: on-premises, the public cloud or some combination.
With Velostrata, there is no need to clone or modify images, replicate data, or manage lengthy cutover processes, so moving enterprise applications to the public cloud becomes easier, faster, and more cost-effective. Because Velostrata maintains authoritative storage on premises until the cloud instance is proven, it's also possible to quickly move applications back from the cloud, reducing risk and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Velostrata was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor in cloud computing, and an EMA vendor to watch. Learn more or start a free trial of Velostrata software at www.velostrata.com.
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