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Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021 - issue #2

Hi and welcome to the second Mulit-Cloud Newsletter, summarizing the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last couple of weeks. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will only get the newsletter via

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Multi-Cloud Newsletter Sept. 2021

IntroductionWelcome to my first Multi-Cloud* Newsletter where I will try to summarize the most relevant multi-cloud news of the last weeks. The newsletter will also be posted on the website (filipv.net) for future reference. You can subscribe to it via the subscribe button. (you will only get the newsletter

Rubrik

Rubrik 6.0 Summer Release Overview

Rubrik made the 6.0 Summer Release generally available a few days ago, in this blog post I wanted to provide an overview of some of the new features.

Rubrik

Kubernetes Data Management with Rubrik

Backup for Kubernetes has been a hotly debated topic over the years, pundits like to point out that container workloads are supposed to be stateless and as such backing them up isn’t strictly needed.

Ransomware

Protect Rubrik CDM with Microsoft Authenticator

Rubrik released version 5.3.1 of the RCDM code a couple of days ago and one of the new feautures is the ability to protect all of your Rubrik login accounts with two-step verification by using the industry standard time-based OTP(one-time password) codes.

Backup

Rubrik CDM 5.1

An overview of the new features and function highlights of the new Rubrik CDM release, codenamed Andes 5.1, see what is coming down the line.

VMware

VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, and GCP

With the recent announcement of the Google Cloud VMware Solution you now have the possibility to run a VMware stack on each of the 3 major hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP. In this post I wanted to compare and contrast the 3 solutions.

Microsoft

Azure Storage through the lens of Microsoft's own hardware

Microsoft Azure provides very compelling cloud storage services, Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects (Blob), a file system service for the cloud (Files), a messaging store for reliable messaging (Queues), and a NoSQL store (Tables).

Backup

Rubrik and NetApp StorageGRID

Rubrik and NetApp recently announced support for NetApp StorageGRID as an Archive target. Some things, like bacon and eggs, are just better together which is what I wanted to focus on in this blogpost.

Documentary

IT documentaries for inspiration, fun, and profit

I often find myself watching and rewatching documentaries related to my field(s) of interest, mainly the IT industry, and (computer) science in general. I find that doing so provides a certain inspiration to start tinkering with something new, or often times just to keep pushing.

Rubrik

Exciting new discoveries from the Andes (Rubrik CDM 5.0)

Just like discovering new animal species in what feels like already deeply explored and well understood territory, adding new insights and capabilities in technology can advance some historically held assumptions.

Blog

Migrating my blog from WordPress to GitHub Pages and Jekyll

Taking a look a what I was using and paying WordPress.com for I felt it no longer made sense to keep using the service. After looking at some alternatives I decided upon using GitHub Pages to host my blog. It will force me to use a certain toolset, and it’s free! :-)

MongoDB

Rubrik Datos IO and MongoDB

In februari of 2018 Rubrik announced the acquisition of Datos IO, a startup with a focus on data management for an underserved part of the market namely (a.o.) NoSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.

SunMicrosystems

Everything old is new again.

My first job in IT, many moons ago, was at a company called MOTEC, it was a subcontractor of Telenet, one of the biggest ISPs in Belgium. We were responsible for building the cable based telephony systems that their customers used to make phone calls over the tv distribution network.

Containers

Containers and persistent storage

As containers continue to rise in popularity beyond the developer populous the way these constructs are being used becomes increasingly varied, especially (but not exclusively) in light of enterprise applications the questions of persistent storage comes up more and more.

VMware

VMware’s Cloud Nativeness

At first glance it feels like VMware’s efforts related to cloud native applications are meant to cater to the traditional admins, people who are mainly running virtual machines today but want, or need, to support other types of workloads as well.

Rubrik

Rubrik's Masterless Cluster Approach

Rubrik has opted to build a truly scalable, masterless cluster, neatly leapfrogging legacy approaches of the past by taking lessons from massive-scale modern environments found at Google, Facebook and the like.

Microsoft

Rubrik and Microsoft, rest assured.

Rubrik has been working with Microsoft’s solutions in various ways since version 2.3 with the initial support of Microsoft Azure as an archive location for long-term retention data.

AWS

Rubrik Alta feature spotlight: AWS

Rubrik has had a long history of successfully working with Amazon Web Services, we’ve had integration with Amazon S3 since our first version.

Rubrik

Marrying consumer convenience with enterprise prowess

If you look at the consumer applications we interface with on a daily basis, things like Facebook, Google, Twitter,… these all tend to be very easy to use and understand, typically little to no explanation is needed on how to use them, you simply sign-up and you get going.

Rubrik

Atlas distributed filesystem, think outside the box.

So the difference lies in the software architecture, not the packaging, as such we need to look beyond the box itself and dive into why starting from a clustered distributed system as a base makes much more sense in todays information era.

Storage

Erasure Coding – a primer

Data also keeps growing, a corollary to Parkinson’s law is that data expands to fill the space available for storage, just like clutter around your house.

Networking

Fortinet integration with Nuage Networks SDN

Nuage Networks VSP, with the emphasis on P for Platform provides many integration points for 3rd party network and security providers (a.o.) this way the customer can leverage the SDN platform and build end-to-end automated services in support of his/her application needs.

Containers

Docker networking overview

In general the networking piece of Docker, and arguably Docker itself, is still quite young so things move fast and will likely change over time. A lot of progress has been made via the SocketPlane acquisition last year and it’s subsequent pluggable model, but more about that later.

Intel

Intel and Micron 3D XPoint

3D Xpoint, as the name implies, is a crosspoint structure, meaning 2 wires crossing each other, with “some material*” in between, it does not use transistors (like DRAM does) which makes it easier to stack (hence the 3D)