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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is an article that I wrote as a contribuitor for the Aruba blog. Read the full article Stacking Network Switches: Why and Why Not. In networking, the term “stack” (or stackable) refers to a group of physical switches that have been cabled and grouped in one single logical switch. Over the years, stacking features have evolved from a premium (and costly feature) to a core capability of almost all enterprise-grade switches (and also in several SMB models).

Reading Time: 7 minutesAltaro is a fast-growing software company with easy to use and affordable (also for the price) backup solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, specializing in backup for virtualized environments. And with 10 years of history in data protection!

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter several versions of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8 (with three versions in 12 months), now NAKIVO announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.0 that is the 26th software release of this backup and data protection product. The main two big news are the Hyper-V 2019 support, but also the support of physical servers (Windows based).

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe GA version of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b is available. This update includes fixes to about 100 bugs most commonly seen in support – with the top 3 areas being Veeam Agent for Linux, agent management and tape.

Reading Time: 2 minutesStarWind Virtual SAN eliminates any need in physical shared storage by simply mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. Its solution use a hyperconverged approach to maintains high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources (it’s build around a two nodes architecture).

Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m very proud and honored to have been invited at the second Security Field Day (#XFD2) event. This is a brand new Tech Field Day (TFD) event, the Tech Field Day team started the Security Field Day event because they recognized that security is just as vital to IT operations as storage, networking, or virtualization. And of course there is more demand on those type of topics. You can learn more in this post by Tom Hollingsworth: Security Field Day – The Non-Conference.

Reading Time: 3 minutesExcelero and ThinkParQ announced that their joint go-to-market relationship is bearing fruit and the firms have successfully integrated Excelero’s NVMesh software-defined block storage solution for shared NVMe at local latency along with ThinkParQ’s leading parallel cluster file system BeeGFS. Excelero NVMesh enables shared NVMe across any network and supports any local or distributed file system. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO.

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