Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]
Top 3 Free Software from StarWind
StarWind software has been around for a very long time. Over the years, they’ve always kept some of their software and utilities free to download and use. In this post, we’ll list Top 3 Free Software from StarWind where some of them might be useful in your environment. As an IT admin, I always like […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.0 Beta – Download Now
Nakivo is one of the data protection vendors who are very active in what they do. They are pushing often new releases to stay up to date with the latest VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, but they also add new features with every release. With the latest beta, they step into the backup of […]
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4b – What to expect?
We’ll soon have a new release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4b, which is an update of Veeam’s flagship software. The update is currently tested and will be available in a few weeks after full regression testing cycles. You’ll be able to upgrade your existing Veeam backup server or deploy the latest version […]
Altaro Backup for Office 365 Now Available
Altaro Backup for Office 365 was recently released, allowing you to backup Office 365 Mailboxes and items. The Software as a service product (SaaS) is a subscription-based service includes backups, storage, 24/7 support and access to a central management console where you manage your backup and restore operations. You don’t need to install anything locally […]
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a Released
New update from Veeam today as the company has just released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a. You can download the latest patch slipstreamed into the main ISO image here. It is a build 9.5.4.2753) which has 4.9 Gb in size as it also includes all the tools and agents (Windows and Linux). The new […]
VMware Essential PKS Launched
VMware Essential PKS is a Kubernetes based system which allows you to automatically deploy and manage containers and containerized applications. VMware has had already fully supported Kubernetes with VMware Integrated OpenStack since 2017 where we have reported on VMware Integrated Openstack 4.0 during VMworld 2017, however this time, the offering is more compete after their […]
StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi Released
StarWind innovates with StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi. What’s this? Let’s have a look. As you might know, Wasabi is a cloud storage company which was founded by the creator of Carbonite, a popular backup solution. We have reported on StarWind VTL for Veeam and AWS a while in the back and it looks that instead […]
What is Host Guardian Service?
I stumbled across this by reading about Windows Server 2019, it is a Host Guardian Service (HGS), which is responsible for providing attestation and key protection services that enable Hyper-V to run Shielded virtual machines. This “Host Guardian Service” (HGS) was introduced in Windows Server 2016 actually, and since that time, it’s possible to run shielded VMs (VMs […]
Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Product Review
Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite (BDR Suite) 4.0 has been released a few months ago and this review will try to give you an idea what to expect when you try and install this product in your environment. First of all, this is a sponsored review, but it does not mean that I will […]
