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In the ever-evolving world of technology, where data rules supreme and innovations abound, finding your way through the digital labyrinth can be a daunting task. Whether you’re a seasoned tech enthusiast, a curious newcomer, or just someone looking to make sense of the rapidly changing tech landscape, “The NAS Guy” is here to be your guiding light.

Welcome to my tech-savvy haven where we unravel the mysteries of cloud computing, dive deep into storage solutions, explore the intricacies of data backup, and navigate everything in between. If you’ve ever found yourself lost in the jargon of terabytes, cloud migrations, or RAID arrays, fear not – you’re in the right place!

Recent Blog Posts

  • Meet the AWS News Blog team!
    Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS News Blog as of December last year, the AWS News Blog team will keep sharing the most important and impactful AWS product launches the moment they become available. I want to quote Jeff’s last comment on the future of the News Blog again: Going forward, the … Read more
  • Chart your Course to Modern Virtualization in Kubernetes with Veeam Kasten
    On the path to digital transformation, enterprises have increasingly turned to containerized environments to quickly and effectively deploy new revenue-generating applications. As customers increasingly explore alternatives to VMware as their virtualization provider, one key challenge they face is enhancing their investment in traditional virtualized environment infrastructures and applications while forming a plan to run a … Read more
  • Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service
    Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling … Read more
  • Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
    Today, we are launching IPv6 support for Amazon API Gateway across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs, in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now configure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, and custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call API … Read more
  • Akira Attacks in a Nutshell: Understanding and Detecting the Threat
    Akira ransomware has cemented its reputation as one of the most relentless and disruptive cyber threats affecting organizations today. Akira has held the number one spot for six straight quarters in Coveware by Veeam’s case data, and in 2024, it was responsible for 14% of all ransomware incidents.   While many ransomware groups tend to chase … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025)
    It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning … Read more
  • Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available
    I’m excited to announce that AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, so you can run your test suites concurrently and reduce build times significantly. With the demo project I wrote for this post, the total test time went down from 35 minutes to six minutes, including the time to provision the environments. These two … Read more
  • Elevate Your Cloud Game With Veeam
    Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, with nearly 98% of businesses utilizing cloud services in some capacity. This trend continues to grow as organizations store, process, and manage vast amounts of critical data in the cloud. However, with great convenience comes significant risk. Security threats, accidental deletions, and cloud outages can lead to severe … Read more
  • Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with … Read more
  • How to Prepare For & Survive a Cyber Attack: Critical Steps to Follow
    In the digital age, where information is power, cybercriminals loom like shadowy adversaries, ready to pounce on unsuspecting organizations. These stealthy assailants are relentless, exploiting every vulnerability to breach digital fortresses, wreak havoc and compromise the integrity of business-critical data. In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber warfare, organizations must be fully equipped, prepared for the … Read more
  • Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
    Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements. We continue to expand the AWS global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Omdia recognition, Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation, International Women’s Day events, and more (March 24, 2025)
    As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as … Read more
  • Hybrid Cloud Providers: How to Choose the Right One
    By blending the control of on-premises systems with the flexibility of cloud environments, hybrid cloud models offer unparalleled opportunities for scalability, security, and efficiency. But with the market teeming with options, how do you choose the right hybrid cloud provider? This guide provides an in-depth look at the leading hybrid cloud providers, highlighting their strengths … Read more
  • Why Backing Up Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID Matters
    In our recent blog “5 Reasons Why You Should Be Backing Up Microsoft Entra ID,” we discussed the importance of having a comprehensive backup strategy to protect your organization’s identity data. But what about the objects within Entra ID, specifically conditional access policies? For those unfamiliar, conditional access policies are rules that determine who can … Read more
  • Top 5 TTPs Targeting Enterprise Cybersecurity
    As enterprises continue to strengthen their security tactics, threat actors are continuously refining their methods to sidestep them. In 2024, advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) evolved significantly, shaping the threat landscape with greater efficiency and effectiveness.  These advancements have intensified enterprise cybersecurity threats, making proactive defense strategies more critical than ever. With the dust … Read more
  • Building Cyber Resilience in Educational Organizations
