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Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Blake Davies. We are more connected now than ever before. We can reach the other side of the globe in a matter of seconds, without even having to move one inch.  A privilege many businesses have taken advantage of in order to grow and prosper.Modern technologies allow us to tap into new markets, reach a greater customer base, as well as find a better team to help with all business matters.And within the top 5 remote jobs are developers. At first, the lowered cost was the main reason for allocating a part of their ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Emma White. This post was written by Dean Suzuki, Solution Architect Manager. Customers who run Windows or Linux instances on AWS frequently ask, “How do I know if my disks are almost full?” or “How do I know if my application is using all the available memory and is paging to disk?” This blog helps answer these questions by walking you through how to set up monitoring to capture these internal performance metrics. If you open the Amazon EC2 console, select a running Amazon EC2 instance, and select the Monitoring tab  you can see Amazon ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This is post was co-written by FactSet’s Cloud Infrastructure team, Gaurav Jain, Nathan Goodman, Geoff Wang, Daniel Cordes, Sunu Joseph and AWS Solution Architects, Amit Borulkar and Tarik Makota. FactSet considers developer self-service and DevOps essential for realizing cloud benefits.  As part of their cloud adoption journey, they wanted developers to have a frictionless infrastructure provisioning experience while maintaining standardization and security of their cloud environment.  To achieve their objectives, they use what they refer to as a ‘microAccounts approach’. In their microAccount approach, each AWS account is allocated for one project and is owned by ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; So you’re in the market for cloud storage, but all the payment plans you see offer either too little or too much online storage; a 1TB cloud storage plan hits the sweet spot for you. Luckily, there are a few quality services that offer 1TB of cloud storage, and we’ve rounded them up for you in this list. Key Takeaways: When it comes to storing only a single terabyte of online data, there aren’t that many cloud storage options.Only three cloud providers offer exactly 1TB of cloud storage, and Icedrive is the best of the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Being diligent about service-level agreements (SLAs) has always been important for IT organizations working with IT service and cloud providers. But understanding how to negotiate, structure, manage, measure, and report on these metrics is more crucial than ever.“Given digital transformation and the spending cuts across IT and business lines, it is critical to confirm the expected outcomes in advance relative to the IT spend, otherwise IT leaders will be disillusioned and disappointed in the results,” says Dave Jordan, vice president and global head of consulting and services integration at Tata Consultancy Services.The COVID-19 pandemic has also ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Digital initiatives come in many flavors and vary widely, but they do have one thing in common and that’s data. That’s why the need to easily manage, analyze, and find key insights—and those “a-ha” moments—from data is critical to achieving and maintaining a market-leading position.  One quick look at leading companies today and it’s easy to see they aren’t just technology-centric companies, but data-centric ones. The challenge for most companies is how to make data management simple and efficient.Problems with data management today stem from the fact that data is being generated from so many places ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Server Dev Team; The MySQL Development Team is happy to announce a new 8.0 Maintenance Release of MySQL Shell AdminAPI – 8.0.23! In addition to several bug fixes and minor changes, some significant enhancements regarding monitoring/troubleshooting and performance were included. MySQL Shell AdminAPI Cluster diagnostics Checking how a Cluster is running and, whenever the cluster is not 100% healthy, perform troubleshooting tasks is certainly one of the main tasks of a DBA. The AdminAPI makes this operation very easy by centralizing the monitoring information in: <Cluster>.status([options]) In this release, we’ve extended the status() command to provide more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This post was co-written by Anandprasanna Gaitonde, AWS Solutions Architect and John Bickle, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS Enterprise Support Introduction Many AWS customers have internal business applications spread over multiple AWS accounts and on-premises to support different business units. In such environments, you may find a consistent view of DNS records and domain names between on-premises and different AWS accounts useful. Route 53 Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Resolver endpoints on AWS create an architecture best practice for centralized DNS in hybrid cloud environment. Your business units can use flexibility and autonomy to manage the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kiran Reid. By Kiran Reid, Specialist Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Sudha Thillai Govindarajan, Sr TAM (MNG) at AWS Enterprise SupportBy Wen Yu, Principal Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Customers across different industries and verticals are adopting VMware Cloud on AWS for their production workloads. If you have workloads that you’d like to run with high availability requirements, it’s important to understand the different architectural patterns and configuration options available. In this post, we will explain key resiliency design considerations and responsibilities for customers leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Joe Reblin; What is a Cloud Migration? A Cloud migration, or migrating to the cloud, refers to the transfer of data, business operations, applications or services to “The Cloud.” In simplest terms, the cloud is someone else’s computer(s). Mostly, it is a term that refers to hosting companies with complex systems that can spin up to provide a multitude of services that will handle any type of software. Migration to these systems will bring businesses numerous benefits. Usually, the decision to move to cloud infrastructure comes to escape legacy infrastructure. This is typically a natural progression ... Read More