The NAS Guy

Welcome to The NAS Guy Blog

In the ever-evolving world of technology, where data rules supreme and innovations abound, finding your way through the digital labyrinth can be a daunting task. Whether you’re a seasoned tech enthusiast, a curious newcomer, or just someone looking to make sense of the rapidly changing tech landscape, “The NAS Guy” is here to be your guiding light.

Welcome to my tech-savvy haven where we unravel the mysteries of cloud computing, dive deep into storage solutions, explore the intricacies of data backup, and navigate everything in between. If you’ve ever found yourself lost in the jargon of terabytes, cloud migrations, or RAID arrays, fear not – you’re in the right place!

Recent Blog Posts

• How Aussie Broadband Built Kubernetes Resilience at Scale — and What Comes NextJuly 30, 2026
  Kubernetes has crossed the threshold from modern choice to baseline expectation. The 2025 CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey confirms what platform teams already know from experience: Kubernetes is now the standard infrastructure for containerized workloads, and the organizations running it are no longer early adopters experimenting in a sandbox. Instead, they are enterprises with production-critical… Read more: How Aussie Broadband Built Kubernetes Resilience at Scale — and What Comes Next
• Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Identity Resilience, Cyber Resilience, and AI That Improves Day 2 OperationsJuly 30, 2026
  Point releases have a reputation: Bug fixes, a few quality-of-life tweaks, and maybe a new checkbox. In this case, don’t let the 0.1 fool you. More than 70 new features ship in v13.1, including automated Active Directory forest recovery, threat detection extended to more workloads, post-quantum cryptography, and Veeam Intelligence that evolves from an assistant… Read more: Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Identity Resilience, Cyber Resilience, and AI That Improves Day 2 Operations
• Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do: Introducing Veeam Vault ArchiveJuly 30, 2026
  Recovery-ready meets retention-ready, with a fully managed archive tier built for the long haul. Data isn’t slowing down, and neither is what it costs to keep it. As unstructured data keeps multiplying, AI is driving up both the volume that organizations create and the pressure to hold onto it. And a supply-constrained hard drive market… Read more: Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do: Introducing Veeam Vault Archive
• Adverse Cyber Extortion Outcomes Happen More Often Than Victims Are ToldJuly 30, 2026
  In February of 2024, a consortium of law enforcement agencies took down LockBit ransomware group. The discovery that LockBit retained victims’ stolen data despite promises to delete it demonstrates a critical flaw in the advice often given to ransomware victims. At the time, many legal and incident response professionals recommended payment on the assumption that… Read more: Adverse Cyber Extortion Outcomes Happen More Often Than Victims Are Told
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)July 27, 2026
  Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
• IBM Maximo on OpenShift: Backup and Disaster Recovery with Veeam KastenJuly 21, 2026
  IBM Maximo has been a mainstay of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for decades. Organizations running physical assets at scale — power and utilities, oil and gas, transportation networks, manufacturing plants, facility operations, aviation, and healthcare providers — lean on it to manage preventive maintenance schedules, inventory, work orders, and the full lifecycle of equipment that… Read more: IBM Maximo on OpenShift: Backup and Disaster Recovery with Veeam Kasten
• AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)July 20, 2026
  Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)
• What is DSPM? Why It Matters for Cloud Data Security, Compliance, and AIJuly 16, 2026
  Key takeaways DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) is a data-first security approach that discovers sensitive data wherever it lives, across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises, then classifies it, maps who can access it, and flags where it’s exposed. It answers five questions: What sensitive data you have, where it lives, who can access it, how it’s… Read more: What is DSPM? Why It Matters for Cloud Data Security, Compliance, and AI
• Veeam Kasten v9.0 and Red Hat: Deeper Integration for the Workloads That Matter Most to YouJuly 15, 2026
  Running OpenShift Virtualization at enterprise scale surfaces three challenges that don’t go away on their own: Protecting large VM estates efficiently without full-image backup overhead, maintaining consistent coverage as environments grow and change, and getting fleet-wide visibility without managing every cluster independently. These are the operational realities of running KubeVirt workloads at scale, and they… Read more: Veeam Kasten v9.0 and Red Hat: Deeper Integration for the Workloads That Matter Most to You
• How to Detect and Govern Shadow AI in Your OrganizationJuly 15, 2026
  Key takeaways: Shadow AI is a visibility problem before it’s a policy problem. You can’t govern tools you can’t see, and you can’t recover data you didn’t know was exposed. Tools built for shadow IT (CASB, DLP) miss most shadow AI, because AI often leaves no install footprint and hides inside platforms you’ve already approved.… Read more: How to Detect and Govern Shadow AI in Your Organization
• Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scaleJuly 13, 2026
  On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and… Read more: Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)July 13, 2026
  AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)
• Best Practices for Cloud Data SecurityJuly 13, 2026
  Key Takeaways: Securing cloud data is your responsibility, not your provider’s. AWS and Microsoft Azure protect the infrastructure; protecting the data is on you. Misconfiguration and ransomware are the leading threats to cloud data, and both increasingly exploit weak identity and access controls. A strong posture rests on six controls: Discover and classify data, enforce… Read more: Best Practices for Cloud Data Security
• How Veeam and Arms Cyber Help Protect Recovery Infrastructure from Modern CyberattacksJuly 7, 2026
  Organizations invest in backup to ensure they can recover when the unexpected happens. But today’s attackers understand that recovery is often the greatest obstacle to a successful attack. Rather than focusing solely on production systems, attackers increasingly target backup infrastructure itself: Attempting to delete backups, disable services, and compromise recovery points before launching an attack.… Read more: How Veeam and Arms Cyber Help Protect Recovery Infrastructure from Modern Cyberattacks
