If you've worked long in the virtual machine space, you have very likely used VMware's products, especially ESXi, the bare metal hypervisor that you could get a free activation key and use for various small-scale non-high availability purposes, and...
Brian O'Neill
A Comparison of “Freemium” Replacements for VMware vSphere/ESXi - XCP-ng and Proxmox VE
by
Brian O'Neill |
March
25,
2025 |
Cloud,
IT Management,
IT Infrastructure,
IT Support,
IT Services,
Cloud Computing,
it consulting,
#itstrategy,
Information Technology,
COMPUTER VIRTUALIZATION,
Virtualization,
XCPng,
VMWareMigration
In past articles we've talked about managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and the advantages it offers. DNS records are part of your infrastructure as well, although fewerbusinesses think to maintain it outside of manual control via either DNS...
Queen to Queen's Level 3: Avoiding certain scams with Challenge/Response
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Brian O'Neill |
April
23,
2024 |
Security,
IT Infrastructure,
Scams,
IT Support,
Microsoft Office 365,
cybersecurity,
MSP,
cyber attacks,
IT Services,
it consulting,
IT Managed Services,
IT Strategy,
Cyberattacks,
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Azure,
Information Technology,
Business,
Phishing
How to Secure Your Email Delivery: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Brian O'Neill |
December
19,
2023 |
Cloud,
IT Management,
Security,
Tools,
IT Infrastructure,
IT Support,
Microsoft Office 365,
Business Continuity,
MSP,
IT Services,
it consulting,
Customer Relationship Management,
#itstrategy,
IT Managed Services,
IT Strategy,
microsoft,
How To,
Information Technology,
Business,
Education,
Virtual Desktop,
Desktop Management,
Google,
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SPF,
DMARC,
DKIM
Various email providers have begun to clamp down on incoming emails that are deemed "untrusted". If you haven't properly set up your email environment, you could find your emails being rejected by the major providers, or more frequently ending up in...
How to Efficiently Clean Up Your AWS VPC and Cut Costs
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Brian O'Neill |
August
29,
2023 |
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high-tech,
Education
Are you trying to clean up an old Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network to save on your AWS costs, but can't seem to find all the resources associated with that VPC? Finding all associated VPC resources, including specific security group linked EC2...