Category: Automation

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Claire Cadman; With increasing pressure to keep infrastructure secure and install the latest software packages, even the most efficient teams will struggle to manually install packages on hundreds, or even thousands, of ever-changing servers.To meet the needs of internal customers, you might be asked to install a package on all the servers in your infrastructure. To do this manually could mean finding where the package is stored, knowing the version, logging into the system with the right credentials, installing the package with the right credentials (that may or may not be the same as the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Andrew Nhem; In this podcast, Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann will be exploring the challenges that DevOps engineers face in using cloud-native infrastructure and how Puppet can help with your deployments.Continuous deployment is essential to the growing cloud-native space, especially in the case of containerization. Everyone we’ve interviewed is looking to adopt cloud-native technologies, but they face significant challenges in adopting containers, microservices, and serverless infrastructure for even simple cloud-native applications. Project Nebula provides automation that helps customers easily work on provisioning, rollbacks, application deployment, and notifications all through one tool. Nebula also provides teams ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mayra Pena; Deciding whether to publish your agency or freelancer rates? When creating a website for your agency or freelance business, you’re going to create your home page, about page, services page, contact page, and even your portfolio. You’ll even decide between unmanaged or managed hosting. However, there is one thing that you still need to figure out: Will you publish your pricing or make your rate card public on your site? When deciding whether or not to display your rate card on your website and be completely transparent about all of your pricing, you need ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Known for its Himalayan mountains — including Mt Everest — and the streets of Kathmandu, there’s plenty to explore in Nepal. You’ll most likely go online at some point, though, so stay safe with one of our best VPN for Nepal picks. Read on to find out why you should use a VPN and what features it should have for the best experience. Your best bet for Nepal is ExpressVPN, but there are some other solid choices, too.  The number of internet users in Nepal is growing. Only around nine percent of the population used ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Last week, over 130 data professionals tuned in to hear Kai Wolffram, Head of Analytics at TUI Group, share his lessons learned from TUI’s journey to the cloud. During the webinar, Kai spoke about the challenges he and his team encountered when trying to find the right home for their data. He also talked about the technical requirements they would need to consider to extract, load, and transform their data for analytics. TUI, the largest tour operator and leisure company in the world, is well known: it has 70,000 employees ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Kickstart your Azure migration with this practical, step-by-step tutorial and learn how experienced Azure engineers design networks and other cloud services. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to establish a hub-spoke network topology, design subnets and network access, send logs/metrics to Azure-native services, and connect your database to your application tier. Watch a preview of the video below: The #1 architecture template we use for 90% of Azure designs Why a hub-spoke architecture design helps you with compliance and separation of concerns How to deploy a Bastion in a “shared services” network How to gain ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jerry Vasquez; Did you know a company’s choice in web hosting infrastructure has effects on their site’s performance and brand perception? Online services such as email, website, and eCommerce hosting are critical for practically any business operating in this day and age, but they all rely on servers to be constantly operational. Determining which server hosting is right for business objectives can have a major impact on the web hosting experience as a whole. Businesses can choose between unmanaged and managed dedicated server plans, and while costs are important, the right solution is always based on ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Vijay Tella; There’s been a big movement to cloud and the adoption of SaaS in recent years, and in this context, there is a major shift happening from Information Technology (IT) to Business Technology (BT). BT differs from IT in the scale of apps, speed, agility, and being business impact driven. Companies successfully making this shift thrive and become category leaders, and the ones that do not, fade away. We have written about these challenges and the new approach to automation required to enable such a shift via an Enterprise Automation Platform.  We created ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Avast is among the best free antivirus software on the market, while Webroot uses different methods to protect your devices, compared to its competitors. To decide which is best, we’re pitting Webroot and Avast against each other in a head-to-head comparison. Although the services cover different markets — with Avast appealing to the masses and Webroot targeting a niche audience — they’re more similar than they are different. That said, some areas, such as protection, are more important than others, pushing one of the services ahead.  This Webroot vs. Avast comparison can’t cover everything, though, ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; First of all, what is DevOps? DevOps is short for Developer Operations and it is a newer approach that combines both development and operational tasks to automate and speed up software development practices and reduce release cycles for fast-growing companies. DevOps is built on the concept of teamwork and aims to unite teams that were traditionally kept separate and siloed, and reduces the development lifecycle for faster scalability. Once companies have decided which their business needs and objectives are, they need to start small and work towards adopting the DevOps model across the entire ... Read More