It’s a misconception that only a hacker attack is the biggest threat to cybersecurity. In reality, employees not abiding by basic security protocols during their routine work is the biggest “backdoor.” Making sure that all roles, privileges, and systems are set to avoid any outside access is paramount for ensuring your company’s solid daily cybersecurity.

Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a cybersecurity consultant, explaining which and why all the bases of IAM should be covered by security specialists and employees alike.

It’s time-consuming and, frankly, annoying to browse through various news feeds to be fully hands-on on all the changes and releases. Microsoft knows it, too, so it integrated a feature into Logic Apps Designer that informs you of the updates to where you need them. Choose a period, RSS feed items, mailbox, teams, or twitter, and you’re all set!

Read the short post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to configure your desired Azure and AKS updates notifications to your desired messaging platform.

WizNucleus, an American information technology and services provider, had 2 standalone servers with local physical storage and VMware ESXi on top. The company was keen to create a highly available and fault-tolerant IT environment without spending a fabulous amount of money on buying new hardware. With StarWind, WizNucleus builds a two-node failover cluster and achieves high availability (HA) without additional hardware cost.

Find out how WizNucleus creates a fault-tolerant IT environment without replacing existing hardware and ensures the safety of its mission-critical data in any unforeseen circumstances with StarWind.

To ensure that modern students and teachers have access to all the necessary applications and materials, even remotely, profound infrastructure upgrades are needed. But the budget and chances are often tight. Thankfully, StarWind provides High Availability on common hardware starting with 2 nodes already!

Find out today how you can forget about buying physical shared storage and use just one lightweight StarWind solution to secure your systems’ constant uptime and your files and apps being always available, even during maintenance, for an accessible price.

Having an Oracle Database on hand for testing purposes is a handy endeavor. For example, if you want to test software integration capabilities or work with PL/SQL scripts. We’re not talking about configuring a full-blown production-ready Oracle. Just something useful and easy to have for you to test the work stuff that you need.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, on how to set up an on-premises Oracle Database testing instance on WS 2019 without breaking your neck.

Azure Backup Center was revealed during Microsoft Ignite 2020. It will be later released as a single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring tool for Azure Backup vaults. The solution will allow you to monitor and configure your backups, restore data, and set a certain level of compliance, all from a single GUI.

Read the short guide by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, about Azure Backup Center, its benefits and how you can preview it today.

PowerShell is a useful tool that can help you out a lot when it comes to managing and automating your vSphere-related tasks. Instead of doing everything manually and wasting time on the routine, you can use a set of scripts to automate things like VM deployment, etc. It will allow you to unload your day, have more space to take a breath, and perform other, more pressing work.

Register now to learn how to use PowerShell to simplify and speed up your vSphere routines and manage your environment in a more simplistic manner

For whatever reason, you may want to switch your storage account from your primary region to the secondary one. In Azure Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), there’s a feature that allows you to perform that action manually. There’s nothing overly complicated to it. The manual failover will take just a few minutes to conclude.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about how to perform a manual failover of an Azure storage account in a few easy steps.

AiT was looking for a solution to ensure redundancy for its customer. The client’s infrastructure was End-of-Life and had no proper virtualization. The absence of downtime was paramount for the client. By choosing StarWind, AiT was able to secure true redundancy for its client and also achieve higher cost-efficiency as well as better solution user-friendliness.

Find out how AiT was able to help its client experience constant application uptime without having to upgrade its entire EoL infrastructure thanks to StarWind.

Cases like Meltdown and Spectre showed that minuscule flaws in hardware-layer security can become serious breaches in another person's keen eyes. AMD’s SEV-ES and latest SEV-SNP exist to protect guest OS by encrypting all CPU register content. So, if your hypervisor is compromised, it won’t be able to access any guest OS data.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, discussing AMD’s tools to help you make your virtualized environment’s hardware layer security airtight.