With the release of Proxmox VE 7.1 comes a lot of impressive new or improved features, some of the most impressive being security-related. Some of those features are new and exciting, and others simply being quality of life updates that make employing better security practices easier than ever before. In this piece, we take a

Managing IT infrastructure has changed rapidly over the last few years, and with change comes challenges. Users today expect fluidity and ease of use in managing their environments. Supermicro is addressing these demands with the introduction of SuperCloud Composer (SCC), a new way to easily provision, compose, recompose, and manage data center resources on the

Last month Synology finally released a major overhaul of its DiskStation Manager operating system for its NAS devices (DSM 7.0). At the same time, the company made several enhancements to its quite of cloud services, Synology C2. Today we are going to look at a new feature that sits in between the two, C2-based monitoring

Synology Disk Station Manager (DSM) has been evolving steadily since it was released. Version 7, which was finally released back in June, integrated new features that embraced industry-standard security and performance enhancements while expanding its usability, reliability, performance, and scalability. In our recent Synology DSM 7.0, we found it to have a much more clean,

Last week Synology Inc. released a new secure credentials management solution for its suite of cloud services, Synology C2 Password. With all of the security issues that have been plaguing NAS devices, Synology is adding yet another step to help keep users secure. Best of all, C2 password is available now and is free.

Ansible is a great way to mass deploy changes across multiple machines. For example, I have used it to do some basic setup on a new machine and to update multiple hosts simultaneously. It is also important to keep in mind that Ansible is not only used in homelab environments, but it is also very popular in corporate environments,

Last month, Synology announced a major update release to its DiskStation Manager operating system, Synology DSM 7.0. While they are not reinventing the wheel here, there are some major changes. Synology has done a lot of streamlining and redesigning of the GUI as well as tackle some security issues, security issues have been a bit

Over the past few days, users of QNAP systems’ devices have been hit with a ransomware attack. In fact, two we discovered, Qlocker and eCh0raix. These attacks do what the usual ransomware buttholes do and encrypt users’ data while offering to give it back for a fee. QNAP is on the ball and has released

We’ve previously reviewed Intel’s SSD Toolbox, a GUI application for managing and updating Intel’s SSDs. Instead of updating the software, the company up and replaced it at the end of last year with the new Intel Memory and Storage (MAS) Tool. Sometimes it is better to just start from scratch and build it the way