Category: Events

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We had an amazing time at PuppetConf 2017 — thanks in no small part to all of you who attended, watched the live stream, presented a session, sponsored, and gave us the feedback that led to our biggest set of announcements.Today we’re happy to share the videos, slides, and photos from PuppetConf 2017. For those of you who were there in San Francisco, go ahead and relive the conference, rewatch your favorite sessions, watch the ones you couldn’t fit in your schedule, and share them with your team. And for those of you ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery, Puppet Pipelines and Puppet Container Registry.October is a big month for us at Puppet. We are on day two of PuppetConf, our annual user conference, attended and watched by thousands of practitioners and IT leaders. At yesterday’s keynote we announced a number of new products, which I’d like to describe in more detail. Our mission at Puppet is to empower people through software. By "people" we have traditionally referred to sysadmins, but over the last few years as we've helped the DevOps ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top 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 team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are pleased to share the latest updates to our AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Partner Program requirements in Version 4.1 of the Validation Checklist.This version reflects our most recent program criteria, with improvements focused on raising the bar for both our MSP Partners and Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. By maintaining a high bar in this program, MSP Partners realize greater value by achieving elite recognition for their distinguished capabilities, and AWS customers can have increased confidence in working with AWS MSP Partners. Download the AWS MSP Partner Program Validation ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. There is a trend in industry which says that modern applications need to be built on top of one or more special-purpose databases. That every application benefits from using the best-of-breed technology for each requirement. And that the plethora of special-purpose options available from certain cloud providers is reasonable to manage. That’s all BUNK. The reality is that navigating the choices, figuring out how to use them effectively, and dealing with the ETL and inevitable data sprawl, is so difficult that the pain far outweighs any technical advantage you might get. In the vast ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Professor Rainer Schmidt. Social information systems – how we share information – use both public systems such as social media and private systems internal to organizations such as internal blogs and wikis. These systems increasingly influence opinion-forming processes in societies and organizations, and supplement and sometimes replace traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and TV. The strength of social information systems lies in their ability to present previously unestablished opinions and viewpoints as fact, and can be used to disseminate false information, leading to polarization. The Munich University of Applied Science (MUAS) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Phil Silver. Our cities are becoming smarter and faster every day, and as the modern city evolves so does its transportation offerings. By migrating transportation services to the cloud, cities can evolve to meet constituents’ transportation needs. To meet a modern-day travelers’ expectations, the cloud drives innovation by providing real-time analytics and predictive modeling that can make transportation easier and faster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with leading transportation technologies to help build cloud solutions for airports, seaports, mass transit, tollways, municipal planning, parking authorities, motor vehicle departments, traffic management departments, and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Live stream PuppetConf 2017Just because you can’t make it to PuppetConf 2017 in San Francisco doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the excitement! From the comfort of your own home (or office or wherever you want), you can follow along in real time. We’re offering a live stream of the keynotes, a portion of the Puppet Contributor Summit, and many more mainstage talks.Watch the live streamTo watch the live stream on 10th, 11th and 12th of October, simply sign up. While you tune in, join the conversation on Twitter by ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Haseeb Najam. You have hired an SEO agency for your online business.You are running an outreach campaign.But how are you measuring the ROI of your search marketing activities?ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most focused areas in marketing and economics, especially since digital marketing activities are one hundred percent measurable ineffectiveness of generating business opportunities. Although ROI is an indicator that is presented as a percentage of the profitability of a business or investment, it is also an element of great importance in the management and optimization of search marketing campaigns.Any business ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Michael Wasielewski. Customers with stringent regulatory or risk-averse considerations may look to Zero Trust architectures to refactor legacy applications or deploy new ones. This blog will help you evaluate your application architecture against Zero Trust principles and use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable architectures.What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust security is a model where application components or microservices are considered discrete from each other and no component or microservice trusts any other. This manifests as a security posture designed to consider input from any source as potentially malicious ... Read More