Author: mike
In this blog post, I take the new AWS FSx Storage Gateway for a test spin together with a set of Active Directory DNS Geo-Location policies for a seamless namespace for clients that attach to…
Python, Lambda, Layers & Rain Even though I’ve spent years architecting infrastructure, there are times I do miss software development. Not to date myself too much, but yes it was mostly in FORTRAN on a…
In my latest Hands On series, I take a look at Parallels RAS version 17.1 deployed on AWS infrastructure. I have been following this product since the acquision of 2X (which you will still find…
In my previous post (Hands On: N2WS Backup & Recovery) I took a look a some features of V3.1 of N2WS Backup & Recovery. I did show some of the nice features of the product,…
In this hands on series I take a spin with V3.1 of N2WS Backup & Recovery. You might ask, “Why do I need protection in the cloud, the cloud is already protected, right?”. One of…
I was recently given a problem set that involved the long term storage of Microsoft SQL backup files on AWS that should be stored using a “Write Once Read Many” (WORM) type of scenario. …
Setting up single sign-on (SSO) can be a confusing task. I’ve done it many times over the years with a number of SaaS providers and each one seems to be just a little bit different.…
A very common cloud workload is a Microsoft Windows File Server. The fantastic thing about the cloud is there is no shortage of options to fulfill this requirement, but which solution to choose? In this…
For most of my extracurricular cloud adventures, I subsist on AWS credits. I try to stay within the free tier as much as possible, but sometimes that is just not practical. I want to do…