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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton sees Win 10 end of life as an excellent opportunity to utilize these devices for other business and personal purposes, as there are numerous creative and practical ways to extend their usefulness and prevent them from being thrown away, gathering dust, or ending up in a landfill.
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By Tom Fenton
For years, Tom Fenton wanted, yearned, and lusted for Windows to include a command-line editor. Yes, they did have one back in the day, but modern Windows versions did not include one -- until now.
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By Tom Fenton
AI meets cost control. Tom Fenton looks at EtherInsights, which helps you slash Microsoft 365 & Azure bills with smart, AI-powered insights—built for SMBs & enterprises alike
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By Tom Fenton
After examining and setting up Zabbix, a scalable, open-source monitoring solution designed to track the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, and cloud services, Tom Fenton cranks it up.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously providing an overview of Zabbix, a scalable, open-source monitoring solution used to track the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, and cloud services, Tom Fenton walks you through the process of setting up Zabbix server.
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As AI powers both cyberattacks and defenses, the ability to spot subtle threats in vast digital noise is paramount. Leading the charge is AI's power to intelligently monitor behavior, establishing baselines of normal activity to expose the aberrant patterns that signal attack.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his eye at VMware Explore, Tom Fenton begins a hands-on exploration of this free and open-source monitoring solution, describing its capabilities and features.
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By Tom Fenton
If you are not using a package manager on your Windows system to install applications and other software, you should, says Tom Fenton, because downloading, and installing applications manually is a waste of time.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton tests MacStadium's remote macOS desktops and finds a smooth, high-performance experience -- despite Apple's virtualization hurdles.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explores using ChromeOS Flex as an OS replacement on a decade-old, dual-core laptop running Windows 10, as Windows 10 will soon reach its end of life (EOL).
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By Tom Fenton
Longtime IT pro Tom Fenton was disappointed -- along with many others -- when Broadcom discontinued the free version after acquiring VMware, but he's excited it's back.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton continues his investigation, loading the OS, using Gemini AI, Google Docs, the web-based Microsoft Office 365 and much more.
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By Tom Fenton
Because of technical limitations, many Windows 10 machines won't be able to upgrade to Win 11 in October when end of life is reached, but ChromeOS Flex could extend their use.
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For disaster recovery, Amazon recently introduced a time-based copy feature that allows you to tie the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) copy duration to your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
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By Tom Fenton
In his final article of a series, Tom Fenton shows how he used ntopng Community edition dashboards to analyze his local LAN network traffic.
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By Tom Fenton
In the third part of a series, Tom Fenton explains how he set up and installed ntopng, along with detailing where it will sit in his home/lab network and how he redirected traffic to it.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton gets geeky in detailing how he is using ntopng to monitor and visualize network traffic in his home LAN, which he embarrassingly lost control of.
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In an accidental termination, thankfully, there are a few things that you can do to protect yourself against the loss of a critical instance, Brien Posey explains.
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Paul Schnackenburg looks at Microsoft's entry in the Secure Services Edge (SSE) market, Global Secure Access (GSA), and the different flavors of it, Internet Access and Private Access. Another buzzword for this kind of technology is Zero Trust Network Access, ZTNA.
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By Tom Fenton
With his home network a mess, Tom Fenton explores how to bring some sense of order using readily available, easy-to-use, free tools.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton waited 23 years for Linux software installation CLI functionality to come to Windows.
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By Tom Fenton
Concluding his series, Tom Fenton provides step-by-step instructions for creating a VM from different Linux distributions and discusses issues with running Windows on it.
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By Tom Fenton
In part three of his series, Tom Fenton configures ESXi to use an NTP server for precise time synchronization, enables SSH access, and adds a datastore for storing and running virtual machines.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks through the process of installing and using ESXi 8 on the Raspberry Pi 5, providing a hands-on opportunity to explore VMware virtualization technology or to run ARM-based VMs.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton, who literally wrote the book about ESXi 7 on a Raspberry Pi 4 hobbyist computer, now tackles ESXi 8 on a Pi 5, the new "computer in a keyboard."