Author: LogicWorks

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; NEW YORK, April 02, 2018 — Logicworks, a leading cloud services provider, today announced dramatic expansion of its cloud services business for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.  Following a $135 million investment from Pamplona Capital Management, the company made significant investments in target market expansion, product development, and human capital to capture the vast market for public cloud adoption.  During this same period, Logicworks’ consulting revenues grew in excess of 300%, with managed cloud business revenues growing over 30%.“2017 was a critical year for Logicworks as we aggressively scaled the ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; The HITRUST CSF™ is growing in popularity — it’s used by 26.4% of healthcare companies as their cybersecurity framework for HIPAA compliance, according to the 2018 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey.While HITRUST certification is a competitive differentiator for healthcare software and services companies in 2018, it will likely be table stakes in the next 1-3 years. The big health insurance companies are asking all of their vendors for proof of HITRUST certification, and it’s wise to begin thinking about it now — before lack of HITRUST certification hurts your business.Last week, VP of Product ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; by Adrian Mlodzianowski, Sr. Systems Engineer, LogicworksIn the new family of AWS instances (the C5 and M5), EBS volumes are exposed as NVMe block devices. If you’re already using some form of automation to build instances, identifying the EBS device name can be a problem.Logicworks manages tens of thousands of EBS volumes, and so we use Puppet to programmatically manage volumes. In a single configuration run, you want to create the EBS volume and mount it, and to do that you need to know the device name. While issuing the API call ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; LinkIt! provides real-time data services to educational companies including school districts, publishers, and test-prep organizations. Their software allows test-takers to see their grades in real time, and simultaneously sends metrics and analysis to the organization administering the test. Chief Information Officer Karen Winter took over technical operations during a period of rapid growth. After bringing on a quick series of new clients across the country, Karen’s team had their hands full updating the product capabilities and adding new features. “We were purely focused on product development and didn’t have time to keep ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Getting ready to migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud? Companies that are looking to modernize existing business applications often realize the best way to do so is to migrate them to the cloud. By doing so, you can improve agility, performance, and cost savings by moving all, or a key subset, of your workloads to the cloud.However, many companies struggle to develop the right staff, tools, and processes to migrate quickly and cost-efficiently. Below Logicworks and CloudHealth Technologies share a well-tested methodology for migrating to AWS and how to confront unexpected ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Docker orchestration tools and serverless are getting a lot of hype — but what’s the best tool for your application, and how do you actually deploy them on AWS?Last week, our Sr. Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Phil Christensen put on a fantastic webinar comparing containers and serverless on AWS. Below is a recap of the webinar. To watch the full replay, go here or watch below. Highlights of the Webinar: Intro to ContainersThe standard deployment model these days for any kind of application that you deploy on the cloud is changing ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; NEW YORK, Feb. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Logicworks, a leading cloud services provider specializing in complex compliant environments, today released Pulse, an Infrastructure-as-Code Platform specifically engineered to meet the needs of enterprises running mission-critical applications in the cloud. Logicworks sought to centralize and productize the best practices that empower IT departments to protect their customers’ data and run efficient cloud-based infrastructure. The portal integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud environments and is available at no charge to all of Logicworks’ customers. Pulse follows the release of Logicworks’ ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; “In the old world, building out an entire technology stack for a new client would have taken weeks. Today our average time-to-market for a new client is 48 hours.” – Esvan Costa, Stibo SystemsIn today’s world a company’s data is no longer just a requirement, it’s a valuable commodity. To leverage the potential of this data, enterprises are turning to Master Data Management platforms, a comprehensive method of enabling an enterprise to link all of its critical data. Stibo Systems provides Master Data Management to clients like Toyota, Office Depot, Best Buy, Sears, ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Dora Kuo; By Jason McKayIt is said that what cannot be measured cannot be managed. But how do you measure behavior or mindset? Therein lies the challenge with measuring DevOps. Much more than a buzzword, DevOps is about a mindset – a culture that is made up of processes and practices that bring development and operations teams together within a company to develop and deploy software, with maximum efficiency and minimal interruptions. So how then can we define and measure the benefits and importance of DevOps?First, it’s important to understand what DevOps is ... Read More