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FerretDB was founded in 2021, set out to develop an open source, MongoDB-compatible Document Database. Actually it’s based in USA (at Delaware). During last IT Press Tour #61, Peter Farkas (co-founder and company’s CEO) provides more information about the company and their product.

FerretDB is a truly Open Source MongoDB alternative, built on PostgreSQL and SQLite.

FerretDB allows you to use MongoDB drivers seamlessly with PostgreSQL as the database backend. Use all tools, drivers, UIs, and the same query language and stay Open Source.

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AppsCode is a global leader in Enterprise-grade Kubernetes-native Data Platform with Automated Day 2 Operations founded on 2016. During the last IT Press Tour #61, Tamal Saha, Founder and CEO and former Google engineer, describes the different products.

Evolution of AppsCode follow the history of Kubernets:

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The IT Press Tour (ITPT) is an intinerant tour of a group of US and European journalists travels to USA or Europe or other place to meet companies in the IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Data Management and Storage world and learn more about their products and solutions.

Since the 1st tour edition, the IT Press Tour have met 330 companies with 571 different sessions! Some companies did multiple editions and adopted the IT Press Tour as a key marketing communication medium once a year.

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Veeam Backup & Replication has different components/toles and not necessary each of them has direct access to the Internet. From a security point of view it could be a good idea segregates all Veeam components as much as possible.

For this reason you may need to configure a HTTP/HTTPS Proxy, but the funny part is that you cannot found any related option from the Veeam Console.

And if you expect that the browser proxy settings are used, you are wrong.

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Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.14, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features, fixes and improvements, better hardware support, and more. As usual, the new version source code, can be downloaded from kernel.org web site.

“So it’s early Monday morning (well – early for me, I’m not really a morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule,”

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During those years post Broadcom acquisition of VMware, the VMware vSphere product has become more and more unfriendly for the SMB market.

The product editions and pricing have totally changed: no more the Free vSphere Hypervisor, no more Essential and Essential+ bundles, no more perpetual licenses…

Note that, in April 2025, Broadcom has reintroduced again an edition of ESXi free!

Also download the products will become more “complicated”.

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Some days ago, the official site for RVTools has been hacked and the installer for the popular VMware environment reporting utility has been compromised to deliver Bumblebee Malware.

The official web sites, Robware.net and RVTools.com, are currently offline to avoid any additional distribution of this malware.

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