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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • March 10, 2020

Backup your NAS with Veeam Backup & Replication 10

Veeam Backup and Replication 10 has just recently been released, and one of its more exciting features is the ability to back up a NAS. The latter is frequently used for diverse workloads, which include huge amounts of unstructured data. It’s often served chaotically, and it’s in a risk of being lost if there’s no specific fast redundancy mechanism in place.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 5, 2020

How to Automate the Upgrade of VMware Tools and VM Compatibility

Each new VMware vSphere release introduces new features and functions in addition to fixing the drawbacks that may have been in the previous version. With each new one, you need to upgrade VMware Tools in all your VMs and check if you need to upgrade their VM compatibility, otherwise they won’t have access to the desired perks.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • March 3, 2020

What is Azure Private Link (Preview)?

Bypassing conjunctions with public networks is easier said than done. Especially, if your endpoints are in faraway regions or even have different tenants, keeping the bandwidth high and cybersecurity tight can be an issue. Microsoft introduced Azure Private Link specifically for that reason, allowing users to create private endpoints within their virtual network.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • February 25, 2020

Azure CDN to increase the user experience

Content delivery networks (CDN) cover a set of network servers distributed across farther areas. The idea is to have point-of-presence (POP) servers in edge locations. That way, you can cache your web application content in designated servers to have your users enjoy it at high bandwidth. Azure CDN is one such tool that can help you with that.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • February 20, 2020

AKS, where to start?

Using containers to host software processes or applications is starting to become more of a thing. They have the necessary binary code, executables, configuration files, and libraries but without the OS images. They’re lightweight, portable, have a more consistent operation. One has to start somewhere, and AZK is a great container orchestrator to help you with that.
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Benoit Voirin
  • Benoit Voirin
  • February 18, 2020

Cyber Security – Where to Start – Part 3

In the previous parts, we talked about general cybersecurity boundaries and staff education on the topic. The third crucial aspect is preparation, which allows minimizing the aftermaths if a cyber-attack does happen. Backups and crisis planning are two key activities that you have to manage so that you can effectively recover in case your cybersecurity is compromised.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • February 13, 2020

Upgrade AD FS 3.0 to Windows Server 2016/2019

Everybody knows Microsoft is one of the flagships of industry, and as an enterprise with such a reputation, they intend to keep it up. Yet another new upgrade shows how you can find out for yourself in practice what new can offer Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Server 2019!
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • February 12, 2020

An ESXi host shows as Not Responding in vCenter Server – Now what might be the problem?

Every admin knows that however perfect an environment may be, it’s bound to encounter certain problems along the way. One of the most confusing issues for a VMware vSphere admin is VMware ESXi hosts in vCenter Server being nor responding since there can be too many different reasons. Luckily, you have a chance now to find out the most common ones and means to deal with them!
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 6, 2020

Veeam Backup and Replication 10 with Linux Proxy

Although you still won’t be able to install Veeam on Linux and the new Linux proxy won’t be superior to Windows Proxy in performance, there are certain benefits to consider still. For example, Linux has a smaller disk footprint, it doesn’t need a license, and it can act as a gateway server. Subsequently, there will be easier ways to maneuver within you backup.
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