AQ Insights
The Most Common Single Point of Failure in a Data Center
After over twenty years of working with customers in their data centers, I’ve seen virtually every piece of critical hardware be configured in some sort of redundant fashion to...
Components of a Valuable IT Workshop
Facilitated workshops are typically a powerful approach to solving problems, but not necessarily the end-all solution itself which can be broad and complex. Getting everyone in...
The Downside to Reliability
So many things in our life are reliable, that it can be very easy to take their presence and continued service for granted. I was starkly reminded of this a few weeks ago when,...
FedRAMP Container Security
On March 16, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) released supplemental requirements for vulnerability scanning of containers. FedRAMP provides a...
Understanding Kubernetes Architecture
In my previous blog posts, I've been talking about containers themselves quite a bit and touched on orchestration (how containers are managed). Let’s now dive a bit into...
Comparing VMs and Containers
In my last post, we described Virtual Machines (VM’s) and containers using real-world analogies of houses and apartments. In this post, we’ll continue to reference those...
Containers 101
In our Cloud Native Practice, we run workshops for our clients covering topics ranging from the basics of containers or the cloud to analyzing deployment processes and migration...
MTTD or MTTR, it all comes down to data
Pick your metric, Mean Time to Detect, Mean Time to Recover/Resolve… your choice. The key really is to detect early, resolve/recover quickly, and keep your customers happy. The...
Business Continuity, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and the Quest for Fire
There are recent articles, including a paper published in the scientific journal Nature discussing that Neanderthals could regularly start fires using flint. The movie, A Quest...
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