Veeam Availability Suite v9 - Watch the webinar

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It’s here! Veeam Availability Suite v9 delivers Availability for the Always-On Enterprise by providing recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for ALL applications and data.

Watch the webinar to see what’s new in Veeam Availability Suite v9. We’ll show you how v9 helps you leverage modern storage and the cloud, and we’ll explore v9’s top features, including the following:
-EMC VNX and VNXe hybrid storage array integration
-Veeam Cloud Connect with replication
-Veeam Explorer for Oracle
-Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository
-On-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots

Duration: 53:59 / View slides

New Veeam Availability Suite v9 is here

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Veeam is happy to announce that Veeam Availability Suite v9 is now generally available (GA) and ready for download! This latest version is packed with so many new features that it's difficult to talk about them all on this blog, but I highly recommend you check out the What's New in Veeam Backup & Replication v9 document because it's packed with details about all the new things we've up into v9 (read also What's New in Veeam ONE v9).

Veeam Availability Suite delivers something fundamentally different — Availability for the Always-On Enterprise — leveraging IT investments in server virtualization, modern storage and the cloud.

Veeam Availability Suite combines the industry-leading backup, restore and replication capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication with the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning functionality of Veeam ONE. It delivers everything you need to reliably ensure and manage your VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, providing you with a high Availability data center.

For more have a look at there posts:
Veeam products: Availability for the Always-On Enterprise
Veeam Backup & Replication. What’s New in v9? (PDF)
Veeam Availability Suite blog: v9 is HERE!

Happy reading!

Jalasoft announces Xian Network Manager v7

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For more than ten years Jalasoft has been supporting Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Today this is coming to an end. Jalasoft decided to disconnect their flagship product, Xian Network Manager.

The next version Xian NM v7, will no longer connect with SCOM, will run on Linux Ubuntu and use PostgreSQL as the main repository. This all with the goal to make System Monitoring affordable for the home market Jalasoft is located, Bolivia and Latin America.

Xian NM v7 will contain all the monitoring power for network devices that the previous versions had and on top of that it will monitor now also other parts of your infrastructure such as desktops, servers, generators. The big thing now is that you do not need SCOM anymore, Xian NM v7 works completely on its own. It is the perfect tool to start monitoring your environment.

Jalasoft has grown in the past 15 years from a small 6 person company to over 600 people, making it the biggest software company in its kind in South America. With customer all over the world, we feel it is time that South American businesses have access to qualitative and affordable IT solutions.

Have a look here for more information.

Jalasoft Releases Brand New Xian SNMP Device Simulator v5.5

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Today (November 25th) Jalasoft announced the release of The Xian SNMP Device Simulator 5.5. This new version comprises several new features along with several performance enhancements.

The two most important additions are the built in OID editor and an SNMP Dump Manager. The OID Editor gives people the option to customize the behavior of certain OIDs within the simulation file. For example, users will be able to change the simulated interface status with only a few clicks. Additionally, we’ve implemented the new SNMP Dump Manager. This feature has been introduced to help the user handle the simulation files that the Xian SNMP Device Simulator is using in a much simpler manner

The SNMP Simulator comes in two versions; The free version can simulate up to 5 devices in a normal way while the paid version has the option of dynamic simulation OID editing and device recording. Prices start at 99 USD (for 50 devices). A free 30 day evaluation is available for download at the Jalasoft website.

Read more:
Fun things to do with the new Jalasoft Xian SNMP Device Simulator

Savision Live Maps Unity for System Center Operations Manager

SCOM alerts
Let's have a look at a common situation you find many times at customer sites: when using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), you know that alerts can be overwhelming. When multiple management packs are imported for more functionality and many agents are enrolled on servers with different applications and roles installed on them, you must configure Operations Manager to benefit from it! Otherwise there can be so many SCOM alerts and e-mail messages a day, that monitoring isn't effective anymore. I did see black television screens (monitoring screens turned off) and IT admins deleting all alerts each day (doing monitoring from that point), often. You can find an in-depth article about SCOM alert storms here.

On the other hand, no graphical Service dashboard is available for a perfect monitoring overview by design. The default built-in SCOM dashboards are using a column or grid layout, with performance, state, alert, and details widgets. They’re good for a basic overview, but nothing more than that. Dashboards can be created in Microsoft Visio, as well as you may know. By using SharePoint Extensions for System Center 2012, they can be connected with the Operations Manager environment. The problem is you need to create those dashboards yourself and have SharePoint Enterprise edition installed. It’s not so easy and user-friendly to create dashboards that way.

