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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton discuss disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI), an interesting emerging technology in the datacenter that can address limitations of HCI while still embracing its attractive features.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton looks at Edge DX, a new product from ControlUp that was designed to monitor and manage Windows, macOS, Linux and IGEL OS endpoint devices. He explains the information it gathers, how it displays logon and processes to help troubleshoot and diagnose issues that end users might be having.
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Brien Posey completes his 3-part series, including an 18-hour server replication process.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton begins a 3-part series on this new offering, used for monitoring and managing physical devices.
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Brien Posey details how to set up a replication settings template, replication agent and more.
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Brien Posey outlines the five-step process involved in migrating an application.
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Having received surprise bills for forgotten instances, Brien Posey creates a PowerShell Script to display them all, regardless of which region they are in.
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After earlier demonstrating how to create a new ledger and then populate the database with sample data, Brien Posey shows how to access that data, and how to create some new tables and indexes.
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By Tom Fenton
After detailing using 2.5GbE NICs in his home lab on Windows 10, Tom Fenton does the same thing on Linux.
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Blockchain has rapidly gained popularity because of its ability to store transactions in an immutable format, and Amazon makes it really easy to create your own Blockchain ledger within the AWS console. Brien Posey shows you how it's done.
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With hybrid becoming the norm, cloud expert Paul Schnackenburg looks at the different flavors of hybrid Azure and how they compare, in which scenarios you'd use each one and links to learn more.
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By Tom Fenton
For a slightly higher price, Tom Fenton finds a sharper card that he will be using to create content from now on.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details setting up and using a 2.5GbE NIC and compares its performance to a 1GbE NIC, finding "The cost is the bugaboo in the equation."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton highlights some different ARM devices and discusses ways that they have made their way into the datacenter.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton puts "crush-proof" ruggedness claims to the test with a fall, a truck, a snow ski, water and ice.
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Subnets are used for many AWS tasks (like creating an EC2 VM), so Brien Posey sheds some light on common errors to end some of the frustration around subnetting.
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By Tom Fenton
After discussing the web-based end-user computing monitoring tool SOLVE in part 1 of this series, Tom Fenton turns his attention to Horizon-published applications.
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With more interest in cloud-based file servers, Brien Posey details the integral process of migrating existing files to the cloud to get started, here focusing on the final configuration steps.
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With more interest in cloud-based file servers, Brien Posey details the integral process of migrating existing files to the cloud to get started.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton looks at some of new features included with this release, the biggest and most visible of which is ControlUp SOLVE, a web-based monitoring tool for end user computer environments.
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After explaining how to use the AWS Launch Wizard to deploy a new Active Directory environment, Brien Posey shows you the rest of the process, beginning with the requirement to create a domain administrator secret name.
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Brien Posey begins his two-part take on the tool by explaining the Active Directory deployment process and more.
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Paul Schnackenburg looks at the tool for monitoring all your Azure IaaS and PaaS services, plus your own applications and code, explaining what it can do, how to design and configure it and how to connect your workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Finishing up his 4-part series on setting up a QNAP TP-431K network appliance to replace a failed ESXi server, Tom Fenton adds a caching drive to the device, uses the command line on it and sets it up as an NFS file share on it for vSphere before sharing his final thoughts on it.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton works with some of the QNAP applications for streaming and sharing data, and then adds another disk to this device for storage.