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How to Migrate Your Application from Monolith to Microservices

23.09.2021

According to a 2020 O’Reilly report on microservices adoption, 77% of businesses have already adopted microservices, while 92% of them state they are experiencing success after migrating monolith to microservices. The trend to en-masse start using microservices application architecture comes as no surprise considering the multiple benefits that the microservices architecture provides, including: Improved resilience […]

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What is Cloud Bursting and Does Your Business Need it?

09.09.2021

Back in 2014, NASA launched a satellite called OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2) to gain more insight into the Earth’s carbon uptake. Two years later, they had petabytes of gathered data that needed to be processed which would have taken over 3 months and cost about $200,000 if they had used on-premise data centers for […]

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How Managed Cloud & Open Source Solutions Fuel Business Growth

29.07.2021

With the modern business landscape becoming more and more saturated and competitive in recent years, companies worldwide face an ongoing challenge of emerging through the noise and initiating growth. The resources are often suboptimal, which can make the process of developing a cost-effective and sustainable business strategy an insurmountable problem for many companies.  Luckily, with […]

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Industry-Focused Cloud Compliance Guide: FinTech, MedTech, & Insurance

21.07.2021

Tackling main challenges and best practice tips for cloud compliance within the FinTech, MedTech, and Insurance industry.

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A Guide to Leveraging Multicloud: Benefits and Best Practices for SMBs

05.07.2021

Leveraging the multicloud model can be extremely beneficial for SMBs, especially if done according to best practice tips and performed by cloud experts.

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Leveraging AWS Infrastructure as Code to Build Scalable Infrastructure for SMBs

14.06.2021

SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses) and the AWS Infrastructure as Code approach are also a match made in heaven. Learn why >>

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Interview with Simon Best, CEO of BaseKit

03.06.2021

Solutions like BaseKit enabled many small and local businesses to survive the Covid crisis with opening the online sphere. Read the interview with their CEO Simon Best.

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Why is Google Cloud a good choice for SMBs?

18.05.2021

Recently, we‘ve seen a surge in demand for our managed Google Cloud services, coming from small companies. Take a closer look at why Google Cloud is a good match for SMBs.

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How To: Reinforcing the bastion host

11.05.2021

So, you have your crew scattered around the globe and those that have static IP are few and far between. You solved the server access by introducing the bastion host, but new issues arise all the time.

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How cloud-based remote education transforms the way we learn

06.05.2021

The shift to remote learning showed that there are two main tests to pass: the psychological one – both for teachers and students who are required to maintain the pre-pandemic level of academic excellence and learning focus. The other challenge is virtual classroom implementation.

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The pros and cons: Windows 10 vs Windows 8 vs Windows 7

08.01.2016

Let’s take a peek at various benefits and disadvantages of Windows 10, as well as the Windows 8 and Windows 7, to see which best suits your needs.

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Container: The Game Changer

03.03.2016

Containers hold the promise of using an ever-higher percentage of the CPU, lowering the cost of computing and getting more bang for the hardware, power, and real estate investing.

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DevOps – Revolutionary shift in the tech world

16.04.2016

“There’s a new trend called “DevOps” that is sweeping the enterprise IT world and its become a life-or-death career situation for many IT departments…Like the manufacturers were in the 1970s and 1980s were fighting for their lives, today’s IT departments are going to fight for their survival.”

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A Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Office 365 Migration

10.10.2018

Through Office 365, businesses have the opportunity to use the Microsoft Office software suite for as long as they are paying their subscription, but are also granted with access to a plethora of Microsoft’s cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) products made for optimizing business environments of any type.

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A Complete Guide to Cloud Enablement

10.09.2019

A complete guide on how and why your company should initiate Cloud Enablement and reap the benefits of a dynamically scalable infrastructure.

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Benefits of Deploying the DevOps Approach to Software Development

18.10.2019

Much like the Cloud Enablement process used to have a certain taboo-like undertone within the IT community up until a couple of years ago, the DevOps approach is yet to fully enter mainstream IT waters.

