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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • November 30, 2021

A look at SMB Compression

The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol has been used by Windows Server (WS) and Windows OS for quite a while now. However, its compression issues were resolved and integrated by Microsoft only in 2020. SMB compression allows saving on storage and time required to transfer and store the shared files. It also has various use cases, each having its own nuances.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • November 25, 2021

Enable Azure Arc for AKS

Azure Arc is a multi-dimensional management software that allows operating resources across multiple clouds, services, and environments. This year, Microsoft added the possibility to integrate Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) into Azure Arc. This also means that GitOps gets integrated, too, which makes managing, syncing, and running everything that much easier.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • November 23, 2021

Azure NetApp Files Overview

Azure NetApp Files is akin to cloud-based shared storage for performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. It leverages both SMB and NFS protocols, so it’s applicable for both Windows and Linux. The service is designed to migrate and run your most demanding, complex, file-based applications in the cloud with no code change.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • November 18, 2021

How to install and use R and RStudio in Linux

R is the name of a programming language, often used alongside Python, for statistical computing and graphics. It’s frequently utilized by data analysts and data miners to develop statistical software and data analyses. R can be used independently or within an environment, RStudio, a free open-source integrated development environment for R.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 16, 2021

New vSphere Diagnostic Tool utility

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a free utility which is, essentially, a script built for checking vCenter Server. It’s applicable to vSphere 6.5 and higher and used by engineers to isolate a particular issue in your vSphere environment. It’s an early tool, but it already has an extensive checklist it searches your vCenter Server for and can prove quite handy.
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Alex Williams
  • Alex Williams
  • November 11, 2021

How Can BI Dashboards Benefit Your Business?

Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards bring value to the data you collect. Not only do you have to collect proper data for the desired result — you also have to properly display it for it to create desired meaning and benefit. BI Dashboards do just that: they reflect designated data in a variety of forms, showing KPIs necessary for a business to progress.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 9, 2021

3 New Important Things About VMware vSphere: Project Capitola, Project Monterey, and no more SD Card/USB Boot Device

VMworld 2021 announced three exciting changes. First, Project Capitola, a software-defined memory solution in the cloud. Second, Project Monterey, a revisit of virtualization infrastructure as a distributed control fabric via tight integration with SmartNIC to offload networking to the hardware level, plus a zero-trust security model. Third, future deprecation of SD Card/USB device boot options.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • November 4, 2021

Integrate partners product in Azure Sentinel from the solution gallery

Microsoft released Azure Sentinel Solutions for public review in May 2021. The feature is a gallery that’s part of Azure Marketplace, where users can publish packages to easily integrate a product from Azure Sentinel itself. Administrators can just select a solution from the gallery, click on create, follow the wizard, and integrate the new solution, which already contains data connectors, workbooks, queries, and analytics rules templates.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • November 2, 2021

How to Start Azure DevOps Releases Using PowerShell?

Release Pipelines in Azure DevOps is incredibly handy for your entire software delivery. While Azure DevOps has various automation features for projects within, you can also automate various tasks regarding Azure DevOps itself. There are many ways to start your release, and today show you how to run your release through PowerShell.
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