by James Strong | Aug 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Internet of Things, Managed Service Provider
I recently represented Blue Sentry at the AWS Summit in Chicago, and had one overarching thought: Just when you thought AWS had reached the apex of innovation, they up their game again. The pace of innovation is simply staggering at AWS, with weekly service releases...
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...
