VMware NSX-T 3.2 has been released, adding innovations across multi-cloud security, scale-out networking for containers, VMs, and physical workloads. Embedded in his release is tapless network traffic analysis (NTA), enhancements to gateway firewall, and integrated Network Detection and Response. NSX-T 3.2 is packed with improvements and features and is one of the largest releases for

Proxmox has released version 7.1 of Proxmox Virtual Environment, its server virtualization management platform. The newest release is based on Debian Bullseye 11.1 (using Linux kernel 5.13) and is comprised of updates to open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 6.1, LXC 4.0, Ceph Pacific 16.2.6, and ZFS 2.1.

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

VMware has announced what will be in Update 3 (U3) of their popular hypervisor platform, vSphere, and their software-defined storage (SDS) product vSAN. After reading over the announcement these are the items with vSphere 7 Update 3 that we are most excited about and why.

Dell Technologies has announced new AIOps Capabilities, including the new CloudIQ support for PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch networking that now covers all of Dell EMC-branded infrastructure portfolio. This allows for more intelligent AIOps capabilities, including new levels of automation.

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,