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Enterprise SD-WAN deployments will see big jumps in the use of SASE and AI over the next few years, predicts research firm Gartner.
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"Overall, there's not really a huge number of new features, and what there is, isn't all available for your traditional on-premises Windows Server," says our hands-on review expert, Paul Schnackenburg.
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"A ransomware attack for your organization is not the same as traditional DR; it's not like you just press the big button and get yourself out of it."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton decides to set up and test the network between a VM and the outside world after previously detailing the Oracle Cloud's "Always Free" offering and using VMs as a web server.
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"If you can get away with it, use microservices as your preferred architecture," advised DevOps application security expert Carlos Rivas in an online presentation last week.
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Finding no one-stop-shop for a list of initial access vulnerabilities used by ransomware attackers, cybersecurity expert and Virtualization & Cloud Review tech event presenter Allan Liska started one on his own and crowdsourced the effort on Twitter.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details the web server work he did in his experiment to use an "Always Free" Ubuntu 18.04 VM on Oracle Cloud to host a small web site.
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is now incubating Crossplane, an open source project providing a Kubernetes add-on that acts as a universal control plane with which enterprises can consume infrastructure.
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Research firm Dell'Oro Group said Cisco retained its market share lead in the SD-WAN space, but there was some movement among the rest of the top five vendors in its latest quarterly report.
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By Tom Fenton
To get a feel for the Oracle Cloud, Tom Fenton shows how easy it is to sign up for and create a web site on an x86 VM and a desktop on an Arm VM, here using the "Always Free" option.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton sneakily works around his 5-item limit to showcase even more goodies you need to check out in what might be the first big post-pandemic tech show allowing the option of in-person attendance.
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Brien Posey explains the process, which can help you to better manage data growth and the corresponding cost, along with providing other benefits.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware makes it possible to launch the Horizon client from the command line and specify the desired screen resolution.
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Two key ways to protect cloud data from ransomware and other attacks are to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and "don't trust anyone or anything," says cloud data protection expert Joey D'Antoni.
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By Tom Fenton
Multimedia redirection can greatly increase the number of virtual desktops your VDI hosts can accommodate and lower the cost of your VDI environment.
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Microsoft is previewing a new enterprise Java service for its Azure cloud platform, powered by VMware Tanzu components.
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Primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Lightsail now can used as a container hosting platform.
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'Azure Lighthouse changed the game for managed service offers for Azure, and I think this new service will do the same for M365.'
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Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform.
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"Given that the cloud holds a seemingly endless amount of computing power, hackers have a clear motive in stealing computing resources to run their cryptocurrency mining activities."
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Brien Posey shows how to use the EBS Lifecycle Manager in the AWS cloud to build automated lifecycle policies for your EBS snapshots and avoid money-wasting proliferation.
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Microsoft is increasingly banking on the Zero Trust security model to combat an exploding ransomware threat.
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By Tom Fenton
From Project Monterey to the future of VM provisioning (Kubernetes), Tom Fenton shares the top five technologies he's interested in learning more about during the online-only VMworld event in October.
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"Regrettably, we should expect a public cloud to be commandeered to launch a systemic ransomware attack this fall."
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Challenges cited by global SD-WAN operators include workforce health protection, tracking the shift back from remote to office environments, service disconnects due to business closures, and supply chain disruptions.