An Early Access Look at VMware Explore: vSphere and vSAN
By Nathan Bennett, Cloud Architect, Sterling I recently had the chance to take part in some first-look webinars leading up to VMware Explore 2022. The sessions were built around new solutions within the VMware portfolio, including in compute, storage, networking, and the cloud. Our group was privileged to be among the first to hear announcements […]
Toward zero days of cyber exploits
By Davina Armstrong-Cruz The modern workforce has changed in many ways over the years: from how we access data, to what devices we use, to perhaps the biggest change—the priority we must give to cybersecurity. Over the past several years, zero-day exploits and other cyberattacks have increased across all industries. Factors that may heighten security […]
Distributed Security with NSX -T, Part 1
By Billy Downing, Sterling Cloud Architect . Security is no longer implemented as an afterthought of the deployment of an IT environment. It is no longer tacked on in the hopes of avoiding some cyberthreat. In an era rife with cybercrime, we must give cybersecurity primacy. . In today’s tech environments, within public or private […]
VMware Horizon Cloud – The Universal Console and The Universal Broker
by Davina Armstrong-Cruz Sterling Senior Technical Architect and Master Specialist – Digital Workspace In our most recent Sterling blogs, we briefly touched on VMware’s Horizon and Horizon Cloud. Let’s take a closer look now at Horizon Cloud and see how it can benefit any company with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) presence. Horizon Cloud offers […]
The Hybrid Workforce is Here to Stay, Part 2: Modern Management
by Davina Armstrong-Cruz Sterling Senior Technical Architect and Master Specialist – Digital Workspace As we were saying in our recent Pt. 1 of this blog [ https://sterling.com/the-hybrid-workforce-is-here-to-stay-part-1/ ]: The ‘work anywhere’ workforce gained traction with urgency during the pandemic, as people decamped to home or other off-site locations and discovered they needed more flexibility […]
The Hybrid Workforce is Here to Stay – Part 1
By Davina Armstrong-Cruz, Sterling Senior Technical Architect Master Specialist – Digital Workspace End User Computing (EUC) has been around for years, but has been rebranded to reflect the modern age, such as ‘Anywhere Workspace’ and ‘Modern Workplace.’ In the end, all of these encompass user access to enterprise applications and data, anywhere and anytime. EUC […]
vSphere with Tanzu: The fastest route to a modern infrastructure
Update note, Nov. 8, 2021 – This blog post was originally written for vSphere update 1. In more recent versions of vSphere with Tanzu, the HAProxy functionality has been replaced by the NSX Advanced Load Balancer essentials edition included with Tanzu Basic licensing. Using Octant to observe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters on vSphere with Tanzu […]
Sterling Achieves VMware Master Services Competency in Cloud Native
NORTH SIOUX CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA (November 1, 2021) — Sterling announces that it has successfully achieved Cloud Native VMware Master Services Competency. This competency demonstrates that Sterling is committed to helping organizations accelerate their digital transformations by leveraging their validated services delivery capabilities around advanced VMware technologies. “Sterling is committed to VMware’s forward-thinking strategy […]
Top Ten Reasons to Choose Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
Cyberattacks endanger data-driven businesses – and today all businesses are data driven Dedicated hardened digital vault with physical and operational air gap Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery has a secure digital vault that is physically and logically isolated from the product and backup network with an operational air gap. Critical data is protected within […]
VMware ‘Goes Native’ with Cloud: A Look at VMware’s Fall 2021 Product Announcements Pt. 3: VMware vRealize Cloud Automation, Logging, and Networking
By Nathan Bennett, Sterling Cloud Architect My previous blog was part one in a two-part series reviewing VMware announcements ahead of VMworld 2021. In that first part, I focused solely on management. Here in part two, I look at other announcements in VMware’s product lines, and I’m focusing on automation, logging, and networking. […]