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New Hyper-V Release Build of StarWind VSAN

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StarWind has released a new build of StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V recently. The latest release has ironed few bugs and brought some performance optimizations for Hyper-V environments. If you’re new to StarWind VSAN, you should know that it is a cost-effective hyper convergent solution (HCI) to run virtualization workloads. The solution is able to adapt […]

VMware Free Utility – Set up alerts from multiple vCenter Servers directly to your desktop

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A new free tool from VMware Fling site is out. I have blogged in detail about this tool at 4sysops.com website here. Check it out. This tool is a standalone desktop application that you install on your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop/laptop. Then by configuring the connections (datas are encrypted after on the local disk) […]

Track configuration changes in your vSphere Environments with Runecast Configuration Vault Feature

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Runecast Analyzer 5.1 has brought another interesting feature that might interest VMware customers. It’s called a Configuration Vault and it allows you to highlight inconsistencies and configuration drift in your environment. As you know, Runecast now supports not only vSphere, vSAN, NSX, but also Horizon View, AWS cloud, Azure, Kubernetes clusters and VMware SDDC. All those […]

Top Security Sessions VMworld 2021 Not to Miss

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VMworld 2021 is behind the corner. Register now. In this post, we’ll highlight some security-based sessions. Security and Ransomware are hot topics and must be taken more than seriously those days. In the past, security was not so important as today as there were much fewer ransomware attacks. Ransomware encryption is able to do big […]

Runecast 5.1 delivers Remediation to VMware vSphere customers

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Runecast Analyzer does not have to be presented to our readers anymore. We have covered many of the product updates in the past and this time is no different. Another feature which we’ll present today has been released with the recent update of Runecast Analyzer 5.1 and it’s called remediation. What is Runecast remediation and […]

Hornetsecurity’s 365 Threat Monitor for Microsoft 365 Review

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Hornetsecurity solves a problem which many Microsoft 365 users face. In fact, their solution called 365 Threat Monitor is able to detect threats as soon as they reach end-user mailboxes. Nowadays admins do not deal with simple spam and phishing attacks. Ransomware is on the rise for several years and it becomes a big business. Hornetsecurity […]

Calculate and compare your cloud based infrastructure Before subscribing with Akasia Modeller

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What is more anoying to find out about your large cloud infrastructure bill after few months of usage. Many admins aren’t prepared to pay big money when they start using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and VMware Cloud on AWS. Only after they realize that the cost is too […]

StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) with NVMe Storage Speed – New Product release

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As you might already noticed, since several years, StarWind has not only software products, but also selling hardware which is packaged directly with software. The StarWind VSAN appliances which I wrote about on this blog are known for a couple of years now, with their latest “SSD-Only” offerings align performance with reliability, but also with […]