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VMware Workstation FREE Update Released – 15.5.5

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VMware Workstation Free Update has been released. This is a Workstation 15.5.5 release which brings very awaited functionality by many IT admins. It is a possibility to run nested vSphere labs as well as Hyper-V labs on the same machine. It is the first time that VMWare ESXi nested hypervisor can run alongside with Microsoft […]

How to Install And Configure Nova the new cloud native Application Delivery Controller (ADC) as-a-service from Snapt

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An Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is a component that combines a load balancer, web accelerator and web application firewall (WAF) into one entity. ADCs are indispensable for applications such as highly available web servers, or e-commerce sites where you need 100% availability and accessibility all the time with the potential to handle high web traffic […]

Zerto 8.0 Announced and Released

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Zerto has just announced another major update on their flagship product. Zerto 8.0 was released just about a 6 months since the release of Zerto 7.5 which we have reported in details in our blog post here. The 7.5 brought Elastic Journal allowing to recover VMs from older date (previous releases were limited to 30 […]

Free Full Runecast Analyzer license for HOSPITALS

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In those difficult times, I’m glad to see that the tech companies organizes themselves for remote working and they also strike back to fight the Corona the way they can. By offering Free license of Runecast Analyzer to hospitals! Yes that’s an excellent initiative. I hope there will be more like this. Runecast is one […]

iSER vs iSCSI has much better performance – StarWind

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The iSER extension has the lowest latency and lowest CPU utilization thus more performance. It basically extends the iSCSI protocol to include RDMA support. iSER stands for “iSCSI Extensions for RDMA”. It is an extension of the data transfer model of iSCSI, a storage networking standard for TCP/IP. It uses the iSCSI components while taking […]

Join Kemp Technical Preview Program to test next gen features

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Some of our readers might know Kemp technologies for their load balancer virtual balancer product. Kemp also has management, monitoring, and automation products within their suite allowing you to manage load balancers and other active network devices from a single console. Recently they announced a Kemp Technical Preview Program which allows you to test products that […]

New Book – Bitlocker for IT Admins

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A fellow blogger and book author Xavier Genestos released a new book called Bitlocker for IT Admins. Like every year he kindly asks me to write a small post about that. This year he wrote about Bitlocker technology from Microsoft and how it can help IT, administrators, to secure their data. The book is in […]

Are You Aware of the Most Common Phishing Attacks?

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A phishing attack according to Wikipedia is an example of social engineering techniques used to deceive users. These are mostly fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information such as passwords, banking details, home addresses, and usernames by disguising as a credible item in electronic communication. Phishing is usually meant to either make the victim hand over […]