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Cloud Security – here is what you should know

05.11.2019

When you plan to migrate to a new IT environment, such as the cloud, you have to ask yourself: can I protect my data and my infrastructure from misuse and how to do it?

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Cloud cost optimisation – best practices

15.11.2019

Adopting the cloud means that you are about to embark on a dynamic and complex journey to achieve business prosperity on many levels. There is a reason why the vast majority of companies are spending most of their efforts to reduce costs on the cloud and improve the overall efficiency.

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Top cloud trends to expect in 2020

30.11.2019

It was always hard to predict trends in computing, and this one about the state of cloud computing in 2020 is no different.

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Types of Cloud Computing: Private vs. Public vs. Hybrid vs. Multi-Cloud

03.12.2019

These days, we can choose among several strategies in how we can organize our information services while utilizing the benefits of cloud architecture.

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Azure IaaS: Benefits of Moving your Infrastructure to Azure Cloud

17.12.2019

The basic division according to the cloud service model is something we initially encounter when selecting the right service for each project that needs to be implemented. The question that typically crops up is: Do we need Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS)?

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Definitive Guide to Understanding IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

18.01.2020

Understanding both the major and the underlying differences between the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS models is paramount if you want your organization to function in the best, most optimal and most efficient way possible.

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Lift and shift – an express lane to the cloud

22.01.2020

Your cloud infrastructure still struggles to cope with peak usage and short downtime of one of your cloud provider’s availability zones caused your services to be unavailable. What went wrong?

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AWS Billing & Pricing Demystified and Actionable Tips on Cost Optimization

29.01.2020

Understanding AWS billing and pricing, though potentially a bit intimidating to inexperienced users, is not too convoluted and is paramount to organizations seeking optimal cloud solutions for their infrastructure, services, processes, and projects.

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Overview of AWS Cost Management Tools

15.02.2020

Understanding AWS Cost Management Tools is a great way to reduce cost and potential errors, while at the same time improving your business’ agility.

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What is Cloud Computing Security and Why it is Crucial for Your Business?

18.02.2020

Cloud Security, or Cloud Computing Security, is a sub-domain of computer/network/information security and represents a wide set of technologies, policies, apps, and controls used to protect data, virtualized IP, apps, services, and the associated cloud computing infrastructure.  The advent of cloud computing and its growing popularity has enabled and given rise to cloud computing security […]

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Reduce Costs And Boost Revenue By Smart Usage Of Spot Instances

19.02.2020

You consider reserved instances but the savings will be negligible. RI requires that you commit yourself to at least a year, and those VMs will not be used that long. I

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Industry-focused Approach to Microsoft Azure Security Concerns

03.03.2020

Many industries have recognized the high compliance and security standards that Microsoft Azure provides to their customers, which is an extremely important element in the trust relationship.

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Actionable Guide to Microsoft Azure Security Best Practices

06.03.2020

Ensuring top-tier security and protection of your data, projects, and services in the cloud may cause convoluted and unique challenges. However, if you approach this task granularly and properly understand and deploy Azure security best practices, your business will achieve a strong, streamlined, cost-effective, and safe infrastructure.

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Hybrid Identity Cloud Management Horror Stories & How to Prevent Them

16.03.2020

The news got around and I was called into a couple of horror stories regarding Hybrid Identity. My ‘six horror stories of Hybrid Identity mismanagement’ session showcases these stories.

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Cloud Computing Benefits For Remote Work

20.03.2020

Scalability, the magic word of cloud computing, especially shines now when there is no way to predict how your online business will go (depending on the niche, of course) and if, for example, your buyers will stock up on your products or come back to buy them periodically.

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Actionable Guide to Microsoft Azure Security Concerns

23.03.2020

Much like any other public provider of cloud-based or cloud-native services, Microsoft Azure too brings a plethora of advantages, but also a handful of challenges and concerns. These challenges are often pegged to the very process of cloud migration, while the concerns almost always refer to potential security-related issues.  Needless to say, security is a […]

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What Do You Need to Learn to Become a DevOps Engineer?

