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Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…

This Week in IT, Microsoft is promising to support the classic desktop Outlook app until 2029, but not everyone is happy about the new Outlook for Windows. I take a look at the new app and whether you should consider using it or holding off for now. Links and resources Transcript This Week in IT….

Not sure which IT skills to devote your time and effort towards learning next year? Aidan Finn suggest five Hyper-V skills you should learn for 2015.

MC718550 – New features are coming to conversation analytics in Microsoft Viva Engage! By the end of March, users will notice a new look for analytics on their posts. Conversation analytics will refresh faster with real-time updates, the expanded set of reactions will show in the reactions breakdown, and users will be able to filter…

Considering the purchase of blade servers for your IT department? Aidan Finn argues that blade servers are the wrong choice for today’s data center.

Learn how to make the most of 10GbE or faster networking to make that Hyper-V live migration quicker in this handy article.

Learning the different aspects of networking can be a daunting task, but Cisco has developed a number of games to help. In this post, Sean Wilkins reviews the Cisco Aspire CCNA Edition, a game filled with tasks that encompass more than 80% of the material covered on the CCNA exam. This article covers how the game is structured and how you can use it to improve your networking skills.

Building a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster? Not so fast, friend. Learn about what you need to build that cluster in this article.

Aidan Finn gives us his opinion of Microsoft’s approach to hyper-convergence, as was shared at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 in October.