Remember the good old days? A new product is added to the roadmap, IT peeps are designing the labs and production environments, endless negotiations with procurement (“Yes, we really need 650X16GB RAM Memory cards!!”), escalate to a VP, maybe some begging, but finally, all the equipment arrives and it’s geek heaven down in the server […]
Category Archives: Data and analytics
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Oct
Oct
Published Gartner, the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services provides unique insights into the globe’s top providers of cloud offerings. 1. New update The 2020 Magic Quadrant has undergone some updates compared to last year’s “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.” Following with the evolution of cloud services, Gartner noted […]
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Sep
Sep
New Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) This month, Gartner announced a new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS). This is an evolution of their Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for which AWS has been named as a Leader for nine consecutive years. Customers are using the cloud in broad ways, […]
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Sep
Sep
Why You Should Focus On Business Automation and DevOps? A lot of the people I come across in the tech industry are either working on some kind of AI, ML, IoT (Internet of Things), or big data aggregation. Being a technologist, I’m well aware that A.I. and ML are the future and the implications for […]
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Jun
Jun
Why Do We Need DevOps? Technical and business requirements are more challenging and IT service becomes more and more complex. That’s why the delivery is so important and why we need to orchestrate the whole process. With the cloud, we don’t need more sysadmin, but DevOps technical and business skills are in high demand. To […]
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Jun
Jun
DevOps is a culture that encourages collaborations among all stakeholders including development and operations teams and the improvement of processes through automation to increase the quality and speed of software delivery. Remember this definition of DevOps and be able to repeat it when asked: “What is DevOps?” The goal is to create a working environment in which […]
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May
May
Our selection of announcements from AWS in April 2020 What follows isn’t a full list of all the AWS announcements made during April 2020, but is instead a selection most likely to benefit enterprises, SMEs or Startups. Some of the highlights from April include the release of a COVID-19 public data lake, Amazon Elastic File […]
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Apr
Apr
5 Most common AWS cost issues for EC2 instances AWS EC2 instance cost management is typically the first challenge users encounter when they migrate to the cloud. Unfortunately, there is no easy one-size-fits-all solution to stop over-spending on instances. Instead the most effective cost management requires vigilance and a commitment to continual review. Here are […]
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Apr
Apr
COVID-19 – Cloud Availability and Cost Management With the brick and mortar world shutting down due to Covid-19, our lives have literally moved online. With many applications and services running in the cloud, there is a massive strain not just on internet bandwidth. But also on cloud compute resources. So much that the EU asking […]
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Apr
Apr
Don’t Make These Security Mistakes in AWS AWS Security Best Practices and Fixes with Renova Cloud Security Expert. While Amazon Web Services (AWS) handles security of its data centers, AWS users remain responsible for network, host, and application-level security. From what we have seen—from single accounts with a few EC2 instances spending under $1,000/ month, […]