Remote work is continuing to penetrate the fabric of the regular workflow ever more. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that functions as a gatekeeper between your users and cloud resources they have access to. Among others, it allows to tap into Shador IT and app use to prevent malicious behavior.
Microsoft is continuously updating its cloud services, further evolving with the mission-critical IT infrastructure needs. Recently, Windows Admin Center 2110.2 and Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) experienced a swath of updates. All of them aim at IT environment operation smoothness and cross-platform compatibility.
Upgrading is necessary for smooth virtualization workload, as well as it is to compliance. However scrupulous and automated things may be, it can still happen that certain Azure disks in your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can be full, so the upgrade won’t be possible without some tweaking. Luckily, there’s a way to deal with that.
VMware Skyline Advisor Pro is a new platform for collecting broad data and revealing contextual insights into your vSphere environment. The online service allows collecting data from your entire IT infrastructure, peer into how different product interactions behave, capture patterns, trends, events, and configs, and then design compliance around that.
Security is at the forefront of IT infrastructure now, perhaps, even more so than performance. Azure AD provides identities to various applications and can be used to manage authentication. Of course, multi-factor authentication is the standard now. However, passwordless options are available as well, with another set of steps.
Microsoft has been making its cloud services ever more diverse and specific. This time, the software goes even deeper, allowing you to enable a geographically disparate and niche workforce to perform better with limited hardware, bandwidth and resources. Various specific tools for modern developers’ needs are presented in this new solution.
VMware GuestStore enables you to distribute virtual machine (VM) agents, configuration files, VMware Tools upgrades, and custom content from a single shared repository. This way, you can ensure that the content within your vSphere environment is always consistent and correctly distributed, also thanks to the GlobalConf feature.
Managing user access to resources during their working lifecycle can be quite a hassle. Luckily, with Access Package, you handle the onboarding, cross-boarding, or offboarding of a user with ease. Just create a self-service catalog of resources to which a user can request access themselves, — all that’s left for you is approval.
Cross vCenter Server vMotion has been greatly enhanced in vSphere 7.0 Updates U3c. For one, it’s now been integrated into the vSphere web client, which makes it much easier to access and operate. But, among its new updates, one stands out the most: the ability to execute a clone bulk operation between vCenter servers with different SSO domains.
Azure DevOps is a rich system that allows you to automate a great number of things from Apps to Azure Resources and many others via Azure Pipelines. Many of such workloads require approval. However, the GPU VM, to operate all this, will entail additional costs. To avoid that, you can use your own script to create an easy approval pipeline for your users.
