An Introduction to AWS Security
AWS is an incredibly rich ecosystem of services and tools, some of which have security aspects baked in (like S3 SSE), and others that provide overarching security capabilities...
Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere 6.0
This paper will discuss how to (relatively) inexpensively setup a simulated lab environment using VMware (the latest version). This white paper is broken down into three...
Five Simple Symbols You Should Know to Unlock Your PowerShell Potential
Unless you know the meanings of the five symbols regularly used in PowerShell, they can obscure the purpose and actions of a PowerShell script. There will always be new...
Multicast Configuration Comparison of Cisco IOS and Nexus OS
While there are differences between the IP Multicast configuration in the IOS and the Nexus OS, the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) protocol remains fundamentally...
Backing Up Servers to the Microsoft Cloud
For cloud-based data backup, Microsoft Azure Backup is well suited for the ends of the company-size spectrum: small companies that don’t have many servers, and large...
How L.A. Metro Eliminated Performance Gridlock Using Flash Array Storage
With a population of nearly 10 million people, Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the United States. It’s no surprise that with 1.5 million people...