6 Dos and Don’ts of Disaster Recovery in AWS

Data disasters come in a variety of forms – from natural events like fires or floods that damage your data centre to system failures that disrupt operations. Disaster Recovery (DR) is all about preparing for and effectively recovering from disasters. Relying on traditional IT infrastructures means procuring, duplicating, and managing that hardware and software to […]

Are You Part of the Trend towards Leaner, Faster Software Development Teams?

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]