Sometimes you encounter a website that requires Internet Explorer (IE), as in Figure 1. This blog post will compare opening IE for such a website on your Mac using Parallels Desktop 12, and using Boot Camp. Both alternatives here use a 2012 MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra (10.12.1) and Windows 10. Bottom Line: While the […]
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Software-defined infrastructure (SDI) is one of the most popular and ongoing trends within datacenters and cloud environments leading to better infrastructure flexibility by developing the infrastructure based on scripts respectively source code. However, SDIs are more and more becoming just a means to an end since automation, sophisticated algorithms and thus intelligent systems are leading to an Artificial Intelligence defined Infrastructure (AI-defined Infrastructure – AiDI).
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We know Netherlands for their beautiful canals and magnificent dykes, but did you know about their high levels of cloud adoption?
A quick research shows that most large and medium organizations use cloud in one form or another. Take their Central Bank, for example. Many of their applications are in the cloud, and so is it with multinational companies, school systems and more.
A detailed study was conducted by an IT training provider called Global Knowledge in December 2016. This study included 500 Dutch companies, all of which were asked about their cloud usage including their SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and other aspects of cloud. The results showed that an astounding 75 percent of companies use cloud, and these numbers are only expected to increase in the coming years.
The participants of this study said that the main reason for them to move to the cloud is the flexibility and scalability that comes with it. They have seen their business performance improve and their upfront investment costs in hardware and software come down, and this is why many of them plan to completely move to the cloud soon.
Let’s take a few case studies to see how cloud has impacted the Dutch market. The Voice of Holland is a television talent show that saw a huge surge in network traffic on the final day of the season. Despite a sudden surge in traffic, there were no network breakdowns or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. On the contrary, the network scaled up, and everything turned out to be fine.
This TV show uses cloud to increase or decrease its capacity, based on the number of users. The initial few weeks of the show will see a relatively lesser number of users when compared to the latter weeks when interest picks up and everyone wants to see the winner of the season. Since cloud makes it easy to scale up or down seamlessly, it has really helped this TV show to have a cost-effective operational model.
Another example of a Dutch company that uses cloud is Aviko, an international potato processing company. It adopted Amazon Web Service (AWS) only about six months ago, and this move has paid rich benefits for the company. When it had an opportunity to expand to China, this partnership with AWS helped to create the right hardware and computing infrastructure for the company.
Before AWS, Aviko was using SAP’s ERP, and the company is sure that it wouldn’t have helped its new center in Inner Mongolia to connect to its headquarters in Netherlands. To top it, there were restrictions on Internet usage by the Chinese government and this created a lot of latency and VPN-related issues. It was then that the company decided to have a copy running in China’s AWS, as this seemed like a simple plan. Today, Aviko is a well-established supplier in the Chinese market and is looking for more expansion within China. In this sense, this move to AWS has been helpful for its expansion plans.
These case studies show how Dutch businesses make the most of what cloud offers. Maybe there’s a lesson for each of us here!
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Imagine how difficult it would be to use the Internet if you had to remember dozens of number combinations to do anything. The Domain Name System (DNS) was created in 1983 to enable humans to easily identify all the computers, services, and resources connected to the Internet by name—instead of by Internet Protocol (IP) address, an increasingly difficult-to-memorize string of information. Think of all the website domain names you know off the top of your head and how hard it would be to memorize specific IP addresses for all those domain names. Think of DNS as the Internet’s phone book. A DNS server translates the domain names you type into a browser, like www.f5.com, into an IP address (104.219.105.148), which allows your device to find the resource you’re looking for on the Internet.
Predictions can be enlightening as we round out the end of the year, and industry analysts covering the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have begun forecasting what to expect in 2017. In the ever changing digital business landscape, companies need to keep a pulse on the technology and regulatory environments to have direction on where to focus their efforts. Over the past few years, IIoT has taken on the shared title of industry 4.0, as new ways of connecting businesses and consumers impact systems infrastructures and technology integrations across many, if not all. business lines.
Recent market analysis from Cisco demonstrates the torrid adoption of cloud-based services. By 2019, more than four-fifths of all data center traffic, 83 percent, will be based in the cloud (up from 65 percent today). Most of this action will be going to public cloud services, which will account for 56 percent of all cloud workloads. In terms of type of cloud services, a majority will be applications, as the study finds Software as a Service (SaaS) is and will continue to be the dominant mode. Currently, about 45 percent of cloud implementations are SaaS; this figure is expected to grow to 59 percent by 2019, and SaaS adoption is particularly widespread among SMBs.
For a while already we have been working with a large enterprise client, helping them to migrate their on-premise workloads to the cloud. Of course, as added value to the process, they are also migrating their legacy development processes to the modern, better, agile DevOps approach. And of course, they have built a modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery […]
910Telecom exhibited at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, in November 2016. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and exchanges.
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 01/30/2017!
Hybrid cloud strategy offers best of both worlds. The tech behind what keeps the Super Bowl running smoothly. Microsoft drops pay-as-you-go Azure option. The threat of ransomware is growing, it’s important to have a mitigation plan in place. The state of IaaS as cloud adoption continues. Windows 10 can stop ransomware when your antivirus fails to do so and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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