Category Archives: Data and analytics

SDN vs Traditional Networking: Which Leads the Way?

SDN

SDN (Software Defined Networking) has recently received widespread attention from customers, vendors and channel partners. As time goes by, SDN has become one of the most common ways for organizations to deploy applications. This technology helps organizations deploy applications faster and reduce overall deployment costs. Over the years, the technology has been announced as the […]

Process paperwork pronto with the new Google Docs API

Google Docs API

At the heart of any business process or workflow is a document—invoices, proposals, contracts, reports, you name it. But the workflows you rely on to run your business often connect to content and services that also live outside of documents. One way to keep work flowing between documents and the apps you use everyday is […]

Office 365 vs G Suite: Which productivity suite is best for your business?

G-Suite

Microsoft and Google are engaged in a pitched battle to win over your business with suites of cloud-based productivity software and services. Here’s a look at the many different editions of Office 365 and G Suite, along with what you can expect to pay for each one. Both Microsoft and Google would like to be […]

How can you save up to 80% of your cloud costs?

  DevOps Automation That Saves You Time And Money  Thousands of DevOps teams use the Spotinst Serverless is an execution platform for containers and functions that eliminates the need to provision and manage compute resources. LEARN MORE >>       Save up to 80% of your cloud costs  Spotinst helps thousands of customers automate and optimize […]

7 Risk Migration Strategies For The Cloud

AMAZON EC2

By Bruce Harpham Cloud services — and the risks associated with them — will only become more critical over time. Here’s how to manage those risks without missing out on the benefits of the cloud. Cloud services are here to stay, and they are taking over more enterprise functions every year. Where once cloud services were […]

Introducing Ocean – The Serverless Kubernetes Engine

Container

Spotinst Ocean is the Serverless Kubernetes Engine. It takes away the pains of scaling and managing containers and nodes in a Kubernetes cluster.  With Ocean, you can forget about mixing and matching instance types and trying to figure out when and how to scale nodes in the cluster. Ocean automatically ensures your containers are placed […]

Understanding Excess Capacity: Amazon EC2 Spot vs. Azure Low-Priority VM vs. Google Preemptible VM vs IBM Transient Servers

Amazon Web Services

Spot instances are transforming how people consume public cloud services. Spot instances are short-lived instances offered by cloud providers for a very low cost compared to on-demand or reserved instances. Cloud providers use spot market as a way to monetize their excess capacity. The price of spot instances vary with the supply and demand but, […]

Simplify enterprise threat detection and protection with new Google Cloud security services

Web Risk API

Today’s enterprises face a complex threat environment. Attacks targeting users, networks, sensitive information and communications are increasing in sophistication and scale. Organizations of all sizes need advanced security capabilities that are easy to deploy and manage to help defend against these threats. With Google Cloud constantly looking to bring innovative capabilities to users of their […]

An Introduction to and Evaluation of Apache Spark for Big Data Architectures

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Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine that reduces the time between data acquisition and business insights delivery. Technical professionals can create batch and streaming pipelines, data transformation, machine learning and analytical reporting using common APIs. Key Findings Apache Spark can accelerate ingestion of semistructured, unstructured and structured data from multiple sources, enabling real-time […]