You picked the cloud because of the promises around VM availability. You deployed your data platform using availability groups to achieve the highest availability possible, but now you’re seeing outages – what’s going wrong?
Kevin McNamara
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Cyber Security Monthly News - February Summary 2019
Whether deliberately or through carelessness, fleshware continues to be a weak link for data security. That’s no excuse for not patching the software though.
Servers – Pets, Cattle – mince?
Pet servers are those servers you named, nurtured (loved?). Cattle servers are disposable, numbers only. When they are sick they are “…taken out back, shot, and replaced…”. Containers offer a new way to think about the services we’re delivering – processing our cattle-like servers into something we..
Recovering from Disaster - a five-point plan
Too often, a disaster recovery plan can look a little like it was put together by the underpants gnomes.
Phase 1: Take database backups
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Recovered from disaster
Starting with taking backups isn’t the worst idea (can’t say the same for collecting underpants), but this approach..