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Metallic® ThreatWiseTM: active builtin data protection

5 October 2022
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is Metallic? Metallic DMaaS (data management as a service) was introduced by Commvault in late 2019 as part of its Intelligent Data Platform to provide SaaS delivered data protection and management. Data management helps to build and maintain a data framework in order to store, ingest, transform, archive, transmit, and secure the data needed by the business. Metallic provides: Metallic DMaaS, offering protection for SaaS applications including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics, and Salesforce; protection for endpoints; and protection for hybrid cloud workloads including Virtual Machines, File Systems, Databases, and containers Metallic eDiscovery, offering […]

Commvault, vSecurity none

PowerStore X pre-ugrade to version 2.1.1 fails

28 August 2022
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe upgrade procedure for DellEMC PowerStore X from version 2.0 to version 2.1 is a little tricky. The Dell EMC PowerStore Software Upgrade Guide explains the steps, but still there are some issue that you should mange. Because you have also to upgrade the ESXi from 6.7 to 7.0, but before this, you need also to resize the VMFS datastore.

DellTechnologies, vStorage

Free Intro to SAN and NAS Storage course

14 August 2022
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you need to understand SAN and NAS storage? There are several resources available online, but I would like to suggest a free course by Neil Anderson.

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How Flowmon can simplify network and security operations

11 July 2022
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAbout Flowmon Flowmon Networks was a global network intelligence company acquired by Kemp in November 2020. The acquisition brings together application delivery and security services with deep network visibility and automated security incident response. One year after (in September 2021), Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) announced the completion of the acquisition of Kemp and now Flowmon is one of the main company’s product, but still is keeping its own identity and also a dedicated web site (https://www.flowmon.com/en). Why Flowmon? Flowmon offers NetFlow based deep network visibility solution for network and security operations and try to solve one […]

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PowerStore datastore become unavailable in VMware vSphere

22 January 2022
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDellEMC PowerStore is the new product line that will replace the old Equallogic/SC/VNX/Unity series. It’s a nice product with a mix of the features of all those prevuious products and a new modern design both in the hardware and the software parts. From VMware vSphere point of view it can be access as a block level storage with iSCSI and/or FC protocols, but it has also a native vVols implementation and, for example, in the PowerStoreX model it’s the default way to access at the storage resources.

DellTechnologies, vStorage

File level backup issue with vCenter 7.0.3

27 October 2021
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe file-level backup feature introduced in vCSA 6.5 is very powerfull and schedulable (starting with vCSA 6.7) because sometimes the image-level backup may not provide the proper integrity if you have corrupted files inside the VM. Also with vSphere 7.0 is possible monitoring the status of the file-level backup directly from vSphere Client and this is quite usefull to have this information direct visible from the UI:

vBackup, VMware

Why new security threads require new approaches

16 December 2020
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Reading Time: 4 minutesEvolution of the security landscape The digital security landscape has changed faster in the last years and more in the last months with the COVID-19 pandemic. People are working more and more from home with smart working, but not all companies are prepared to secure those access and their digital workspace. The consequence is that there are more attack and threads the are focused on people instead of corporate services or infrastructures. But also, the rising of the cloud services model makes the attack easier and more effective… You can buy them as a service… […]

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