    Building cyber resilience within educational organizations is imperative to protect sensitive student, faculty, and research data and ensure operational continuity. Academic institutions are shifting toward complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures, making them more susceptible to cyber threats like phishing and ransomware. To effectively safeguard against these risks and others, schools, colleges, and universities must move … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more
    Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 15th anniversary, AWS Pi Day has grown into a flagship event highlighting the transformative power of cloud technologies in data management, analytics, and AI. This year’s … Read more
  • Google Cloud Pricing Guide: Models, Calculations, and Tips
    Google Cloud is a collection of services that includes storage and compute resources, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS), all provided by Google. Google offers several pricing options that cater to different demographics and use cases. These options include a free tier, pay-as-you-go instances, and discounted long-term reservations. Because so … Read more
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Building a Resilient Plan
    In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face a growing number of threats, ranging from cyberattacks to natural disasters. With the rise of AI-driven cyberthreats and the decreasing cost of cloud storage, organizations must prioritize resilience and preparedness to safeguard critical data and maintain operations. Historically, business disruptions were primarily caused by power outages, physical … Read more
  • How Small Businesses Can Navigate the Cost of Hypervisor Migration
    As small businesses face rising costs in every area of operations, IT budgets are feeling the strain. For companies who rely on VMware for their virtualization needs, recent licensing changes have created significant financial challenges. With VMware licensing costs reportedly increasing by an average of 150%, many small businesses are reevaluating their IT infrastructure. This … Read more
  • AWS Pi Day 2025: Data foundation for analytics and AI
    Every year on March 14 (3.14), AWS Pi Day highlights AWS innovations that help you manage and work with your data. What started in 2021 as a way to commemorate the fifteenth launch anniversary of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has now grown into an event that highlights how cloud technologies are transforming data … Read more
  • Collaborate and build faster with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, now generally available
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment where you can find and access all of the data in your organization and act on it using the best tool for the job across virtually any use case. Introduced as preview during AWS re:Invent 2024, my … Read more
  • Amazon S3 Tables integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse is now generally available
    At re:Invent 2024, we launched Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support to streamline storing tabular data at scale, and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse to simplify analytics and AI with a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse. We also previewed S3 Tables integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) analytics services … Read more
  • DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock
    As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025)
    As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. … Read more
  • Hybrid Cloud Efficiency through Automation
    Managing hybrid cloud environments can feel like walking a tightrope — balancing on-premises systems with public and private cloud resources. These environments offer businesses incredible flexibility, but their complexity can quickly overwhelm even the most experienced IT teams. Enter hybrid cloud automation: a game-changing approach that simplifies management, boosts efficiency, and allows IT professionals to … Read more
  • How to Backup OneDrive: Essential Strategies
    OneDrive is a cloud storage solution that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365. Many organizations rely on OneDrive for Business as it offers a convenient way to synchronize, store, and access files between devices. OneDrive is often referred to as a backup solution in its own right, and while it does offer limited data protection and … Read more
  • Why Veeam Kasten Leads in Kubernetes Data Protection
    Protecting Your Kubernetes Environment As Kubernetes is increasingly used in modern application deployments, organizations are encountering challenges with protecting containerized workloads. Traditional backup and recovery solutions are often not sufficient to manage the complexity and dynamic nature of Kubernetes environments. On top of this, the bar for effective Kubernetes data protection continues to rise each … Read more
  • Scale and deliver game streaming experiences with Amazon GameLift Streams
    Since 2016, game developers have been using Amazon GameLift to power games with dedicated, scalable server hosting capable of supporting 100M concurrent users (CCU) in a single game. Responding to customer requests for additional managed compute capabilities beyond game servers, we’re announcing Amazon GameLift Streams — a new capability in Amazon GameLift to help game … Read more
  • FBI Warns of Ghost Ransomware: Backup & Data Resilience are Critical
    The recent joint cybersecurity advisory issued by the FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC on the surge of (Cring) ransomware attacks reinforces why data backups have become an executive level concern. Emphasized in the advisory is the critical role backups play in mitigating the impact of ransomware attacks — a point echoed in a recent report from … Read more
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