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Amazon Introduces Elastic VMware Service for VMware Workload Migration to AWS in Preview
AWS has unveiled the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling seamless VMware Cloud Foundation integration within Amazon VPC. This innovative service simplifies VMware workload migration and management in the cloud, allowing swift deployment and optimized infrastructure while offering customers flexibility and control over their applications.
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Microsoft Expands Azure Data Box Capabilities for Enhanced Offline Data Migration
Microsoft recently announced several capabilities for its Azure Data Box, a service that has been available since 2019 and facilitates offline data migration to Azure. These new capabilities enhance data transfer speed, flexibility, and security, offering organizations more efficient ways to move large datasets to the cloud without relying solely on network bandwidth.
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Forrester Recommend Cloud Maturity Fixes in HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey
HashiCorp's 2024 State of Cloud Strategy Survey, conducted by Forrester Consulting, provides critical insights into cloud adoption and maturity among global enterprises. The study surveyed nearly 1,200 organisations, revealing a significant disparity in cloud maturity levels, with only 8% of respondents qualifying as highly cloud mature.
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UniSuper’s Entire Infrastructure Deleted by Internal Google Cloud Error
An Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when the entire infrastructure subscription was deleted.
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QCon London: Modernizing in Healthcare – from On-Prem to the Cloud
At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, senior engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud, including the challenges he faced and the thinking behind the choices he made throughout the journey. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Building a Platform to Gain an Unexpected Competitive Advantage: Ranbir Chawla at QCon London
During his QCon London presentation, Ranbir Chawla presented the journey his team took from moving from an “architectural perfect storm” and a highly manual operational system to a product company with a modern event-based architecture that can be released in < 1 hour. The company now focuses on providing real business outcomes to its stakeholders, and ensuring developers find joy in their work.
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Well-Architected Migration Lens for Streamlined Cloud Transition
AWS has introduced the AWS Well-Architected Migration Lens, an extension of the Well-Architected Framework. This extension incorporates best practices and implementation guidance that customers can utilize in their migration program across the three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate.
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Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
Uber moved most of its containerized microservices from µDeploy to a new multi-cloud platform named Up in preparation for migrating a considerable portion of its compute footprint to the cloud. The company spent two years working on making its many microservices portable so that they can be migrated between different compute infrastructure and container management platforms.
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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from Amazon S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of Sippy, an incremental data migration service that copies data from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 only the first time the data is requested. Sippy is designed to minimize migration-specific egress fees by leveraging requests within existing application flows while simultaneously copying objects to R2.
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New Migration Capabilities in Application Migration Service: Global View, Import/Export and More
AWS recently announced three significant updates with Global View, Import and Export from local disk, and additional post-launch actions in the Application Migration Service (MGN) to enhance migration capabilities.
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AWS DMS Serverless Brings Automated Scalability and Performance Optimization with Database Migration
AWS recently announced a new option in its Database Migration Service (DMS) called serverless. It automatically sets up, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations easier and more cost-effective.
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From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native: Rosemary Wang at QCon London
Rosemary Wang, developer advocate at HashiCorp, delivered a presentation at QCon London that focused on five key considerations for technology practitioners looking to optimize the advantages of running platforms and applications in the cloud: adaptability, observability, immutability, elasticity, and changeability.
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Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications
Microsoft has shared the source code and the documentation for the Reliable Web App pattern, a set of best practices that help on-premise web application developers create secure, reliable and cost-optimised cloud applications in Azure with minimal changes.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.
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Cloudflare Introduces Super Slurper Feature for Its R2 Object Storage in Private Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the R2 Super Sluper feature, which enables developers to move all their data to R2 in one giant slurp or sip by sip through an intuitive UI and API. The feature is in private beta by signing up.