Advantages of Business Process as a Service

The high expectations companies have when it comes to software rarely match the outcomes, as 74 percent of IT investments fail to deliver expected value. Even when software projects are on time and within budget, it is still hard to name direct benefit…

Cisco UCS B Series Uplink Strategies

This paper explains uplink strategies for traffic coming in and out of a Cisco Unified Computing Solution (UCS) chassis. An uplink can be Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or FCoE and is a physical connection on the FI that leaves the UCS domain directed away f…

An Introduction to AWS Security

AWS is an incredibly rich ecosystem of services and tools, some of which have security aspects baked in (like S3 SSE), and others that provide overarching security capabilities (like IAM and VPC) that apply to many services. With regard to data storage…

Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere 6.0

This paper will discuss how to (relatively) inexpensively setup a simulated lab environment using VMware (the latest version). This white paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the se…