BSIT400-T301

 Done Already? This is the final blog in this series, the course has come to an end and our time is short. Throughout this class, I found myself learning much more than I was even aware existed, it has challenged some of my incorrect beliefs and has helped with my career development. I really am not to much of a creative person as I prefer my numbers and proven scientific over feelings, I did find this blogging experience to be a bit freeing in a sense. Knowing that writing is not one of my strongest suits, I find that completion is better than perfection, all it takes is a few sentences to allow the mind to start thinking in the correct direction. If all else fails I can always go back and remove the “starter sentences” that caused me to get into deeper thoughts and more realistic writing experiences. Blogging has only become a part of my life due to scholastic reasons; I find it hard to post anything private on public forms, social media or even in conversation. I keep a low pr...

 Cloud Automation In the past few weeks I have written about the perks, bonuses, and reasons why a company or organization may want to look into could offerings, however, I left out one final great reason that is truly different than a locally hosted environment.  Automation is the way of the future, this is a way that some work can be offloaded or done without human intervention and can reduce the needed personnel to complete repeating mundane tasks. Some great examples of things that can be automated is new user account setup and share drive mapping, with a simple CSV file upload a server can create a new Windows server active directory user and provide a new private portion of an existing storage drive for the individual user (Herrington, 2021). The idea behind this is to take more time at the beginning to make a template or “cast” of what the basic tasks look like. If every user has the same naming conventions as FLast @myCompany.com then doing a basic search for curren...

 In the ever-developing world of IT more companies are deciding to build out from the cloud versus going through the hassle of hosting at the office. Some of the unintended benefits of this type of planning can provide a better alert system for IT staff and small businesses owners. One super exciting feature of AWS and Azure cloud is the configuration of notifications, users can set thresholds for bandwidth or other utilization metrics to send a notification via text, email or push notification. The goal is to make the user aware of potential spikes in performance or denied request due to limitations set by the budget. These alarms can be configured to be abnormality based or fixed, in either situation the end goal is that someone or someplace will be alerted and no major changes will be made automatically. On the other end of the spectrum there are alerts that can be set to automatically scale systems as needed to provide the service even with a large influx of request, although t...