What is AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is basically an on-premises software appliance that exposes AWS cloud storage to your local environment. You basically deploy the appliance, connect it to the AWS Storage Gateway backend service and create a File Share (S3 or Glacier backed) or Volume (EBS Snapshot backed): In this blogpost ...
VMware Cloud Briefing Event Today, VMware held an online Cloud Briefing Event in which updates to the VMware cloud strategy were announced. Most prominently, VMware announced general availability of the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) service in Europe. The first region is London and additional regions are already on the horizon. Besides the global expansion ...
Update: my slidedeck: I’m very honored and proud to be speaking at the Dutch NLVMUG UserCon 2018 on March 20th. In the last few years I have been speaking at numerous events but funny enough, this is my very first appearance at a VMUG. Last year I really wanted to present at the UserCon but ...
In my motivation for starting my blog at jeffreykusters.nl, I explained one of the purposes of my blog was to simply write down stuff I was going to forget for sure. Call it a journal or a sort of external memory. This is my first blog post in that category which I have dubbed Tips ...
It is highly important that data needs to be backed up and there should be an effective Disaster Recovery plan in case of data threat or a catastrophe. While data continues to grow and there are number of technology providers who offer better and comprehensive storage techniques to businesses, there has not been an alternative ...
After posting my blog post about obtaining my AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA) certification, my blog sponsor asked me if I could write a blog post covering the AWS capabilities of Nakivo Backup & Restore. I immediately jumped at the opportunity because this is a nice and concrete use case I can build in my ...
Thoughts on the exam I originally planned to take the exam in 2017 but with some delay, I passed the AWS SAA exam this morning on my first try! I thought the exam was pretty tough but fair. I have not been exposed to AWS very much and the only hands-on experience was labbing around in ...
Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 New Features This blogpost outlines the new features which will be introduced in the upcoming v3.9.0 release of Vembu BDR Suite. Please have a look at the dedicated Vembu partner page on my blog for more details about the company and their products. The following sections provide some more details on the new ...
Common load balancing topologies Sometimes you stumble across something so obvious that you cannot believe you missed it. I had such a moment today. I have been discussing load balancing topologies with one of my customers in the last few days and in each discussion we stayed exactly within the predefined color lines: a one-arm ...
… or are they? Every (aspiring VCDX) architect knows design assumptions are the mother of all <….>. Yes, design assumptions are frowned upon and should be avoided whenever possible. But, in certain situations, assumptions can actually be real lifesavers. This blogpost aims to show you how assumptions – when used properly! – can really improve ...
