Can SD-WAN really help organizations accelerate cloud adoption? Can SD-WAN technology end the dependence on costly hardware and instead focus on being truly software defined? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the recent announcement of CloudBlades from CloudGenix and how it looks to help professionals leverage cloud software at the network edge.
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Google Cloud Outage Provides Teachable Moment
Google Cloud’s recent outage offers system and application architects a teachable moment to illustrate how to better prepare your organization for such failures.
Using SD-WAN As A Cloud Migration Strategy
Disruption is a part of IT no matter how big or small. Cloud is a major driver of disruption today. How can you leverage SD-WAN to make your cloud migration a bit more successful while minimizing disruption? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how Cisco Viptela can help.
The Cloud is Going to Disappear – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
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Today’s episode considers if people want cloud, or what the cloud actually does. In this case, we’re looking at if a focus on providing services will eventually make the cloud irrelevant, since people don’t really care about it. Or have the cloud providers created sufficient value-add services to solve business problems that make the cloud itself relevant, not just API-driven functions.
NSX-T Is Transformative For The Future of VMware
NSX-T 2.4 is out and the feature list is impressive. But it’s the feature that isn’t listed that has Tom Hollingsworth excited. Read on to learn why NSX-T is the vehicle that will power VMware success in the future.
Virtual Workload Microsegementation with ShieldX
How can you protect your virtual workloads in the cloud? Or your east/west traffic flows between hosts behind a perimeter firewall? Tom Hollingsworth talked to ShieldX about how they’re able to microsegement the traffic flows between your virtual workloads.
The Turmoil Of The Cloud
How is cloud adoption proceeding for your teams? How involved are your infrastructure teams when it comes to cloud deployments? Tom Hollingsworth analyzes a report from Veriflow that talks about how the cloud isn’t quite as awesome as people would be led to believe.
Using Identity To Secure Workloads with Aporeto
Managing infrastructure is hard enough. But in today’s world of cloud computing it can be tough to manage constructs that live for seconds instead of persisting. How can you keep a handle on it all. Confidentially, the best way is with Aporeto. Tom Hollingsworth discusses the power of identity management for workloads in this post.
Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Store Makes Sense as Hybrid Clouds Proliferate
The past few years, we’ve seen the rise of hybrid cloud as more organizations realize that they don’t need to make a decision to use either public or private cloud, but can make a decision about which to use based on specific application needs.
Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive – A Fresh Review of NSX
Tom Hollingsworth is back from the Virtual Cloud Network Deep Dive and he shares his thoughts about why VMware NSX is becoming a powerful tool for all parts of the data center, from networking to security.