Learn best practices for architecting fully available and scalable Microsoft solutions and environments on AWS. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage various AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, simplify architecture, provide scalability, introduce DevOps concepts, automation, and repeatability. Plan authentication and authorization, various hybrid scenarios with other cloud environment and on-premises […]
British Army Migrates Cloud Infrastructure to Red Hat Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible Tower by Red Hat help British Army improve consistency and simplify management Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the British Army has migrated its private cloud environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is using Ansible Tower by Red […]
Kim, Behr & Spafford’s The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win – Summary Book
This is a summary of Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford’s The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It’s Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company’s new IT initiative, […]
Microsoft Video: Brad Anderson’s Lunch Break / s5 e6 / Don Jones, Pluralsight – Part 2
Today, Brad wraps up his drive with Don Jones, the Curriculum Director at PluralSight. After covering what it’s like to be a jet mechanic and what Diet Coke and the Public Cloud have in common, they discuss the benefits of a DevOps approach to IT – e.g. how to fail fast, successfully avoid disaster, learn […]
Microsoft: Using Azure Stack to teach DevOps and IT skills
What to learn Azure but your institution cannot scale to provide Azure for all students? have you considered teaching with Azure Stack! Azure Stack is a stack of technologies Microsoft is designing for customers and partners to run in their own datacentres. Azure Stack includes “experiences” and programming interfaces that Microsoft offers via its own […]
Gartner Identifies the Top Technologies for Security in 2017
Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top technologies for information security and their implications for security organizations in 2017. Analysts presented their findings during the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, being held here through Thursday. “In 2017, the threat level to enterprise IT continues to be at very high levels, with daily accounts in the […]
Microsoft Announces Virtual Event: Azure OpenDev on June 21st
Whether it is to drive agility, develop new skills, or engage and scale through community, open source is at the core of how developers deliver value in a cloud world. I can clearly see this accelerating through my work on Microsoft Azure. Open source technologies are an integral part of our offerings, and we have […]
VMware: Gaining Insight Into AWS Workloads With vRNI 3.4
Enterprise IT needs visibility into the network and security status of their workloads, whether hosted on premises, or within AWS. While many AWS workloads are sandboxes for application development teams (DevOps), it is important to analyze these workloads. Increasingly, public cloud workloads are also fulfilling mission critical production needs for many organizations. Enterprise IT must […]
Microsoft Video: Brad Anderson’s Lunch Break / s5 e4 / Paul Thurrott – Part 2
In this episode, Brad wraps up his conversation with veteran tech journalist Paul Thurrott. They talk about what dictators and tech reporters may (or may not) have in common, as well as where software companies (Microsoft included) are still coming up short – and how a cloud-based architecture can help fix this. Paul also shares […]
VMware Rolls Out Major Update to vRealize Platform
VMware provides the tools that enable its customers to run any application, on any device, in any cloud. To advance its “any cloud” strategy, the company recently announced a major upgrade to its popular VMware™ vRealize™ cloud management platform (CMP), a control plane for managing a hybrid cloud environment. VMware’s latest updates add new functionality […]
