A recent Atlassian survey of 1,300 customers revealed an intriguing paradox: the smaller the team, the more productive it is. Of those surveyed, 37% of smaller dev orgs (1-100 people) reported that it takes fewer than 4 hours to push line of code to production versus 23% of medium dev orgs and only 17% of […]
Top 3 Software Development Trends for 2016
More and more, businesses are being run on software – giving them the ability to launch services quickly on a global scale. In the words of Marc Andreessen, “software is eating the world.” For today’s forward-looking organizations, staying competitive means staying agile. That means having the right tools to maximize productivity and effectiveness. Atlassian develops […]
iTmethods Achieves AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Status
The AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Program sets proven AWS experts apart by emphasizing key competencies and skills. iTmethods is excited to join this select group of cloud service providers, delivering proactive monitoring, automation, and management services. We are ready to use our expertise to help you migrate, automate, and manage your infrastructures […]
Introducing AWS Database Migration Service
With the Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS is changing the game. The DMS lets you migrate to the cloud with virtually no downtime and with minimal cost. Customers looking to migrate databases traditionally find themselves faced with two options: 1) They could either keep traffic running to the source while migrating data (a potentially […]
AWS Automates and Simplifies HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud
AWS has undergone exhaustive processes to certify some of their most popular services, making them guaranteed HIPAA-eligible and authorized to transmit and store protected Patient Health Information (PHI). The healthcare system in the United States is complex. Underlying it is sensitive patient data, governed by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act […]
7 Types of Cloud Migration to Achieve Your Different Business Objectives
Migrating to the cloud can be a complex process. It’s important to make sure your migration strategy is customized to meet your business objectives. Through our experiences moving diverse workloads to the cloud, we’ve learned that every migration is different, but as a whole they fall into 7 common cloud migration scenarios. Below is […]
AWS First Cloud Provider to Achieve ISO 27017 Certification
In November 2015, AWS announced it was the first cloud provider to achieve ISO 27017 certification, an internationally-recognized protocol that outlines security standards for the dynamic, fast-growing cloud computing industry. But what does this new credential mean for AWS customers? Good News for Customers Seeking ISO certification reinforces AWS’ commitment to forward-thinking cloud-computing security. […]
There and Back Again…with AWS Auto Scaling
There and Back Again… with AWS Auto Scaling Auto scaling has been one of the most talked about AWS services, and for good reason. Briefly, auto scaling makes available instrumentation and automation that is typically employed to address availability and ‘cost optimization’. It does this by enabling and managing horizontal scale of grouped […]
How to Get Your Application Ready for Production in the AWS Cloud
Production Readiness in the AWS Cloud As more customers start to understand the potential for quickly and cost effectively developing applications for the AWS public cloud, there is an increasing demand for best practices associated with production readiness i.e. getting your application ready to be deployed in AWS. In this blog post, I will […]
Digital Asset Archiving with Glacier
Stay tuned for an upcoming Media & Entertainment customer Glacier migration project blog post. In the meantime, enjoy this good overview presented at re:Invent in November 2014. Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and online backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of […]