One of the problems that small customers are often facing is a lack of expertise. Look at for example at HyperConvergent infrastructure (HCI). Much different knowledge is necessary to put everything together including the right choice of hardware and components. While flexibility is important it is not always good for someone who does not have […]
Join Kemp Technical Preview Program to test next gen features
Some of our readers might know Kemp technologies for their load balancer virtual balancer product. Kemp also has management, monitoring, and automation products within their suite allowing you to manage load balancers and other active network devices from a single console. Recently they announced a Kemp Technical Preview Program which allows you to test products that […]
Veeam Backup and Replication 10 Released!
There is a new release and it is not a small one. Veeam Backup and Replication 10 was announced today. It is a major release from Veeam, which brings some major new features and enhancements. We have already hinted a few features coming in our previous posts here. There is NAS backup with real fast […]
Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards
The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]
VMware Per-CPU Pricing going up to x2 for CPUs with over 32 cores
This is information which came out as a bomb yesterday and we have already tweeted that. VMwarePer-CPU pricing is going up. Imagine that you want to go for a new infrastructure VMware and that you like the new AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPUs from AMD which has 64 cores. Well, you just find out that you’d […]
vRealize Network Insight 5.1 Released
VMware has released a vRealize Network Insight 5.1. vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) supports a large number of vendors which are switch/router vendors. We name a few like Dell, Cisco (ACI, Nexus), Arista, Juniper. Also firewalls such as Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Fortinet. vRNI has also Azure support which gives you visibility on application dependency mappings, […]
StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization
I don’t think that I have to re-introduce StarWind company to our readers. Their software solutions were simple but effective for many years. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are also provided by StarWind and since this year they are also present in the Magic Quadrant by Gartner. Gartner’s study says that “StarWind VSAN offers a high […]
Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere
Today’s free download is provided by Kemp Technologies. They offer a free load balancer for different virtualization platforms – VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VirtualBox or Citrix XenServer. The free product has some limitations of course, but still, it’s free. And if you like it you can upgrade as you’ll be all ready familiar […]
Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature
Ransomware is a real problem for everyone. Within the deep inside of you heard you always hope that your organization won’t get hit, but how do you minimize the risk? In this post, we’ll see that you will soon be able to Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature and that it is dead easy […]
Zerto 7.5 With Elastic Journal and long term retention – Restore a VM 20 Years old?
Zerto was one of the vendors I wanted to visit during my VMworld Barcelona. As you know, Zerto can protect your VMs by replicating them to the remote site with a very low RTO and RPO. It’s because their software is able to “sit” in between a VM which needs to be protected and the […]