I am pleased to announce the availability today of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, a Amazon Route 53 set of capabilities that continuously monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures and controls application recovery across multiple AWS Availability Zones, AWS Regions, and on premises environments to help you to build applications that must […]

We live in the connected age, and the rise of cloud computing that creates previously unheard of value in our professional and personal lives is at the very heart of those connections. The world continues to consume ever increasing amounts of data, with SubTel Forum predicting bandwidth demand to almost double every two years for […]

The 2021 Cloud Security Report, sponsored by (ISC)2, explores current cloud security trends and challenges, how organizations are responding to security threats in the cloud and reveals tools and best practices organizations are considering. Based on a comprehensive survey of 783 cybersecurity professionals conducted in early 2021 to uncover how cloud user organizations are responding […]

Bugatti is one of the most recognized names among luxury supercars. After the founder Ettore Bugatti died, the company nearly disappeared in 1952. Until Italian businessman Romano Artioli bought it in 1987 and revived it as the maker of exclusive super-luxury sports cars. Then in 1998 Volkswagen bought the company and soon after began work […]

Earlier this week, I ordered from Amazon.fr a box of four toothpaste tubes, but only one was in the box. I called Amazon’s customer center. The agent immediately found my order without me having to share the long order number. She issued a refund and told me I even can keep the one tube I […]

For as long as I can remember there have been discussions about remote work and when that would become the reality for almost everyone on the planet. Tim Ferriss discussed in his book The Four Hour Work Week over a decade ago that the technology to facilitate us remotely working from any part of the […]

Google has been running carbon-neutral since 2007 and recently announced that they will run on carbon-free energy by 2030. As more of the major cloud providers also commit to reaching zero-net emissions by 2030, there is a spotlight on green cloud computing which leads to the discussion of cloud waste and the cloud resources that […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, the next-generation server storage architecture that delivers the first SAN built for the cloud. Block Express is designed to meet the requirements of the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and SAS Analytics on AWS. Today, I […]

Ongoing trends in the Telco/DSP industry such as M&As, migration of the application to the cloud, and modernization of legacy applications have increased the frequency and scope of data migration. According to Gartner, 50% of the data migration initiatives will exceed their budget and timeline by 2022 due to flawed strategy and execution. Most of […]

IT security teams need to have a real-time understanding of what’s happening with their infrastructure and applications. They need to be able to find and correlate data in this continuous flood of information to identify unexpected behaviors or patterns that can lead to a security breach. To simplify and automate this process, many solutions have […]