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Ever had an incident where you think “we could have resolved this quicker if we’d have spotted that X was happening”? Automated alerts can help.

VMworld is staying online in 2021, taking place on 5-7th October with the tagline “Imagine That”.

On 9th June 2021 Cohesity launched it’s Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution for enterprise and mid-sized companies in Europe. This is their first step in a wider Data-Management-as-a-Service offering.

Are you using Active Directory to authenticate your users? Are you concerned that your staff’s credentials are compromised and being leveraged by cyber-criminals? This is a problem that IntSights can help resolve.

One solution to Website backups failing with “Timeout expired”

A number of colleagues have commented how clear my picture is during Teams calls. This is how I achieve a good image.

We have 900 days until Windows Server 2012 (and 2012R2) goes End of Life. Here’s how you can use PowerShell to report back the number of days till a deadline.

Ubuntu 16.04 is going End Of Life at the end of April 2021, so without a paid-for subscription there won’t be any new security updates. We can use a couple of methods in PowerShell to list affected VMs in a tenancy.

The global pandemic of 2020 caused a lot of previously in-person events to go online. This means that even more events are now accessible to a global audience, and often at times that can fit around your work and home schedules. Here’s some upcoming tech events for May 2021.