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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 22, 2024
Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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  • Orest Lesyuk
    Orest Lesyuk
  • June 29, 2023
Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: Always On Availability Groups VS Failover Cluster Instances. What to choose and when?
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • November 21, 2023
How to Create a File Share with StarWind VSAN
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • October 24, 2023
What is Business Continuity?
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  • Alex Khorolets
    Alex Khorolets
  • October 11, 2023
Turn two VMware vSphere hosts into a full-blown cluster without breaking the bank, in 5 easy steps
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  • Diana Abo Harmouch
    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • October 10, 2023
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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  • Hanna Parich
    Hanna Parich
  • March 16, 2023
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
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  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
    Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2024
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • February 9, 2022

VMware Freestyle Orchestrator: Visual Tool for Configuring User Environments

Freestyle Ochestrator expands on the capabilities of Unified Endpoint Management in Workspace ONE. The latter is VMware’s intelligence-driven digital workspace platform. Freestyle Orchestrator is a low-code IT orchestration service that allows admins to build complex workflows attuned to their business’ dynamic deployment requirements.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • February 8, 2022

How to Install and Use Osquery on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Osquery is an open-source security compliance agent. It uses SQL to leverage a relational data model to describe a device. It’s great at providing all the contextual OS-related information you need in a simple, visually appealing form. Osequery is an all-time favorite compliance tool that is pleasant to use and great for security hardening.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 3, 2022

Security Tips for VMware vSphere Environments

In a previous article, we shared how to tighten the security in VMware ESXi at the hypervisor level. While that advice is welcome, ransomware can target various infrastructure levels. Particularly, it can target the shared datastores to which your hosts are connected and encrypt that data, rendering other operations impossible.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • February 2, 2022

Enroll devices and manage with Microsoft Intune device management

Ensuring security in the conditions of remote work proves challenging. Conventional approaches for enforcing compliance out of the enterprise premises don’t suit a hybrid workforce well. Microsoft Intune is a modern, cloud-native approach to provision, manage, and secure end-user clients regardless of their workstation device and location.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • February 1, 2022

How to Start with Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud service for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It allows you to set up a whole desktop virtualization environment in the cloud, without running any gateway servers. You can deliver OS capabilities, apps, and diversify your workload how you want, for as many users as you want in a cost-efficient and effective manner.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • January 27, 2022

Restore M365 Data from Dell Druva

Previously, we discussed how to backup Microsoft 365 using Druva, a backup software as a service from Dell that leverages Amazon cloud. While Druva proves a bit fussy in terms of configuration and backup, it is rather simple when it comes to data restore, regardless of whether it’s OneDrive, Teams, Sharepoint, or whatever you want to restore.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 26, 2022

Securing VMware ESXi Hosts

You can’t be too close to comfort whenever cybersecurity is involved. Despite ESXi being pretty secure even after out-of-the-box installation, its security can be tightened more. Certain common, baseline hardware elements can be added and several tweaks to ESXi security itself will make all the difference you didn’t know they could.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • January 25, 2022

Kubernetes persistent vs ephemeral storage volumes and their uses

Businesses continue on their journey of moving from monolithic applications to cloud-native micro-services. Kubernetes becomes more common, allowing you to orchestrate and manage containers in an intelligent, easily scalable, and highly available manner. But how does storage work exactly when it comes to containers?
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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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