Microsoft's Azure blog has posted an announcement (Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure) about how they are managing VMware elements with Azure tools, as well as a full VMware…
Creating an Identity Management Server with Free-IPA
So it's time to upgrade some of the devices within the network here. But it would be really good to do it in the right order. Identity and access management…
SD-WAN: What are the business benefits?
What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides…
The Register: But… surely every day is world backup day?
The Register is reporting that today is the 7th World Backup Day. I'll bet you didn't know that. It is a good time to dust of the backup/restore procedure manual…
GTT to buy Hibernia Networks
GTT are to buy Hibernia Networks from Columbia Ventures Corporation for $590mn. This is made up of $515 million in cash and approximately 3.3 million shares of GTT common stock.…
IBM acquires Sanovi for Cloud DR Orchestration
IBM is acquiring disaster recovery orchestration specialist Sanovi. Based in Banglore, India, Sanovi created Sanovi Cloud Continuity, a platform providing automated backup, testing and DR. This has been used on…
The value in taking both paths at once
Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. Using both paths of an active/backup pair adds bandwidth. We've gone through a whole series of…
What is hybrid networking?
You'll start to hear the term Hybrid Networking bandied around shortly. Whilst hybrid can mean many things, in this case we are talking about Hybrid Network Unification. In this article,…