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With the acceleration of a distributed workforce and more traffic moving to the cloud, the need for a new approach to security has risen. SASE, an emerging cybersecurity concept from Gartner, consolidates networking and security functions into an integrated cloud service for improved security and performance. In this webinar, we’ll review what SASE is, why it’s important, and steps your organization should take to get there. Attendees will gain access to a complimentary 1-hour SASE Readiness Consultation to help choose a transition path that works best for your business.

At a very high level, VM’s are virtualized at the hardware level and containers are virtualized at the OS level. Looking at the diagram below for a VM scenario, the hypervisor is a software layer (sometimes in firmware or built into the hardware) that separates or abstracts the systems’ operating system from the hardware infrastructure (disks, memory, network, CPU, etc.). For containers, it’s up to the container engine and its’ orchestration layer to manage how people are routed to different places via the elevators, as well as the load-balancing by adding/removing floors in service. Containers also use up fewer resources than VM’s, so they can make use of a server’s resources more efficiently.

leading IT solutions provider announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Aqueduct to its 2021 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category. CRN’s 2021 MSP 500 list identifies the market’s key managed services players who are setting themselves apart with best-of-breed solutions that provide the business outcomes customers need. The MSP 500 list is divided into three sections: the MSP Pioneer 250, recognizing companies with business models weighted toward managed services and largely focused on the SMB market; the MSP Elite 150, recognizing large, data center-focused MSPs with a strong mix of on-premises and off-premises services; and the Managed Security 100, recognizing MSPs focused primarily on off-premises and cloud-based security services. The solution providers on CRN’s 2021 MSP 500 list deserve recognition for their innovative and forward-thinking approaches to managed services, and the ability to optimize operational efficiencies and systems to maximize return on investments.”

In our Cloud Native Practice, we run workshops for our clients covering topics ranging from the basics of containers or the cloud to analyzing deployment processes and migration strategies. Part of the infrastructure is shared like the foundation, roof, etc., but you are also responsible for your part of the building and everything inside including walls, pipes, wires, furniture, etc. There are elevators to route you to apartments, directories to find people, intercoms/mail/cable channels for internal communications, registries to sign up for events, you get the picture. The mechanism that schedules overflow housing (scaling up and down), where to send people, and when to send them is known as ‘orchestration’ in the container world.