Windows 11 22H2 is a major update package that Microsoft recently published for its latest operating system. The long-anticipated release does not disappoint. There are many new features and upgrades that are introduced to make the performance, operation, and user experience with the OS better than with the initial release.
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.
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.
Although Microsoft continues to increase its Windows Server and Azure presence, most businesses still prefer a hybrid environment. Managing a hybrid cloud is more complicated, as you also need to operationalize your on-premises IT environment at scale. Here is where System Center comes into play, along with its new functionality.
There are many “moving parts” to cybersecurity, among which, encryption is on the frontline. Previously, you’d have to use a third-party key management solution to facilitate security in a vSphere environment. Now, you can use Native Key Provider to integrate vSAN encryption, VM encryption, and virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM).
Kerberos is an authentication protocol that has been around since Windows Server 2000. It is the gold standard for on-premises Active Directory authentication. Azure, however, didn’t support it. To further enhance the security and interoperability of its environments, Microsoft announced changes to Kerberos and its Azure Active Directory compatibility.
Windows 11 doesn’t only come with new features, bells, and whistles, but also with specific prerequisites for installation. Even in terms of virtualization, if you wanted to install Windows 11 inside a vSphere machine, your ESXi hypervisor would need access to certain hardware to virtualize the Windows 11 guest VM (enhanced security steps).
VMware Tanzu is an umbrella product which encompasses all the Kubernetes products available from VMware. Kubernetes is an open-source service for working with containerized applications. The Community Edition makes VMware Tanzu-powered Kubernetes services available to everyone.
Ensuring security in the conditions of remote work proves challenging. Conventional approaches for enforcing compliance out of the enterprise premises don’t suit a hybrid workforce well. Microsoft Intune is a modern, cloud-native approach to provision, manage, and secure end-user clients regardless of their workstation device and location.
Businesses continue on their journey of moving from monolithic applications to cloud-native micro-services. Kubernetes becomes more common, allowing you to orchestrate and manage containers in an intelligent, easily scalable, and highly available manner. But how does storage work exactly when it comes to containers?
