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    Cyber Attack Recovery with Cameyo Rapid Recovery

    One of the most significant challenges and concerns of organizations today revolves around securing their infrastructure and business-critical data. Ransomware and other cyberattacks are increasingly making headlines targeting businesses worldwide. As businesses have shifted to a hybrid work landscape, many…

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    What is VMware Tanzu Application Platform v1.1?

    There is no question that VMware is undergoing a metamorphosis from the traditional days of a hypervisor running virtual machines. VMware is now a powerful software company spearheading the pathway to the cloud for companies and facilitating multi-cloud architecture for…

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    New SpinOne Risk Assessment for Office 365

    Businesses today are making the most of what the cloud has to offer. Arguably, the businesses who are not using cloud SaaS for at least some function in their organization are few and far between. Cloud adoption has been accelerated…

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    Best Quiet Home Server in 2022 for Virtualization

    Running a home lab is an investment and certainly comes with the cost of equipment, including servers, networking gear, storage, and ancillary devices. However, a cost that is part of running a home lab is electricity, aka power. Power costs…

  • VMworldVMware VMworld has been renamed VMware Explore

    VMware VMworld renamed to VMware Explore!

    There will no longer be a VMworld event if you haven’t heard the news. But, for those that know, love, and plan on attending VMworld and future VMworlds, don’t panic! VMware has renamed the VMworld even to VMware Explore. Why…

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    pfSense pfBlockerNG vs Pihole Pros and Cons

    There is a wide range of excellent solutions for blocking ads, malware, tracking cookies, and other unwanted network traffic for home labs and home users. There are two open-source solutions available for download today, pfSense pfBlockerng and Pihole, that are…

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    vSAN File Share with vSAN File Service Configuration and Setup

    I am a huge fan of VMware vSAN. It is a rock-solid solution to run mission-critical workloads. I also use it to power my VMware home lab. However, one of the features you may not readily think about with VMware…

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    Managed Workplace Automation with Praim ThinMan Server

    There are many moving pieces and parts to the overall IT infrastructure layout maintained by most organizations. Business-critical infrastructure spans both on-premises resources and remote work infrastructure. As organizations have transitioned to a large percentage of employees working remotely, businesses…

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    World Backup Day 2022 – Backup Best Practices

    What a wild last couple of years on the world scene! While many things in the world have changed over the last couple of years, there is one thing that has remained constant. That is the need to backup your…

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    New VMware Imager Fling to Automate Windows 10 Builds

    Like most of you, I am a big fan of automation, especially when it comes to automating the building of operating system images for template creation. I saw a blurb yesterday about a new VMware Fling simply called, Imager. It…