There has been a major shift in how applications are developed, tested and deployed in recent years. Such is the need for speed in today's fast-paced product release cycle that in addition to development methodologies, it has also changed the architecture in which they are deployed. Transition to this new development paradigm will be gradual [...]
Object storage is plentiful, durable and cheap. That makes it the ideal storage mechanism for long-term or archive storage. In fact, it's so cost-efficient that many traditional storage appliances, primarily targetted at on-premises environments, also make use of object-based storage to achieve cost-efficiencies. With all this data stored on object storage and on a cloud [...]
This week, I will be attending Cloud Field Day 6. It is one of the Tech Field Day events that is focussed mainly on cloud technologies. I love attending these events as delegates get to meet vendors in an exclusive setting which is ideal for focussed discussions about their products and what customer problems they [...]
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 [...]