Why Automated Disaster Recovery Beats Manual Runbooks
Key Takeaways Manual disaster recovery (DR) runbooks drift out of date the moment you save them, and configuration drift is the single most common reason recovery fails when it matters.…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City…
How Aussie Broadband Built Kubernetes Resilience at Scale — and What Comes Next
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…
Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Identity Resilience, Cyber Resilience, and AI That Improves Day 2 Operations
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…
Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do: Introducing Veeam Vault Archive
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…
Adverse Cyber Extortion Outcomes Happen More Often Than Victims Are Told
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…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (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…
IBM Maximo on OpenShift: Backup and Disaster Recovery with Veeam Kasten
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,…
AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (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…
What is DSPM? Why It Matters for Cloud Data Security, Compliance, and AI
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…