Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIf you jumped to the cloud at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, without much long-term planning, take some time now to evaluate your current cloud strategy. By Chris Tozzi The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, and it’s easy to see why. Cloud platforms add flexibility and reliability, which are valuable assets in unpredictable times. They also
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile network security focuses on solely protecting networks, cloud security provides protection for networks, servers, containers, apps and more. By Andrew Froehlich Cloud computing has been around for a while, but confusion still surrounds the correct meaning of certain terms. An example of this is differentiating between cloud security vs. network security. First, let’s look at the term network security to understand
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs cloud services and practices mature, it might be time to rethink some long-held assumptions about the private and public cloud models. By Chris Tozzi, Fixate IO Conventional wisdom holds that private clouds are better for workloads that have high compliance or security needs. Public cloud, meanwhile, is said to be ideal for almost anything else. That logic no longer applies
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesErasure coding has come to prominence with its use in object storage and, by extension, in the cloud. We run the rule over its pros and cons vs RAID data protection. By Stephen Pritchard Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSince the Covid-19 pandemic began, a large number of people outside the technology sector who have chosen to move jobs are now considering a tech career, according to CWJobs. By Clare McDonald The job board found that more than half of the non-tech workers they asked who are looking for a career shift are now thinking about, or in the
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLearn how load balancing in the cloud differs from a traditional network traffic distribution, and explore the different services available from AWS, Google and Microsoft. By Stephen J. Bigelow Load balancing is the process of distributing network traffic across two or more instances of a workload. IT teams use load balancing to ensure each instance performs at peak efficiency, without
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to assess a variety of aspects of their desktop environment, including hardware, resource use and more. By Robert Sheldon The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit can help administrators with inventory work and IT infrastructure assessments. At the heart of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is the MAP application, which collects data
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWindow Server 2019 showed fewer new features than first expected, but Hyper-V admins can benefit from improved support for shielded VMs and the new Admin Center feature. By Brien Posey Unlike some of the more recent Hyper-V releases, such as Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V 2019 includes relatively few new features. Even so, some of the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIf administrators want to get the most from Windows Server 2019 features, they should familiarize themselves with this cheat sheet of the improvements Microsoft has made. By Kristen Gloss Microsoft constantly develops new tools and features to upgrade Windows Servers, but IT administrators have to do their research to stay up to date. Windows Server 2019 offers capabilities, including machine
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhile there are several ways to test new updates on virtual machines, Hyper-V enables desktop administrators to add multiple VMs to a single desktop and run tests. By Gary Olsen IT staff often need to replicate user problems or new software updates in a lab setting to identify potential issues. In the past, this required a significant amount of hardware
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