written by: Kevin Casey “First and foremost, the cloud provider is an expert in security. Use the tools and processes they provide and recommend in order to facilitate a highly secure environment,” said Lee Atchison, Senior Director of Cloud Architecture at New Relic. “These might differ from best practices you used on-premises, but that’s OK. AWS […]
Cloud Migration
3 Strategies to Avoid Downtime When Migrating Data to the Cloud
Moving your data is one of the trickiest parts of a cloud migration. During the migration, the location of your data can have a significant impact on the performance of your application. If you don’t migrate the data at the same time you migrate the services using the data, you risk needing to access your […]
Keeping Modern Applications Performing – Driving Insights to Action
Your application is the key. You work for a company that has applications that you build and manage. They are critical to your business. Applications that scale…applications that must stay operational. You must manage your application to scale to your biggest day, and your biggest day grows and grows every year. Your application needs grow […]
The Four Pitfalls of Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud is easy, right? What could possibly go wrong? There are at least four things I can think of. Often, when we begin a cloud migration, we come in with lofty expectations. As the migration progresses, however, we often find that moving to the cloud isn’t necessarily as easy as we would […]
Beyond lift and shift: Digital transformation through the cloud
Traditionally, cloud has been positioned as a cost-effective method of hosting applications. While this mindset has led to some positive cloud migration cases and effective cloud-native application development, the opportunities go much further for ambitious businesses wanting to make the most of the move to the cloud. A cloud-initiated transformation within a business can be […]
Monitoring the Dynamic Nature of Cloud Computing – Building visibility in modern applications
Monitoring applications running in a typical data center is a pretty static process. Monitoring in the cloud is a very different endeavor. Why? The dynamic nature of cloud computing makes keeping track of resources being monitored a non-trivial activity. Additionally, examining the dynamic changes of the cloud environment itself is a valuable tool for detecting […]
Preparing to Adopt the Cloud: A 10-Step Cloud Migration Checklist
Having been involved in cloud computing for more than a decade, I’ve heard from many IT executives working to move key enterprise applications to the public cloud. In several cases, their teams have struggled or had only limited success in their cloud migrations. But they never gave up and they used the lessons they learned […]
Course: Building a Cloud Roadmap
Join me in learning best practices and understanding key challenges you face when moving a modern software application to the cloud. By the end of this live online course, you’ll understand: What problems commonly occur during a cloud migration How to use a cloud migration as part of an overall application modernization strategy Dynamic application […]
Migrating to the Cloud – What to do when things go sideways
What happens when your migration goes sideways? How do you make sure it doesn’t happen again? In this session, we discuss how do migrate your application to the cloud so it doesn’t go sideways. We talk about KPIs, and acceptance criteria. We talk about how to tell when your migration is complete and your system […]
3 common mistakes companies make when adopting cloud
Cloud computing is mainstream. That’s a fact. Chances are if your company isn’t already extensively using the cloud, it is planning on doing so in the very near future. But be careful. There are many mistakes that companies new to the cloud make when they begin looking into cloud adoption. Here are three of the […]