DevOps in the Cloud
MongoDB Atlas: One Giant Leap, But More Steps Needed
Atlas, holding up your databases in the cloud. I'm not sure if that’s what MongoDB was going for, but I personally like the analogy. At MongoDB World’16, MongoDB announced Atlas, a database-as-a-service ...
Financial Drivers for Cloud Migration in Enterprise
Clouds are a vast pool of usable and manageable virtualized means such as development platforms, hardware and services. These assets can be animatedly reconfigured to adjust to a flexible load, which helps ...
Building the Search Engine Users Expect
The search experience most of us are familiar with is Google’s. The company has raised the expectations of search, conditioning us to its level of user experience. However, most websites and mobile ...
Why a Dev/Test Cloud Is Not Optional
How do you create a private Dev/Test cloud to standardize processes, tooling and environments across teams? Recently, I participated in an online panel on the subject of, "Creating an Internal Dev/Test Cloud," ...
The 3 Compliance Questions to Ask
As companies move to cloud, they require more certainty around export compliance. Of the many complexities associated with cloud computing, export compliance laws arguably are some of the thorniest. From a legal ...
Why Legacy Backup Solutions Aren’t Ideal for OpenStack
Our team has recently returned from the OpenStack Summit in Austin. While there were many hot topics, we discovered people fell within two camps when it comes to backup and recovery: those ...
Managing Application Performance in Hybrid Clouds
Keeping pace with changes to your networks, systems and applications can feel like a full-time job. As applications support more data types in more distributed environments—often in real time—it becomes imperative to ...
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as ...
Best Practices for Cloud Deployment
When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually ...
Why Your SaaS Ecosystem Isn’t Delivering
Cloud computing and -as-a-service deliverables such as SaaS have the potential to be transformational, but their value depends on whether you see them as tactical, single-purpose tools or as part of a ...
Should Your Apps be Cloud-Native?
There’s plenty of life left in a great number of the applications companies have been relying on and profiting from for years. The future may belong to cloud-native apps that deliver the ...
6 Key Considerations When Migrating to AWS
Every day, more and more organizations take the plunge and migrate to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. What they leave behind is the cumbersomeness of the traditional data center, but despite ...