27.03.2020

In this article, I’ll try to explain what you, the aspiring noob, need to learn to become a DevOps engineer.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Economy & How Public Cloud Can Help

31.03.2020

The outbreak has also immediately and directly started to affect almost every industry across global financial markets, with the ever-present and a quite scary idiom “the worst is yet to come” becoming more frequent by the day.

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How To Protect Your Data on Zoom

02.04.2020

From webinars, online yoga classes to online schooling and client meetings – web communication platforms and their usage flared up in the past few weeks, due to obvious, COVID-19 induced reasons. Unfortunately, so did the security issues led by various cyber-attacks, directed especially towards the most used platforms, such as Zoom.

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Get to know Azure DevOps services and their value

07.04.2020

Azure DevOps is Microsoft’s Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which provides each team member with a possibility to implement DevOps procedures in each of the application lifecycle phases – plan, develop, deliver and operate.

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How to Easily Create an AWS EC2 Inventory with AWS CLI

13.04.2020

Learning how to use AWS CLI to easily create an AWS EC2 server inventory for your instances is an important step toward cost reduction and optimization.

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Why Google Cloud Platform?

23.04.2020

In this day and age, choosing the right cloud service provider is not an easy task. There are a lot of offers and new services are spawning left and right so choosing the right cloud provider is slowly but surely turning into black art.

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Azure VMware Services – expanding your VMware infrastructure to Azure cloud

01.05.2020

As with every IaaS offering, you are paying only resources that you use, so you do not have any initial investment in service as you would have in case you wanted to expand your infrastructure locally. As for Azure VMware Solutions, the billing cycle is monthly.

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Resilience – a skill we need now more than ever

12.05.2020

Resilient are those who are certain of their motives, beliefs and values. They are on a quest to fulfil their personal goal, which often includes helping others. 

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How To Run Azure Container Instances

15.05.2020

Azure Container Instances is a great option for deploying various workloads in Azure. Like as other PaaS services, it is managed by Microsoft, so you can focus on application development, instead of managing complex container infrastructure.

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Containers vs VMs – Why choose containers?

19.05.2020

While many will simply claim that containers the next generation of VM, things are not as simple in practice. Whether to choose for one or another should be decided based on your needs, budget and future plans. So, first of all, ask yourself these questions:

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Containers, 2016 vs 2020: what has changed?

08.06.2020

Is there something new that hasn’t been available in 2016? Has the technology matured enough that even those who are known to stick to proven technologies open up to containers?

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Respond to e-commerce trends with cloud technologies

22.06.2020

This year has shown us just how unpredictable an e-commerce business can be. What is sure is that your customers and their behaviour are changing. The good news is that technology pace is faster than the human one. 

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How to refresh Terraform state – Baking in ad-hoc changes

25.06.2020

Every once in a while, it just so happens that you are about to wrap up a DevOps project: Everything is automated and works like a charm. All of a sudden, the client approaches you, asking if you could scale up the instance to one larger after all, and maybe add another security group.

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3 best practices for a well-secured container

09.07.2020

The importance of properly secured infrastructure seems to rise on a daily basis. Whether due to new business demands or the sophistication level of the potential menace, yet it seems cloud security may be the hot word of the year.

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How DevOps Improves Mobile App Automation & Development

03.08.2020

The DevOps approach to mobile app automation acts as a bridge between development and operations by creating a streamlined pipeline and a more productive collaboration between the teams and all other contributors working on a software piece.

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DevOps Pipeline: CI/CD Best Practices for App Automation

10.08.2020

Managing to produce apps quickly without any compromises and caveats in terms of quality and UX is not a simple task. Striving for a faster release cycle is a necessity, but high-quality products are rarely developed in a hasty environment.

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How to improve communication security between App Service and Azure SQL Database

17.08.2020

Improving communication between Azure SQL database and App Service brings a significant boost in PaaS security. Learn the steps to advanced security >>

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Define your cloud expectations – learn the important aspects of every cloud SLA

02.09.2020

Thinking about worst-case scenarios is a must for every SLA, including the one determining the quality of service for the cloud.

