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Reading Time: 2 minutesAcumera, a leading provider of secure edge connectivity, visibility, and computing solutions, has announced the acquisition of Scale Computing. The combined company will be known as Scale Computing. Scale Computing is an interesting company in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, that I’ve followed from several years (Scale Computing: an alternative hyperconverged solution).
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the recenter release of Rocky Linux 10.0, could be interesting talk about the product life cycle and for how many years the previous versions are still supported. Of course, Rocky Linux follows the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle. This page goes over the Rocky Linux Release Versions, their support, timelines, and how it affects our users.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA denial-of-service vulnerability in VMware vCenter was privately reported to Broadcom. A malicious actor who is authenticated through vCenter and has permission to perform API calls for guest OS customisation may trigger this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition. Broadcom has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 4.4.
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday July 27th, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.16, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features, fixes and improvements, better hardware support, and more. Just two months after the Linux kernel 6.15. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I’ve tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned.
Reading Time: 5 minutesRocky Linux is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) “clone” and one of the best CentOS Linux alternatives. But compared to RHEL, does not support upgrades to any major release. The answer is always the same: The project does not support in-place upgrades of one major version to another major version. And there is a good reason… if somethings goes wrong you cannot revert the operation. There are also other good reasons, like that the new version may require more resources (for example, disk space) or has different hardware/software requirements.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDebian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not always available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe much more tricky and sometimes not supported at all. Rocky Linux does not support upgrades to any major release. The answer is always the same: The project does not support in-place upgrades of one major version to another major version. And there is a good reason… if somethings goes wrong you cannot revert the operation. There are also other good reasons, like that the new version may require more […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesRecon Scanner by Coveware is a security feature of Veeam Data Platform that enable customers to proactively identify threats before they can cause damage. Recon Scanner is a forensic triage utility. It comes equipped with a proactive function, Scanner, which gathers the critical data required for an efficient and thorough review of security configurations of both Windows and Linux hosts, including hosts running Veeam Backup & Replication. By scanning Veeam environments Recon Scanner collects data and recognizes suspicious activity and TTPs, organizations can proactively take defensive and mitigation actions.
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