By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Final Thoughts By relying on auto scaling groups, AMIs, and a sensible provisioning system, you can create a system that is completely repeatable and consistent. Any server could go down and be replaced, or 10 more servers could enter your load balancer, and the process would be seamless, … Read more
By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Auto Scaling, Repeatability, and Consistency Amazon’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, such as RDS, are extremely convenient and very powerful. But they’re far from perfect. Generally, AWS products are much slower to provision compared to running the software directly yourself. Plus, they tend to be several software versions behind the … Read more
By Josh Symonds, March 7, 2017, AppDynamics. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s best-in-class cloud services offering, had downtime of only 2.5 hours in 2015. You may think their uptime of 99.9997 percent had something to do with an engineering team of hundreds, a budget of billions, or dozens of data centers across the globe—but you’d … Read more
In today’s world an Infrastructure Demand Response (iDR) approach to data center capacity management of application workloads and physical infrastructure is key to cost and risk management. “Demand Response” has been used for decades in the power industry to manage just-in-time power resources to fulfill demand. This approach in the power industry is analogous to … Read more
Google revealed some of the details this week on the functioning of its major data centers.
Energy management company Schneider Electric announced June 15 it would be expanding into the edge computing market with a new micro data center portfolio.
Microchip manufacturer and technology industry giant Intel Corporation announced its purchase of Altera Corporation for $16.7 billion.
Apple’s Reno, Texas data center is slated to double in size in the upcoming year.
Loud Partners, a major managed services business, is doubling capacity at one of its New York data centers in order to allow for greater flexibility while providing increased support for their clients’ tasks.
Energy services company PowerSecure reported Q1 earnings May 5 that exceeded analyst expectations.
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