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Why Migrating Windows Server Applications By Hand is Hard!

Let’s begin at the beginning: at the start of the life cycle of a Windows Server application. Applications begin life for a specific version of the Windows operating system; for example, WS2003 or WS2008. They’re installed on a server using an install script, which...

Application Discovery: Why It Matters

Complying with new data protection regulations, such as GDPR rules, requires application visibility across your datacenter. Global corporate security breaches have also created a need to get continuous visibility of what apps you’re running. If you consider that world...

Moving Legacy Workloads to the Cloud

From time to time we’re asked whether we can help move legacy workloads to the cloud. Most customers want to move older applications to AWS, Azure, or Google’s GCP platform. Of course, the answer is Yes. Cloud onboarding of legacy Windows Server applications is a...

Basta, Cyber Security Experts

Stop Talking About Threat Detection and Start Eliminating Known Security Exposures Update March 2021 This blog was published in 2018, well before the global COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic, came a sharp rise in cyberattacks across all fields and organizations. To...

The Smart Move

How to Reduce the Problem of Noisy Neighbor VMs in the Datacenter This blog addresses how to reduce the problem of noisy neighbor VMs in your datacenter. What do we mean by a noisy Virtual Machine (VM) in the datacenter? How does the operational performance of a noisy...

What is the GDPR and Why Should You Care about it?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a set of new regulatory rules that have been passed and adopted by the European Parliament. These rules come into effect on May 25, 2018. The objective of these regulations is to strengthen and standardize the...

Cyber Warfare, Again

I decided to resurrect a post about cyber warfare. This is in light of recent news about Russian hacking of critical infrastructure systems for nuclear power plants, power grids, water facilities, and waste systems, Cyber warfare is a serious issue and security...