The QNAP TVS-872XT is an 8-bay, Thunderbolt NAS designed primarily for video and media applications. It’s part of QNAP’s x72XT lineup of NASs that offer both dual Thunderbolt 3 ports as well as 10GbE on board for cross-platform collaboration between macOS and Windows users. Today, we’re going to be looking at how I use this

86% Faster To Deploy VMware Cloud Foundation Than Do-It-Yourself Model VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail (Dell Technologies APEX Hybrid Cloud) provides a simplified and streamlined path to hybrid cloud deployment. Not only can the solution be operational on-site within 14 days[1], but the path to getting VMware Cloud Foundation operational on VxRail is

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 is a 2U server designed to address the need for high-performance dense-computing environments, such as HPC workloads. As the name/number ends in a “5” this indicates The C6525 is an AMD EPYC-based server, supporting both the 7002 and 7003. The latter goes along with higher performance (more cores and threads),

Today Dell Technologies updated their line of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, with a total of 17 new and refreshed models. While there is a lot to like across the portfolio, the tried and true dual-processor 2U boxes tend to start out as the datacenter workhorses. These servers provide an exceptional balance between power, expansion, and

In the market of virtualization, there are a ton of options for consumers, prosumers, and enterprise users. One thing that quickly sets apart these different solutions though is cost, where you have hypervisors such as Windows HyperV or VMware ESXi being some of the most expensive, and KVM, Proxmox, and others being effectively free with

The Synology DiskStation DS1821+ is an 8-bay NAS solution designed for SMBs looking for an effective way to store and protect their data. Like others from the line, this 8-bay NAS solution features an AMD Ryzen CPU and two M.2 2280 slots for NVMe Cache, which helps to drive its solid performance. Businesses can also

Last year, with the launch of Veeam Backup & Replication v10, the company announced the general availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure delivers enterprise-ready Azure backup, so customers can protect their workloads and overcome any risk of data loss. This solution was an excellent achievement for Veeam, which gradually

Synology DSM is a nice NAS operating system. We have lots of nice things to say about it over the years. It is probably the easiest OS for the average jane or joe to pick up and be used with little training (note: we know that some NAS users prefer the more in-depth operating systems

The Synology DiskStation DS1621+ is a compact, power-driven NAS designed to give smaller businesses an effective way to store and protect their important data. This 6-bay NAS solution features an AMD Ryzen CPU and two M.2 2280 slots for NVMe Cache to highlight its focus on performance. It also can be equipped with two DX517