Read on: Microsoft Azure for Beginners: Understanding Azure Terminologies – Part 1 Microsoft Azure for Beginners: How to Create an Azure Virtual Machine – Part 2 Microsoft Azure for Beginners: What is Azure Governance – Part 3 Microsoft Azure for Beginners: What is Azure PaaS – Part 4 In the recent “Azure for Beginners” series, we covered the basic principles of Azure. In this article, I take a closer look at the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. What is Azure Cloud Adoption Framework? The Cloud Adoption Framework consists of proven guidelines and best practices that help use Azure ..read more

Read on: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Overview of Hyper-V – Part 1 Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V Using Server Manager – Part 2 Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V with PowerShell – Part 3 Read More Introduction One of the key capabilities of Microsoft Hyper-V cluster hosts running in a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) configuration is the ability to run virtual machines as a highly available role. Running virtual machines as a clustered role provides high availability for the virtual machine so tha ..read more

Read on: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Overview of Hyper-V – Part 1 Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V Using Server Manager – Part 2 Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How to Install Microsoft Hyper-V with PowerShell – Part 3 Read More One of the most compelling features of virtualization is the ability to transfer virtual machines from one physical host to another with no downtime for the virtual machine. The migration and portability of virtual machines have been a paradigm shift in maintenance operations, patching physical server hosts, a ..read more

Read on: AWS for Beginners: Understanding AWS Terminologies: Part 1 AWS for Beginners: What is AWS EC2: Part 2 AWS for Beginners: AWS Compute Services: Part 3 AWS for Beginners: How to Protect AWS Security Tools: Part 4 AWS for Beginners: What is IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Best Practices: Part 5 AWS for Beginners: Provisioning IAM Users and Programmatic Access in AWS: Part 6 AWS for Beginners: Securing Root account using MFA: Part 7 AWS for Beginners: Amazon S3 Overview, Security and Best Practices : Part 8 AWS for Beginners: Creating and managing IAM groups: Part 9 AWS for Begin ..read more

As the holiday season approaches, it’s time to start getting ready for the most wonderful time of the year! With Christmas and New Year’s Eve just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to start planning your celebrations and making the most of this special time of year. BDRSuite: A Quick Summary Selecting the right software is crucial for a successful BDR plan, and BDRSuite offers a range of essential features that make it a reliable choice for businesses of all sizes, including small, medium, and enterprise-level companies. These features include near continuous data protection, automatic ..read more

To recap where I began… In the first part of this blog post, I provided an overview of how the notion of bare metal has evolved over the years – from on-premises to cloud, and from non-shared, single-tenant dedicated hardware consumed privately to a highly redundant, high-performance, flexible and multi-tenant capable hardware as a service shared in the public cloud. It is hardly surprising that while the legacy view of dedicated “bare metal” is still around in an evolved form, now other iterations have spawned off (and thus confusion) such as Cloud IaaS and legacy dedicated hosts. What can le ..read more

EBS, EFS, FSx, and S3 are all storage solutions offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we will discuss these storage solutions in detail along with their differences. EBS stands for Elastic Block Store and is a block-level storage option for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances EFS stands for Elastic File System and is a file-level storage option for use with AWS Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is an object-level storage option that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of da ..read more

Read on: AWS for Beginners: Understanding AWS Terminologies: Part 1 AWS for Beginners: What is AWS EC2: Part 2 AWS for Beginners: AWS Compute Services: Part 3 AWS for Beginners: How to Protect AWS Security Tools: Part 4 AWS for Beginners: What is IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Best Practices: Part 5 AWS for Beginners: Provisioning IAM Users and Programmatic Access in AWS: Part 6 AWS for Beginners: Securing Root account using MFA: Part 7 AWS for Beginners: Amazon S3 Overview, Security and Best Practices: Part 8 AWS for Beginners: Creating and managing IAM groups: Part 9 AWS for Beginn ..read more

As you have probably noticed, over the last few years, software vendors have been pushing cloud subscription a lot more heavily than on-premise licenses. We first had the example of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2022 announcement which removed the free Hyper-V edition, making managing your on-premise infrastructure in the cloud with Azure Stack HCI the only available method. Companies are all jumping on that train because it brings them recurring revenue which is a lot safer than big one-shot licenses that will be dragged on for as long as possible (CAPEX vs OPEX). Granted these still require mai ..read more

Introduction: BDRSuite is a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution that enables organizations to protect their critical data and systems. Recently, BDRSuite has announced support for Scality storage as a backup repository, allowing users to store their backups on Scality’s highly scalable and reliable object storage platform. About Scality: Scality is a leading provider of software-defined storage solutions that help businesses store, manage, and protect their data. Its object storage platform is designed to handle large volumes of data with high reliability and performance. Recog ..read more