The Arraya Blog

Digital transformation is now an essential investment in the future of your organization. Those already taking advantage of the cloud, multi-cloud, and cloud-native applications are experiencing increased scalability, higher performance, and reduced costs.   However, the cloud is complex. And while this is nothing new, the growing complexity of managing multi-cloud environments is getting more challenging. […]

The Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework is Microsoft’s set of guiding principles in maintaining and improving a customer’s workload quality in the Azure Cloud. To ensure easy adoption of the framework, there exists what are called the “five pillars of architectural excellence.” These pillars consist of Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency. If an […]

Microsoft solutions and services are a staple of productivity for businesses of all sizes and industries. However, due to the broad scope of options available, Microsoft licensing has long been a complicated and convoluted affair.   As a result, many businesses aren’t handling their licensing as efficiently as they could be and find themselves with a […]

VMware Explore 2022 took place during the last week of August, offering new perspectives, experiences, and communities. Throughout the four-day conference, there were a number of important and exciting announcements made that highlighted breakthrough innovations that will help organizations better manage their workloads, no matter where they are running.   In case you weren’t able to […]

The future of modern business is in the cloud. Cloud-based applications provide increased flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings. To take advantage of these benefits, many businesses and enterprises heavily rely on two of Cisco’s most popular offerings: Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-management network offering, and Catalyst, Cisco’s brand of access switches to manage their environment  These two offerings […]

Workloads are everywhere.   Businesses today have workloads running in multiple clouds, both private or hosted by third parties, as well as on-premises, which can be spread out across different locations, data centers, or edge sites. These various locations create more work for IT teams as they must work in silos and lack total visibility. This […]

As the business landscape shifts, employees must be able to login from anywhere and at any time. While this provides employees with unsurpassed flexibility and convenience, it can also cause businesses security headaches, increased licensing costs, and infrastructure issues.   Enter Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). AVD is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs […]

While digital transformation has become a necessity for any business who wishes to stay relevant, security isn’t always factored into this process. The security parameters that were in place while on-premises will not adequately protect an organization’s data and network while in the cloud.   For many businesses, their cloud adoption progress outpaces their security controls. […]

Data compliance continues to challenge businesses of all sizes and across all industries. With more data real estate than ever, it’s becoming more difficult to govern our data. At Arraya, we’re continuing our focus on compliance and Microsoft Purview. This is Microsoft’s comprehensive set of solutions that help businesses govern, protect, and manage their entire […]

As businesses are gathering more data than ever, their digital footprint is growing. It’s becoming more challenging to manage, organize, protect, and utilize the growing volume of data we collect. With new updates to data protection regulations every day, it’s difficult to track which regulations will affect your business and how to ensure you’re in […]