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I’ve walked into too many “cloud migrations” where the client thinks they’re running lean, only to find $12k a month in “Dark Matter”—resources floating in the periphery with no owner, no tag, and no purpose. If you don’t have a tag, you don’t exist in the eyes of the finance department, yet you’re still on…
“Write once, run anywhere.” It’s the oldest lie in distributed computing. Java promised it in the 90s. Docker promised it in the 2010s. Now, cloud vendors promise it—usually right before they lock you into a proprietary service mesh or a database that only exists in us-east-1. Let’s be real for a minute: Infrastructure is not…
If you had told me in 2024 that I’d be running production GenAI workloads on AWS Lambda, I would have laughed you out of the room. Back then, Lambda was for glue code, JSON shuffling, and maybe a cron job. The idea of shoving a memory-hungry, GPU-craving LLM into a 15-minute ephemeral function felt like…
Key Takeaways The “Volume” Handshake is Gone: Microsoft is killing volume discounts (Level A-D) in Nov 2025. Consequently, being big doesn’t save you money anymore; it just makes you a larger target. The “Janitor Tax”: Oracle’s new model charges you for every employee in your directory. In other words, you pay even if they have…
I still remember the first “cloud” Disaster Recovery (DR) plan I reviewed back in 2012. The team assumed that because their app was running on AWS, it was magically invincible. “It’s in the cloud,” they said. “Amazon handles that.” Six months later, us-east-1 had a wobble, and that team spent 14 hours manually rebuilding databases…
When you’re designing for Day 2 operations, you quickly realize that data isn’t just heavy—it’s expensive to move. I’ve seen countless “cloud-native” projects hit a wall during the scaling phase because the architect assumed egress was a flat overhead. It isn’t. It’s a variable tax that scales with your success. To build like an engineer,…
In our previous guide, we covered the milestone event of Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC) officially supporting Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV. We discussed the “why” and the high-level “how” of getting your workloads migrated off ESXi and onto the native Nutanix hypervisor. Now, the dust has settled. Your connection servers are talking to Prism Element,…
Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC) has officially announced the General Availability (GA) of Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV with the release of Horizon 8 version 2512. For the last decade, “Horizon” and “vSphere” were effectively synonyms. If you wanted the premier VDI experience, you paid the vSphere tax. With the Broadcom acquisition of VMware and the…
