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Cybersecurity is a focal point of enterprises and governments globally. The longstanding approach of protecting critical data via firewalls or using segregated/dedicated networks is no longer sufficient!

This also includes Fibre Channel (FC) SAN where security was historically considered intrinsic in the SAN, due to the usage of fiber cables and dedicated (and isolated) fabrics.

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The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository delivered as bootable ISO with a Rocky Linux distribution preconfigured by Veeam.

The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience while eliminating (or at least reducing) the need for any Linux expertise.

But also have an OS pre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way! Recommendations are based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) created and maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Rocky Linux.

Further, on-going management costs are reduced thanks to both hardened repository components as well as the base OS updates provided directly by Veeam.

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During the last A3 Communications Technology Live! in London, I’ve got the opportunity to meet FADU and know more about their product and their business model.

FADU is a fabless semiconductor company innovating flash storage technology and supply chain, that is supplying eSSDcontrollers to multiple NAND partner.

Actually three generations of controllers are in mass production :

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VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, as describiled in Broadcom’s article 318697 (CPU Support Deprecation and Discontinuation In vSphere Releases).

The result if the following error message if you try to install ESXi 8 on a server with an unsupported CPU:

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After only few months from Linux Kernel 6.12, Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.13, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. 

It’s mostly some final driver fixes (gpu and networking dominating –
normal), with some doc updates too. And various little stuff all over.
The shortlog is appended for people who want to see the details (and,
as always, it’s just the shortlog for the last week, the full 6.13 log
is obviously much too big).

With this, the merge window for 6.14 will obviously open tomorrow. I
already have two dozen pull requests pending – thank you, you know who
you are.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2025 has been released two months ago and has a lot of new features. But do you know Azure Arc can add more features and capabilitiers to your Windows Server?

Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multicloud and on-premises management platform.

Azure Arc provides a centralized, unified way to:

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Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be probably available in H2 2025 and most of the new features are already published and commented.

But you should be prepared, because, like each new major release (and sometimes also minor release), it will drop support for older platform and software versions and will also deprecase some old features and accelerate vacating discontinued features.

The reason, as Gostev commented in this post, is to don’t spread QA resources too thin as new OS versions come out. In addition, this simplifies the implementation of new features and enables to create more efficient and secure code. Finally, this improves overall platform security by disabling the ability to connect to outdated and long unpatched OS and applications.

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