Category: Data Center

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

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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 In more recent versions of vSphere with Tanzu, the HAProxy functionality has been replaced by the NSX Advanced Load Balancer essentials edition included with Tanzu Basic licensing.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

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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.

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Looking forward: VMware® vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U3

By Nathan Bennett, Sterling Cloud Architect If you’ve ever been the administrator of a local data center or a data center for a business, you understand what it’s like to continually have more and more piled onto your plate. In a former job, I often had to manage automation tools

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Trading Technical Debt for Managed Services in the Cloud

A GovLoop interview with Billy Downing, Cloud Architect, Sterling     There’s no disputing the integral role technology plays in supporting nuanced government work. What is up for debate, however, is how much of that tech infrastructure agencies can and should maintain themselves. “Agencies are not in the business of

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SaltStack vRealized

by Nathan Bennett At the beginning of October, VMware acquired the company SaltStack. The VMware blog post about the purchase indicated that the reason for the acquisition was “to bolster Software Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation”. With products like VMware Cloud Foundation, vRealize Automation, and vRealize Operations, you might find

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