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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 9, 2021

3 New Important Things About VMware vSphere: Project Capitola, Project Monterey, and no more SD Card/USB Boot Device

VMworld 2021 announced three exciting changes. First, Project Capitola, a software-defined memory solution in the cloud. Second, Project Monterey, a revisit of virtualization infrastructure as a distributed control fabric via tight integration with SmartNIC to offload networking to the hardware level, plus a zero-trust security model. Third, future deprecation of SD Card/USB device boot options.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • November 4, 2021

Integrate partners product in Azure Sentinel from the solution gallery

Microsoft released Azure Sentinel Solutions for public review in May 2021. The feature is a gallery that’s part of Azure Marketplace, where users can publish packages to easily integrate a product from Azure Sentinel itself. Administrators can just select a solution from the gallery, click on create, follow the wizard, and integrate the new solution, which already contains data connectors, workbooks, queries, and analytics rules templates.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • November 2, 2021

How to Start Azure DevOps Releases Using PowerShell?

Release Pipelines in Azure DevOps is incredibly handy for your entire software delivery. While Azure DevOps has various automation features for projects within, you can also automate various tasks regarding Azure DevOps itself. There are many ways to start your release, and today show you how to run your release through PowerShell.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • October 28, 2021

Decommission ADFS Office 365 After Migrating to Azure AD

If you’ve switched to Active Directory (AD) authentication, you’ll need to decommission AD Federation Services (ADFS) Office 365. You’ll need to do that because Microsoft Office 365 identity platform is no longer usable after that migration. It’s not a complicated procedure but you have to execute it properly to avoid conflict.
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Benoit Voirin
  • Benoit Voirin
  • October 26, 2021

Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

IDaaS offers the benefits of hybrid IT by providing cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM). The service ensures that users are who they claim to be, and provides them with appropriate access to specific resources at a proper time. It’s maintained by the service provider and needs little resources or effort to jumpstart.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • October 21, 2021

Add Address Space to a Peered Virtual Network (Preview)

Microsoft introduced yet another feature to enhance its Azure users’ comfort. Before, you’d have to remove all peering of a virtual network (VNet), add new addresses to a subnet, and then redo all peering. This would entail downtime-related issues. Now, you can add new address spaces without peering deactivation. Amazing!
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • October 19, 2021

How to Backup Virtual Appliance with Azure Backup?

Virtual Appliance is a broad concept. It could include Firewall, Scanner, Network VM, and a lot of other virtualized instances. Primarily, to back that up, you need snapshots, and backing up a Virtual Appliance in Azure wasn’t quite user-friendly before. Now, however, you can perform all the necessary actions smoothly, in a matter of a few clicks.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • October 14, 2021

How to upgrade VMware environment to vSphere 7 U3

VMware released its Upgrade 3 for vSphere 7 just a couple of days ago. As usual, the update includes a lot of new features, compatibility extensions, etc. Like always, you should approach the upgrade process comprehensively and make all the necessary preparations to conclude the switch as smoothly as possible.
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Mikhail Rodionov
  • Mikhail Rodionov
  • October 12, 2021

Azure Key-Value Data Store Services Overview

 Azure key-value store services comprise a subset of NoSQL (non-relational) data services for semi-structured data, which offer you a key-value data store. Common use cases would be when you need: simplest and fastest NoSQL data store; fast, high-volume data ingestion; quick read-write operations; or when data structure/number per entity is varied. Sounds complicated, but we’ve laid it all out in simple terms.
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