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• How cost and complexity factor into AWS DR strategies

  To choose the right AWS disaster recovery plan, understand how much downtime your business can tolerate -- and how DR scenarios affect your monthly costs. Continue Reading

• Compare KubeVirt vs. Virtlet for container, VM management

  KubeVirt and Virtlet unite VM and container management into one stack, but KubeVirt has more flexibility to tune VMs, whereas Virtlet boasts better integration with Kubernetes. Continue Reading

• Disaggregated HCI solves compute, storage, network scalability

  Despite the deployment and cost advantages of hyper-converged infrastructures, learn how disaggregated HCI can overcome compute, storage and network resource scalability issues. Continue Reading

• Avoid VM latency issues with VMware NUMA Observer

  NUMA Observer from VMware Labs helps admins identify VMs that have overlapping NUMA nodes and storage problems. Learn how the setup process can identify VM issues. Continue Reading

• Discover disaster recovery and backup for edge networks

  Proper backup and DR at the edge requires an awareness of the specific challenges edge devices present, and appropriate plans and tooling to help ease management. Continue Reading

• Improving open source software governance stature

  Open source governance is a vital part of a software project's maturity. Embrace these tools and tips to monitor open source security, use permissions and code quality.Continue Reading

• The role of sidecars in microservices architecture

  Sidecars can do a lot for microservices when it comes to communication with distributed application components, though they also present some precarious management challenges.Continue Reading

• How to develop a dependable regression testing strategy

  Haphazard code changes can quickly break any application. Learn what a successful regression testing strategy entails, including the necessary scope and test suite requirements.Continue Reading

• Deploy an information barrier policy for Microsoft Teams

  Mistakes happen, but can be costly when they involve compliance. Office 365 information barriers can prevent inadvertent sharing to protect the organization's sensitive data.Continue Reading

• How an AWS multi-region architecture can strengthen DR

  Meet AWS outages head on by learning how to build a multi-region architecture that achieves resiliency in the event of disaster.Continue Reading

• The basics of working with declarative programming languages

  While imperative programming is often a go-to, the declarative approach has proved useful in the face of demands for complex, feature-heavy business applications.Continue Reading

• How to secure NetOps initiatives using Agile methodology

  As more NetOps teams implement Agile methods, network and security testing must be part of a holistic approach that involves developers, networking and security teams working together.Continue Reading

• Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)

  The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an international standard that defines a functional interface that applications use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from cloud storage.Continue Reading

• Data center safety tips to protect staff

  Safety in the data center requires organizations to identify and address a variety of risk factors, from electrical systems to staff illness.Continue Reading

• What to look for in a green cloud storage provider

  Alongside cost and flexibility, a commitment to sustainability is a key consideration for organizations trying to choose a cloud storage provider.Continue Reading

• Micro apps vs. microservices: What developers should know

  On the surface, the contrast between micro apps and microservices simply seems a matter of front-end vs. back-end concerns. But this isn't the only difference worth knowing.Continue Reading

• How to approach cloud compliance monitoring

  Compliance monitoring is a critical practice. Learn how to build a cloud compliance monitoring strategy from application design and development to ongoing operations.Continue Reading

• Stay online with these 5 AWS disaster recovery best practices

  Solve disasters in an AWS deployment by having a disaster recovery strategy in place. Learn how to pick the right recovery methods and prevent more problems.Continue Reading

• Enable vSAN data-at-rest encryption for extra VM security

  Data-at-rest encryption secures data all the way down to the storage level. Increase VM security in a couple of steps and vSphere's built-in native key provider function.Continue Reading

• Business benefits of an Agile networking approach

  Enterprises that embed an Agile approach in their networking strategies could see benefits like better network performance, enhanced data security and faster rollouts of network services.Continue Reading

• Learn to adjust the AdminCount attribute in protected accounts

  It's critical to know how to change the settings for protected accounts and groups in Active Directory to avoid serious problems. PowerShell can make quick edits to keep order.Continue Reading

• Where requirements-based tests fit in software testing

  Requirements-based testing has its upsides and downsides, and it's not right for every software project. But certain dev teams should still adopt the method. Learn which ones.Continue Reading

• Deploy microservices with serverless functions

  Microservices enable IT teams to create flexible, uniform systems -- but what happens when IT teams use serverless functions for microservices? Discover the benefits and drawbacks.Continue Reading

• IBM IMS (Information Management System)

  IBM IMS (Information Management System) is a database and transaction management system that was first introduced by IBM in 1968.Continue Reading

• 11 key considerations prior to a data center upgrade

  When you upgrade your data center, know the 11 key steps you must take to ensure neat migrations, good availability, continued security and limited downtime.Continue Reading

