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03 November 2023
How You Know a Workload Has Outgrown the Cloud
Cloud costs can get out of control, often driven by business growth. Some cloud workloads have much to gain from an infrastructure rethink.
19 September 2023
Quick Wins to Harden Your Security Now
These steps can be taken to quickly tighten overall security posture and lay the groundwork for bigger security initiatives down the line.
28 July 2023
An Update On the AMD Zen 2 CPU Vulnerability
While hardware vendors are working to release updated firmware and fix the bug, workarounds can be applied.
13 April 2023
How We Fixed Our Users’ Networks When Submarine Cables Broke
A straight-forward backbone BGP configuration change would reroute customers’ traffic. And it did, but not without things getting weird first.
04 April 2023
Simplifying Your Bill for Private Connections to the Cloud and Beyond
Networking can get complex. Paying for it shouldn’t be.
28 March 2023
How We Navigated a Topsy-Turvy Supply Chain
Armed with robust data, careful planning, tight relationships and
a lot
of creative problem solving, we ensure that we have the servers and switches when and where we need them.
31 January 2022
The Network of the Future Calls for a New Kind of Network Engineer
Why network ops as we know it doesn’t cut it in the world of interconnected clouds, which requires full network automation.
14 December 2021
Make It Go Faster! (Part 2) Accelerating VMware vSphere Deployment On Bare Metal
How we collapsed, reduced, and deduplicated the deployment, replacing many fragile processes with a much simpler and less error-prone one.
07 December 2021
How to Stand Up a Global AI Cloud Service in a Matter of Months
Trying before buying is tricky for highly specialized AI infrastructure. One way to do it is by offering it as a cloud service. But first, you need to build a cloud.
26 October 2021
‘There Will Never Be an End.’ Mandiant’s Nadean Tanner on Infosec
Infosec will always be a moving target, and the only consistent defense strategy is “hyper awareness.”
19 October 2021
You Know Who’s Best at Backups? Ransomware Survivors
Charlie Lane, a professional cybersecurity geek, in conversation with Grace Andrews about ransomware and enterprise security in general.
04 August 2021
Five Lessons from Deploying 25 Sites across 18 Metros in 14 Months...During a Pandemic!
Building anything physical during the last year and a half has been a challenge, but looking on the bright side, the challenges we faced made us a better and more creative team.
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