Michael Otey

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

This past July 2019, VMware added Google to their list of hybrid cloud partners that enable you to run vSphere Cloud Foundation in the public cloud. VMware has previously announced similar partnerships with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Hybrid cloud availability can be difficult because most businesses are running a mixture of many different technologies that all need to be available in order to support their business-critical applications. Availability in the hybrid cloud needs to begin at the design phase of your application infrastructure.

Amazon and VMware announced last week the general availability of the VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This new integration builds on the latest addition to the Amazon FSx family of fully-managed and highly-performant file systems that Amazon launched last year. For those unfamiliar, VMware Cloud on AWS provides the ability to…

If you can’t make it to this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 but you still want to learn more about Amazon Web Services, you might consider attending this year’s AWS Innovate conference. Unlike AWS re:Invent, which is an in-person event (and is also a bit pricy), AWS…

The AWS re:Invent 2022 conference is the main AWS technical conference that’s put on by Amazon this year. Unlike most recent tech conferences which have been virtual, this year’s AWS re:Invent 2022 will be an in-person event in Las Vegas from November 28 to December 2. Attended by approximately 50,000 to 60,000 IT professionals, AWS…

VB.NET is a Windows-only technology. So, moving these applications to other platforms can be difficult. But Amazon has come to the rescue with its new AWS Porting Assistant. Over the years a lot of businesses have developed all sorts of applications in VB.NET. And today, many of them are looking for ways to modernize these…

Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

This past July 6, 2022, Amazon announced the release of two new technologies that enable the streamlined deployment of .NET applications on Amazon Web Services. The new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio as well as the new AWS Deploy Tool for the .NET CLI enable you to get your .NET application up and running in…

As we head into the new year, here are the hybrid cloud trends that we expect to see in 2019.