Fault Tolerant Multi AZ EC2, On a beer budget – live from AWS Meetup

Filmed on 18th of March 2021 at the Adelaide AWS User Group, where Arran Peterson presented on how to put together best practice (and cheap!) cloud architecture for business continuity. The title: “Enterprise grade fault tolerant multi-AZ server deployment on a beer budget” Recording RATED ‘PG’ – Mild course language. Presenter More Reading Amazon Elastic […]

The role of Datacenters

The State of Play Current Enterprise ICT Environments are a mix of various technology stacks.  Critical and second-tier systems are from different eras.  A mix of modern and legacy applications sit alongside each other.  The common challenges are security, manageability and integration of disparate parts.  There is some use of public cloud services, but most […]

SD-WAN made easy

I’ll start by asking you two questions: Are you paying too much for your Wide Area Network (WAN)? And, is it the best method of connecting to the public Cloud? At cloudstep.io we are constantly looking for ways to improve our customers connectivity to the public cloud. We consider cloud network connectivity a foundation service […]

IPv6 – slowly but surely

I first blogged about IPv6 and the reasons for its slow adoption way back in 2014. A lot can change in the world of ICT over the course of five years, but interestingly the reasons for slow adoption I believe have remained somewhat constant. I’ve updated my post to include some new thoughts. The first […]