Amazon is continuously working on helping its customers design and operate a secure cloud environment and Amazon GuardDuty is the latest addition to the list of managed services that AWS offers. Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and … Continue reading Intelligent Threat Detection using Amazon GuardDuty
If you work in IT, then you have definitely observed an increased emphasis on security. The number of incidents involving security breaches has been increasing. If you aren't one of the big enterprises out there, then your business will definitely take a big hit from such a security incident. In general, you should always keep … Continue reading Deep Dive into vSphere VM Encryption
NetApp announced Cloud Volumes support for Google Cloud Platform this month, thus covering all three major public cloud providers in the market. Offering NetApp cloud volumes on Azure as Azure NetApp Files was a big highlight of 2017, back when I used to work at NetApp, so I can only imagine the excitement in the … Continue reading NetApp Cloud Volumes 101
Two weeks back I was attending Nutanix .NEXT in New Orleans. This was my first time at this event, and I was looking forward to learning more about what was Next from Nutanix. One of the things that caught my eye was their Beam announcement. Beam is the Nutanix name for BotMetric which was the reason … Continue reading Budgeting Multi-Cloud using Nutanix Beam
This is the second part of the two-part blog series around everything that you need to know about Azure Storage. In the first part, we looked at what Azure Storage is, And what are the different services that are part of Azure Storage. In this blog, we will focus on Replication, Encryption, Cost, Access Control … Continue reading Everything you need to know to about Azure Storage – Part 2
If you were looking for a one-stop shop to learn everything there is to learn about Microsoft Azure Storage, then look no further. You found it! You hit the jackpot! Now, let's get serious. In this two-part blog series, I have covered everything that you need to know from an Azure Storage perspective. What the different … Continue reading Everything you need to know to about Azure Storage – Part 1
Great, thanks for hanging in there, in part 1 we covered how you can deploy the Azure Stack Development Kit instance on a single node. In the second part, we will talk about how you can complete the post-installation steps and deploy your first test VM on the ASDK instance. Activate the Admin and Tenant … Continue reading Deploying Azure Stack Development Kit – Part II
This two-part blog series is a step by step guide on how to deploy an Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) instance with local authentication using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). This sounds great, but what is Azure Stack Development Kit?? ASDK is the first step that you should take when you are considering buying or … Continue reading Deploying Azure Stack Development Kit – Part I
This blog post will summarize the best practices and design considerations that you should keep in mind when deploying a vSAN cluster in your own datacenter
This week I spent some time reading about Microsoft Azure Stack, and one of the things that made me curious was the Storage Spaces Direct(S2D) technology. At first glance, it looks like a simple Software Defined Storage solution, but when I went deep, I found that it has a good range of resiliency and efficiency … Continue reading What is Storage Spaces Direct ??
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