One of the key roles of cloud network managers is containing costs. It is so easy to add to networks and scale resources in the never ending quest for lower latency and better application performance. Even if you are working for or consulting to large organisations with seemingly unlimited budgets…

With the wide adoption of containers as a method of rapidly deploying software applications to the cloud, the need to visualise workloads has been gaining momentum. The need to see the status of pods and tasks in container clusters is a major benefit when you visualise containerised workloads on an…

Whether you are building a new application or migrating legacy on premise workloads to AWS it’s good to know what compute services are available and which ones might be a good choice for your specific application or workload. At the heart of AWS you’ll have a choice of three main…

In the latest release, Hava users running GKE workloads will see container diagrams auto generated in their environments dashboard. This new functionality closely follows the addition of direct import of stand alone kubernetes clusters. Soon, you will not have to do anything to invoke the import and diagramming of your…

If you are looking after cloud infrastructure for multiple clients, the first thing you want to look at before starting to troubleshoot a reported issue is the current state of the client’s network infrastructure. Let’s face it, if you are responsible for more than a couple of networks, remembering exactly…

So imagine your worst nightmare. The cloud based application you have just inherited management and support for has just crashed. The support lines are lit up like a Christmas tree, the support ticket system is having a meltdown and everyone is looking at you for a solution. The problem is…

Could your team show you with any confidence what systems and resources you have running in the cloud. Could they do that today, or right now. Or would they need a few days or longer to trawl through consoles and configuration documents or possibly hunt down the original design documents…

Whether you are developing cloud based applications or accessing lots of different corporate applications and web properties daily, there is a clear advantage to streamlining your security profile using SSO What is SSO authentication. Single Sign-on authentication is designed to improve your online security posture by centralizing identity management and multi factor authentication. The…

How to find resources in AWS When you are developing applications or creating infrastructure in AWS things can escalate quickly, which is kind of the point of choosing the cloud in the first place. What that means though, is that it might not be too long into your development cycle before you start to lose track…