Let's introduce Savision Live Maps Unity here. With 700 organizations worldwide using Live Maps Unity, it's the business service management solution you want!

Savision’s SCOM dashboards
With Live Maps Unity, which is used for both monitoring service health and performance, this perfect monitoring overview (as mentioned before) is available! It can be used for a graphical Service dashboard instead, but it's much more than that. Savision's Live Maps Unity speaks the language of the business by focusing on service delivery. It includes unlimited HTML5-based SCOM dashboards for monitoring both service health and performance. With Savision’s SCOM dashboards (based on HTML5-code, which is fast and lightweight), there is no need to look at alerts all day. Just focus on the information Live Maps Unity sends to you.

There won't be many e-mail messages anymore as well. This because Live Maps Unity notifies only when necessary, giving IT admins the time needed to research and solve issues instead of wasting time on notifications. With the Service dashboard in-place, IT admins can use Operations Manager proactive again instead of reactively. The Service dashboard gives you all information needed on a single screen. It’s generated automatically, based on applications found in your environment and gives a total overview of business-critical services, like Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and more.

No need to design all those dashboards yourself. Live Maps Unity has the capability to examine your entire IT infrastructure. Additional dashboards can be created with a few clicks by using the built-in drag-and-drop interface. This is really different than using Microsoft Visio, mentioned before. This data is connected with real components and applications by default. These dashboards can be shown from anywhere on any device! This can be done on a mobile device (tablet or smartphone) or desktop if you prefer. This isn’t possible with the default SCOM solution; you have to use another solution for this.

Business Service Management Solution
With Live Maps Unity, you have that solution. The product can be used to monitor entire IT infrastructures, with features like: performance monitoring, .NET application discovery, easy-to-build dashboards, and a Services dashboard. It offers a lightweight web console with support for all major browsers; so no need to have a physical console installed. It offers interactive geographical maps and native System Center integration. It allows quick visualizations of the IT environment through SCOM dashboards. It has everything inside for monitoring service health and performance. It’s the Business Service Management Solution that makes SCOM the perfect monitoring solution!

As a result: With SCOM and Savision’s Live Maps Unity, you have best of both worlds and true power in SCOM finally. No need to focus on alerts anymore, because it helps to deal with the root cause of notifications. Just focus on alerts which really need your time and attention to manage the healthiest environment possible.

Included are some web links to find more information on the product and even more functionality as well. There are some videos and datasheets available too.

Happy monitoringJ!
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Jalasoft Releases Xian Wings V2.3 for Operations Manager

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Today Jalasoft announced the release of Xian Wings V2.3 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012. The new version ships with a new Xian Wings Server and brand new clients for Microsoft Windows Phone, Apple iOS and Android based tablets as well as phones.

This new version comprises many enhancements. The communication between the server and the clients has been refined and is now more efficient in terms of data usage, making it faster and more reliable. As of now, the smartphone clients also have a shell console from where commands can be executed directly on the server. Furthermore, the tablet client has been improved and now gives the user the ability to import dashboards directly from SCOM. and users can now copy/cut and paste widgets from one to another dashboard.

Please read below for further information.
Jalasoft Releases Xian Wings V2.3 for Operations Manager

Xian NM 2012 SP4 has been released! - Jalasoft

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Introducing Service Pack 4 for Xian NM 2012. We’re proud to announce the release of our brand new Service Pack which comprises drastic improvements and enhancements, especially when talking about our brand new Topology Diagram feature, new Dashboards feature and improved Flow monitoring. Our solution keeps evolving and continues to answer the needs of customers looking to monitor their networks in a deep and efficient manner.

 

Please read below for further information.
Xian NM 2012 SP4 What's new / Press Release

Or: Download now

New: Veeam Management Pack v8 is now available!

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Driving sales and exceeding goals are easy when you’re selling a solution that drives better IT decision making for your customer’s Always-On Business.

Veeam Management Pack (MP) v8 for System Center provides data-driven insights into business-critical applications, allowing your customers to track performance trends, analyze operational metrics and ensure the delivery of predictable SLAs.

Veeam MP v8 makes selling effortless by providing your customers with:
-Complete visibility into their Hyper-V, vSphere and Veeam backup infrastructures
-Leveraged data through real-time, in-context dashboards and heatmaps with drill-down capabilities to proactively resolve problems and meet SLAs
-Cloud capacity planning with hybrid cloud forecasting reports to analyze onsite workloads and IaaS requirements to migrate those workloads to the cloud

Learn more

Learn PowerShell basics free tutorial course - Veeam

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LEARN POWERSHELL - From Basics To A Coding Star
With the release of Windows 2012, Microsoft's PowerShell has moved toward automation. Our courses are designed to help you become familiar with the powerful PS scripts. And it’s FREE! 