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Azure Cost Optimization: 7 Proven Ways to Reduce Your Azure Costs

11.09.2020

There are various built-in pricing models to help you with your Azure cost management and numerous tools to assist you with optimizing your budget, but the process of focused cost optimization that can truly make a difference comes with experience and expertise.

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Infrastructure as Code Demystified: IaC Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

12.09.2020

Find out why Infrastructure as Code & DevOps are key to streamlining your development production and reap all the benefits of automation.

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WFH is getting traction: How it affects teamwork and productivity?

30.09.2020

Adjusting to the new circumstances was, and still is, a must. And somewhere down the road, many global companies seem to have realized that working from home offers as many advantages as office work does. Some go as far as asking: do we even need offices anymore?

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How to achieve high availability for your app on Azure

06.10.2020

To achieve high availability for application, you need to make sure that you plan your infrastructure correctly to reduce the possibility of service impact in case of planned or unplanned downtimes. That includes using high-availability solutions that Azure provides.

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Looking for a DevOps Expert for your Mobile App Automation? 8 Key Questions to Ask Them

15.10.2020

This is a list of relevant and actionable questions you might want to go over with your potential DevOps engineer, so you can subsequently make a legit, data-driven decision about hiring the most adequate person for your mobile app development needs. 

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Plan to fail – downtime management

15.10.2020

It is inevitable – the systems will fail. If you bet against that tautology when designing your systems and business practices, you will lose. Badly. Your systems will fail. Count on it.  

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Running your containerized workload on Azure

16.10.2020

One of the hosting platforms for application, that is in expansion over the last few years are containers. Containers allow you to package up code and all its dependencies and offer an isolated environment for running applications

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The public cloud journey begins with a hybrid cloud step

22.10.2020

Moving to the public cloud at a full scale is not such an easy process in many scenarios. Potential show-stoppers could be pricing, inadequate knowledge of the public cloud technologies, old school administration mindset, etc.

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Not even Covid can jeopardize cloud-based SaaS

28.10.2020

Why this is a good time to be a SaaS This year’s Covid pandemic induced some quite extreme changes in the global economic climate. Ones with consequences we are yet to witness. How extreme these outcomes could be? Well, that depends on where you are in the industry spectrum. If you’re a SaaS – kudos! […]

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SaaS: Cloud-native versus On-prem

05.11.2020

Over the last decade, we witness that so many start-up businesses are SaaS-based solutions, mainly because the payment model moves from license-based to the subscription-based.

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The Benefits & Implementation of the DevSecOps (SecDevOps) Approach to SDLC

10.11.2020

The DevSecOps (SecDevOps) approach to software development is based on incorporating security in each and every stage of the cycle.

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A developer’s handbook for security best practices

20.11.2020

One thing that you notice once you embark on the arcane ways of offensive InfoSec (a.k.a penetration testing/red team engagement) is that your success is the direct consequence of someone else’s error.

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Cloud Computing Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2021

15.12.2020

The year 2020 allowed for one of the most relevant milestones in the cloud computing industry. But this milestone wasn’t based on some big technological breakthrough. Instead, it was based on a paradigm shift within the public mindset.

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Cloud Gaming: The Good, The Bad & The Realistic

20.01.2021

The rise of cloud gaming services is yet to reach its peak. And although this technology is capable of providing a cornucopia of various benefits to both game developers and end-users, many industry experts are skeptical about when exactly the industry is to fully level-up to the cloud.

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Expert Opinion on Cloud Gaming Industry: Challenges & Potential Solutions

27.01.2021

After conducting thorough research and some first-hand experience with several cloud gaming platforms currently available on the market, the verdict was that these services are becoming an integral and inevitable part of the entire video gaming industry, but that the final level is yet to be reached.

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Why Will 2021 Be A Year Of SaaS

09.02.2021

SaaS is sweet from every angle: it is adjustable to any company budget, it’s agile, flexible and versatile from both strategic and operational perspective. Finally, SaaS promises and delivers numerous benefits to the user, the central figure which will enable this blooming cloud market to remain the leader for years to come.

