Tag: Migration

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Fred Wurden. By Fred Wurden, General Manager, AWS Enterprise Engineering (Windows, VMware, RedHat, SAP, Benchmarking) AWS R5b.8xlarge delivers better performance at lower cost than Azure E64_32s_v4 for a SQL Server workload In this blog, we will review a recent benchmark that Principled Technologies published on 2/25. The benchmark found that an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R5b.8xlarge instance delivered better performance for a SQL Server workload at a lower cost when directly tested against an Azure E64_32s_v4 VM. Behind the study: Understanding how SQL Server performed better, for a lower cost with an AWS ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Eyeing migrating to cloud computing for your business and wondering what the trends around cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure are for 2021? If you’ve been watching the IT Industry over the past few years, you’ve witnessed an unprecedented growth in public cloud services and cloud usage across all business sectors. With that, there are now lots of new market opportunities and challenges — all of which will have a significant effect on long-term strategies and roadmaps of nearly every company. What can you expect to see from the most popular cloud computing trends in ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Axel Streichardt. Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift), as well as a 20% reduction¹ in total cost of ownership (TCO) over five years compared to ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Allison Wu. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Corey Clawson at NODES 2019 in October 2019.Project GoalsThis project is an outgrowth of my graduate studies, which looked at archipelagic and archive studies, and analyzed what they have in common. Initial goals for this project included the following: Offer a means of considering/modeling artistic influence. Consider the cultural flows of concepts of sexuality and gender as well as artistic strategies. Map artistic communities’ formation via processes of migration and urbanization. Eventually, what I arrived at is that the connectedness and dispersion of those ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Winter. Migrating to the cloud is an evolution, and it's important to think differently about how you consume resources. As you're building a business case in your organization, it's critical to step back and understand the cloud's key constructs and transform your mindset. It starts by having a conversation about today versus tomorrow and what is possible in the cloud, as with this migration, you will get instant access to innovative technologies and several new options that do not exist on-premises. Azure is here to help you start your cloud journey strong with key financial and technical guidance ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed serverless file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions. With this launch, AWS Transfer Family is now available in 19 commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Transfer Family supports file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and FTP over SSL (FTPS), simplifying and accelerating migration of file transfer workflows to AWS.   For more information, visit ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Casey Burns. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine to share and discuss best practices to help advance the goals of the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The forum brought representatives together from across the US government, including tribal, state, local, and territorial leaders, public health, healthcare systems, national and community based non-governmental organizations, education, private industry, unions, and faith-based organizations involved in the response to COVID-19. Amazon Web Services (AWS) participated in the forum as a panelist for “Day 2 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. Diversity matters. Governments, countries, cities, agencies, and more recognize the value that diversity brings. According to McKinsey, companies with ethnic or cultural diversity are 33% more likely to outperform on profitability. With this in mind, I am thrilled to announce the global launch of the Think Big for Small Business Program. The Think Big for Small Business Program provides small and minority-owned businesses (MOBs) public sector partners in Registered and Select tiers with provisional access to APN Select and Advanced Tier benefits through a set of requirements proportional their size. The program ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Millions of databases are being migrated to PostgreSQL today. This is because of the liberal PostgreSQL license in particular that invited more contributions to PostgreSQL and eventually made it Enterprise Grade. I have presented and also blogged about some of the rich enterprise features as following, those are otherwise available for an additional cost with some commercial databases. While it is great that there are several features available with Postgres by default, it may be challenging if there are no solutions to help with migrations to postgres. Fortunately, there are several contributions through extensions and Open source ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.5. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.5 databases, and from MariaDB 10.5 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets.   ... Read More