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AWS Doubles the Compute Power of its Snowball Edge Device

Amazon may have been a bit late to the hybrid cloud party, but their latest Amazon Web Services announcements leave no doubt that it has become a big deal for them. This past October 2022, the company announced that they have essentially doubled the computing power of its Snowball Edge device. Snowball Edge is a…

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AWS Announces Amazon File Cache

Amazon File Cache, a new high-speed cache service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) was announced by Amazon in late September. This new AWS offering is designed for processing file data stored in the cloud and on-premises. “File Cache accelerates and simplifies your most demanding cloud bursting and hybrid workflows by giving your applications access to…

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How to Set Up Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Last Update: Oct 05, 2022

For organizations looking to use Amazon Web Services to get highly available storage for their Windows applications with full Server Message Block (SMB) support, AWS FSx for Windows File Server is the platform’s native option. Typical use cases are client-mapped drives, file shares for application integrations, and user home directories. In this guide, we’ll go…

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Amazon Workspaces Now Supports Ubuntu Virtual Desktops

Amazon WorkSpaces added support for Ubuntu-based virtual desktops last week. If you’re unfamiliar with WorkSpaces, it’s an Amazon Web Services solution that enables you to securely provision and distribute virtual desktops to your workforce. This can be useful for scenarios like securely enabling remote workers or quickly provisioning desktops for contractors. Previously, customers could only choose…

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Amazon Announces the Ability to Deploy EKS Clusters on AWS Outposts

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

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Should you Consider Backup-as-a-Service?

Last Update: Sep 21, 2022

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.

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Four Dangers of the Hybrid Cloud

Last Update: Sep 16, 2022

While the security and redundancy provided with hybrid cloud setups is clearly documented, it’s important to keep these risk-factors in mind as you design your new environment.

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The Hybrid Cloud Becomes the New Norm

Last Update: Sep 16, 2022

As businesses have been moving along the path toward modernization and digital transformation, there’s no doubt that they have been adopting the hybrid cloud in greater numbers.

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Taking a Look at Your Hybrid Cloud Storage Appliance Options

Last Update: Sep 16, 2022

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

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VMware Expands the Hybrid Cloud to Google

Last Update: Sep 16, 2022

This past July 2019, VMware added Google to their list of hybrid cloud partners that enable you to run vSphere Cloud Foundation in the public cloud. VMware has previously announced similar partnerships with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

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