As enterprise infrastructure evolves toward highly automated, software-defined architectures, traditional perimeter-centric security models are increasingly ineffective at protecting against modern attack vectors. While organizations have invested heavily in securing north-south traffic flows, many environments still permit unrestricted east-west communication between…
This is part 1. Imagine a scenario where you deploy an application environment, and when you face a challenge with your environment or decide to upgrade a software component, you destroy it and redeploy it. I catch myself way too…
VMware HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension) is a software solution that enables organizations to migrate and extend their VMware-based workloads between data centers, on-premises data centers, and public cloud environments. HCX provides a seamless and secure way to extend the capabilities…
My last article focused on the high-level definition of Disaster Avoidance and Disaster Recovery. Both are essential terms for Data Center and Compute Infrastructure Architecture. Working in the manufacturing sector, I often hear we need an infrastructure to support our…
One of the purpose of a IT Department is to enable the organization to utilize technology to support business and to run business systems. Virtualization offers faster time to marked then physical servers and with the introduction of containers this…
The ports for RDP on Windows Servers and SSH for Linux are close to guaranteed to attempted to be hacked if you put a server with these protocols publicly exposed. So all design recommendations have always been not to add…
In on-premise networks, you (usually) control the cabling so you can decide where traffic can flow and which routers, switches, and network devices the traffic has to go through. In Public Clouds like Microsoft Azure, the physical network is out…
