The following is part of Logicworks’ Engineer Spotlight series on the amazing engineers and technical staff that make the work we do possible. To talk to Tenpa or someone at Logicworks, contact us. To learn more about job postings, visit our Careers page. Over the last twenty plus years, I have watched technology trends come…
Category Archive for: Cloud Perspectives
When start-ups and enterprises first evaluate cloud providers, they often choose an out of the box solution that fits their immediate needs. Their hosting provider promises great customer service, but they have essentially the same stack as thousands of other customers and still need a large SysOps staff to monitor their infrastructure. This solution may…
Healthcare’s New “Anthem” is Encryption, But Not Everyone Sings From the Same Hymnal This blog post is for informational and educational purposes only. Any legal information provided in this post should not be relied upon as legal advice. It is not intended to create, and does not create, an attorney-client relationship and readers should not act upon the information presented without first seeking…
The Financial Implication and Benefits of an Automation using DevOps in AWS This the 8th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 7: How DevOps can Improve Reliability When Deploying with AWS. Automation applied to efficient operations can lead to a gain in efficiency that directly translates to the bottom line of a business.…
Three Reasons Why Hackers Target Healthcare Clouds Thanks to our friends at Alert Logic for sharing this article. Many industries have unique characteristics that make them attractive data breach targets. Financial services organizations manage money, media sites can deliver hacker’s messages to a wide audience, and government departments have confidential information of interest to other…
This the 7th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 6: The Importance of DevOps in Enabling Compliance in AWS Environments. Reliability, in the cloud technology era, can be defined as the likelihood that a system will provide uninterrupted fault-free services, as it is expected to, within the constraints of the environment in…
This the 5th part of our series on DevOps. Check out Part 4: DevOps and High Availability. Recent high-profile security breaches prove the difficulty in assuring the three core tenets of information security – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA.) Throw DevOps into the mix of deploying cloud apps, and one begins to question the…
This is the fourth piece in our ongoing series on the Practice on DevOps. Check out the third piece here: The Importance of DevOps When Deploying with AWS. Winston Churchill once said said, “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” When it comes to the availability of systems and software in today’s computing ecosystem, this Mr.…
This is the second piece in our ongoing series on cloud DevOps. This is an old post that has been refreshed and updated here. Check out the first piece here: Scalability in Cloud Computing: Old Problems With New Solutions. It is said that what cannot be measured cannot be managed. But how do you measure…
Software is eating the world, and especially the world of systems management. As we evolve to a world of Infrastructure-as-Code, it becomes imperative the technology powering complex, web-facing applications be automated for high availability, compliance, and auto scaling. Over the past several years at Logicworks, we built a dedicated team of DevOps experts who use…