I vividly remember the days when there was absolutely no integration between software products from the same company, let alone different companies. Automation has progressed a huge amount since then and companies are keen to expose the functionality of their software products through standard interfaces, most commonly being REST API. While those interfaces have helped [...]
I am honoured to be invited to attend Tech Field Day 19 this week. For those who don't know, Tech Field Day is a set of events hosted by Stephen Foskett and his team, where technology vendors get together with techies/bloggers/engineers of their field and have focussed discussions around their products and why they've produced the best [...]
vRetreat is a technology event run by my good friend, Patrick Redknap. You may have seen my post about it from last year and I also spoke about it in our OpenTechCast show too. If you are in the IT industry, you must attend as it is all tech talk with vendors but with a bit [...]
Recently, I've been writing a series of posts on the journey to cloud migration and they're being published on OrangeMatter. Being on a different site, you might be missing out so here's a quick post to keep track of them all. I'll update this post with links as they are published. There will be six [...]
We all enjoy the festivities that the last month brings but it's also a time for reflection. One hopes that the coming year will bring more opportunities and happiness. But in order to improve in the following year, one has to review the past one. Even if that review reveals a couple of things to [...]
You might have already seen Part I of this post. Here are the rest of the announcements: Storage Intelligent Tiering and Cost Optimisation for Amazon S3 For many years, we've been used to storage tiering and in general, the idea is that hot data is placed on faster and more accessible storage and data that [...]
I wasn't lucky enough to go to AWS re:Invent but due to the magic that is the Internet, I was able to satisfy my nerd needs by waking up even earlier today and watching Monday Night Live, hosted by Peter DeSantis, VP of Global Infrastructure at AWS. Just so that you don't miss out on the [...]
Late last week, I noticed this blog by Jeff Barr and almost jumped with joy. I am blogging about it today to ensure you don't miss it as it's a significant capability in terms of cost reduction for many auto-scaled applications deployed on the AWS platform. Why? We all know spot instances are brilliant when [...]
While attending VMworld US this time, I was invited by Stephen to participate in Tech Field Day Extra. I had recently enjoyed Cloud Field Day very much so I had to say yes. Actually, this presentation wasn't one that I was actually scheduled to attend but I happened to be there at the time so [...]
This blog should have come out last week but... A little over two years ago, I decided to join Atos as a Cloud Architect. People who follow me will know that my last few career decisions have been mainly influenced by the need to care for my parents. My role at Atos allowed me to [...]