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Nakivo Backup 10.3 looks prettier and adds features for MSPs

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Nakivo keeps improving its flagship product. Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.3 introduced some new features that are particularly useful and interesting for service providers and overall polished and made to look the product prettier. We have tested the upgrade on a Windows machine and there was quite a nice surprise by watching the upgrade process […]

VCP7-DCV – Objective 1.9 – Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage

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VMware vSphere 7 and vSAN storage is a large topic. In this post, we’ll describe some bases and talk about vSAN. This post is a part of a free Study Guide when preparing to pass the VMware VCP-DCV certification exam. In our free guide, we cover all topics from VCP-DCV 2021 exam that are listed on […]

Ensuring security in the remote working world

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Securing remote workers is not easy in any environment. Whether it is in the small business company or large enterprise environment. In fact, it is quite a complex task because IT administrators has to work with compromises. On one side they’re asked to provide remote access to the company’s IT infrastructure and at the same […]

Maximize Business Resilience with Cloud Desktops

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User downtime is a problem that every organization faces one day or another. The importance is to be prepared and have a detailed plan. Many disaster recoveries (DR) scenarios are often incomplete, too complex to make it works or simply inexistant. A move from physical infrastructure to virtual systems that are clustered and providing high […]

Key metrics to consider when assessing the performance of your VDI/ DaaS environment

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) or Desktop As A Service (DaaS) services are a modern and flexible way to provide fully configured desktops with preinstalled applications that are ready to perform, to organizations. It is very important to be able to measure the actual performance of the service. When you have desktops that perform poorly, most […]

StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere new version released

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StarWind has released a new version of their flagship software – StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere. This new release (build 14033) has a new Linux kernel, brings some performance optimizations, and also irons some bug fixes along the way. So if you’re a VMware user, it’s time to update. There are also some updates in […]

ZertoCON 2021 Free Registration

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Dear readers. We still have to deal with the pandemic situation. We’re still facing this horrible Covid-19, but slowly the things are starting to get better, with scientific progress and vaccination. Again this year, ZertoCON 2021 will be only an online event. (as you know, VMworld 2021, and many other IT events too). I really […]

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 […]