Cloud Design Goals
Backup and Recovery Use Cases Overview
Backup and Recovery is an important part of IT resilience. Application and Platform owners need to work together to provide automation and tooling to allow us …
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Cloud Design GoalsSurviving Ransomware attacks
Understanding infrastructure ransomware Ransomware is a type of malware that targets anything it can get into — including backups — to steal or loc…
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Data3-2-1-1 and Backing up Critical Data
What Is the 3-2-1 Backup Rule? The 3-2-1 backup rule refers to a tried-and-tested approach to data retention and storage: Keep at least three (3) copies of dat…
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Storage and Backup as ServicesBackup and Recovery, the 3-2-1 (-1) Model
The 3-2-1 backup is a reliable recovery methodology for ensuring that data is protected adequately, and backup copies of the data are available when needed. Th…
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AWS TechnologyReducing AWS Latency (some ideas)
An estimated 93 percent of businesses rely on AWS to some degree, while small- to mid-sized businesses claim to run 41 percent of significant workloads on the …
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Vulnerability and Security Scanning
Cloud Vulnerability Scanning can be defined as a process of identifying security risks in Cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Cloud Vulnerability Scan…
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Application TransformationGoogle apigee implementation
Provisioning overview (source) During provisioning, components are configured and created that allow bidirectional communication between a virtual private clou…
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Application TransformationGoogle apigee, overview and architecture
Source Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade for your backen…
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AWS TechnologyService Mesh, Security and High Availability
What are they? Backend cloud services are the operations and routines end users don’t see but are essential to provide resilience and secure access to ba…
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Application TransformationResiliency and High Availability in the Cloud, some key principles
Resiliency in the Cloud is composed of many areas including: Failover (instances, servers) High Availability (multi-zones, regions) Backup Disaster Recovery (p…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAutomate VM Provisioning and De-Provisioning, basic flows (with VMware)
Automating the provisioning of Virtual Machines includes using a SaaS or platform such as ServiceNow (ITSM), a CMDB (configuration management database), APIs, …
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Cloud Design GoalsMainframe Virtualisation and the Cloudy
Many large firms, especially Banks and Financial Institutions are moving to a Mainframe-Multi Cloud model of computing. This is a long term effort still in tra…
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