• Build your knowledge of Azure AD conditional access policies

  The rapid pace of change in the modern workplace requires new methods to control who has access to what. This Azure Active Directory feature can help IT meet those security goals.Continue Reading

• Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor Aurora

  Application owners need to know the vital metrics that affect database health. CloudWatch and DevOps Guru monitor Amazon Aurora performance to give users valuable insights.Continue Reading

• DataOps vs. MLOps: Streamline your data operations

  How many Ops combos can we get? What's DataOps? How is it different from MLOps? This article clarifies the differences and how to choose one over the other.Continue Reading

• Develop an interactive DevOps runbook

  Runbooks are important for DevOps processes -- simple or complex -- but they can be a beast to write. Use this expansive guide for best practices and arrangement.Continue Reading

• The crucial role of test scenarios, especially in automation

  Test scenarios are often touted as a key part of effective software testing strategies. But what exactly do they do and how can teams ensure the ones they develop are effective?Continue Reading

• AI/ML in software testing, cross-platform testing benefits

  AI-powered cross-platform and cross-browser testing has both benefits and complications. Learn more about the role machine learning technologies can play in these QA processes.Continue Reading

• How can data centers support a remote workplace?

  Remote work presents a variety of challenges to businesses. Here's what an organization can do to provide adequate resources for its at-home workers and admins.Continue Reading

• 7 steps of an SD-WAN implementation

  Organizations interested in implementing SD-WAN need to collect site profiles and requirements, analyze their options, perform tests and evaluate the results.Continue Reading

• Paid and free Office 365 administration tools to consider

  Newcomers to Microsoft's cloud services can use the admin portal for most tasks, but you should investigate these options to reduce the work involved with tenant management.Continue Reading

• 6 strategies for better software project portfolio management

  When implemented correctly, software portfolio management can help enhance communication across multiple IT teams for better product delivery. Here are six ways to do it right.Continue Reading

• How to approach and instate automated IT documentation

  Automation can improve workflows, even when it comes to documentation. However, the process isn't foolproof. Here's what you need to know to get started.Continue Reading

• Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)

  Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) is an open protocol to control data backup and recovery communications between primary and secondary storage in a heterogeneous network environment.Continue Reading

• hierarchical storage management (HSM)

  Hierarchical storage management (HSM) is policy-based management of data files that uses storage media economically and without the user being aware of when files are retrieved from storage.Continue Reading

• Network security gets a boost in Windows Server 2022

  Secured-core server is a major new security feature in Windows Server 2022, but Microsoft also introduced multiple ways to keep network connections protected in its new server OS.Continue Reading

• The state of the PaaS business model and market in 2022

  PaaS fills the gap between IaaS and SaaS for developers and comes with its own benefits and challenges, which inform the PaaS business model and market.Continue Reading

• Manage your IT service contracts to save money

  IT contracts amount to paperwork, which IT staff members tend to hate. But it's critical to manage service contracts to prevent runaway bills -- and unused features carrying a price tag.Continue Reading

• An intro to using vRA Custom Resources

  VRealize Automation offers Custom Resources to enable a vRA user to create a variety of user objects to simplify management of those users.Continue Reading

• 3 best practices to achieve high availability in cloud computing

  High availability is the crucial test of whether a business can continue to access data and applications when things go wrong in a cloud-based IT infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Cloud resiliency: What it is and why it matters

  Cloud resiliency is critical to ensure IT services and resources can recover quickly -- and without data loss.Continue Reading

• Hybrid work requires enterprise Wi-Fi for the home

  Many offices are still closed, and employees continue to work in home environments. Wi-Fi 6 supports this model of work more so than any previous standard of wireless.Continue Reading

• Get started with ESXi Fling on Arm architecture

  Arm architecture brings benefits of energy efficiency as well as edge use cases. Read up on how to get the right ISO files and hardware to properly run ESXi Fling.Continue Reading

• How to choose the right DCIM tool for better configuration

  DCIM tools can ensure your data center runs efficiently by keeping track of hardware, software and the physical environment. Here's what you should consider before choosing one.Continue Reading

• Integrating zero-trust practices into private 5G networks

  One of the first steps in deploying a technology is protecting it from potential security threats. Learn how to secure a private 5G network with zero-trust security practices.Continue Reading

• Protect your data center from ransomware attacks

  Consider how best to protect your data center from ransomware attackers: Keep safe, air-gapped backups; consolidate your infrastructure and prioritize critical assets.Continue Reading

• Evaluate GPU vs. CPU for data analytics tasks

  As data analytics becomes more commonplace, you might wonder what processor best suits such complex tasks. The CPU and GPU specialize in different tasks but excel together.Continue Reading

