Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Addressing 5 Key Risks for the Hybrid Worker

Organizations are under pressure to secure their remote workers, but they are also worried about the potential impact on user experience. Can they have it both ways without compromise? The pandemic has forced organizations to alter their business models overnight, requiring them to pivot to remote work at full throttle. However, as employees receive their […]

New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes

Containers have become the default way that I package my web applications. Although I love the speed, productivity, and consistency that containers provide, there is one aspect of the container development workflow that I do not like: the lengthy routine I go through when I deploy a container image for the first time. You might […]

Episode 11: Leveraging the Power of WordPress with the Toolkit – and a Global Community

A conversation with TJ Danklefs of cPanel and Angelo Giuffrida of VentraIP Australia WordPress is a significant player in the global webspace, and tools like the WordPress toolkit allow businesses of all sizes prepare, stage, and maintain their websites, using the expertise and support of the global WordPress community. This episode of the CloudTweaks podcast […]

How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations

Since AWS acquired CloudEndure in 2019, our new colleagues have offered CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery. CloudEndure Migration can move applications from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure to AWS at no charge. This complements AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS), which is an agentless service for migrating on-premises workloads to AWS. CloudEndure Disaster […]

New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts

Last year, we announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts, which allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent […]

AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston

AWS Local Zones place select AWS services (compute, storage, database, and so forth) close to large population, industry, and IT centers. They support use cases such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, and media & entertainment content creation that need single-digit millisecond latency for end-users in a specific geographic area. Last December I told you about […]

Accelerating AI, Cloud, 5G, and IoT Innovation

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud, 5G, and IoT are continuously advancing innovation that extends across business development all the way down to the consumer level. Critical innovations are emerging from the escalation of new technologies, including hybrid workforces, remote healthcare delivery, hyper-personalization, and zero-touch. These use cases are generating myriad benefits for both organizations and consumers, […]

Cloud Governance Best Practices & How “Legacy Governance” Hurts

The cloud can provide your organization with substantial benefits — if you adopt an effective cloud governance model. Businesses established before the cloud era (or those that took their IT governance cues from that time) struggle the most with the square-peg-round-hole problem that attempting to use a legacy model with cloud creates. It’s true that […]