Author: Reza Sheikh

Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform

As businesses shift towards more of a DevOps focused software development methodology, tools that help drive productivity and increase development efficiencies are becoming more and more essential to have. Some tools necessary when shifting methodologies towards DevOps include tools that support containers, microservices, continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD), reliability, monitoring, logging, security, infrastructure-as-code and…

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By Reza Sheikh January 29, 2021 Off

Integrate Your On-Premises Data Center Using AWS Storage Gateway

As more organizations take a hybrid cloud approach with a mix of both on-premises resources and some public cloud resources, it is becoming increasingly important to seamlessly bridge the two environments together. Whether organizations want to move their backups to the cloud or want to shift their on-premises storage to cloud-backed file shares or want…

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By Reza Sheikh August 19, 2020 0

Should You Back Up an Ultra-Redundant Object Storage Service? Absolutely!

Amazon Simple Storage Service, commonly known as “Amazon S3” or “S3” is praised across the industry as one of the most reliable, secure, scalable and highly-available public cloud storage services.  AWS themselves say: “Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% of data durability because it automatically creates and stores copies of all S3 objects across multiple…

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By Reza Sheikh March 3, 2020 Off

Cloud File Systems with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service

Businesses have been shifting more and more of their business-critical workloads and applications to the public cloud for various reasons including reliability, security, flexibility, lower costs, scalability and more. Although companies are transitioning towards the public cloud to take advantage of these benefits, many companies employ custom datacenter solutions with third-party vendors to fulfill their…

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By Reza Sheikh February 4, 2020 Off

Optimize Your Microservices Experience with Istio

Istio is an open source service mesh architecture, designed in partnership with Google, IBM, and Lyft, that provides a way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Although a microservices architecture is not a new concept, it brings many benefits to application developers. Some of these benefits include the freedom to work with different languages and…

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By Reza Sheikh July 13, 2018 0

Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Exam: A Guide to Success!

Amazon Web Services is one of the leading public cloud service providers across the industry. Knowing this, it would be invaluable to stay up to date with their services and increase your value through their certification program. Having an idea of which areas to focus on and which resources are the most helpful will help…

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By Reza Sheikh June 13, 2018 0

Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration with CloudEndure

CloudEndure is a SaaS company that provides solutions in both Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery. CloudEndure’s Live Migration assists organizations to migrate their applications to the cloud of their choice, with zero downtime and zero data loss. CloudEndure does this in the background with block-level continuous replication, allowing for no disruption to the business or…

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By Reza Sheikh May 2, 2018 0