On Premises vs Cloud Computing

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The IT infrastructure, which server is better, on premises or cloud computing has always been a major point of contention. While on premises has a more traditional structure where hardware, software and data is stored on site, cloud computing is more virtual where the data storage and software can be availed and accessed through the internet for remote work. Therefore to make a choice between the…

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The need for a hybrid solution – Azure Stack HCI

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Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI is a hyper-converged infrastructure with virtualization, software-defined networking, and more. What separates it from the rest is it seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Azure. It's never been easier to unify your on-premises infrastructure with the power of Azure. We have listed below a few points for why you need this new & exciting hybrid solution for your business:- Azure Hybrid by design Extend…

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Azure Virtual Desktop vs Windows 365

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution offered on Microsoft Azure, previously named Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) only offers multi-session capabilities. It allows organizations to provide virtual desktops to their users without implementing and managing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). There are many use cases for AVD, and it has had a lot of traction since its availability. The common use…

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AWS Update:- Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase

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Starting today, customers running subscriptions included Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 can seamlessly access Red Hat Knowledgebase at no additional cost. The Knowledgebase is a library of articles, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and best-practice guides to help customers solve technical issues.  Previously, subscriptions included RHEL customers on AWS who had to contact AWS Premium Support in order to access Red Hat Knowledgebase. Now, AWS…

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AWS Update:- Amazon SNS now supports token-based authentication for APNs mobile push notifications

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For sending mobile push notifications to Apple devices, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now enables token-based authentication. You may now choose between token-based (.p8 key file) and certificate-based (.p12 certificates) authentication when creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS dashboard or API.  Stateless communication between Amazon SNS and the Apple Push Notification service is enabled using token-based authentication (APNs). Because stateless communication does…

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AWS Update:- Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information

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Customers may now see the health of their compute infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The customers running their workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon EC2 or on-premises with Amazon ECS anywhere can now examine the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the Amazon ECS API. This would help customers to improve application resiliency.   In a very rare…

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Viva Connections is now generally available!

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Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your entry point to a modern employee experience. You get an all-in-one experience with the customized dashboard, the feed, and other relevant resources with the Viva connections app in Microsoft Teams mobile, web & desktop.   This GA (general availability) provides you with the ability to: -  Set a SharePoint home site from the SharePoint admin center  Create, author, and manage a dashboard from the home site Use the…

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Meeting Activities in Teams Audit Log

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Meeting Activities have been added to the Microsoft Teams audit log to help organizations respond more effectively to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance needs. This feature is available now.  Admins may now view TeamsMeetingActivities in the Microsoft 365 Audit Log and analyze specific activities across Microsoft 365 services with this feature upgrade.  Meeting Activities logs:  MeetingDetail: All about Teams meeting – the start time, end time & URL  MeetingParticipantDetail: This…

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Microsoft is retiring Security Policy Advisor in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center

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Beginning November 8, 2021, Microsoft will stop supporting Security Policy Advisor. It is recommended that you use the Office cloud policy service.   Tenants who have not previously established a policy with Security Policy Advisor will have Security Policy Advisor disabled on November 8, 2021.  Microsoft will automatically start moving existing client policies from Security Policy Advisor to the Office cloud policy service after January 17, 2022. Security Policy Advisor will no…

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Azure Update:- Global Disaster Recovery via Azure Site Recovery

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Azure Site Recovery is a Cloud-driven, highly innovative, and automated disaster recovery solution (DRaaS). Azure's native platform capabilities for high availability and disaster recovery continue to ensure the highest levels of resilience from big and small outages. To ensure high availability and disaster recovery poster. In 2018, Microsoft became the first large public cloud provider to launch a first-class cloud-native disaster recovery solution with Azure-to-Azure Disaster…

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