How to Configure Your Auto Scaling Groups to Maximize Performance & Minimize Costs Provisioning traditional data centers to support web and mobile apps was once a no-win situation. You could architect the data center to handle peak loads—and pay for unnecessary resources when usage levels fell back to normal. Or, you could support average daily …
Containers are Efficient—Now, Make Them Even Better Getting software to run in multiple environments used to be a major hassle. You’d have to write different versions to support each operating system. Even then, you could run into trouble when moving an app if the software environments, network topologies, security policies, or storage weren’t identical. Containers …
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Psst! Your Cloud Utilization Sucks! Why Automation is Critical to Cloud Optimization Nothing personal, but your cloud utilization sucks. Of course, so does everyone else’s. Trying to manually select the perfect EC2 instance type (or similar for clouds other than AWS) is impossible. There are many different permutations to consider. Application demands change based on …
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Good afternoon, TechOps. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to select the optimal cloud instance to meet the needs of every application hosted in your public cloud. Good luck. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. No one said IT Operations would be easy. With responsibility for maintaining the uptime and performance …
What Are The Advantages of Amazon T3 Instances?How to Determine When T3s are Right for Your AWS Workloads Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) T3—burstable, general-purpose instances that are available across twelve regions. AWS EC2 T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and are designed to …
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The success of the World Cup relies on the cloud. I’m aware this may seem like a bold statement, it’s a soccer (or football) tournament after all. Success should hinge on the outcome and entertainment value of the actual games. But, to even extract any entertainment from the tournament people have to be able to …
Jason Bloomberg IT Industry Analyst & President, Intellyx Andrew HillierCTO, Densify Densify enlisted the help of Jason Bloomberg, a top industry analyst and a key Forbes contributor, and Andrew Hillier, CTO of Densify and a true veteran in the software industry, to run an informational webinar on the pitfalls of cloud application management and how …
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Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services—from applications to storage and processing power—typically over the internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis. Rather than owning computing infrastructure or data centers, companies can rent access to anything from applications to storage from a cloud service provider. It’s supposed to help companies to transform their IT …
Cloud computing has become one of the fastest growing areas of IT and of business—period. Cloud is supposed to help companies transform their IT infrastructure with more flexibility, higher efficiency and less CAPEX/OPEX dollars. But in reality, this is not always the case. With the rapid growth of the industry comes rapid developments from all …
Of all of the various ways in which companies can leverage cloud computing, establishing a cloud-based relational database would seem to be among the most straightforward. While companies may choose to set up their own database servers in the cloud, they can alternatively just purchase a relational database as a service, such as RDS offered …
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