Hiring a Managed Service Provider

Infrastructure centralization

Nowadays, many IT specialists swear by the cloud. Insisting – and rightfully so, if you care about my opinion – that moving their company’s infrastructure there, has had a huge – positive – impact on their business evolution. With a Managed Service Provider or sans one.

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    Software, Cloud and the digital transformation

    To say we live in exciting times is an understatement. In the midst of a digital transformation, today we live in a world where you can do most of your everyday activities using your mobile phone.

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    OpenStack Summit 2018: collaboration is everything

    Openstack Summit 2018

    Spring is always a good time to visit Vancouver. But this week it’s extra special. Why? Because the OpenStack Summit 2018 is in town.

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    If you do one thing in 2018, make it cloud automation

    Cloud Automation

    We’re going to make this one short and sweet. If you want to truly streamline your IT operations then there are fewer better and more efficient ways to do it than cloud automation. Period.

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    Extending legacy workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Still running your legacy IT workloads via your own data center? Then stop! The time has come for you to think lean. Extending legacy workloads to AWS has never been easier

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    Private, public or hybrid: how to choose the right cloud for your business

    Your mind is made up. The tipping point is here. You want to switch to the cloud, but you’re not quite sure how to choose the right cloud for your business.

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    Slack for Customer Care and Collaboration

    Slack ffor customer care

    What’s the most important and sensitive job in any organization? We might be slightly biased here but how about managing the IT infrastructure? It has to be right up there at the very top of the list.

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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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    A 3-step guide to moving to the cloud

    Move to the cloud

    Deciding to move your IT infrastructure to the cloud is no easy decision. Come to think of it, it’s a bit like moving house.

    The amount of planning, organization and baggage seems to stack up in front of you. And it can resemble a bit of a mini-mountain.

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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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    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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    Construction on Abstraction

    Construction on abstraction

    From its humble beginnings in early 20th century to being our most essential infrastructure today, IT has come a long way. And it was mainly two techniques that helped it get where it is: ever increasing abstractions and a “divide and conquer” approach.

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