• information lifecycle management (ILM)

  Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a comprehensive approach to managing an organization's data and associated metadata, starting with its creation and acquisition through when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading

• Apply policy-as-code best practices to reap benefits

  A spinoff of infrastructure as code, policy as code applies its core principles to policy management and implementation. Here's why -- and the best way -- to adopt it.Continue Reading

• Key differences in monolithic vs. microkernel architecture

  VMware's monolithic architecture keeps drivers in the hypervisor. Hyper-V's microkernel approach separates drivers from the hypervisor. Learn more about these two approaches.Continue Reading

• Discover the benefits of virtualization for ROBO

  Virtualization brings cost benefits and saves time for IT teams that oversee ROBOs. Effective implementation requires cloud-based management tools and enough network bandwidth.Continue Reading

• WebStorm vs. Visual Studio, and how to choose the right IDE

  WebStorm and Visual Studio represent two ends of a wide spectrum when it comes to the IDE platform market. However, their true differences go well beyond their pricing structures.Continue Reading

• Choose the best Docker image for the job at hand

  There are a lot of varied options for container images. And although that freedom of choice breeds flexibility, it can also make it easy to choose the wrong one.Continue Reading

• Hidden colocation cost drivers to look out for in 2022

  These unexpected charges and fees can balloon colocation costs for enterprise IT organizations.Continue Reading

• An introduction to DevOps on AWS

  Here's a breakdown of the AWS tools an organization can use to run DevOps practices, along with a quick tutorial that demonstrates how to use them to build a CI/CD pipeline.Continue Reading

• How to implement network segmentation for better security

  For a network segmentation strategy to be effective and improve security, network teams need to create detailed security policies, identify each resource and use allowlists.Continue Reading

• Implement these 4 Amazon CloudWatch Logs best practices

  To improve the reliability of their applications, AWS users might want to consider exporting log data to the cloud for analysis and pattern detection.Continue Reading

• Managed services benefits ease enterprise IT security woes

  At a time when threats to network and data security are on the rise, MSSPs can help overwhelmed enterprises confront cloud configuration, risk reduction and regulatory compliance.Continue Reading

• Why and how to hold a sprint retrospective meeting

  Software development teams can learn from past mistakes to streamline and improve processes. Retrospectives help them do just that.Continue Reading

• How to reduce the cost of Kubernetes

  Is your Kubernetes bill getting out of hand? Luckily, there are ways to reduce costs. Take these five steps to lower costs without losing functionality.Continue Reading

• Managed services IT support closes the cloud skills gap

  As businesses in the throes of digital transformation and cloud migration struggle to find and hire technically skilled IT professionals, MSP expertise can help fill the void.Continue Reading

• 3 best practices to manage SaaS subscriptions

  Seemingly simple tools -- such as spreadsheets and work calendars -- can go a long way in helping IT teams keep track of SaaS billing and contract renewals.Continue Reading

• Reduce data storage waste with planning, retention policies

  Delete unneeded data to ensure no data storage is wasted and to save both time and money. Use retention policies, data repositories and compliance as guides to get started.Continue Reading

• Testing automated Kubernetes deployments, a GitOps benefit

  GitOps and GitOps tooling may be your answer to the tricky, taxing problem that is testing Kubernetes environments. Explore why, how and what's necessary to perform GitOps testing.Continue Reading

• Windows Server 2022 storage features address security, speed

  Microsoft's release of Windows Server 2022 brings several notable updates to its storage and file services functionality to give new life to on-premises server systems.Continue Reading

• Foster health and safety in the post-pandemic data center

  Data centers adapted to a new set of circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic. As work and the pandemic continue to change, here's how data centers can continue to evolve.Continue Reading

• Explore 9 essential elements of network security

  Network security isn't a one-size-fits-all strategy. Dive into the various segments of network security, and learn how they overlap and interact with each other.Continue Reading

• Anywhere Operations infrastructure enables decentralized IT

  The pandemic forced companies into an abrupt hybrid workforce model. Anywhere Operations helps IT organizations support their workers, users and infrastructure -- wherever it is.Continue Reading

• Service delivery methods: The key to Anywhere Operations

  For Anywhere Operations success, businesses must focus on service delivery methods -- but it's not IT's decision. Business value must be the focus.Continue Reading

• IT systems management

  Systems management is the administration of the information technology (IT) systems in an enterprise network or data center.Continue Reading

• What you should consider when right-sizing a data center

  How does an organization decide the appropriate size and density for its data centers? Consider factors such as rack layout and available power first.Continue Reading

• Increase cloud visibility with these 4 best practices

  Cloud environments are complex and have many moving parts. Implement a cloud visibility strategy to track those moving parts and prevent cost, performance and security issues.Continue Reading

