I never get tired of seeing customer-driven innovation in action! When AWS customers told us that they needed an easy way to move petabytes of data in and out of AWS, we responded with the AWS Snowball. Later, when they told us that they wanted to do some local data processing and filtering (often at […]
0 CommentsWhen I look back on the history of AWS and think about the launches that truly signify the fundamentally dynamic, on-demand nature of the cloud, two stand out in my memory: the launch of Amazon EC2 in 2006 and the concurrent launch of CloudWatch Metrics, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing in 2009. The first […]
0 CommentsCisco Systems is making a concerted effort to create an era of détente between networking professionals and the rest of the IT operations teams that have embraced DevOps practices. Susie Wee, senior vice president for the DevNet community at Cisco, said the goal is to provide network operations (NetOps) teams the skills required to programmatically […]
0 CommentsWeb development is a fragile process. You need talented web developers to make truly beautiful sites with seamless user experiences and fast loading speeds. Without experienced web developers, creating a website that has both form and function is exceedingly difficult. Web developers have a great deal of responsibility. They understand design and they understand how […]
0 CommentsAs DevOps has become more common, these teams are tasked with uniting everything from coding to deploying and monitoring applications. Build Engineering forms the foundation for all those processes and is essential for building code. Its tools vary according to the operating system you’re building on and by programming language. DevOps needs to work with […]
0 CommentsUsually, when people talk about DevOps, they focus on the technical aspects. However, in my experience we need to highlight what lies behind technology: the people. To effectively implement DevOps, we have to understand that many obstacles are not technical, but human. In working with various organizations in their DevOps journeys, I have seen six […]
0 CommentsI distinctly remember the excitement I felt when I created my first Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as a customer. I had just spent months building a similar environment on-premises and had been frustrated at the complicated setup. One of the immediate benefits that the VPC provided was a magical address at 10.0.0.2 where our EC2 […]
0 CommentsReport to Educate Application Security Practitioners on Serverless Application Risks and Mitigation Techniques Baltimore, Maryland – The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released today the official OWASP Serverless Top 10 project initiated by Protego Labs. The project launch begins with a provisional report designed to be a first look into the leading risks in serverless […]
0 CommentsUnified Analytics Leader Supports New Apache Spark 2.4; Introduces New Feature to Simplify Distributed Deep Learning SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Databricks, the leader in unified analytics and founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, today announced support for the newly released Apache Spark 2.4.0 within Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform. Databricks is the first unified analytics vendor […]
0 CommentsDale Vecchio has spent many years in the mainframe business, including 18 or so years with Gartner covering the mainframe beat. Today, he works as chief marketing officer at LzLabs, which recently conducted a survey with Microsoft on mainframe use: info.lzlabs.com/lzlabs-microsoft-…ation-survey-2018 The results may or may not surprise you depending on your views on mainframes. […]
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