Tag: Migration

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We help APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses, and we enable customers to easily identify specialized APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers identify and choose top APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these skilled professionals ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. When upgrading a school district’s infrastructure, the administration thinks about the physical buildings as well as the IT. In 2018, Portland Public Schools began tackling both. The district is visibly renovating many of its high schools, but behind the scenes, they also migrated to the cloud, increasing both performance and capacity for their users.Travis Paakki, Sr. Director of Technology, Portland Public Schools, started around the time the district’s sizeable enterprise resource planning (ERP) install was nearing its end of life. The IT team was faced with a choice – either refresh ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; The particular type of virtualization a private cloud is built on needs to be fully considered by businesses trying to decide whether a private cloud is for them. The private cloud can involve a few different types of hypervisors, however, and a few different infrastructure arrangements. They are not all the same.VMware is an infrastructure virtualization provider and is used by about 75 percent of businesses that use virtualized servers. About three-quarters of businesses with 50 or more employees use virtual machines, meaning many businesses of all sizes use VMware. There are also many ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Since the concept of cloud was born, there has been strong growth in the number of migrations to this environment. However, not everything that shines is gold. As the demand grows, so does the costs. We can find ourselves in a situation where our monthly cloud expenses are very high and, in this case, it may make sense to migrate back to an on-prem environment. The costs may not be the only reason. There might be security or compliance requirements, or we may need to have more control of our systems. Knowing what happens at ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Ankit Kumar; Today I am going to introduce you all to an awesome tool GH-OST. We are using it since many months to Alter tables online. Believe me it saves lot of time and efforts while altering big tables in MySQL. gh-ost has been developed at GitHub. To answer a problem we faced with ongoing, continuous production schema changes requiring modifications to MySQL tables. gh-ost changes the existing online table migration paradigm by providing a low impact, controllable, auditable, operations friendly solution. gh-ost stands for GitHub’s Online Schema Transmogrifier/Transfigurator/Transformer/Thingy. While migrating table gh-ost creates a ghost ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PREVIOUS POST PostgreSQL is emerging as the standard destination for database migrations from proprietary databases. As a consequence, there is an increase in demand for database side code migration and associated performance troubleshooting. One might be able to trace the latency to a plsql function, but explaining what happens within a function could be a difficult question. Things get messier when you know the function call is taking time, but within that function there are calls to other functions as part of its body. It is a very challenging question to identify which line inside a function—or ... Read More

Feed: Blog – OrientDB. Author: Leann. Developers have always had to do more with less. What the OrientDB team has loved about working with developers over the last eight years is learning all the ways in which they’ve innovated around complex data challenges even as data types, formats and application usage have changed.When OrientDB founder Luca Garulli created our database management system, he wanted to empower developers’ unsung innovation by freeing them from the chains of monolithic data formats and use. His mission was to create a high-performance transaction graph database that enables developers to: Find new, complex relationships between ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Hewitt; We all know that having a professional business email platform is important, but you may not know exactly why.Business start-ups have a typical path that’s followed.An idea grows into a business plan, creating a small business. The growth in a small business typically begin slowly, and over time picks up more speed as it continues. This can cascade quickly.The growth inevitably leads to the normal business staples (i.e. business cards, marketing, designing a company logo, first website, etc.) Even the website itself can start as a Facebook page and evolve from there as the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage If you want to control storage account failover so that you can determine when storage account write access is required and the secondary replication state is understood, account failover for geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts is now available in preview. If the primary region for your geo-redundant storage account becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, you can force an account failover. As is the case with most previews, account failover should not be used with production workloads. There ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The AWS Managed Service Program (MSP) Program highlights APN Consulting Partners who are skilled at cloud infrastructure, application migration, and deliver value to customers by offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customer’s environment. Today, the AWS MSP Program launched the MSP Validation Checklist v4.0. This new checklist includes new requirements and performance-based renewal in order to enhance the customer and partner experience. Learn more about these requirements on the APN Blog.  ... Read More