Cloud economics can be a touchy subject. Much of the hype surrounding cloud hosting points to a shiny list of organization-wide changes — this includes watershed upgrades to strategy, scalability, cost and beyond. While such excitement is deserved, the cloud is not as plug-and-play as most promotions would have us believe. An apples-to-apples comparison of
For the past 5 years, my career has slowly been taken over by all things cloud. Luckily for me, I find the opportunity to work with one of the most powerful tools in human history fascinating. It’s a rewarding passion – because the cloud is actually everywhere. The seemingly abstract, all-encompassing computing powers it’s
For both B2C and B2B online stores, the performance and flexibility of the infrastructure can make the difference between success and failure. The nature of ecommerce hosting has changed dramatically over time, especially during the past several years. Once the only game in town, the days of large dedicated environments for ecommerce delivery have become
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An increasing number of organizations are moving their workloads to the public cloud. A recent report about cloud adoption suggests spending in this area will reach double-digit growth in 2017 alone. The main driver behind migrating to AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and others is a compelling business event. A company may “want to go” because
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IBM’s new report on the performance of VM and Linux Containers from July 21, 2014, while primarily demonstrating the relative performance advantages of Linux Containers (such as Docker), contains a great deal of current performance information on VMs that is extremely relevant, especially if you are running a CPU or I/O intensive workload, such as
Please note this blog post is from 2013. To read an UPDATED perspective from the same author (Devon Hillard), click here: Deploying Oracle ATG Commerce in AWS Cloud [2019 Updated Review] With the rise of “Cloud Computing” over the last several years, more and more companies are looking to leverage virtual machines or cloud services