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November 27, 2025

Understanding Hypervisor Market Share: Trends and Top Vendors

The hypervisor market, and hyperconverged infrastructure market, is predicted to grow between 2024 and 2030. How has VMware impacted this?
November 25, 2025

What is VM Import/Export?

VM import and export enable the movement of virtual machines between virtualization platforms or environments.
November 21, 2025

Stretched Clusters Explained: What is a Stretch Cluster?

A stretched cluster spreads virtualized infrastructure across two or more physically separate locations, enabling continuous operation if one site fails.
September 4, 2025

Retail IT Infrastructure That Just Works: Lessons from Giant Tiger

Why is downtime a silent revenue killer, and how does going small mean thinking bigger? Dive into the world of retail with Paul Wood, former CEO of Giant Tiger.
July 10, 2025

Lessons Learned From Building a Homelab: The Good, the Bad, and the Brilliant Mistakes

Unplanned moments in building and monitoring a homelab become the best lessons because they mimic the unpredictability of customer sites and edge locations
July 2, 2025

What is a Hypervisor? A Beginner’s Guide

A hypervisor is software that runs & manages one or more virtual machines on a computer. It’s a software layer between hardware & operating systems.
June 12, 2025

Building and Monitoring a Homelab with StorMagic

Let's build and monitor a capable homelab setup using StorMagic SvSAN, SvHCI, and Edge Control with no need for a rack of enterprise gear.
June 10, 2025

What’s New in Our Cloud-based Management Tool for Edge IT? Edge Control 1.4.0

A cloud-based fleet management tool for edge environments. It makes it easier for organizations managing IT across distributed, remote locations.
May 22, 2025

What Is a Homelab and Why Is It Important?

Discover what a homelab is, why it's essential for IT learning, and how it helps pros build skills in virtualization and edge computing.
May 20, 2025

Type 1 vs Type 2 Hypervisors: Key Differences Explained

A type 1 hypervisor runs on bare metal, and a type 2 hypervisor runs as software on top of an operating system. What are the key differences?
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