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Augusto Alvarez
Augusto Alvarez
Augusto is currently working as Principal Consultant in Dell EMC, originally from Argentina and now based in the US. His role currently is designing customer requirements into specific systems and processes; also performing technical briefings; leading architectural design sessions and proofs of concept. Augusto is also the author from two published App-V books: “Getting Started Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6” and “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide”.
Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • March 6, 2017

Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware Available as a Preview

Microsoft keeps going big on offering VMware integration, we’ve mentioned in the past that they’ve released a freeware tool to backup VMware virtual machines into Azure: Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). And now they keep insisting on taking over Enterprise VMware customers into Azure, or at least their Site Recovery solution: Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • March 1, 2017

Microsoft Just Released Azure Network Watcher: Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Service for Azure

The network component and the troubleshooting that sometimes we need to do represents a big factor on all cloud customers, not matter if you are using Azure, AWS, Office 365 or any other. If you don’t have control over the network and/or you are not capable of identifying issues root causes, then there’s most likely the cloud experience it’s not going to be a good one. Microsoft has that clear and is now offering a new tool to assist customers: Azure Network Watcher.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • February 20, 2017

Azure Backup Server Offering New Features: Central Monitoring, Enhanced Security, and New Regions

We talked about Azure Backup before in this blog, when they recently added the capability to backup VMware virtual machines, now they are introducing a new set of features: Central monitoring, enhanced security and available in new regions.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • February 16, 2017

AWS wants your Databases in the Cloud: Amazon Aurora offering up 5X Better Performance and PostgreSQL Compatibility

Amazon released recently the Aurora Storage Engine as a MySQL-compatible relational database service and is highly encouraging to customers to migrate from Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server to this new cloud service platform. Amazon Aurora is promising up to five times better performance than MySQL with better security, availability, and reliability of a commercial database and a 10% cost of what organizations are paying. And also announced a short time ago, PostgreSQL compatibility (available as a preview).
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • February 10, 2017

Microsoft Keeps Going Big on CyberSecurity: Investing $1 Billion a Year

The technology giant Microsoft is, as many other big ones in the market, making a statement regarding CyberSecurity: They are maintaining their $1 billion investment on yearly basis for research and development in this field, which does not include any “inorganic investments” (buying other companies). The latter investments will be a separate budget.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • January 23, 2017

Azure Storage New Features: Larger Blobs and New Storage Emulator

Microsoft recently announced new features and updated capabilities within Azure Storage. Some of the new features are Larger blobs, incremental copy, new API capabilities and an updated version for the Storage Emulator.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • January 16, 2017

Azure: Microsoft is cancelling the Pay-as-you-Go Option, but don’t worry

Microsoft will be “guiding” new customers to use the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program to acquire any of the Azure subscriptions. Even though you won’t see the pay-as-you-go option from Microsoft, don’t panic, there’s an explanation.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • January 10, 2017

CES 2017: AT&T Offering Internet-of-Things (IoT) starter kits for AWS and Raspberry Pi

AT&T, the Texas-based telecommunications company, has just announced two new Internet of Things (IoT) starter kits at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 in Las Vegas, one for Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers, the other for developers that use Raspberry Pi.
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Augusto Alvarez
  • Augusto Alvarez
  • January 9, 2017

AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Offering New Services

AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be one of the trends in 2017, the two big cloud providers are investing a large amount of money into developing new technologies in this area. Amazon Web Services (AWS) released in December 2016 several new services customers can acquire within their cloud offerings: Polly, Rekognition and Lex.
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