In December of 2021, Kronos was attacked by ransomware. If you are not familiar with the company, Kronos is one of the largest Human Resources companies in the world, which means they have many, many clients that depend on their services. One thing they are known for in particular is payroll systems. As a result …
One question I answer on a regular basis “What is Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator?”. I thought I would take a little bit of time to set the stage and level set and give you an overview of what Orchestrator does. Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Under the Covers The first thing to understand is that Orchestrator …
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 …
The NSA has released specific guidance to system administrators in January of 2021. The recommendation is to eliminate obsolete Transport Layer Security (TLS) configurations. This is a very important reccomndation that every organization should take under advisement. Let’s take closer look at TLS and why this recommendation was made. What is transport layer security (TLS)? Transport …
I happen to have a background in both VMware vSphere design and disaster recovery, however these two things are not often talked about in tandem. In this guide, I’m going to walk you through some of the most important considerations when it comes to designing and building a vSphere based disaster recovery environment. I’ll also …
I’ve seen a several instances in the news talking about ransomware targeting ESXi servers. While it doesn’t surprise me much at all, it has been gaining a lot of attention. With the amount of environments that are virtualized today, the focus seems to be on recovery of virtual machines versus the recovery of the ESXi …