The free and open source software market has made a tremendous leap forward in recent years, so today thousands of companies are using FOSS instead of public clouds. You don't have to buy a huge server to run your micro-cloud, you can set up a lot even on a desktop NAS. Since about 2015, in our NAS reviews, we have focused on the fact that a modern file server for a small company is primarily the services it provides: advanced collaboration functions, file sharing via the Internet, video ...

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Hyperconverged systems are rapidly gaining popularity and are already becoming the standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate environment. Lenovo has released a special series of servers for installing and running VMware vSAN with tools for simplified administration and deployment at the customer's facility. The ideology of hyperconvergent solutions using VMware technologies has its advantages: this is a relatively low cost at the start, and the ability to scale almost ...

In small companies, NAS can significantly reduce infrastructure costs. Those who decommissioned servers yesterday by moving resources to the NAS are canceling their subscriptions to the software that QNAP performs out of the box today. And now the time has come when QNAP swooped down on the sacred: the reservation of virtual machines. In 2019, the world market for backup and data recovery software, according to estimates by Allied Market Research, amounted to $ 9.3 billion. An article of ...

Many specialists of small organizations clearly understand the advantages of ZFS and can justify to the management the savings from software LZ4 compression and deduplication when buying a new storage system, but there were no inexpensive solutions for this file system. But a holy place is never empty, and QSAN decided to combine in one device everything that we love in Linux and everything that we value in ZFS. Today, many technical experts believe that ZFS is something that works only ...

Synology now has a free solution to back up and restore all of its infrastructure, including virtual machines, desktops, Windows servers, and NAS. We tested all its features, measured the speed and evaluated the pros and cons of this package. In 2010, the founder of Veeam Software, Ratmir Timashev, said in one of his interviews that the main thing for backups is the recovery process, how fast, easy and reliable it is. Today Veeam software solutions have become the de facto standard in large ...

Synology is expanding the capabilities of its hypervisor and in the Pro version it is possible to create a failover cluster. We tested non-stop migration, crash recovery and also showed how BTRFS can save disk space when using a dozen virtual machines. Traditionally for Synology, every step here is intuitive and logical. Today any small company has its own IT resources, which grow along with the growth and development of the company. One or two services can still be kept on a dedicated ...

Synology has released a package that turns storage into a host for virtual machines with easy cluster setup, virtual machine snapshot support, and setup in just a few clicks. You can even run the DSM operating system itself in a virtual environment to create multitenant services within your organization. Synology , already a well-known system manufacturer to our readers data storage class SmB/SOHO, has been making steps towards the Enterprise segment for quite some time. In 2017, high- ...

It happened! Now, for every 32 physical cores in the server, you will need a license for 1 processor socket. Bad news for AMD, but don't jump to conclusions - there's still time to buy EPYC. I hope you had time to enjoy how your new 1-socket server on AMD EPYC smartly replaces 2 or even 4 old servers on Xeon E5, and at the same time you deduct a mere penny for the hypervisor license? The freebie is over: now VMware changes the license policy, considering that there are no more than 32 cores ...