Author: Michael Otey

The SolarWinds exploit was one of the biggest security breaches of the past year. There’s now no doubt that this cyberattack was the result of a very sophisticated effort. Microsoft estimated that it was the likely result of a 1000 engineers working on the creation of the malware. The attack worked by compromising SolarWinds’ software… Read More

In spite of the heavy winter weather and ongoing pandemic, Amazon continues to churn out an impressive set of enhancements for AWS. Here are some of the highlights from Amazon’s February 2021 AWS announcements. AWS Outposts support local snapshots To better enable businesses to meet their data residency and local data processing needs, Amazon announced… Read More

One of the biggest malware attacks in recent history was the SolarWinds exploit where malware was spread through SolarWinds’ software update process to thousands of government and private sector customers. SolarWinds is a well-known provider of IT management products and their Orion infrastructure monitoring and management platform was the product that was attacked. Automatic updates… Read More

Starting on Monday, November 30th, and running for the next three weeks, Amazon has launched its annual AWS re:Invent conference. In most years the conference spans several different properties in Las Vegas and runs over the course of a few days. Last year’s re:Invent conference had over 60,000 attendees. This year, like all of the… Read More

Most organizations have finally been convinced about the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their essential workloads. That’s due in a big part to the fact that almost everyone in IT is all too familiar with Murphy’s Law that states if something can go wrong it will go wrong and… Read More

First announced back in November 2018, this past September 30th,  2020 Amazon announced that AWS Timestream was generally available.

Like the VMWorld conferences in the past few years, VMworld 2020 was kicked off with a keynote by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Unlike past conferences, this year’s VMworld is entirely virtual.

Instead of performing your backup with your centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, BaaS connects your protected systems to a public cloud managed by the cloud provider or MSP.

Amazon has released their new Porting Assistant for .NET that’s designed to port Windows-specific .NET Framework code to the new cross-platform .NET Core.

Protecting your brand and your employees from phishing attacks is a critical first step to keeping your environment secure.

DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

AWS Outposts are essentially a hardware platform that runs on-premise but it is managed like the AWS cloud and they are now available with RDS support.

No code application building has long been the Holy Grail of app development. The idea behind no code development is to simplify the application development process to bring it within the capability of regular business users. No code development tools promise to reduce the complexity and costs of the application development process as well as… Read More

This post is sponsored by CoreView who offer a wide variety of security solutions for Office 365 Office 365 is one of the most commonly used applications in IT today. According to Microsoft, as of Q1 2020, Office 365 had reached 200 million monthly active users. Office 365 growth has remained constant at about 3… Read More

This past May, 2020 Amazon presented their AWS Summit - US and Canada with a keynote by their Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, and a collection of about 40 additional technical sessions. Amazon’s AWS Summit is a free online conference that is presented as a series of events in each of its major global regions. Like… Read More