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Amazon VPC – Network Security Basics

Amazon VPC - Network Security Basics

With so many organizations gradually migrating their IT infrastructure to the Cloud these days – or even specifically engineering their products with Cloud deployment in mind, it’s not surprising that you may have considered going the same way at some point in the future. You may have thought that you will soon have to embrace digital transformation and what our digital era brings to the table. The benefits of doing so are, after all, numerous. And no matter if you want to move your existing systems to the Cloud, or establish there the backbone of your newly founded business from the beginning, the AWS platform is undoubtedly one of your best choices. Our topic is, of course, Amazon VPC.

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Getting closer to the Python community

Getting closer to the Python community

My interest in Python began rather early in my career, as it was my first programming language, to learn. Since then, I’ve been constantly building knowledge on it. Ηere at Stackmasters, I have the opportunity to use it daily. The team and I, we’re always building some pretty awesome things, using Python! But it never hurts to learn a few extra tricks alongside the Python community.

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Mastering OpenStack as a Stackmasters intern

Mastering OpenStack as a Stackmasters intern

I was looking for an opportunity to gather practical knowledge on OpenStack and Ansible. As a final year student and a member of the CONSERT lab in University of West Attica, I had already touched my fingers on cloud technology. And since Stackmasters is heavily involved in cloud management and OpenStack in particular, I chose them to apply for my internship. A Stackmasters intern, then!

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Disaster Recovery on the Cloud

Disaster recovery on the cloud

Business continuity is without doubt one of the most essential aspects a company faces. But how about in the cloud? We’ll be the first to admit that it’s a relatively new concept and as a result there’s a lot of hype and fanfare.

This comes par for the course with the buzz that exists around cloud computing in general. And with hype comes misinformation, misconceptions and the like. But what’s the truth behind all the pomp and circumstance?

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Private cloud: not just for the big boys

Private cloud: not just for the big boys

Private cloud. “This is not for me”. “It is too complicated and expensive”. “It’s only for large or corporate enterprises”. Right? Wrong.

The fact is that from the various types of organizations out there, it’s the small and medium-sized firms stand to reap the most benefits by switching to cloud. So what’s the problem? Why don’t they? Basically. it comes down to knowledge. Very few (and we mean very) understand how it can help their businesses.

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Stackmasters joins Amazon Web Services Partner Network

Powered by Amazon Web Services

Stackmasters is delighted to announce that we have become part of Amazon Web Services Partner Network.

As of today, we are proud to be qualified as an AWS Consulting Partner, meaning that our talented team of expert engineers can now help you get the best out of AWS cloud platform services for your environment.

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Get your stack in tip top shape this summer

Get your stack in tip top shape this summer

Summer time and the living is easy. At least that’s the way things should be at this time of year, right?

Wrong. It’s usually the season when there’s ample surfing (on the web that is), as well as new apps, software updates and IoT devices all stretching the limits of your Stack and IT system.

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Stackmasters partners with tripsta to build their OpenStack cloud

Stackmasters and Tripsta

Stackmasters, the European OpenStack experts and Managed Cloud services provider, today announced its ongoing partnership with one of the biggest online travel agencies in Europe, tripsta, to develop an OpenStack based private cloud and related processes.

The OpenStack based private cloud is going to host existing applications as well as to support the company’s software development teams to their cloud-native modern software architecture by leveraging open technology and efficient process models.

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Success Story: AbZorba Games

Abzorba App

If we said that AbZorba Games is one of the biggest success stories of the Greek startup scene it would be true — but also an understatement. AbZorba Games, a popular maker of mobile casino style games is one of the biggest success stories of the iOS and Android app scenes, period.

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Open source software in the modern data centre

Open source software in the modern data centre

There is an old quote that describes the progress of disruptive movements and technologies in this way: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”.

Well, when it comes to Open Source in the data centre, we have been in the winning stage for quite a while now.

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Managed Services: infrastructure on tap

Managed Services: infrastructure on tap

In the beginning there was the lone systems administrator.

He (for it was almost always a he) drank a lot of coffee, played a lot of PC games in the office, and knew all those arcane command line incantations to make your infrastructure work.

Problem is, he was a single point of failure, being the only person who understood your system scripts and the ad-hoc and informal ways in which your servers where setup.

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