The recent Energy Crisis has highlighted how critical energy supplies are to the running of our daily operations. It is therefore a very good opportunity to explain the difference between Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). Let’s start…
Physical Moves: risks and issues
Physical moves are still valuable and necessary solutions, even in today increasingly virtualized and cloud based DC world. Examples: Solaris boxes which have been running for decades or physical appliances (e.g. Ironports network and security devices).
The most common issues during migrations
In this article I wanted to share with you some of the most common migration issues we recently encountered on a large scale data center consolidation project. Keep in mind that the below are all execution related issues, nothing to do with…
Is everything ready for your migration?
It is a wise idea to prepare a checklist to go through a few days before the scheduled migration date. As you are getting close to zero hour, your workload increases, you are busy chasing everyone, putting together the last pieces…
Data Center Migration Strategies and Methods
Are you moving to a new data center and you are wondering what are your options? Let’s review together the most common ways to deliver a successful migration. Migration Methods Lift & shift (L&S)*: shut-down your environment and physically relocate all…
Critical elements in a Decommissioning Project
I have recently worked on a network rationalization program, as part of a cost saving exercise for a major multinational corporation. It was not the first time I took part on such a spring cleaning activity, and I started wondering about the…
NIST Framework
I have recently worked on an IT Security Improvement project focusing closely on the NIST framework, therefore I would like to present it to you and explain why it is so important in cyber security. In a nutshell, by auditing…
Zero Trust in IT Networks
Developed by Forrester’s John Kindervag in 2010, this new approach to security and architecture design replaced the obsolete and inefficient perimeter based approach (Single Trust Boundary). “Zero Trust is a security concept centered on the belief that organizations should not…
Cloud Security Trends of 2021
As COVID-19 impacted the world in such a way that no one ever expected organizations had to make major changes and strategize to survive. More than 100% rise in the adaptation of cloud technologies by organizations has been encountered in…
Cloud Offering Comparison: AWS, Azure and Google
Cloud computing has started a new era of technology in enterprises for many good reasons from saving costs, time and resources to improving security and performance and reliability of your services. Multiple cloud service providers offer ready-made professional cloud infrastructure,…