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Database Bottlenecks: The Hidden Cause of App Slow Downs?

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Performance problems can cripple mission-critical business apps. If you are lucky enough, your solution could be as easy as adding more WAN bandwidth, a few extra servers or a content delivery network, but the real problem arises when your database becomes your biggest bottleneck. When performance issues adversely impact the applications that keep your business […]

How Are You Getting Your Cloud On?

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With 71 percent of CIOs report having a cloud-first strategy, it’s clear enterprises are doing something. But it’s also clear that no two organizations are in the same place. While some organizations have gone “all in” by moving their production workloads to the cloud, most organizations are adopting a hybrid approach in which they are: […]

Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing

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Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]

When DevOps Disrupts DevOps

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As longtime readers of my blogs will know, one of my hobbies—when not writing about or playing with technology—is modeling. There is a similarity between quality tech work and quality modeling, but the brain power involved in modeling is much less, leaving me time to think about tech issues or listen to audiobooks (when I’m […]

When Bad Things Happen to Good Clouds: Why You Need a Recovery Plan

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Amazon S3 storage service recently experienced a widespread five-hour outage in its East Coast availability zone. Many next-generation consumer and business applications rely on a cloud storage, so the S3 outage quickly cascaded and temporarily crippled organizations from Netflix to Slack. Cloud outages like this are normal, and notable because they affect so many businesses. The […]

Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments

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We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]

The Leadership Suite DevOps and Business Alignment Success Guide

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There’s not much point to DevOps if the business isn’t directly benefiting through increased efficiency, productivity and, hopefully, profitability. This is possible only when IT and DevOps teams are delivering the technology the business actually needs to succeed and compete. As IBM director in IBM Cloud writes in his post, “Putting the ‘Biz’ in DevOps“: […]

Is Cloud Adoption on Your Company’s Horizon?

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Under pressure to increase the speed of innovation in the digital space and outpace competitors, companies large and small are turning to the cloud. Moving to the cloud provides flexibility of infrastructure, transparency of infrastructure costs and many other benefits. However, making the transition to the cloud is far more intricate for regulated industries—especially large […]