We are announcing new features in AWS Health to help you manage planned lifecycle events for your AWS resources and dynamically track the completion of actions that your team takes at the resource-level to ensure continued smooth operations of your applications. Some examples of planned lifecycle events are an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) […]

Apache Kafka is a high-performance, highly scalable event streaming platform. To unlock Kafka’s full potential, you need to carefully consider the design of your application. It’s all too easy to write Kafka applications that perform poorly or eventually hit a scalability brick wall. Since 2015, IBM has provided the IBM Event Streams service, which is […]

At the beginning of the year, we laid out a new strategy for IBM Power under the leadership of Ken King, who will be retiring by the end of 2023 after forty years with IBM. It is with immense gratitude that I thank Ken for his leadership not only across IBM Power, but for his […]

Using cloud services from multiple cloud service providers is the fundamental tenet of a multi-cloud environment. With multi-cloud, businesses can supervise different projects from several cloud service providers in different cloud environments. Multi-cloud is known for its cost-effectiveness and adaptability as it allows flexibility by managing assets and data migrations between on-premises resources and the […]

“Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines to move data from Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift. These solutions help them gain insights […]

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and […]

We live in an era of unprecedented technology breakthroughs and opportunities. Recent advances in areas like AI and quantum computing offer transformative potential for businesses, but may also bring new risks and security challenges. IBM is working to address these challenges and evolving threats by helping organizations support highly secure, resilient and durable storage through […]

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Cloud environments offer businesses an array of advantages, from scalability to flexibility. Yet, as many organizations have discovered, these benefits don’t automatically equate to reduced costs. Navigating the intricacies of cloud billing can be challenging, leading to unexpected expenses. This article focuses on providing actionable insights and strategies for achieving cloud cost optimization across three […]

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launchesHere are some launches that got my attention during the […]