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Supermicro SuperCloud Composer cluster
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Hands-on With Supermicro SuperCloud Composer

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 vSAN with Intel Optane
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VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 Announced

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.

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Dell EMC CloudIQ Adds Support for PowerEdge Servers and PowerSwitch

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.

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Synology Active Insight Review

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

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Synology Photos Review

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,

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Synology C2 Password Walkthrough

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.

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How to Get Started with Ansible

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,

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Synology DSM 7.0 Review

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

Windows 365
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Microsoft Windows 365 & Spot PC by NetApp Announced

Today Microsoft unveiled its new cloud server that allows users to use Windows 10 or 11 as a Service, Windows 365. This new program delivers cloud PCs (including the OS, the apps, content, and settings) to any compatible device. This will be similar to Microsoft 365. Microsoft states that it will allow users to leverage

Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0
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Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 Released

Earlier today, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, or just Proxmox for short, announced a major release of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0. Being a number before the decimal point always indicates big things. Here Proxmox announced the new release is based on Debian 11 “Bullseye” but using a Linux kernel 5.11, and