• Modern Apps and AI Are Evolving Fast and Protection Must Keep PaceJuly 7, 2026
  Modern applications have crossed a tipping point. What once began as isolated modernization efforts—containerizing select services, experimenting with Kubernetes, or migrating workloads to the cloud—has become a full-scale transformation. Today, modern apps are not experimental outliers; they are the foundation of how organizations deliver value. At the same time, artificial intelligence has moved from the… Read more: Modern Apps and AI Are Evolving Fast and Protection Must Keep Pace
• Hypervisor Hunger Games: Why the Winner Is a Strategy, Not a PlatformJuly 7, 2026
  For many years, the hypervisor conversation wasn’t on top of everyone’s mind. Most organizations had a stable virtualization platform, mature operational procedures, backup and recovery tooling, monitoring, patching workflows, and people who knew exactly what to do when something went wrong. Then the market changed. After Broadcom completed its VMware acquisition, many customers started to… Read more: Hypervisor Hunger Games: Why the Winner Is a Strategy, Not a Platform
• You Migrated Your VMs to Red Hat OpenShift. Now How Do You Protect Them?July 7, 2026
  The facts are hard to ignore. The number of virtual machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization grew 417% in 2025. Red Hat has assessed more than 1.46 million VMs through its migration engagements. Global banks, government agencies, telcos, and manufacturers are now running production workloads on the platform. Migration momentum is real, but it’s… Read more: You Migrated Your VMs to Red Hat OpenShift. Now How Do You Protect Them?
• Non-Human Identity Security: A Guide to Machine GovernanceJuly 7, 2026
  Key Takeaways: Non-human identities (service accounts, workloads, bots, pipelines, and AI agents) now outnumber human ones by more than 80 to 1, and most teams can’t say how many they have. Unlike people, NHIs don’t log out, can’t use MFA, and are rarely retired, so one stolen credential can quietly expose a large slice of… Read more: Non-Human Identity Security: A Guide to Machine Governance
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)July 6, 2026
  A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)
• Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacksJuly 1, 2026
  Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces emulated versions to ease rollback. But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elaborate compensating… Read more: Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
• Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express modeJune 30, 2026
  Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and AI tools iterating on infrastructure. Express mode accelerates deployments by completing when CloudFormation confirms resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for extended stabilization checks. This reduces deployment time by up to 4 times for iterative development workflows and… Read more: Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode
• Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now availableJune 30, 2026
  When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters. You need instances that deliver higher throughput per vCPU, faster memory access, and more network bandwidth, all while keeping your costs in check. Today I am happy to announce the… Read more: Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available
• Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate ManagerJune 30, 2026
  If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down. As certificate validity periods get shorter (the Certification Authority (CA)/Browser Forum mandates reduced maximum validity to 100 days starting March 2027, and to 47 days by 2029), manual… Read more: Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager
• NIST AI Risk Management Framework: A Data Protection GuideJune 30, 2026
  Key takeaways The NIST AI RMF is voluntary guidance, not a regulation, but its four functions only hold up when mature data capabilities sit underneath them. Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage each carry data protection prerequisites that most compliance programs were never built to satisfy. The most common blocker to implementation is a data inventory… Read more: NIST AI Risk Management Framework: A Data Protection Guide
• Veeam Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection PlatformsJune 30, 2026
  Cyberattacks, outages, and plain human error didn’t take the year off. Neither did we. Today, Veeam is once again a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. That’s the 10th year in a row, and the 7th straight year placed Highest in Ability to Execute. I’m proud of the… Read more: Veeam Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms
• AWS Weekly Roundup, Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026)June 29, 2026
  It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless services to solve real problems in a single afternoon. This week I am… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup, Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026)
• 9 Best Practices for Secure, Reliable Azure Backup and RecoveryJune 26, 2026
  Key takeaways Having backups isn’t the same as being recoverable: Azure backup and recovery only works when restores are tested and data is secure. Ransomware increasingly targets the cloud: Protect against identity/RBAC compromise that can disable protections or delete recovery points. Make recovery points tamper-resistant: Combine soft delete + immutability/WORM + multi-person approval for destructive… Read more: 9 Best Practices for Secure, Reliable Azure Backup and Recovery
• Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMsJune 22, 2026
  Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within AWS Lambda that lets you run code generated by users or AI in isolated, stateful execution environments. You get virtual machine level isolation, near-instant launch and resume, and direct control over environment lifecycle and state, all without managing infrastructure or building expertise… Read more: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
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• AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)June 22, 2026
  Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value… Read more: AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)