It is finally here! Veeam for Azure. Since it was announced at Ignite last year I have been waiting for this product to be released. Veeam for Azure provides a native backup solution for virtualized workloads on Azure. A Couple of weeks ago I wrote a blogpost looking at Azure native backup vs Veeam Backup […]
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Earlier today (16th of April) FHI together with Simula launched their new app SmitteStopp (referenced here –> https://helsenorge.no/smittestopp#Slik-virker-appen) here you can read more about how the application functions and also what kind of data it collects. Now I was curious how this was setup on the backend which is running in Microsoft Azure so I decided
Technical analysis of Smittestopp backend Azure Read More »
As I have highlighted in earlier articles which I have written –> https://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/tip/Whats-missing-in-Windows-Virtual-Desktop-management and what I presented a bit about in the MYCUGC webinar –> https://www.slideshare.net/mariussandbu/state-of-the-euc-2020-whats-new-in-enduser-computing Windows Virtual Desktop is missing some main features from its ecosystem, now since that post was written a couple of months ago a lot has happened. With most products that Microsoft creates
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Azure Security Center is constantly being enhanced with new functionality and resources as part of it. As part of Azure Security Center Standard Tier, we now have access to a new vulnerability solution powered by Qualys Cloud Service. This is essentially an extension which is installed on your virtual machines in Azure the extension communicates back
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This is an interesting topic, looking into what VMware is building when it comes to public cloud offerings. This blog post will look into the VMware offerings that the different public cloud vendors have in terms of IaaS based delivery VMware on AWS – This is a service that is built together by VMware and AWS
Building VMware on Public Cloud or using Cloud Native? Read More »
Today VMware released the new version of NSX-T, which is VMware’s software defined networking and security solution for datacenters and provides support for VM, Containers as well as BareMetal support. As part of this version 3 release, VMware introduced a bunch of new features so therefore I wanted to highlight some of the new features here,
What’s new in NSX-T v3 and what is NSX Intelligence? Read More »
So I decided to write this blogpost based upon that I’ve been working with a couple of clients which have had some difficult times after ransomware attacks. We have also seen an uprising when it comes to Ransomware attacks. There are some different attack vectors that are used to the “patient zero” but this is
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For a customer project I was working on a couple of issues came up with how to do backup of IaaS in Azure. First of was how we were to handle Disaster Recovery both on a Storage level and on Virtual Infrastructure secondly how to handle backup of virtual machines in Azure. Now my first
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A new dilemma that has come up the last couple of weeks with regards to COVID and more organizations now moving and starting to use public clouds to provide new solutions for employees to work from home, is the use of Disaster Recovery and public cloud. Now the title is a bit misleading, but looking
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In previous blog posts I’ve been writing a bit about the lack of image management options within WVD has (https://msandbu.org/bulding-vdi-solutions-in-microsoft-azure-and-now-with-windows-virtual-desktop/), so therefore we need to be creative in how to actually handle image management and updating. One of the options that I discuss in my post is the use of Packer. Packer is essentially is
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