Today I want to take a good long look at one of my favorite topics, disaster recovery, and how it relates to one of my least favorite topics, the cloud (you can see why I hate the cloud here). For today’s purposes, when I say cloud I generally mean the hyperscaler public clouds such as …
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I hate the cloud. There, I said it. Do I have your attention now? Yes, yes, I know, I’m supposed to love the cloud like everyone else who read about it in CIO Magazine over a decade ago, especially with my background in virtualization. Sorry, but I don’t. I hate the cloud for three main …
While Cloud Computing is easily one of the biggest trends in the information technology industry today, it can be intimidating for those investigating it for the first time, especially when it comes to the beloved workloads they are looking to possibly move to the cloud. Today we are going to focus on an important aspect …
Moving to the cloud means organizations no longer need to manage as much infrastructure as they did before. While they do need to manage workloads and applications, they are out of the day to day operational game of managing things like compute, network, and storage hardware when they move to the cloud. However, this doesn’t …
As part of #vDM30in30 Eric Wright wrote a great article on reducing technical debt, which got me thinking quite a bit. Mainly about automation, and the journey it takes to get there. Here’s a couple more ideas on how to get you started on the journey if you haven’t already begun. (Mission Control at NASA …
Ever wished you didn’t actually have to have your data reside in Amazon, or maybe had a business case that just wouldn’t let it happen? Or maybe, you do want some of your data there, because it is part of your strategy for production, development, or backup and recovery. Perhaps you wish you could manage …