by XTIVIA | Aug 28, 2025 | Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: To reduce Snowflake costs, organizations must implement a comprehensive optimization strategy that involves right-sizing virtual warehouses, tuning SQL queries, managing storage efficiently, and establishing strong governance and monitoring. Analyze and...
by Shane Schlabach | Jun 5, 2025 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: Organizations can enhance security and compliance by following distinct, step-by-step procedures to encrypt existing unencrypted AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, securing data that is not protected automatically by default. Encrypting a data volume...
by Dean Mikalajczyk | May 22, 2025 | AWS, Azure, Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: Terraform, an open-source tool from HashiCorp, enables businesses to automate, provision, and manage complex multi-cloud environments with control and consistency by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. Terraform promotes a powerful immutable...
by Dean Mikalajczyk | Apr 17, 2025 | Azure, Blog
SUMMARY: Organizations utilizing remote desktop services must transition from the discontinued Azure Virtual Desktop Preview app to the versatile Windows App immediately to ensure continuous and unified access to their virtual desktops and applications across multiple...
by Shane Schlabach | Mar 18, 2025 | Azure, Blog
SUMMARY: Microsoft is deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 across Azure to eliminate known security vulnerabilities, requiring organizations to transition their Azure SQL connections to TLS 1.2 or higher by August 31, 2025, to maintain secure data access. While Azure SQL...
by Shane Schlabach | Mar 11, 2025 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: XTIVIA outlines how administrators can centralize network governance by using the Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) to monitor public IP usage across an entire AWS Organization. The setup process involves delegating a specific non-management account to...
by Shane Schlabach | Nov 27, 2024 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
Security and management are essential when managing access to Entra joined machines. Using Microsoft Entra credentials achieves both and is a fairly straightforward setup when logging onto a device locally. Connecting remotely via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) can...
by Shane Schlabach | Aug 1, 2024 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
As Azure grows and resources continue to improve, Microsoft will continuously retire old and outdated resources. Any resources not migrated by the retirement date may stop working as Microsoft shuts down the endpoints on which they run. Below is a list of all...
by Shane Schlabach | Jul 9, 2024 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
When you create a general-purpose S3 bucket, AWS automatically redundantly saves all data across a minimum of 3 availability zones in the region where the bucket was created. This allows for 99.999999999% file durability, which ensures that you will never lose any of...
by Phani Krishna Pochiraju | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog, Cloud, Testing
Introduction Cloud-based testing, an integral component of contemporary software development, is at the forefront of the IT industry’s significant transformation. This transformation is primarily driven by the adoption of ‘Virtualization,’ a...
