Amazon Web Services

Cloud computing technologies are now used in every aspect of the online experience, from hosting websites to developing innovative mobile applications. With so many use cases, it’s important to select the best platform that is cost effective, efficient, and adaptable throughout an organization. We’ve partnered up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer our customers […]

We are excited to announce that we have joined as a member of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The service is trusted by thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world and has been recognized as a leading solution by cloud infrastructure industry analysts. Products in the AWS suite support areas […]

What are the key differentiators to determine Hadoop distribution for Big Data analysis on AWS? We have two choices: Amazon EMR or a third-party provided Hadoop (ex: Core Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, MapR etc). Yes, cost is important. But, aside from cost, other things to look for include ease of operation, controlling, managing, performance, features etc. 1. Cost […]

Oracle WebCenter is the center of engagement for business. It is a suite of tools (WebCenter Portal, Content, and Sites) that helps people work together more efficiently through contextual collaboration tools that optimize connections between people, information, and applications and ensures users have access to the right information in the context of the business process […]

Ever since cloud came onto the scene, I’ve loved the concept but have always been a bit put off by high availability.  You can’t simply install your on premise software into an image and think your are done.   Quite simply, high availability techniques on premise do not translate perfectly into rich and growing tools […]

There are plenty of web pages to guide you how to install GitLab on an Ubuntu server. The official document in GitHub is also using Ubuntu as example.  You may follow them to install GitLab on Amazon EC2 Cloud Server but you may meet various problems that stop you from moving forward. I feel it […]

So CRN had an article about Amazon Web Services going down this past Monday.  While that is certainly news, especially to a small number of people, I want to focus on total impact rather than the big scary word called outage.  Our reality in the cloud is that high availability cannot be achieved in the […]

I found the CRN article describing Amazon’s adding their Relational Database Services to its Free Usage Tier.    What I find interesting is that when AWS became a household name (OK, industry wide name)  about two years ago, my first thought was that vendors like IBM, Oracle, JBoss, and Liferay ought to just add the db […]

Techcrunch has an interesting article about the top 10 biggest mistakes made with Amazon Web Services. While I don’t want to just copy what they say, I can see a lot of easy mistakes.  For those who think in terms of an internal data center that has to scale to meet all future needs and […]