Category: Data Center

Windows 365 Government in General Availability

By Davina Armstrong-Cruz  Senior Technical Architect, Sterling Master Specialist – Digital Workspace If you haven’t heard of Windows 365 yet, then you’re missing out. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that provides the power of a Microsoft Azure Cloud-PC, at a convenient subscription price. Windows 365 has been available for the

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VMware Explore 2022: New Solutions to Explore

By Nathan Bennett, Cloud Architect, Sterling As I said in my blogpost last week ( https://bit.ly/3cy3adA ), I was fortunate to attend some pre-Explore 2022 webinars and hear the announcements that VMware was going to make around their new compute, storage, networking, and cloud offerings. If you tune in to

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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

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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.

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Distributed Security with NSX -T, Part 2

By Billy Downing, Sterling Cloud Architect . Make sure to read Part 1 of this blog. . . NSX-T Distributed Security Detecting Log4j Attacks . As we discussed previously, there are tremendous benefits to not only defining network policy in software and shifting complexity to centralized controllers for a single

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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

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Modern Operations: Running on G.A.S.

by Nathan Bennett, Sterling Cloud Architect I’m adopting the acronym GAS to speak to the three requirements for a functioning enterprise infrastructure. The G is for Governance. This speaks to an enterprise’s ability to manage changes to its tech environment in a defined way, with authorizations and proper documentation in

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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

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