Kickstart your PowerShell experience
The first episode we will focus on taking your first steps into the PowerShell world (Understanding CMDlets, Storing Values, Looping, The Pipeline)
 
Getting stuff done with PowerShell
The second episode we will focus on some simple scripts and useful available options unique to PowerShell (Reporting, Job Scheduler, Creating your Own Scripts, Remote Execution)
 
Automate your Veeam Experience
The last episode we will focus on Veeam integration with PowerShell (Custom Reporting, Creating Jobs, Mass Job Updates, Custom Scheduling)

Join the FREE courses now!

This summer's hottest deal! 40% OFF - Jalasoft

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We’re feeling very festive this month, so for a limited period of time we’re dropping our prices by an eye popping 40% OFF!! During the entire month of July, our customers and future customers can take advantage of this amazing promotion. There’s never been a better time to give our software a test drive and see what it can do for you. Give us a call at 1-888-402-6717 or click here and we’ll gladly prepare a Quote for you without any purchasing commitment which will include our July Discount. 

Or contact by e-mail: sales@jalasoft.com

Our SNMP Device Simulator Promo is back to help you simulate any network device for free!

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Because of our previous SNMP Device Simulator promotion success, we wanted to do it all over again this May 28th & 29th! In case you were not able to get your free license, you can this second time around. Our SNMP Device Simulator allows you to simulate any network device. For detailed information on the features it offers, see below.

In a nutshell, this is what our full version offers:

So, how to obtain your free license?
-It is so much easier now! Just go to our promotion page.
-Follow the steps required and complete all information necessary in the registration form.
-Contact sales@jalasoft.com if you have any questions at all. You can also reach us through any of our social media accounts. 

For a Detailed features description visit Jalasoft blog on:
Xian NM- Network monitoring made easy!

Current and upcoming features you’ll love in monitoring with Microsoft

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Join our exclusive webinar with MVPs Cameron Fuller and Bob Cornelissen (Jalasoft)

Operations Manager is continuously evolving! This includes management packs, new ways of looking at monitoring and gaining insight into monitored business services, cloud services, and more.

This webinar explores new developments in the Microsoft monitoring sphere, as well as developments in SCOM and Azure Operational Insights and how to benefit from these options: 

 

• Hear about changes in the current product to monitor your environment more effectively.
• Learn tips and tricks to be more effective as an Operations Manager administrator.
• See possibilities of Operational Insights and how the solutions from the Cloud can augment your monitoring.
• Explore the futures of SCOM and monitoring solutions from Microsoft.

Join us this Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 at 12:00 EDT / 11:00 CDT / 18:00 CEST.

Register now

Are you ready to learn more about Veeam MP features?

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Struggling with your virtual environment visibility in System Center? Are you concerned about optimizing your virtual resources?

Veeam Management Pack (MP) is designed to solve these challenges and more. We think you’ll be excited to see these short videos that show off some of the new capabilities in Veeam MP:

-Alerts and Host Dashboard (2:44)
-Capacity planning for hybrid cloud (2:33)
-Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V (2:28)
-Compute Topology View (2:42)
-Change Analysis Reporting (3:04)
-Capacity planning (Oversized VM Report) (2:38)

View more videos on Veeam MP

Best regards,
Veeam Team

Savision has been named National Champion of the Netherlands

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Savision has been named National Champion of the Netherlands and they are competing for Public National Champion. In order to obtain this title and keep running in the competition, they need to obtain as many votes as possible from the public. It would be great if you could help Savision with that! The voting consists of entering your email on their video page, then you receive an email through which you must confirm your vote. Thanks for your help!

Video page: European Business Awards

2 weeks left: Veeam end-of-year limited-time offers

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Veeam Special Offers until the end of December: Take on the NEW v8
 
There are only 2 weeks left to save with these special offers before the price increase! Improve your modern data center with 200+ new features and improvements of the NEW Veeam Availability Suite v8, including Veeam Backup & Replication v8:
 
Save up to 10% + upgrade to v8 for free
Offer ends December 31st
 
Veeam Special Offers
Or have a look at Full list of Veeam's special offers and promos

Happy holidays!

