The IT Spend Analysis sample analyses the planned vs. actual costs of an IT department. This comparison helps us understand how well the company planned for the year and investigate areas with huge deviations from the plan. The company in this example goes through a yearly planning cycle, and then quarterly it produces a new latest estimate (LE) to…
When performing an IT admin role, RDP or SSH session is usually used for accessing required target servers. If not, a jumpbox is usually provided for connecting their required target server for a RDP / SSH session. While coming to the public cloud, a jumpbox server is placed in the management Virtual network. In some environments, it will be…
Cyber Warfare 1. Objective Cyberspace has become an indispensable part of a state, society, and the life of individuals due to the rapid development of information technology. These challenges, usually grouped under the term cybersecurity. There are several issues in the morality of cyberwar and cyber warfare, These wars are defined as one nation’s attacks on the governmental or…
Terraform is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software tool developed by Hashicorp. It’s used to define and provision infrastructure with Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). Terraform can be used for deploying infrastructure in the below spaces: – Azure Cloud – AWS cloud – Google Cloud – Oracle cloud – VMware vSphere – Alibaba cloud – Cisco devices (limited functionalities) Why do…
Starting of month, reminds me about providing a single post for Azure updates on previous month. This blog, we will be covering up June month updates from Azure. Each update on this blog is not an exhaustive list of all the monthly updates. I would like to call out most specific updates from Infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, networking, identity,…
During Azure certification preparation and based on my project experience of the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), I wish to share several best practices for AKS deployment. In this post, I will walk you through the selection of appropriate options within AKS. Networking models AKS supports two networking models: Kubenet networking – Azure manages the virtual network resources as the cluster…
What is it? Microsoft Azure offers a feature called “Forced Tunneling”, which allows you better manage and control your outbound internet traffic from resources within your Azure virtual networks through your Organisation’s on-premise firewall via an established VPN connection or an ExpressRoute circuit. Why do I need it? Resources deployed in an Azure VNET needing to access the Internet…
This blog, we will be covering up monthly updates from Azure. Each update on this blog isn’t an exhaustive list of all the monthly updates. I would like to call out most specific updates from Infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, networking, identity, containers and security. please feel free to reach out using the contact link of this blog. The list…
If you have been working with Azure Infrastructure services, then you would have come across Core Network offerings such as Azure Traffic manager, Azure Load balancers & Application Gateways. These network services provide solutions for applications that require high availability, security & scalability, but they also come with their own limitations. One such limitation is that they primarily exist…
Hello Friends, in this article i am going to share some of my dashboard samples i have created using NSW public transport, School and Property median value data available online. My dashboard shows how the property median value of each suburb differs from the availability of school and transport accordingly. The above image illustrates the Property median value by…
