by Gina Rosenthal | Jul 26, 2022 | Gina Rosenthal, VMWare
Last month VMware introduced a new subscription-based offering called vSphere+ ( vSAN+ was also announced). According to the vSphere product page, this is a way to deploy cloud services to workloads running on-premises (in other words, vSphere deployed on bare...
by Theresa Miller | Jul 19, 2022 | Cloud, Goliath Technologies, Strategy, Virtualization
Organizations are migrating their desktops to the cloud as a long-term future state and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a common implementation choice. Technology migrations can be complex to plan and execute on. Today let’s look more closely at some common AVD use...
by Melissa Palmer | Jul 12, 2022 | Exchange, Melissa Palmer, Ransomware, Security
When I think of Maui, I think of one of my favorite vacation spots in the whole world. Unfortunately, if you’ve been following ransomware in the news, Maui now has a much more sinister meaning. Let’s take a closer look at Maui ransomware, and what makes...
by Melissa Palmer | Jun 16, 2022 | Melissa Palmer, Ransomware, Security
HelloXD is a ransomware strain which was first discovered in November of 2021, but has been in the news quite a bit recently. Let’s take a closer look at HelloXD ransomware, and what makes it so particularly nasty. All About Hello XD Ransomware Hello XD is a...
by Gina Rosenthal | May 24, 2022 | AI/ML, Gina Rosenthal
During the AI Field Day event a few weeks ago, Stephen Foskett hosted a (soon to be published) podcast about AI Bias. A team of talented AI technologists participated in the discussion. The conversation tended to keep trending back to the technology (in this case,...
by Theresa Miller | May 17, 2022 | Liquidware, Theresa Miller, Virtualization
In the recent past, we have seen an evolution of the end user computing industry. There has been a shift to multi-cloud. And this shift includes virtual desktops and applications being deployed in the cloud as well. In fact, many organizations may use many...
by Melissa Palmer | May 12, 2022 | Melissa Palmer, Ransomware
As a regular habit, I like to head on over to my favorite search engine and type in “ransomware”. Today my search turned up Conti ransomware. As it turns out, there is always something new in the news – even from ransomware strains that have been...
by Gina Rosenthal | Apr 27, 2022 | Exchange
We hear a lot about new tech like AI and machine learning and implementing a devops process on the multi-cloud. But we don’t hear much about the hardware innovations that is making it all happen. I was fortunate enough to hear from Intel and their customers during the...
by Melissa Palmer | Apr 12, 2022 | Melissa Palmer, Ransomware
Today we are going to take a look at another strain of ransomware, which has not yet seen much press until recently although it has been around for several months. BlackCat ransomware is another ransomware strain with some interesting features to it. You may also...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 22, 2022 | Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
You’ve probably heard of DevOps, SecOps, maybe even FinOps. But have you heard of GitOps? Especially if you’re trying to do continuous deployment with Kubernetes, I bet you have run across this term. So, is this a new buzzword or something we need to know? What...
