Posts Tagged ‘AWS’

Perficient is proud to be exhibiting this year at AWS re:Invent, November 28 – December 2 at the Wynn, Venetian, and Mirage Hotels. As the main Amazon Web Services conference, this event brings together professionals who use Amazon’s suite of technologies for data storage, application development, content delivery, and much more. Here’s how you can […]

Bratt Swaim, Technical Consulting Manager of Liferay, Inc., presented “Building for the Cloud – Architecting Liferay in IaaS/PaaS Environments.  The session provided the approach, techniques, considerations and best practices for deploying Liferay to Amazon Web Services (AWS.) The highlights follow. When does moving to the cloud make sense? The following are drivers that are scenarios […]

I love headlines like this: J.P. Morgan Creates Executive Role to Lead Cloud Services. It helps me understand what’s important to a company and tells me that a company’s focus area is real. As financial services companies continue their efforts to become more efficient in a time in which regulatory demands and low interest rates […]

Cloud infrastructure is an integral part of any organization’s transition into the cloud and Gartner expects the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market to grow at least 38.4% before the end of the year. Overall, IaaS is expected to continue its skyward path well into 2017 as technology leaders decide to shed their legacy deployments for flexible, cost-effective […]

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 […]

Over the past several years Amazon has had various releases of their Dash service, which is designed to improve the consumer goods ordering process. The goal is to remove friction in the commerce process and capture more consumer spend by making Amazon the default vendor for consumables. Initially Amazon released a bar coded scanner and later in 2015 […]

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 […]

Tomorrow, 3/30, there is a webinar that promises to educate you on the 42 most important features of Drupal 8 in 42 minutes. If correct, this is a very efficient way to get the highlights from a major release. I appreciate that type of velocity. For those of you not familiar with Acquia, it is a commercial […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]I am not an operations guy but often my Sitecore backups needs are not sky high either. Maybe you are running a QA environment that your client starts using to play with content population. While that content is not exactly real they would prefer that the content doesn’t vanish overnight. Or maybe there’s a […]

In a post last year, I provided an overview of an approach for implementing Oracle WebCenter in Amazon Web Services. I’ve decided to provide a bit more detail in the form of a three-part series covering the configuration of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Route 53. In this […]

In January, Microsoft announced the general availability of a new, top-tier of Azure virtual machines: the G-series. These are some really powerful machines. The top configuration, G5, has Intel Xeon E5 CPU with 32 cores, 448 GB RAM and 6,144 GB SSD disk and it costs $9.65/hr to use. Considering how powerful the computer is, […]

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 […]