Digest of practical materials on working with IaaS

Today we bring to your attention our fresh IaaS digest with practical guides, reviews of new technologies and solutions in the field of cloud hosting.

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Overview of promising IT technologies

According to our tradition, we have prepared a large review of analytical information on the further development of the IT sector. We talked about security, analytics, XaaS services, mobile applications and virtualization.
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IT-GRAD sums up 2016 in the direction of IaaS

Briefly about our achievements in the field of acquiring new statuses and competencies and a little about new cloud services that we launched in 2016.

How IaaS affects the development of new business models

The current growth in demand for IaaS service providers is driven not only by economic efficiency, but also by a more fundamental revision of existing business models. Here we looked at IaaS as a source of increased revenues and a driver for the development of Clouds 2.0. In addition, we covered the topics of machine learning, artificial intelligence and serverless computing.

How IaaS solves problems in the construction business

This material provides an overview of the situation with the use of cloud technologies in the construction industry. From solutions that allow working at the design stage to products to ensure effective interaction of specialists. We also looked at the cloud solution BIM 360 Glue and the use of drones.

Who is interested in the Russian IaaS

Analytics and profile studies suggest that the global virtual infrastructure market has gradually begun to be saturated with offers from IaaS providers. The Russian segment is not lagging behind - the number of IaaS providers increases as the demand for their services grows. We talked about our practical flights.

What to choose: Virtual server or virtual data center

In simple terms, what is a virtual server and a virtual data center. We figured out the pros and cons, the main differences, ways to minimize the costs and approaches to reduce downtime.

What startups use IaaS

We talked about the practical component of working with a virtual infrastructure and remembered some cases of our work with startups.

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How to "turn around" in the cloud

Here we have gathered basic practical tips for quickly and safely placing projects in the cloud. About the most important thing that you should pay attention to and a little about the deployment methodology.

What to require from SAP hosting service provider

Our comprehensive guide for those who would like to figure out how to get started with SAP solutions. We will introduce you to the features of SAP hosting solutions and show you what to look for when choosing a provider. Here it is important to understand both the general composition of the services and what the client can do on their own.

Manual: SAP HANA and Software-Defined Data Center

In this tutorial, we covered the process of configuring the logic of network connections, the way to add an NSX logical switch, bind a virtual machine to a switch, add a logical distributed router, and configure firewall rules.

How to work with accessibility zones in vCloud Director

This is about configuring elastic application deployment with load balancing and clustering. Here we are talking about a case with several availability zones and working with an organization’s “stretched” network using the vCenter Server.

IaaS in practice: Working with a directory and network

In this article, we figured out what is required to start working with your IaaS provider. We stopped to learn more about working with the directory in vCloud Director and the features of creating a local network.

Comparison of four top disaster recovery solutions

We reviewed the strengths and weaknesses of DR solutions and products such as VMware SRM, Zerto Virtual Replication, Veeam Backup and Altaro VM Backup.

How Stretch Deploy for vCloud Connector Works

This technology allows you to redistribute the load and transfer your own virtual machines to the cloud of an IaaS provider while maintaining the network configuration. In this material, we figured out how the Stretch Deploy and the requirements for the preparation of the environment and settings.


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An overview of the key features of VMware vSphere Client 3.0

A little bit of familiarity with the new generation of thin client for managing virtual infrastructure - VMware vSphere Client 3.0 (vSphere HTML5 Web Client). We talked about how he got updates and briefly focused on the tool for developing plug-ins for vSphere.

VMware vSphere 6.0 is still relevant - 3 reasons

"Six" - the most used virtualization platform, which includes more than 650 technological improvements. In this version, significant extensions have been made - for example, vMotion live migration technology has been significantly enhanced in VMware vSphere 6.0.

Unboxing all-flash storage NetApp AFF A300

One of our favorite rubrics, in which we devote time to the nuances and details of the iron used at the IT-GRAD site. NetApp AFF A300 is designed for almost 100 terabytes of SSD — in our boxing — a pair of NetApp A300 High-Availability controllers in one chassis and a DS224C disk shelf with a set of 24 SSD drives of 3.8 TB each.