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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • January 20, 2022

Backup M365 with Dell Druva

Dell Druva is among the newer players when it comes to data management as a service. Essentially, Dell Druva is a backup SaaS for other SaaS, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Amazon Web Services. Apart from a great GUI and useful features, what’s great is that Druva stores data in AWS, not in Azure.

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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • January 19, 2022

Get Azure Key vault values from AKS

Keeping a secret is hard not only for humans but for computer systems, too. When it comes to security, keys, and secrets, there’s a myriad of threats that can target them. Microsoft has recently released a feature that allows getting secrets from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into an Azure Key Vault by simply using a driver.

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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • January 18, 2022

Group Policy vs. Microsoft Intune Configuration Profiles and how to migrate

Remote work isn’t going anywhere. With that in mind, the legacy means of provisioning services and enforcing policies and governance for end-users often fall short of standard in terms of remote workforce. Microsoft Intune Configuration Profiles attempts to provide an alternative for ensuring compliance when it comes to a hybrid work environment.

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Alex Williams
  • Alex Williams
  • January 13, 2022

BI Dashboard Best Practices

It is impossible to stay aware of the latest trends and guide your business to the future without collecting and analyzing data. However, it’s not easy to cherry-pick important things from massive information blocks. Luckily, these days you can leave long and tedious reports in the past and move straight to the point with BI Dashboards.

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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 11, 2022

How to secure a small VMware environment

When implementing virtualization into your IT environment, you need first to take care of the security of your virtual and physical infrastructure. In the VMware vSphere environment, the vCenter server appliance (VCSA) is a key management element, so should be as secure as possible.

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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • January 6, 2022

VMware vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide: 15 Things to Know About

VMware vSphere is one of the most widespread VMware products. No wonder the company takes its security issues seriously. Another update of VMware vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide will explain how to make your vSphere environment even more protected.

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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • January 4, 2022

Restore M365 items from Rubrik Polaris

Rubrik Polaris is a SaaS platform that centralizes backup management of cloud environments such as Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, or GCP. You’ve already seen how to backup M356 with Rubrik Polaris. Now it’s time to find out how you restore it.

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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • December 30, 2021

Linux NVMe-oF Initiator and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator: Performance Comparison Part 2

NVMe is the latest storage novelty that leaves legacy stuff behind. We’ve already proved that both Linux open source and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows can deliver 100% of the back-end NVMe performance to the consumer when run over RDMA networks. Time to see how fast they will work over TCP.

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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • December 23, 2021

Real-World Production Scenario: Squeezing all possible performance out of Microsoft SQL Server AGs (Availability Groups). Local NVMe Vs. RDMA-mapped (NVMe-oF) remote NVMe storage. Does the juice worth a squeeze?

The NVMe-oF is the hottest network storage trend so far. Up to now Microsoft Windows users had no access this tech due to lack of the NVMe-oF initiator for Windows. StarWind brough NVMe-oF to Widnows! Let’s see how NVMe-oF plays with Microsoft SQL Server AGs (Availability Groups) on Windows Server in the real life scenario.

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