Category: IDERA

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Life insurance purchasing rates are at their lowest in 50 years. The process of purchasing life insurance is notoriously complicated. It requires a lengthy application process, health checks, and can take weeks or months for approval. A new digital life insurance startup is looking to revolutionize the life insurance purchasing process. The company has introduced an easy online application process with immediate approval, which relies on innovative, custom software that can underwrite insurance instantly. Their goal is to disrupt the traditional life insurance market and appeal to younger consumers with a transparent, on-demand purchasing process ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; What is High Availability (HA)?In the simplest of terms, high availability is the reduction of downtime in favor of overall uptime. You want your infrastructure—whether that’s web apps, an eCommerce store, end-user systems, inter-company communications, or archiving, among a lot of other things—to be up and running (without interruption) as much as possible. A more complex definition of high availability involves various systems that comprise an IT infrastructure (hardware, software, and personnel) that are put in place to maximize uptime by minimizing, mitigating, and recovering from failures. This includes physical redundancies, virtual redundancies, data ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Nigel Kersten; TL;DR: Take 15 min to complete the 2019 State of DevOps Survey!Last year we did something different with our annual State of DevOps Report, based on consistent feedback we’ve heard over the years. We gathered these insights from folks in enterprise environments attempting to use DevOps practices to improve their software delivery lifecycle and the reliability of their infrastructure. This feedback was that while our industry has a reasonable idea of what it takes to make a team successful using DevOps practices, most people are still struggling trying to level up their entire ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Laura Malins, ETL Product Manager; Laura Malins, ETL Product ManagerMatillion has the functionality to run Python Scripts as part of a Matillion job run. This is commonly used for setting variable values, running quick queries on the target database using database cursors, and connecting to other AWS services. However, there are some circumstances where the amount of processing required by the Python script may affect the resources on the EC2 instance which is used to host the Matillion application. Examples of where this is the case include processing large files such as ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrej Walilko; There are an almost limitless number of options available for website hosting, especially if you have a number of websites. You can pack all of your sites into a single Shared hosting plan, utilize a reseller-style hosting which allows you multiple Shared hosting accounts, or get full assisted control of your hosting with a Virtual Private Server (VPS).But when is it better to stay on a Shared Hosting plan compared to upgrading to a small VPS Hosting plan?Here are some key questions to consider:How much disk space does your site need, and how quickly ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alanna Brown; I’m super excited to share that the 2019 State of DevOps Survey is here! This year’s survey takes a hard look at how organizations are integrating security into the software delivery lifecycle. This is a major challenge for many of the organizations we work with and one of the questions that keeps coming up when we share our 2018 State of DevOps Report findings.Nigel and I have both been on the road for the past couple of weeks sharing these findings with organizations that are in various stages of their DevOps journey. We’ve ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; Are you ready to become the captain of your own fate?If you take advantage of the business forecasting methods at your disposal, you can get a clearer picture of what’s in store for your business. Better yet, you can prepare for what’s coming down the pipeline.We’re about to share everything you need to know to calculate your eCommerce growth projections.What Is Forecasting in Business?Day-to-day financials tend to be pretty straightforward for business. When the day is done, just count your drawers or tally your sales to know how much your business grossed. If you ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; In this guide, we’ll be taking you through the life cycle of a business from launch to maturity and whatever comes after. We’ll examine the four phases of business growth:LaunchGrowthShake-OutMaturityBy the time we reach the mysterious fifth stage, you’ll have a blueprint for success for your business.The Purpose of the Business Life CycleAlthough all businesses are inherently unique, they often follow a similar trajectory. In fact, if you plot a business’ journey from conception to present on a timeline, you’ll usually see five distinct phases. It’s similar to how people grow and mature; the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Steve Iva; Entrepreneurship is hard, especially if you don’t know how to promote your business properly. No matter how good your product or service is, if you don’t know how to sell it, your business will flop. Period. On the other hand, customers are flooded with ads nowadays. As someone who’s not really into marketing, how do you manage to advertise your company attractively in this marketing jungle? One possibility is Google Ads. With Google Ads you don’t just reach the people you’re looking for, you can use Google’s huge data pool to promote and grow your ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; So you’ve decided to harness the power of email marketing to help you make more sales through your WooCommerce store. Smart move!All things considered, email is an unparalleled digital marketing channel. Email marketing can boost your brand in a big way, and most importantly, it can drive your WooCommerce sales sky-high.But you can implement a solid email marketing strategy, and leverage many of the right tactics for that strategy, and still fail at email marketing. To succeed, you need to consider and act on one very important fundamental step, choosing the right email marketing ... Read More