by Gina Rosenthal | Apr 4, 2017 | Cloud, Containers, Gina Rosenthal, Open Source
The IT industry isn’t that old, so we don’t have a very long history. Even with the short history, we’ve been able to detect repeatable patterns in technology. The Negroponte Switch (about how wired signals become air-born, and air-born signals become wired), and...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 30, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer
When we first started talking about Amazon EC2 Instances, we briefly mentioned Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances can be a cost effective way for organizations to continue their journey to the cloud with AWS. Let’s take a look at what...
by Theresa Miller | Mar 16, 2017 | Platforms, Security, Theresa Miller
Do not underestimate the power of the spammer, and others those that are trying send messages that look like they belong to your company even when they are not from you. Every day we all receive spoofed email messages. These messages imply a real issue with email...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 14, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer
You’ve thought about going to AWS. You have been learning about things like Amazon’s EC2 Instances. Why not go out there and get an AWS certification? There’s no doubt about it, AWS certifications are some of the hottest out there right now. Don’t believe me? Just ask...
by Theresa Miller | Mar 9, 2017 | Platforms, Storage, Strategy, Theresa Miller
Recently Tintri announced two new ways that we can change the How-to-Do of Server Virtualization; Tintri Chatops and Alexa. So, what does this all mean you ask? It means that the traditional ways that we deploy our virtual server workloads of today have the...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 7, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
I’ve done it, and I bet you’ve done it too. As evidenced by the most recent AWS outage, even cloud engineers do it. I’m talking about taking down a system with a typo. I’m talking about configuration errors caused by human mistakes that take systems down. In my case,...
