Articles about storage, backup, virtualization, technology, innovation, programming, leadership, management,... etc
Articles about storage, backup, virtualization, technology, innovation, programming, leadership, management,... etc
Running SaaS workloads — whether you’re the provider or the customer — means treating infrastructure as a product, not a project. Here’s what actually moves the needle. 1. Build on cloud-native primitives Don’t just lift-and-shift VMs. Use the primitives your cloud provider gives you: Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or Ansible — everything versioned, reviewable, reproducible. Auto-scaling […]
Performance tuning spans every layer of infrastructure. Below are the practices that matter most in production. 1. Datacenter Optimization Power and Cooling: Run hot/cold aisle containment. Monitor inlet temperatures and humidity at the rack level; thermal throttling starts before you see alerts. Network Fabric: Segment traffic with VLANs and apply QoS for storage, management, and […]
1. Understand the Multicast Setup Before you start troubleshooting, map out how multicast runs in your environment: Applications: Identify every service using multicast — video streams, backup replication, distributed databases, etc. Network design: Document the topology: switches, routers, firewalls. Confirm multicast routing is enabled where needed. Group addresses: Verify the exact multicast ranges in use […]
Troubleshooting API failures in your infrastructure takes a systematic approach. Here’s a practical guide to track down the root cause and fix it. 1. Understand the Scope of the Issue Gather details: determine which API endpoints are failing and identify the affected users, applications, or services. Collect error codes, stack traces, logs, or any descriptive […]
Video conferencing infrastructure lives at the intersection of network, compute, and storage. Get any of the three wrong and users feel it immediately. Here’s what to plan for. 1. Assess Requirements User count: internal and external participants Concurrent meetings: peak simultaneous sessions Bandwidth: calculate per-stream needs for video, audio, and screen sharing Client platforms: Windows, […]
Migrating workloads between datacenters takes careful planning, execution, and validation to minimize disruption. Here’s a step-by-step approach: 1. Planning and Assessment a. Inventory Assessment Identify every workload, application, server, storage system, and dependency. Categorize workloads by criticality, priority, and complexity. b. Dependency Mapping Use Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) or network monitoring tools to map interconnections […]
