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Cloud Desktops – the past, present and future

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There Is no single company that has not been exploring virtual desktops and its possibilities to meet their computing needs during 2020. Yes, the pandemics has completely transformed the way we work, but let’s look back a little bit to see from where we came from. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was initially introduced to be […]

Revisiting 2020 – the year of Cloud Desktop

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It has been a several years already that traditional workstations are being transformed and replaced by cloud desktops. This is not a new trend but we saw a great acceleration in 2020. It is one of the reasons of the cloud desktop acceleration because of the current pandemic situation. Many businesses have adopted a new […]

External threat protection and cybersecurity intelligence

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With the growth of cyber threats all over the globe, many enterprises, service providers and IT admins are looking for a solution to be alerted, be protected or better, actively suppress potential threats. Today we’ll talk about cybersecurity and services allowing to detect and fight cyberthreats, phishing and fraud or impersonating. Many people imagine that […]

VCP7-DCV Objective 1.6 – Describe ESXi Cluster Concepts

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Again today we continue to explain the basics of VMware vSphere and prepare those ones willing to pass VMware VCP certification exam. In our free guide we cover all topics from VCP-DCV 2021 exam that are listed on the original VMware blueprint that has 80 objectives. You might want to pass a VCP exam with […]

vSphere 7 U2 Released

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VMware has announced and released vSphere 7 U2. A bit unusual for the company to announce and release the product update within the same day, but I assume that everything has been ready for the release. vSphere 7 U2 brings support for the latest generation of GPUs from NVIDIA – Ampere family. This NVIDIA platform […]

VCP7-DCV Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

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VMware vSphere 7 keeps both features from previous releases. NIOC (Network I/O control) and SIOC (Storage I/O control). This post is part of the Free VCP-DCV 2021 Study Guide. The main page of the guide is here – VCP7-DCV Study Guide – VCP-DCV 2021 Certification, and you’ll find there ALL the chapters. Network I/O control […]

VCP7-DCV Objective 1.6.1 – Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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VMware vSphere has a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) allowing automatic VM placement and vMotion. The purpose of DRS is to make VMs “happy” so they run smoother. DRS can be set to automatically move VMs based on its algorithms, or be set to manual and give recommendations for manually moving VMs. This post is part […]

The Importance of Backing up Office 365 Data

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Today we’ll talk about Office 365 backup and its importance as it is not a public cloud provider that will help you to recover your data quickly and efficiently when you need it. In fact, your cloud service provider only provides you with the barebone infrastructure, storage, network, etc, without a possibility to recover granular […]