Author: Muhammad Marakkoottathil

Comparing AWS and Azure Services

This blog compares Key foundational cloud services offered by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Compute Services AWS Service Azure Service Description EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Virtual Machine Virtual servers allow users to deploy, manage and maintain OS and server software Autoscaling Virtual Machine Scale Sets Allows to automatically change compute capacity Containers and container

VMware Design Bootcamp-4: NSX-T and AVI Load-balancer

Currently, most of the business runs on applications. And apparently, faster infrastructure provisioning is required to support the on-demand nature of modern applications. Secondly, integrating heterogeneous infrastructure solutions to support application hosting is another common challenge faced by the customers. In reality, most of the customers are having top-notch solutions from different vendors, which may

A Quick Overview of Azure IaaS Reference Architecture

Cloud services are increasingly at the heart of an organization’s digital business strategy. When it comes to a public cloud offering Azure is number two after AWS in terms of market share. In this blog, lets looks at “A Quick Overview of Azure IaaS Reference Architecture” For an easy reference and for segregating different architectural

VMware NSX-T and Cisco ACI and Its Complimenting Use Cases

Running VMware NSX-T and Cisco ACI together on your Datacenter infrastructure is a debatable topic. And in many cases questioned by customers and partners. From the SDN perspective, both solutions claim to satisfy the customer requirement in some or other ways. However in this blog post of “VMware NSX-T and Cisco ACI and its complimenting

AWS IaaS Reference Architecture and Use Cases

It is clear that public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will have many difference from on-premises environment.   Most of the similarity with on-premise infrastructure stops with application, virtual machines and storage and database services. In this “AWS IaaS Reference Architecture and use cases”  blog, lets look at few of the primary foundational design principles

Modern Datacenter Reference Architecture Framework

The digital transformation momentum really reshaping the way the IT infrastructure is built and operated for all the good reasons. Traditionally, there were three main pillars to consider when you build your infrastructure, which is Network, compute, and storage. With the agility and fast IT requirements challenges enforced by public cloud vendors, the organizations are

Architecting Enterprise Connectivity to the Public Clouds

Connecting clouds is vital for organizations because data and applications increasingly reside in a mesh of public and private clouds network. And there are multiple ways to extend an enterprise network to the cloud.  Organizations can interconnect to the cloud by employing an IPsec VPN or by directly extending their private network to a cloud