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Redoing My Progress WhatsUp Gold Home Lab with Proxmox: A Journey of Failover, Backup and Recovery

Greetings, tech enthusiasts! I hope you’re all doing well. Today, I’m thrilled to share the story of my recent adventure in rearchitecting my home lab with Proxmox. This journey has been a rollercoaster of unexpected challenges, valuable lessons, and rewarding successes. I built a resilient and efficient setup that exceeded my initial expectations by leveraging modern virtualization and storage technologies.

How to Make the Most of Your Auvik Demo

A live demo is one of the easiest ways to see if Auvik fits your network management needs. In just one session, a product expert walks you through core workflows, highlights features that matter to your team, and answers your toughest questions — no setup required. If you’re thinking about switching network monitoring solutions, a demo can be more helpful than a trial.

How Latitude.sh, Wasabi, and Megaport Unlock Cost-Effective Multicloud

Learn how to reduce cloud costs without sacrificing performance by integrating Latitude.sh's compute, Wasabi's storage, and Megaport's private network into your multicloud architecture. IT teams are under increasing pressure to reduce costs without sacrificing performance or scalability in their cloud infrastructure. I’ve had several customers bring up a need for reducing compute cost and storage costs, the need for custom hardware specs, and the like.

Data Center Digital Twin: Modeling, Planning, and Visualization of All Your Sites

To manage today’s complex and distributed data center environments, data center professionals need more than spreadsheets, static diagrams, and siloed monitoring tools. They need a real-time and interactive view of their infrastructure, a data center digital twin. Modern Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software makes this possible. Far beyond basic monitoring or asset tracking, DCIM software delivers a true digital twin.

Cribl and Palo Alto Networks Launch Partnership with Cortex XSIAM Integration

Cribl’s powerful data processing engine is designed specifically for IT and Security teams, enabling organizations to take control of their ever-growing data volumes. By simplifying the management, processing, and analysis of telemetry data, such as logs, metrics, and traces, generated across complex digital environments. This empowers organizations with the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze data, allowing them to adapt to evolving needs and strategies.

How to keep Ingress NGINX Controller metric volumes manageable and still meaningful

The Ingress NGINX Controller is a widely used Kubernetes component for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing. While it provides powerful observability through Prometheus metrics, it’s also notorious for generating an excessively high number of time series. The root cause lies in how the controller labels its metrics—tracking requests across multiple dimensions such as ingress name, host, path, status code, and upstream response times.

Is There Really ROI for Moving Your Voice Network to Cloud Native?

As an operations leader, you are constantly asked to do more with fewer resources. Join us on April 29th to learn how your peers are successfully leveraging cloud native and end-to-end automation to minimize manual labor and lower OpEx. Many of our customers have expressed their challenges in swiftly launching new services, maintaining compliance, or managing subscriber churn. How does one maintain business continuity in the face of expertise shortages and security concerns?

How Console Connect is empowering data centre partners with enhanced connectivity

The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and businesses are constantly seeking agile, high-performance connectivity solutions to stay ahead. Recognising this, data centres are shifting beyond their traditional role of offering just space and power. Today, they must deliver real-time access to clouds, other data centres, and applications.