Azure User? Here’s What You MUST Know About AWS
For most enterprises, when it comes to public cloud service providers, it’s often a choice between AWS and Azure. Once the choice has been made, it's then up to the…
For most enterprises, when it comes to public cloud service providers, it’s often a choice between AWS and Azure. Once the choice has been made, it's then up to the…
In New York this Thursday I’ll be attending my third AWS Summit in that city. I’m not sure about you but for me, when an annual professional event approaches, I often reflect on how much I’ve matured professionally or in a particular role since the last event, and the one before that, etc. In 2017, I had just recently moved back to New Jersey from Israel, and at the same time had begun transitioning from being responsible for the company’s editorial team to cultivating new business and strategic partnerships in the U.S.
For those of you who have been in the same industry forever — especially if you are a tech professional — it may be difficult to recall what it’s like to walk into a large event where everyone seems to know each other or at least speak the same jargon, and you don’t.
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Covering the world of cloud for more than a decade now, I’ve learned a simple thing: innovation should not and will not be focused too closely on security from the get-go. However, security cannot and should not be ignored as the cloud market matures and this is what we see here with the introduction of the 1st cloud security conference, AWS re:Inforce, taking place in Boston, June 25-26.
Back in the days when the market was still resistant to the public cloud, the discussion often centered around security of the environment and compliance. Public cloud opponents claimed that large enterprise and government organizations would not use the public cloud due to the risk of running sensitive workloads on a public facility. Now that the public cloud is a common go-to even for organizations with sensitive workloads, and AWS is the new IBM, this is no longer the case.
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By Slobodan Stojanovic Serverless functions are amazing. I remember how impressed I was the first time I created a serverless image resizing tool. Just a few minutes of programming, and…
Competing with Partners, the Cost of Cloud, and Looking Forward to the Next 7 Years This was my 7th re:Invent. Which, if you know your stuff or do some quick…
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD It’s re:Invent time. Which means … it’s re:Invent preview blog time. This will be my 7th reinvent. I’ve been at every single one since the…
By John Fahl, IOD Expert Tech conventions are about showcasing what's new, claiming victories, and bringing the industry together. AWS Summits are no different. Sure, they are a “diet” version…
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD (Edited by: Jen Maidenberg) Did you see the film The Founder? It tells the success story behind fast food giant McDonald’s. Decades ago, McDonald’s founder,…
By John Fahl, IOD Expert Moving a data center is hard. It takes a ton of work to move years of cruft, drift, tech debt, and forgotten relics to a…
By John Fahl, IOD Expert
When we got to the consulting gig, they told us they wanted to do DevOps. They said they wanted to be like <insert “awesome streaming video provider” here>. What they had was several data centers filled with several servers using OSs older than 10 years (some even 20+ years old).
They also relied on some real relics like NIS (yup…this is still a thing …), had deep vendor lock-in, massive old, stagnant clusters, manually built applications (most having been created a decade earlier), and armies of contractors overseeing it all.
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