End of the Year Promotion started from Jalasoft

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Great news for this month. This because Jalasoft started their special End of the Year Promotion today! You can purchase ANY of their solutions throughout the month of December with a 40% OFF discount. Isn't that good news? The End of the Year Promotion includes the following solutions from Jalasoft:
-Xian Network Manager
-Xian Wings (mobile solution!)
-The Xian SNMP Device Simulator
-XIAN Network Manager includes a FREE Xian Wings license!

To request a quote just click >HERE< or contact any of the sales representatives at sales@jalasoft.com.

Xian Wings can be a great help for the holidays since it lets you view your OpsMgr environment information anytime, anywhere. More on this can be found in the following blog post: How Xian Wings Saved Christmas and in a few others as well:
My personal experience with Jalasoft Xian Wings (part 1)
My personal experience with Jalasoft Xian Wings (part 2)
 
Let the Xian Suite help you make the most of your holiday time off!

Happy holidays!

Veeam Availability Suite v8 - Availability for the Modern Data Center

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Veeam Availability Suite v8 is NOW AVAILABLE for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V!

 

Veeam Availability Suite v8 delivers Availability for the Modern Data Center to enable the Always-On Business. This new suite provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) of < 15 minutes for ALL applications and data through:

High-speed recovery: Rapid recovery of what you want, the way you want it
Data loss avoidance: Near-continuous data protection (near-CDP) and streamlined disaster recovery
Verified protection: Guaranteed recovery of every file, application or virtual server, every time
Leveraged data: Using backup data to create an exact copy of your production environment
Complete visibility: Proactive monitoring and alerting of issues before they result in operational impact

Learn more

Webinar: Maximize the ROI of your private cloud

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This upcoming week, you can join Savision’s complimentary webinars on the cloud. Find out how you can minimize unplanned downtime and know when cloud resources are going to be exhausted long before it happens. Get familiar with Savision’s Cloud Capacity Management solution- Cloud Reporter- and Savision’s free tuning and optimization solution- Cloud Advisor. They both featured a new release during TechEd EU. The newest release of both solutions adds VMware support. Register for the webinar now. The webinar will be hosted by Savision’s VP of R&D, Steven Dwyer.

Here are the links to use for each webinar:
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST http://bit.ly/1pN01Yr
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014 9:30 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
http://bit.ly/1zhkkx5
 
The webinar is specially designed to highlight the new features and walk you through the many benefits of using Cloud Reporter & Cloud Advisor to monitor your cloud!

Xian Network Manager SP3 has been officially released now!

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Today Jalasoft has released the latest version for Xian Network Manager. This new version (SP3) has several internal improvements and most visible one is adding support for SFlow. Let's have a look at the improvements:
 
SFlow monitoring:
SFlow support has been added so Xian NM can now properly receive and filter SFlow packets along with Netflow V5 and V9, so three of the most important and used flow technologies are supported and can be processed at the same time to generate alerts, performance graphs, and reports on OpsMgr related to the content of the network traffic.
New virtual center rules:
to monitor the data storages associated to ESX hosts and virtual machines.
Environmental sensor rules for Cisco routers and ASA devices:
to monitor the voltage, temperature, battery status, and more.
IP addresses resolving for Flow:
the engine can now properly resolve any public IP address into its domain name and improve the performance to make sure no delays are happening while translating these IP addresses into something users can understand when seeing the corresponding alerts or performance counters in the OpsMgr console.
Flow monitor service:
a new service has been included in Xian NM to explicitly monitor Flow data. This improves performance and functionality since it is now possible to have multiple Flow services installed and each of them can independently monitor Flow traffic from various sources and with independent databases, queues, and performance parameters.
SDK Loader:
a new connector module and improved OpsMgr SDK communication has been implemented exclusively for OpsMgr 2012 so performance and reliability when talking to OpsMgr has been greatly improved. For backward compatibility, if you install NM on OpsMgr 2007, the previous SDK communication is loaded but if it detects OpsMgr 2012, the new one is used, therefore the name.

For more information on the new release have a look at:
http://xiansuite.blogspot.com/2014/11/flow-feature-accurate-traffic-analysis.html

Jalasoft Releases Xian Wings HD for Android Tablets

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The Xian Wings team has been working hard to bring support for Wing HD to Android tablets! Here is what you can expect in our new Wings version, we are sure you'll love it!

 

The following features has been added:
-Android tablets support (!)
-Compatible with Wings HD for iPad
-Improved performance

Important information:
-Download available at: http://www.jalasoft.com/xian/wings
-For any questions contact: sales@jalasoft.com
-For technical support contact us at: http://www.jalasoft.com/support

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