Collins Ayuya, Author at ServerWatch

Scale Up vs Scale Out: What’s the Difference?

Collins Ayuya — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Everything you need to know about when to scale up vs. scale out, and how each can impact cost, performance, and resource use.

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Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Review

Collins Ayuya — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:16:00 +0000

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Network Segmentation vs Microsegmentation

Collins Ayuya — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:13:46 +0000

The enterprise environments of today are characterized by multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures, software-defined networks (SDNs), increased traffic, increased virtualization, and skyrocketing sophistication of threat actors. As a result, organizations are finding it more difficult to fully understand and control their network environments. Additionally, perimeter security techniques are increasingly losing effectiveness as attackers increase their impact […]

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What Is Microservice Architecture?

Collins Ayuya — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:21:31 +0000

Improving upon monolithic application features becomes more complicated as the code base increases, which can create a significant barrier to innovation. Microservice architecture is one way to address this challenge. However, microservices can be complex and challenging to implement. Therefore, it’s important to understand microservice architecture thoroughly as well as its benefits, challenges, and specific […]

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What Is AWS Lambda and How Does It Work?

Collins Ayuya — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:15:00 +0000

AWS Lambda is an event-driven serverless computing platform, which executes code in response to events while handling the back-end administration and infrastructure required to run code. In this article, we explore AWS Lambda and its functioning, concepts, benefits, and use cases. What Is Serverless Computing? Serverless computing is a means of delivering back-end services on […]

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What Is Scale-Out NAS? Pros and Cons

Collins Ayuya — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:30:00 +0000

To handle the performance needs of the workloads of today, a storage architecture needs to offer flexibility, agility, and efficiency. As such, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is a cost-effective architecture that handles these workloads and can keep up with the growth of structured and unstructured data to meet the data storage requirements of today. Read […]

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What Is Azure VM? Windows Virtual Machine

Collins Ayuya — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:56:43 +0000

A virtual machine (VM) is simply a digital version of a physical computer. As a virtualized instance of a computer, a virtual machine can execute almost all tasks a physical computer can, including running operating systems and applications. Azure Virtual Machines are scalable, on-demand computing resources offered by Microsoft. In this article, we discuss Azure […]

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