The first thing most companies consider when considering a cloud migration is, of course, cost. Doing a Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) analysis for current infrastructure and comparing it to the projected TCO for cloud operations is a critical exercise in building a business case. But simply comparing costs does not answer any strategic questions or add long term business …
We know the challenge: You wish to fully automate your pipeline, but you haven’t considered what it would take to integrate relational database changes into your CI/CD process. Skipping this step is a recipe for disaster — but often, this part of the integration is overlooked, postponed, or perhaps even ignored. This may be due to the sheer enormity of …
ATLANTA, GA — September 22, 2020 — Blue Sentry, a Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), is now offering a free program through which large and mid-market enterprises can get a clear picture of the cost savings to be realized from a move of their IT infrastructure to the Cloud. Through a partnership with …
Microservices architecture has become all the hype. A great many businesses seem to be creating their apps as microservices or rushing to migrate their monolithic apps. But is it always the best choice? Can monolithic apps still work? Before answering that question, let’s consider what exactly it means. Monolithic architecture refers to a traditional unified model for designing software as …
Kubernetes adoption has skyrocketed during the last few years. No matter which statistics you look at, you’re bound to see high rates of adoption. Sysdig’s 2019 Container Usage Report states that 77 percent of containers are now run on Kubernetes. That figure doesn’t include Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher, which are also built on Kubernetes — they take the figure …
As remote work grows and business operations consist of more data than ever before, migrating to the cloud is no longer just an option. Indeed, cloud solutions are a must for modern businesses. That being said, a cloud solution is only as successful as its implementation. And below are some common mistakes to avoid when migrating to the cloud. Making …
Many would say that comparing Kubernetes with Amazon’s EC2 container service, or ECS, is like comparing apples and oranges. But are they really that different? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this blog. We’ll be looking at what each of these services offers, and in which aspects they are similar — as well as their differences. This comparison will allow …
Kubernetes has revolutionized application deployment during the last few years. Thousands of businesses have migrated to the cloud within a short period in order to leverage the power of Kubernetes. However, adopting Kubernetes is not a walk in the park. There are many complexities related to setting up Kubernetes in a manner that works for your organization. Many of them …
In an earlier blog post, we described how virtualization brought cloud technology into the mainstream. It offers computing on demand, allowing enterprises to outsource (to varying degrees) their computing needs to cloud providers. For their part, cloud providers use virtualization to dynamically segment multiple users across a large number of commodity servers with unparalleled scalability and elasticity. In another blog …
Why Containers? In a previous post, we contrasted the two prominent cloud deployment technologies – virtual machines and containers. The ability to virtualize server hardware kicked off the cloud revolution by making computing power just another utility available on demand. But containerization has taken cloud-based deployment to the next level. The trend in software development these days is to build …
