Ansible is an agentless automation tool written in Python. It connects to your clients via SSH and allows you to automate the boring, repetitive tasks you don't want to do. It allows you to take a task done by a human that may take an hour to perform, and convert it into a single command

Today Quest released new versions of their KACE SDA software and KACE SMA software. The KACE SDA (Systems Deployment Appliance) update is a full version upgrade to 7.0. However, the KACE SMA (Systems Management Appliance) update is only an incremental update to 9.1. Quest KACE is a collection of tools to help manage an astonishingly

In this edition of Before the Home Lab we'll look at installing Citrix Hypervisor, formally called XenServer. Citrix Hypervisor is the virtualization platform based on the Xen Project. It used to be the best alternative for getting VMware-like features in an open source product until version 7.3. Since version 7.3, the following features were moved behind Citrix Hypervisor's

Today at the AWS Global Summit, Alluxio announced the latest version of its data orchestration technology, Alluxio 2.0. The latest version comes with new innovations for data engineers and is aimed at multi-cloud analytics and AI.

Today DataCore Software announced its new vision of storage infrastructure with DataCore ONE. The company states that ONE aimes to accelerate the adoption of software-defined storage (SDS) in enterprise data centers, the cloud and edge computing; centralizing command and control of different classes of storage spanning primary, secondary and archive. Along with this, DataCore announces

In early April VMware released Update 2 for vSphere 6.7, which is the latest version of their hypervisor code base. Some organizations are slow to adopt the latest hypervisor though, and for their part VMware does a good job at continuing maintenance releases for ESXi and vSphere. That's the case for the 6.5 release, which saw Update 3

Today, Scality launched RING8, a software-defined solution for large-scale on-premises storage of unstructured data. Scality was founded in 2009 and has two major products: RING, an object storage software platform; and the Zenko multi-cloud controller, available in open source and enterprise editions.

Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) version 17, which focuses on simplifying end-user computing for service providers (SPs) and enterprises, is now available. Parallels claims that RAS 17 improves launch time of applications by using AI and has added further security features such as Google Authenticator integration. Moreover, version 17 is the first to add a

In the next edition of our Before the Home Lab series we’ll look our first hypervisor, VMware ESXi, and how to install it in a homelab setting. Full Disclosure: My homelab is fully ESXi / vSphere, with no vCenter deployments.