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Your disaster recovery plan has to work
We’ve all rolled our eyes during school fire drills — they were loud, they were long, and they interrupted what we were doing. Worst of all, they were fake. But all that drama had a purpose. We’re all invincible until we’re not. Look, we get it. No one wants to spend...
read moreSolving data center emergencies
Last night, a cloud hosting company came to us in full panic mode. Their data center hosting provider of many years was knocked offline, and they (and their customers) were knocked offline, too. They needed to move a cab's worth of gear ASAP — a process that typically...
read morePracticing safe DevOps
When I was growing up, I remember hearing the modified adage: “To err is to be human, to really screw things up requires a computer.” This was repeated quite often, especially from the previous generation. Today, in the DevOps and Continuous Integration/Deployment...
read moreMethods for achieving a DevOps culture
There are many ways to implement a DevOps culture, but some methods work better than others. Here are a few that stand out. The One-Man Band Method The One-Man Band approach implements the DevOps strategy by having all members (sometimes, quite literally, one person)...
read moreThe birth of DevOps
The term DevOps has exploded as a technical buzzword in the last few years. A search on any tech jobs board will reveal a multitude of posts for DevOps engineers, almost as many as ‘Cloud’ engineers or developers. The job descriptions apply the DevOps term to a wide...
read moreA list of major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018
The sheer number of announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018 is overwhelming: Number of announcements per day at AWS re:Invent 2018 (Source: Mark Nunnikhoven) To break up the 147 announcements, we grouped them by day of release. Day One Elastic File System Infrequent...
read moreServerCentral acquires AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Turing Group
CHICAGO – December, 2018 – By the end of 2019, over 69 percent of enterprises will operate in multi-cloud or hybrid IT environments as a first step in the transformation of their businesses. To address the demand for hybrid cloud solutions, ServerCentral, a leading...
read moreWhat I learned at an IoT conference that you can apply to your business today
Grandiose claims surrounding technology innovation is nothing new. Many incessantly-hyped “advancements” have failed to reach their potential, while others have indeed led to significant changes in how people live their lives. One of today’s most buzzed-about...
read moreI want to talk about the AWS Transit Gateway
I want to talk about the AWS Transit Gateway announced at re:Invent — in more than 10 words. This is really exciting for anybody that's dealing with large, complex AWS environments, or has a sizable networking environment that they manage on-premise today. There's...
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