Monthly Archives: February 2023

67. Advanced Cloud Troubleshooting Module Introduction As you know, in the previous module, we took a look at the very basic, fundamental concepts of troubleshooting, and now, of course, it’s time for us to take a look at more advanced troubleshooting topics, specifically those involving cloud. Let’s get started. 68. Advanced Cloud Troubleshooting Now, you […]

63. Troubleshooting Basics Module Introduction As I’m sure you recall, several of our modules really do apply to information technology in general, and this is definitely one of them. This is a very valuable module. I don’t care what discipline of IT you’re in, if it involves troubleshooting, I think you’re gonna love this module […]

60. Automation and orchestration Module Introduction I know it can be easy to do, but I don’t want you to confuse automation with orchestration. Automation is simple and will often refer to just a single task. Maybe, we want to take a virtual machine that’s in the cloud and take a snapshot of it. Okay? […]

57. Maintaining Efficient Operations Module Introduction We encounter this again and again in Cloud+, don’t we? Where there is a technology and there’s an approach that we take in the cloud, and it’s one of the reasons we move to the cloud, but it’s not automatic. What am I talking about? I’m talking about efficiency […]

54. Logging Module Introduction I am not saying this because my full-time job is as an instructor at Splunk. It’s not why I’m saying this. I’m telling you, logging is critically important today, and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about cloud or traditional environments. Let’s talk about some of the advancements in logging technologies […]

50. Cloud Migrations Module Introduction One of the most interesting experiences I’ve ever had in information technology was being at the AWS conference in Las Vegas one year, many years ago now, actually. But being at that conference and learning about the AWS Snowmobile. If you haven’t researched this yet or heard about it, check […]

47. Virtualization Module Introduction I think you would have to agree that if there’s one technology that really propelled cloud more than anything, other than, of course, the Internet itself, right? We know the Internet is critical here, but what’s the thing that came along and really flourished post-internet creation that enabled all of this? […]

44. Cloud Networking Services Module Introduction Well, as I’m sure you will recall, this is not our first module that’s gonna deal with this subject of networking; one that I’m very passionate about, by the way. No, this isn’t the first module. This is the module though, where we’re gonna focus on really cloud-based networking […]

39. Cloud Storage Module Introduction Yet another area where cloud really shines is with data storage. And data storage has been a massive challenge for information technology and it’s been that way for decades and it keeps getting worse. Everything is digitized now and we wanna store everything in this digital form for sometimes massively […]

36. Cloud Compute Module Introduction If you are brand new to cloud, a great place for you to really start considering specializing in would be cloud compute. The reason why I say that is it is often very easy, an easy introduction into the world of cloud because you’re building, initially virtual machines as you […]