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Infrastructure Deep Dives
Clear guidance for the systems your team has to run. Murray Updates covers architecture, operations, and software change with practical detail for working IT professionals.
Architecture and operations
Six routes through complex systems
Start with the decision in front of you. Each guide sets out trade-offs, planning steps, and the operational detail that gets missed in a slide deck.
Build A Zero Trust Network
Set access policy around identity, device health, and the smallest useful trust boundary.
Design A Storage Area Network
Compare fabrics, redundancy, and workload profiles before capacity becomes a constraint.
Compare Hyper-V And VMware
Examine licensing, management, recovery, and team skills against your actual estate.
Run Kubernetes On Premises
Make cluster ownership, persistent storage, and upgrade responsibility explicit early.
Prepare Your IPv6 Transition
Audit address plans, application support, and routing policy before dual-stack deployment.
Operational discipline
Proven Practices
Good infrastructure work is repeatable. These checklists turn broad advice into a workflow an on-call team can use.
Small controls prevent expensive surprises. Begin with the evidence you already have.Make the next change safer.
Build a backup strategy
Keep recovery objectives visible to service owners.
- Classify systems by recovery time and recovery point.
- Separate backup credentials from production access.
- Test a restore every quarter and record the result.
Control configuration changes
Configuration is evidence of how a service is meant to run.
- Keep declared state in version control.
- Review changes with an owner who knows the dependency map.
- Attach validation and rollback steps to every release.
Design a monitoring stack
Alert on user impact first, then find the responsible component.
- Define service-level indicators for each critical path.
- Route alerts by urgency and accountable team.
- Remove noisy rules after every incident review.
Lessons from the field
Real-World Transformations
Two detailed studies show what changed, where the risk sat, and which measures proved the work was paying off.
A London Firm Moves To Hybrid Cloud
Challenge: Month-end workloads overloaded a tightly coupled estate. Solution: The team separated reporting services, added private connectivity, and moved scheduled processing into a governed public cloud account.
41%lower peak latency
28%less monthly spend
A University Rebuilds Campus Networking
Challenge: Flat segments made faults difficult to isolate. Solution: The network team introduced role-based access, redesigned wireless coverage, and placed research systems in separately monitored zones.
63%fewer fault tickets
19mslower campus latency
Hands-on reporting
Tools & Reviews
We test infrastructure products against the work they claim to improve. Ratings reflect setup time, daily use, integration, and the quality of the operational evidence.
Datadog Infrastructure
Strong correlation across hosts and services. Cost visibility needs careful tag governance.
Ansible Automation Platform
Readable playbooks and broad module support. Teams need firm standards for secrets.
Dell PowerEdge R760
Predictable remote management and sensible expansion. Plan rack power before ordering.
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