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 […]
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 […]
Managed Cloud Security – Alert Logic
If your datacenter is attacked, how would you respond? If the attack shuts down your business, how long could you go without data access? Web application attacks are one of the most serious risks in today’s threat landscape. If we have learned anything about the Sony attack that happened last December, it is […]
Everything You Need to Know About AWS Lambda
We want to make it even easier for you to build applications that run in the Cloud. We want you to be able to focus on your code, and to work within a cloud-centric environment where scalability, reliability, and runtime efficiency are all high enough to be simply taken for granted! Today we […]
An In-Depth Review of SAP Disaster Recovery on AWS
Overview The new capabilities and rapid innovation in AWS allows IT architects to fundamentally alter how they view Disaster Recovery for mission critical workloads. AWS allows you to dramatically improve many of the underlying fundamentals of Disaster Recovery: Conventional Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery on AWS High Cost Unprecedented capabilities to build DR sites Low ROI […]
Migrating SAP Applications to AWS
The opportunity for business and IT leaders to take advantage of cloud computing has never been greater. Like any new technology, it takes time for business (and hence IT) strategists to become aware of, and then take advantage of, cloud computing services. The rapid growth and unmatched scale of AWS makes this technology platform […]