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Interview With Gorjan Jovanovski, the Creator of the AirCare App: “Keep Creating!”

12.02.2021

For us, as big fans of Gorjan’s work, it was a real privilege to get this interview and valuable insight into some crucial aspects of being an app developer, entrepreneur, and an overall great human being.

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AWS Gaming Guide for Game Development Companies: How to Easily Build Scalable Web Architectures

16.03.2021

Regardless of whether you are a startup-level game developer or an established enterprise-level AAA company, there are certain challenges embedded in the game development process and are ubiquitous across the entirety of the current multi-user cloud-based gaming landscape. Aside from making sure that your game is enticing and innovative in terms of gameplay, game development […]

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Discover the most promising SaaS companies that are all about automation

29.03.2021

No matter what your business pain point, goal or need may be, there is an automation SaaS galore to choose from. To make this choice easier for you, we are sharing several carefully picked automation-driven SaaS solutions you should pay attention to.

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Monolithic VS Microservices: Which App Development Architecture to Use

13.04.2021

Though many of the well-known apps we all use and love today were made within monolithic architectures, this type of framework is becoming outmoded due to a plethora of constraints that are intrinsic to this model.

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Five Most Common Questions About Microservices

28.04.2021

This article should help you determine whether it is cost-effective to start an adventure called microservicel architecture, as well as avoid some major problems with the implementation of microservices.

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How cloud-based remote education transforms the way we learn

06.05.2021

The shift to remote learning showed that there are two main tests to pass: the psychological one – both for teachers and students who are required to maintain the pre-pandemic level of academic excellence and learning focus. The other challenge is virtual classroom implementation.

read more

How To: Reinforcing the bastion host

11.05.2021

So, you have your crew scattered around the globe and those that have static IP are few and far between. You solved the server access by introducing the bastion host, but new issues arise all the time.

read more

Why is Google Cloud a good choice for SMBs?

18.05.2021

Recently, we‘ve seen a surge in demand for our managed Google Cloud services, coming from small companies. Take a closer look at why Google Cloud is a good match for SMBs.

read more

Interview with Simon Best, CEO of BaseKit

03.06.2021

Solutions like BaseKit enabled many small and local businesses to survive the Covid crisis with opening the online sphere. Read the interview with their CEO Simon Best.

read more

Leveraging AWS Infrastructure as Code to Build Scalable Infrastructure for SMBs

14.06.2021

SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses) and the AWS Infrastructure as Code approach are also a match made in heaven. Learn why >>

read more

A Guide to Leveraging Multicloud: Benefits and Best Practices for SMBs

05.07.2021

Leveraging the multicloud model can be extremely beneficial for SMBs, especially if done according to best practice tips and performed by cloud experts.

read more

Industry-Focused Cloud Compliance Guide: FinTech, MedTech, & Insurance

21.07.2021

Tackling main challenges and best practice tips for cloud compliance within the FinTech, MedTech, and Insurance industry.

read more

How Managed Cloud & Open Source Solutions Fuel Business Growth

29.07.2021

With the modern business landscape becoming more and more saturated and competitive in recent years, companies worldwide face an ongoing challenge of emerging through the noise and initiating growth. The resources are often suboptimal, which can make the process of developing a cost-effective and sustainable business strategy an insurmountable problem for many companies.  Luckily, with […]

read more

What is Cloud Bursting and Does Your Business Need it?

09.09.2021

Back in 2014, NASA launched a satellite called OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2) to gain more insight into the Earth’s carbon uptake. Two years later, they had petabytes of gathered data that needed to be processed which would have taken over 3 months and cost about $200,000 if they had used on-premise data centers for […]

read more

How to Migrate Your Application from Monolith to Microservices

23.09.2021

According to a 2020 O’Reilly report on microservices adoption, 77% of businesses have already adopted microservices, while 92% of them state they are experiencing success after migrating monolith to microservices. The trend to en-masse start using microservices application architecture comes as no surprise considering the multiple benefits that the microservices architecture provides, including: Improved resilience […]

read more