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Making the Move to Cloud Storage

If your organization is building or maintaining software services, scalable and performant storage is a prime concern. Most modern applications have exorbitant data requirements, and mission critical use cases require storage with low latency and high throughput. In the traditional enterprise, the solution to these concerns was purchasing and deploying storage equipment, maintaining it, and […]

The Data & Analytics Landscape is Shifting: How to Embrace the New Phase

Enterprises are now starting to adopt a more data-intensive approach to business, one that is supported by a number of emerging technologies. The modern enterprise is increasingly facing digital disruption as new competitors emerge and existing ones scramble to adjust their strategies for the future. New technologies enable enterprises to gain a clearer understanding of […]

Episode 13: How Developers will Revolutionize Digital Transformation Efforts Despite Challenges

In February 2021 Couchbase released the results of a survey that showed how developers play a key role in helping organizations meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges, including the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. Matthew Groves joins Steve Prentice to discuss the survey’s results and what they mean for the new […]

VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises

In 2017, AWS and VMware brought VMware Cloud on AWS, the VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software for all vSphere-based workloads, to the AWS Cloud with optimized access to native AWS services. VMware Cloud on AWS provides dedicated, single-tenant cloud infrastructure, delivered on the next-generation bare-metal AWS infrastructure based on the latest Amazon EC2 […]

What IT Leaders Should Know About Microsoft’s Operator Connect

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a new calling service for Microsoft Teams (Teams) users called Operator Connect. IT leaders justifiably want to know how Operator Connect is different from Microsoft’s existing PSTN calling options and its potential to impact 250 million monthly active Teams users. The “Operator Connect” name might cause some decision-makers to scratch […]

AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services

Today, I am happy to announce the availability of AWS Cloud Control API a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS delivers the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services. Builders leverage these to build any type of […]

Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation

Today AWS Step Functions expands the number of supported AWS services from 17 to over 200 and AWS API Actions from 46 to over 9,000 with its new capability AWS SDK Service Integrations. When developers build distributed architectures, one of the patterns they use is the workflow-based orchestration pattern. This pattern is helpful for workflow […]

AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance

Many of our customers (such as Formula One, Honeycomb, Intuit, SmugMug, and Snap Inc.) use the Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processor for their workloads and enjoy better price performance. Starting today, you can get the same benefits for your AWS Lambda functions. You can now configure new and existing functions to run on x86 or Arm/Graviton2 processors. […]

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we introduced the preview of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, an open source Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor containerized applications at scale. With Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, you can use the Prometheus query language (PromQL) to monitor the performance of containerized workloads without having to manage […]

Introducing Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2, a Free Web-based Query Authoring Tool for Data Analysts

When it comes to manipulating and analyzing relational data, Structured Query Language (SQL) has been an international standard since 1986, a couple of years before I was born. And yet, it sometimes takes hours to get access to a new database or data warehouse, configure credentials or single sign-on, download and install multiple desktop libraries […]