Moving workloads to a cloud provider presents a fundamental shift in the way security is handled for most organizations. The transition from being responsible for security for the entire stack in an on-premise DC to the shared responsibility model in a cloud environment is an area where security and operations teams need to pay closeContinue reading “Security and Compliance in the IBM Cloud – Posture Management”
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How to get private connectivity into a Public Cloud
Deploying highly available web servers in a VPC on IBM Cloud
I frequently get a lot of questions on how to go about setting up a VPC in IBM Cloud so I decided to make a video out of it. In the video below I step through how to create a VPC, how to deploy 3 Virtual Server Instances across multiple Availability Zones to run ApacheContinue reading “Deploying highly available web servers in a VPC on IBM Cloud”
IBM Cloud – Classic vs VPC Networks
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I needed to create a squid proxy server to get access to the internet from a server in my IBM Cloud Classic private network. What I want to do in this post is dive a bit deeper into the Classic network architecture and how that compares toContinue reading “IBM Cloud – Classic vs VPC Networks”
Setting up a Squid Proxy on Centos 8 in IBM Cloud
Squid is an open-source proxy server that can support a wide variety of protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS. One of its uses is as a cache in front of large websites to accelerate the delivery of content. In my use case I used it as a forward proxy for outgoing HTTP requests to theContinue reading “Setting up a Squid Proxy on Centos 8 in IBM Cloud”
Does vSphere have a place in your public cloud strategy?
Now I know what some of you may be thinking, if you are going to move workloads to a public cloud, why would you need vSphere anymore? Today I will give you a few reasons to consider VMware vSphere as part of your cloud strategy. Server virtualization, may not be the hot technology that everyoneContinue reading “Does vSphere have a place in your public cloud strategy?”
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