It’s all geek to me
Practical notes, deep dives, fixes and experiments across infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, automation and the rest of the technology rabbit hole.
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isageek
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cybersecurity · microsoft & cloud · backup & resilience · ai & emerging technology · infrastructure
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A regulated Azure Local deployment needs more than local workloads. This blueprint sets out how to define management, identity, network, key and evidence boundaries, then map them to repeatable controls and audit artefacts.
A Proxmox VE 9 upgrade is an operating-system and platform migration, not a routine package update. Check restores, boot recovery, storage, networking, repositories, guests and cluster health before approving any node for the move.
Troubleshoot a Fibre Channel SAN by proving the failed path first, then working from link state and optics through fabric login, zoning, LUN masking and host multipathing. Capture evidence before resetting anything; the failure pattern usually tells you where to look.
Step-by-step technology how-to guides with prerequisites, ordered procedures, expected results, verification checks and rollback guidance where it matters.
Immutable backup can stop protected recovery data being changed or deleted before its retention deadline. But its value depends on the enforcement mechanism, administrative overrides, retention period and whether the organisation can restore a clean copy.
Azure Backup and Veeam are often compared as if they were interchangeable. They are not. Azure Backup is a Microsoft-native service with tight Azure integration and sensible protections for Microsoft-centric estates. Veeam is a broader backup platform built for mixed infrastructure, migration, and recovery control. The right choice depends less on branding and more on what you need to protect, where it lives, and how much operational flexibility you want.
AWS AI can suit teams with sound AWS practices, usable data and a bounded problem. But Bedrock or SageMaker AI access alone does not establish readiness: costs, security, governance, skills, lock-in and measurable value all need testing.
Digital Jersey’s Let’s Build AI Project Lab helps teams turn defined use cases into working prototypes, with data, governance and deployment questions addressed before an AI experiment is treated as a production project.
OpenTelemetry can separate application telemetry from a commercial observability backend, making a future move less disruptive. That freedom depends on controlled Collector pipelines, shared telemetry conventions and a realistic plan for the proprietary features that do not travel.
Backups are essential, but they are not the same thing as recovery. A proper disaster-recovery strategy has to cover restore time, alternate systems, access control, testing, and the ugly reality of ransomware, regional outages and human error.
Choosing between VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and HPE Morpheus in 2026 isn’t just a technical decision—it’s a question of long-term value versus cost, flexibility, and control. In this head-to-head comparison, we break down how each platform stacks up so you can decide which solution truly fits your infrastructure and budget.
Broadcom’s VMSA-2026-0006.2 adds vSphere 7.0 guidance for two unauthenticated, network-reachable vCenter flaws rated 9.8. With no workaround available, restrict access and use the supported patch route as an emergency change.
A newer Microsoft Defender security intelligence update appears to restore failed scans on affected Windows PCs, highlighting why rapidly delivered endpoint-protection updates need monitoring, staged deployment and clear recovery procedures.
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