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VMware AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
VMware AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) delivers endpoint management. End-to-end security is covered from devices to the data center. Seamless integration across enterprise systems.
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 available. New Hyper-V Containers and Nano Server, latest operating system incorporates modern application development principles. Turning the software-defined datacentre in to a reality.
Microsoft Server 2012 R2 – Scale-Out File Server
Scale-Out File Server is a feature that is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage. Scale-out file shares provides the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster. This scenario focuses on how to plan for and deploy Scale-Out File Server.
With scale-out file shares, you can share the same folder from multiple nodes of a cluster. For instance, if you have a four-node file server cluster that is using Server Message Block (SMB) Scale-Out, a computer running Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012 can access file shares from any of the four nodes. This is achieved by leveraging new Windows Server Failover Clustering features and the capabilities of the Windows file server protocol, SMB 3.0. File server administrators can provide scale-out file shares and continuously available file services to server applications and respond to increased demands quickly by simply bringing more servers online. All of this can be done in a production environment, and it is completely transparent to the server application.
Information sourced from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh831349.aspx
VMware vSphere 5.5 – what’s new!
What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5
itonus can help you plan your move to VMware vSphere 5.5, taking advantage of the latest enhancements.
Highlights are below:-
• vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements
–Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices
–Support for Reliable Memory Technology
–Enhancements for CPU C-States
• Virtual Machine Enhancements
–Virtual Machine Compatibility with VMware ESXi™ 5.5
–Expanded vGPU Support
–Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests
• VMware vCenter Server Enhancements
–VMware® vCenter™ Single Sign-On
–VMware vSphere Web Client
–VMware vCenter Server Appliance™
–vSphere App HA
–vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (vSphere DRS)
Virtual Machine–Virtual Machine Affinity Rules Enhancements
–vSphere Big Data Extensions
• vSphere Storage Enhancements
–Support for 62TB VMDK
–MSCS Updates
–vSphere 5.1 Feature Updates
–16GB E2E support
–PDL AutoRemove
–vSphere Replication Interoperability
–vSphere Replication Multi-Point-in-Time Snapshot Retention
–vSphere Flash Read Cache
• vSphere Networking Enhancements
–Link Aggregation Control Protocol Enhancements
–Traffic Filtering
–Quality of Service Tagging
–SR-IOV Enhancements
–Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture
–40GB NIC support
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf
Disaster – Would your business recover?
Would your business recover fully in the event of a system or environmental failure? What impact would this have on your services and ultimately your customers?
Most companies of course have recovery plans, but are they fully tested? Are they fast enough? Do they limit the impact to employees and customers? Do they utilise modern cost effect technologies? We see many companies with dated recovery plans, plans that fall short of providing the correct level of recovery..
itonus are able to analyse your current plans and review your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). If necessary, itonus can provide new cost effective solutions that meet your business needs and give you the reassurance you need.
Why Virtualisation?
itonus offer many virtualisation options for businesses for both server and application. Virtualisation provides many cost and management benefits. There are cost savings in hardware support, power consumption, infrastructure, server room space and compute. 
There are management benefits in environment wide control and monitoring, not to mention on demand compute assignment. The list of benefits in using virtualisation is undeniable. The real question is when will all of your environment be virtualised and via what technologies. itonus has vast knowledge and experience in virtualising environments.
VMware vSphere 5.1 Replication VRMS (VRS)
itonus believes with ‘Disaster Recovery’ environments that do not require the cost of storage area network (SAN) level replication, ‘VMware Replication’ is a real option. Where the cost of SAN replication for the use of ‘VMware Site Recovery Manager’ (SRM) or simply replication for disaster recovery situations, the ideal solution is the use of VRMS (VRS). The ‘VMware Replication Management Server’ and ‘VMware Replication Server’ are deployed on both production and the disaster recovery sites. ‘vSphere Replication’ VRMS (VRS) are included within all editions of vSphere 5 allowing for extremely cost effective datastore replication and DR. This method of ‘Disaster Recovery’ allows for very quick recovery point objectives RPO’s and recovery time objectives RTO’s. Contact us for more information.
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Remote Access – Proof of Concept
Citrix remote access solutions from itonus. Remote access to corporate data and applications is becoming a necessity. Via mobile devices or other clients, itonus are currently deploying proof of concept environments to show the benefits. Contact us for more information.