Security is on everyone’s mind these days. If you are responsible for managing an IT environment or deploying new products, security is likely a critical consideration for your company. Of course, the daily headlines about security breaches and new threats would unsettle even the most seasoned IT manager. At Blue Sentry, security is built into everything we do — even …
Mindful Migration: Six Steps to Ensure Success
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 …
Pipeline Automation: The Keys to Unlocking the Right Outcome For Your CI/CD Process
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 …
Can the Monolithic Model Still Work For Me?
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 …
How to Scale Using Kubernetes: From Startup to Superstar
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 …
Common Mistakes to Avoid When Migrating to the Cloud
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 …
Kubernetes Versus Amazon ECS: A Peculiar Comparison
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 …
Success Story: Enabling Customer Agility During COVID-19 Shutdown
The Coronavirus and COVID-19 infection have completely upended our society, and businesses are scrambling to cope. Though technology companies are well positioned to handle a shifting of resources from the worksite to remote, for some, it still takes some quick strategy and deployment to do this effectively. I wanted to share with you a recent deployment we managed for one …
Microservices and Serverless Computing
In talking about serverless computing, we should first dispense with a common source of confusion– the word “serverless.” Though it would seem to indicate otherwise, it doesn’t mean that there are no servers. It simply means that you don’t have to own any servers, and, what is more, you don’t have to provision or configure the servers you use. Though …
Blue Sentry Helps to Support AWS Outposts
Myrtle Beach, S.C. – December 3, 2019 – Blue Sentry, a Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced today that it has capabilities to support AWS Outposts, fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’s …