The Blue Sentry Blog
by Jordan Bressler | Jul 25, 2017 | Newsroom
Myrtle Beach, S.C. – July 25, 2017 – Blue Sentry, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Advanced tier Consulting Partner solely focused on helping businesses achieve transformational cloud maturity on AWS, has announced that it has earned AWS Migration...
by Jason Losh | Jul 25, 2017 | Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Internet of Things
I’m sitting in my office in Cary, North Carolina (just outside of beautiful Raleigh), and it’s HOT. We’re talking 106-degree-heat-index hot. The kind of hot where I haven’t even left the house since my morning run. So, with summer squarely top of mind, I bring you...
by Michael Handa | Jul 14, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider
Ask most startup entrepreneurs what they got paid last week, and the reaction will typically be a laugh — possibly accompanied by a snort. Indeed, in the startup universe, bootstraps are the name of the game, and every glinting dime is generally deployed back...
by Kenneth Johnson | Jun 29, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, High Performance Applications, Managed Service Provider, Microsoft Azure
I am often asked about High Availability on AWS. And we see a great deal of opportunity for users of AWS to improve in this area—so much so that it is a formal theme among our seven themes in the Cloud Maturity Index. It has become a major area of focus for Blue...
by Dennis Webb | Jun 26, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Case Studies, Cloud Commuting, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider, Uncategorized
The Problem While reviewing a customer’s AWS bill recently, I noticed line-item entry for $14,298 on their bill for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud NatGateway. That’s a lot of money being spent on internet traffic to and from their account. The AWS NatGateway...
by Kenneth Johnson | Jun 16, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Internet of Things, Managed Service Provider, Uncategorized
I have personally enjoyed watching the Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge that we know as “S.L.A.C.K.” move from being a tool known only to engineers, to fundamentally disrupting well-established business tools like email. Now that Slack has made a big...
by Laura McBride | Jun 13, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider
The Amazon Web Services universe, like the Milky Way after the Big Bang, continues to expand at an exponential rate. Today, hundreds of thousands of enterprises have moved their mission-critical workloads into the AWS Cloud, and are enjoying big-time benefits that...
by James Strong | May 16, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, Microsoft Azure
Before we dive into some of my highlights from DockerCon 2017, let’s do a quick overview of what Docker is. Quite simply, a “docker” is the software that generates a portable container, of sorts, that allows a collection of apps to run on any operating system. How is...
by Jeff Martinik | Apr 19, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation
If you are somewhat familiar with sales, you have probably heard about something called the “elevator pitch.” But today, I’d like to share with you something called the “elevator story.” Imagine you’re a young salesperson in a major city back in the late 1800s. You’re...
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by Brad Campbell | Apr 17, 2017 | Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider
In my last post, we discovered how to customize some of Datadog’s pre-packaged integrations to build actionable insights for SQL-backed applications quickly. In this post, we are going to dive a bit deeper and look at how we might integrate Datadog with...
