Computers

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    Windows 10 Security Sandbox Announced for Upcoming Windows Release

    Security is a top priority among businesses and in the enterprise today. Additionally, it is a growing concern for home users. Windows environments have long been a target for malicious software and the like with malware and specifically ransomware topping…

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    Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1 released with Standard Edition

    Organizations looking for a great, versatile, flexible, and powerful data protection solution that can protect workloads across virtual, physical, and even cloud offerings at a very reasonable price will want to take a look at Vembu BDR Suite. Recently, Vembu…

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    Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Versions

    Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has definitely seen an uptick in adoption with more enterprise ready features with each version. ย Windows Server 2016 is the most capable and fully featured release to date and it certainly has matured from the early days…

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    Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager

    VMware NSX is an exciting network virtualization platform that is being developed at a fairly aggressive pace. ย Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX installation. ย VMware has a fairly ironed out process to upgrade…

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    StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN

    If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. ย StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…

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    Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance

    Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. ย It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of including Windows Servers, VMware environments, SQL server, etc. ย Recently, they…

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    Optimize Windows 10 for VMware Horizon View 7.1

    In thinking about our client OS desktops that we will be using for our VMware Horizon View 7.1 lab, there are a number of things we need to do to optimize the operating system for using with VDI. ย Thankfully, there…

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    Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 released with new features

    For those who were extremely excited for the news of the Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 beta release will be even more excited as the official v7 release is now available! ย This new release of Nakivo moves the NBR product…

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    Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cluster Not Enough Storage Space Available

    I wanted to write up a quick end of the week post that had me scratching my head for a bit in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster lab I had built up. When powering up a virtual machine in…

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    Three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity

    In troubleshooting a SQL connectivity issue recently, I tried multiple tests in connecting to SQL to help troubleshoot the issue. In this post, let’s take a look at three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity including ODBC, a UDL…