VAST Perspectives
Does the Operating System Matter for DevOps?
Hardware is a solid foundation, but what makes workloads work is the softer, software foundation of the operating system. Your data center team will have opinions that you should listen to. What about your DevOps team? Does the operating system matter for what they...
5 Ways Your Cloud Provider Doesn’t Protect Your Data
If you’re planning to rely on your cloud provider to protect your data, you’re placing your business at risk. You can count on your cloud provider to take steps to provide physical security of the infrastructure, and, depending on your cloud model, they may apply...
Conduent’s Maven Disease Management Platform on AWS
Conduent, a New Jersey-based business process services and solutions provider, announced the availability of its Maven platform on AWS. The platform was recently updated with a new module specifically designed to track and report on cases of COVID-19. Maven is a...
AWS COVID-19 Data Lake
AWS has set up a large data lake employing S3 storage buckets filled with information and resources on COVID-19 to help medical researchers in the fight against the global pandemic. Making sense of many disparate data sets is critical for researchers to find ways to...
Streamline A Delivery Pipeline With AWS Tools
One of the most hoped-for benefits of cloud technology is increased agility and the ability to deliver IT more quickly. The on-demand capability of the cloud provides one element of that agility. Without lengthy provisioning processes, you can access technology when...
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Lets You Build a Cloud in Your Data Center
When hyperconverged infrastructure first became popular, it was popular largely to support specific use cases. Have a remote office or want to support virtual desktop infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure was (and remains) a great fit. But today,...
Do You Need A Backup and Recovery Strategy When You’re Deployed in Cloud?
Using cloud doesn’t eliminate the need to have a backup and recovery strategy. Reasons you need your own backup strategy include: • file versioning. A cloud provider creates backups that allow them to recover failed instances. They don’t keep historical versions of...
Don’t Let Multicloud Slow Down Your Deployments
Multiple clouds mean multiple ways of doing things. This is true for monitoring and for the day to operations of deploying and supporting your workloads in the cloud. The cloud’s reputation for agility means getting things done fast is even more of a goal than usual,...
Don’t Just Do Cloud. Do Cloud Right with a Plan.
“Just Do It” doesn’t apply to cloud. Cloud comes with a lot of benefits, as well as a lot of challenges, starting with how you migrate to cloud. Taking a systematic approach, crafting detailed plans based on a comprehensive strategy, and leveraging tools like...
Updating AWS RDS Certificates
As part of AWS’s standard security best practices for their Relational Database Service (RDS), a new certificate authority (CA) for RDS, Aurora and DocumentDB database instances is now available. The current CA expires on March 5, 2020, however, to avoid interruption...
