Behind the Scenes: How Cloud Volumes ONTAP Handles Azure Scheduled Maintenance
Although the official documentation explains that Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Azure performs a negotiated takeover before Azure Scheduled Maintenance begins,…
Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 4 – Detecting and Recovering SMB Workloads from Ransomware
In this part we cover the protection, detection, and recovery of SMB (CIFS) file workloads using NetApp Console Ransomware Resilience,…
Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 3 – Extending Protection with NetApp Console Ransomware Resilience
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamentals of NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP), including its architecture,…
Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 2 – Simulating Ransomware Attacks on VMware VMFS Datastores
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamentals of NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP), including its architecture,…
Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 1 – Fundamentals
This post is Part 1 of a four-part series about NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). NetApp ONTAP provides built-in…
NetApp Backup & Recovery Ad-Hoc Backups Demystified – What Really Happens Behind the Scenes?
NetApp Backup & Recovery makes it easy to create ad-hoc backups directly from the NetApp Console, but what actually happens…
Deploying NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) in Azure using NetApp Console (formerly BlueXP) – Part 9 – Azure Key Vault as an External Key Manager: Encryption, Outage Recovery, and Worst-Case HA Testing
In previous parts of this series, we deployed, managed, protected, and replicated Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems in Microsoft Azure. While…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 3 – Automating Terraform CI/CD Workflows with GitHub Actions
After building a production-style multi-environment Terraform project with centralized remote state management and environment-specific deployment configurations in Part 2, the…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 2 – Remote Backends and Multi-Environment Deployments
In Part 1, we deployed our first Azure resources with Terraform and GitHub using a locally stored Terraform state In…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 1 – Introduction to Terraform, GitHub, and Infrastructure as Code on Azure
Modern cloud environments require deployments that are reproducible, scalable, and version controlled. While deploying resources manually through the Azure Portal…
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