VMware is a ubiquitous name in the virtualization world. It includes ESXi, VMware Workstation, Tanzu and many other products. These products are the first thing that comes up when people talk about virtual machines and other items dependent on them. ...

 The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system that targets embedded devices. Instead of static firmware images, OpenWrt provides a filesystem with a package manager, similar to regular Linux systems. OpenWrt now supports numerous architecture...

Sophos Firewall Operating System (SFOS) is a purpose-built OS that is the core of Sophos XG firewall. The architecture has multiple options for mitigating the latest threats and modern-day features like SD-WAN, cloud application traffic, etc. Sophos ...

VyOS is an open-source network operating system based on Debian Linux, that came from the development version of Vyatta routing software. While there is both an open-source and paid version of VyOS, here we will focus on the open-source, nightly buil...

pfSense is a free network firewall distribution, based on FreeBSD OS and includes numerous third party free software packages intended to expand firewall functionality. pfSense hardware can be installed on common hardware or in the cloud. This variet...

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a hypervisor on which you can host Virtual Machines and containers. It is a complex environment with open-source clustering and advanced backup and network capabilities. Therefore, it is really important to have a prope...

Nutanix is a cloud OS for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). It allows you to control from one place your entire IT infrastructure, with a simple interface and/or on smartphones. Nutanix is usually used as a private cloud infrastructure, where the ...

Virtualization is ubiquitous in the IT world. However, with the ever-increasing complexity, we are faced with the fact that our old tools are insufficient nowadays. That is why we need to accustom ourselves to diverse types of NetFlow configuration. ...

NetVizura already has good Active Directory End Users integration - you can forward your logs from AD DC into NetVizura, and then correlate these login data with NetFlow data from your exporters. The result is a much better insight into the state of ...

OPNsense is an open-source, FreeBSD-based firewall distro. It provides a modern GUI and numerous plugins. A great plus is its ease of use, in contrast to some other open-source firewalls in the past. Also, OPNsense is a fork of Pfsense (we ...