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AWS Reserved Instance Considerations
- April 18, 2018
- Posted by: Eric Shanks
- Category: Architecture, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Delivery Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Enterprise IT, Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud, Strategy and Design
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(This blog post originally appeared on The IT Hollow.) Reserved Instances are often used to reduce the price of Amazon EC2 instance on-demand pricing. If you’re not familiar with Reserved Instances, then you’re missing out. Reserved Instances, or RIs, are a billing construct used in conjunction with Amazon EC2 instances (virtual machines). The default usage
Mastering ARM Templates, Episode 1: The Basics
- April 13, 2018
- Posted by: Cooper Lutz
- Category: AHEAD, ARM Templates, Automation and Orchestration, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Enterprise IT, Microsoft Azure, Migration, Public Cloud
(This blog post originally appeared on Cooper’s Cloud.) Getting Started with ARM Templates I’ve spent a considerable amount of time developing ARM Templates and have been working to put together a series of posts to help you master ARM Templates, whether you’re just getting started with Azure or have been developing ARM Templates since their inception.
In the Cloud World, It’s Cheaper to Upgrade
- March 28, 2018
- Posted by: Eric Shanks
- Category: Architecture, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Delivery Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Enterprise IT, Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud, Strategy and Design
(This blog post originally appeared on The IT Hollow.) If you’ve been in technology for a while, you’ve probably had to go through a hardware refresh cycle at some point. These cycles typically meant taking existing hardware, performing some capacity planning exercises, and setting out to buy new hardware that is supported by the vendors.
5 Blind Spots in Your IT Infrastructure Spend (And What to Do About Them)
- March 20, 2018
- Posted by: John Cole
- Category: AHEAD, Data center, ELA, TCO
IT leaders are faced with a difficult problem. On the one hand, enterprise businesses are looking at their IT departments to help drive growth and digital transformation; while on the other hand, IT budgets are stretched thin, making it burdensome to keep pace with these demands. The road to digital transformation is riddled with blind
Q&A: AHEAD’s Dan Wittenberg Talks All Things Puppet
- March 1, 2018
- Posted by: Jenny Allen
- Category: AHEAD Lab and Briefing Center, Automation and Orchestration, Award, DevOps, Partners, Puppet, Puppet Enterprise
Recently, AHEAD was honored by Puppet with not one, but two 2017 Channel Partner of the Year Awards. Selected as the Puppet “Partner MVP, Americas,” AHEAD Senior Technical Architect Dan Wittenberg also received the “Engineer of the Year, Americas” award for the second year in a row. The awards honor Puppet’s channel ecosystem for the
Understanding Next-Generation Antivirus
- February 22, 2018
- Posted by: Steven Aiello
- Category: AHEAD, Architecture, Compliance, Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, Desktop, Enterprise IT, Infrastructure, Risk, Secure Data, Security, Strategy and Design
Want an introduction to Next-Gen Antivirus? Check out this whiteboard tutorial from our lead Security and Compliance Solutions Principal, Steven Aiello
The ‘Mad Men’ Approach to Pitching DevOps
- February 2, 2018
- Posted by: Tim Curless
- Category: AHEAD, Automation and Orchestration, DevOps, Enterprise IT
(This blog post originally appeared on DevOps.com.) It’s been said that the mark of a good salesman is having the ability to sell ice to an Eskimo. And, if you’re familiar with the 1960s-era T.V. hit “Mad Men,” you know that ad exec Don Draper could do just that. His character was debonair, brash and
Data [In]security: Lessons Learned from Intel’s CPU Design Flaw
- January 9, 2018
- Posted by: Steven Aiello
- Category: AHEAD, Architecture, Compliance, Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, Desktop, Enterprise IT, Infrastructure, Risk, Secure Data, Security, Strategy and Design
Since the news of two major processor vulnerabilities last week, tech companies have been scrambling to roll out patches, with organizations facing the possibility that said patches could render their systems inoperable. The security threats—known as Meltdown and Spectre—have flooded the tech news scene and have caused a PR nightmare for chip manufacturer, Intel. First,
A re:Wind of re:Invent 2017
- December 5, 2017
- Posted by: Jenny Allen
- Category: Architecture, Automation and Orchestration, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Containers, Desktop, Enterprise IT, Events, Migration, Partners, Public Cloud, re:Invent, Security, Serverless Computing, Services, User Conference, Webinar, WorkSpaces
AWS re:Invent has quickly become the go-to conference for IT business leaders, engineers, and channel partners to learn, network, and gain hands-on experience with AWS experts. Held in Las Vegas and spanning multiple venues, the four-day event is jam-packed with over 1,000 events that include keynotes, breakout sessions, hackathons, bootcamps, and workshops, as well as
An 11-Point Health Check for Your Public Cloud
- November 8, 2017
- Posted by: Nick Colyer and Greg Thursam
- Category: AHEAD, AHEAD Lab and Briefing Center, AWS, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Compliance, Compute, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise IT, ESM, Operations, Public Cloud, Secure Data, Security, Storage, Webinar
Jumping into the public cloud isn’t as easy as swiping a credit card. Whether it’s blind spots in areas of cost and inventory, configuration missteps, or surprises at the amount of tooling required for deploying in the enterprise, a move to AWS or Azure goes beyond just simply “flipping a switch.” Whether you’ve already begun