• Establish an effective ransomware playbook

  In an attack, an effective playbook offers IT teams a set of processes to identify compromised systems and alert the right individuals to recover the systems.Continue Reading

• Best options for video data storage include cloud, tape

  Video data storage presents some challenges, such as dealing with large file sizes and compliance. Here's what to consider when assessing storage options for video data.Continue Reading

• Get to know the Microsoft Teams retention policies

  Microsoft Teams retention policies can ensure that critical data is not accidentally deleted too early, and unnecessary data doesn't take up space longer than it needs to.Continue Reading

• 5 tips for primary storage ransomware protection

  Explore the steps storage administrators can take to safeguard against ransomware. Dive deep into tips on access control, vulnerabilities and storage monitoring.Continue Reading

• lights-out management (LOM)

  Lights-out management (LOM) is a form of out-of-band management.Continue Reading

• What unit test coverage percentage should teams aim for?

  Unit testing is frequently needed, but what amount? Learn how to determine the amount of unit test coverage you need, what code to focus on, how to measure coverage and more.Continue Reading

• Popular security best practices for hybrid cloud

  Combining a public cloud and an on-premises environment creates unfamiliar security challenges. Learn the main security issues in hybrid cloud and the ways to combat them.Continue Reading

• 5 centralized logging best practices for cloud admins

  Centralized logging -- particularly within hybrid and multi-cloud environments -- can boost an IT team's monitoring strategy and accelerate troubleshooting.Continue Reading

• Enable automation with a network digital twin

  Digital twin technology is a hot topic in IoT systems, but IT teams can also invest in digital twins to improve network visibility, plan for changes and enable automation.Continue Reading

• Monitor edge latency for IoT devices

  Latency in edge devices can have several sources, stemming from software, network issues or old hardware. Here's how you can monitor and troubleshoot latency at the edge.Continue Reading

• 10 DevSecOps metrics that actually measure success

  Knowing which metrics to monitor is a good place to start when measuring success. Here are the ones to collect, and what to do once you have them.Continue Reading

• Why you should plan to upgrade to Azure AD Connect v2 soon

  Administrators who rely on an Azure AD Connect v1 version for hybrid identity with Office 365 should prepare for the impending retirement of several technologies in the utility.Continue Reading

• Continuous integration principles and standards to implement

  Development and DevOps teams, abide by these best practices and standards to make your IT organization's continuous integration processes as effective as they can possibly be.Continue Reading

• Break down the Google Cloud resource hierarchy

  Admins can use Organizations, Folders, Projects and Resources to manage employee access within Google Cloud. But first, they must understand the distinctions between each level.Continue Reading

• How viable is open source service mesh?

  The open source vs. proprietary service mesh debate has a lot of gray area, and the best fit for an org might fall into that spectrum. Here's what to consider before you decide.Continue Reading

• VMware disaster recovery best practices for enhanced security

  VMware DR ensures your workloads remain secure and online in the event of a disaster. You can use best practices, such as periodic testing, to bolster your DR strategy.Continue Reading

• IT skills shortage opens chances for growth and diversity

  A lack of skilled employees can hurt business initiatives. To solve this IT skills gap will take commitments to meeting employee demands and dedication to learning.Continue Reading

• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

  Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of specifications from Microsoft for consolidating the management of devices and applications in a network from Windows computing systems.Continue Reading

• Start managing with these Microsoft Graph API features

  Microsoft Graph offers several administrative advantages when handling jobs on Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, but be aware of some potential trouble spots when employing this technology.Continue Reading

• Best practices for data center risk assessment

  Data centers contain risks such as height, environmental and electrical hazards. Keep your staff safe by assessing the level of risk and creating a comprehensive safety plan.Continue Reading

• Ensure VM security with VMware CDP integration

  CDP protects data in the case of a disaster -- an essential part of any security procedure. But CDP can introduce high throughputs, which can affect network performance.Continue Reading

• NSX virtual switch types enhance networking capabilities

  NSX-T supports both the N-VDS and VDS switches. But N-VDS requires its own network adapters, while VDS uses all network adapters from a single switch for all network types.Continue Reading

• Adapt ITSM workflows for modern IT needs

  To some, IT service management may have fallen out of favor -- especially as cloud computing and DevOps rose to prominence. Don't count out ITSM just yet.Continue Reading

• Follow these database testing basics for better data

  Data is typically a company's most valuable asset. The data should be treated as such, with vigorous, almost constant testing, regardless of its location.Continue Reading

• storage capacity planning

  Storage capacity planning is the practice of assessing current data storage needs and forecasting future storage requirements.Continue Reading