This week, I’m in Jakarta to support AWS User Group Indonesia and AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. Yesterday, I attended a community event – a collaboration between AWS User Group Indonesia and Hacktiv8 with “Innovating Yourself as Early-Stage Developers” as the main theme. We had a blast and I had a wonderful time connecting with speakers and …
Is your organization one of the 85% that suffered a ransomware attack in the last year? Ransomware attacks are increasing in both frequency and intensity. Leading data protection provider, Veeam, states that based on their research, ransomware is increasing at approximately 12% year-over-year — so soon, nearly every business will have been targeted by a …
The Top 5 Benefits of Automating Your Cybersecurity Plan Read More »
Welcome to the final segment of our three-part blog series where we evaluate how Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 aligns with Gartner’s recommendations for Microsoft 365 data protection and Microsoft’s Shared Responsibility Model. In case you missed our first two segments: Gartner’s Considerations for Microsoft 365: Gartner highlighted five major risks that organizations need to …
Assessing Veeam Backup Regarding Gartner’s Considerations for Microsoft 365 Read More »
Cloud computing has become ubiquitous and has reached the point where nearly half of all workloads run in the cloud. Currently, most organizations operate a combination of on-premise and cloud workloads, known as a hybrid cloud. Typically, they keep key services within their data centers and use the cloud for customer-facing services, software applications and …
Best Practices for Secure Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Backup Read More »
Starting today, Swift developers who write code for Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, or visionOS) or for Swift applications running on the server side can use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their package dependencies. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools such as Xcode, xcodebuild, and the Swift Package Manager (the swift …
New – Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact Read More »
In the dynamic world of data security, certifications are the cornerstone of trust, assuring a product’s resilience against potential threats. The recent attainment of Common Criteria (CC) certification by Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE v12 from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) and listing on the NIAP Product Compliant List (PCL) signifies a …
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances. These instances deliver up to 35 percent faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms. New EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances are powered by Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini computers featuring 12 core …
New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers Read More »
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to regulate access to storage for a compute or database cluster, ensuring that just one host in the cluster has permission to write to the …
New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes Read More »
While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! …
The fact that organizations need to backup their Microsoft 365 deployments has been well established. Microsoft is based on a shared responsibility model in which Microsoft is responsible for protecting the underlying infrastructure, and subscribers are responsible for protecting their own data. This means that if you use Microsoft 365, you have to back up …
