10 Considerations in Cloud Migration
Cloud migration can pose a lot of questions – Which applications to migrate? Which public or private clouds? Which applications in which cloud? What security standards to follow? What unknowns should I...
View ArticleHow safe is your data in cloud?
Sometimes risk is compensated with opportunity” – this statement is true for any business. However, when it comes to “cloud” the opportunity is enormous that it’s worth facing the risks through proper...
View ArticleNotorious Nine Cloud Threats
What is the nature of the security issues you might face while delivering your solution on Cloud? The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has put together a list of the nine most prevalent and serious...
View ArticleCloud Best Practices: a synopsis
This post is a synopsis of the best practices suggested by the market leaders. It serves as a basic guidelines cloud architects should keep in mind while developing applications. Design for failure:...
View ArticleWhy Single Sign on is Important?
With the web 2.0, online authentication has evolved. Social networking platforms provide unique opportunity for online businesses to bring their products up close to the customers in their virtual...
View ArticleCloud for high scalability
Growing Need for High scalability It’s amazing to look at how application architectures have evolved over the past decade. The journey from mainframe applications to current mobile applications has...
View ArticleTOP 6 ASP.Net 5.0 features for product architects
We would all agree that ASP.NET has come a long way from its first version. IMO the next version Asp.Net 5.0 is the most drastic change that ASP.NET has done so far (leaving the addition of MVC and...
View ArticleMobiles Devices on the cloud
All these days we have been buying mobile phones from Amazon, but now you can get Mobile as a Service from Amazon Web Service. I haven’t seen a technology that has been growing like AWS cloud. You...
View ArticleSQL Azure – New Service Tiers and Performance Levels
Azure’s web and business editions are going to be sunset from September 2015. You can notice the alert message of the retirement in the portal. As an alternate, Microsoft has introduced new service...
View ArticleAzure Makeovers
Azure has been constantly adding more and more services horizontally. From where it started as a narrowed PAAS for simple web application, it has expanded its horizons rapidly in the areas of IAAS, Big...
View ArticleLearn performance from the leaders
Stack Overflow receives more than 670 million page views per month and they achieve sub-second performance for all their pages. This is truly commendable. The more admirable fact here is that they...
View ArticleBuilding Effective Rest APIs
Most of the applications are architected around RestAPIs these days, be it for layering or for integration. All leading web technologies enable building RestAPIs with ease. However, there are few...
View ArticleCloud Agility – The What? and The Why?
Anyone in the IT industry can relate to the term ‘agility’ one way or the other. But, what is ‘Cloud Agility’? According to Bernard Golden from CIO.com, Cloud Agility means rapid provisioning of...
View ArticleMonitoring Azure AppServices health with Application Insights
Why Application Insights now? If Azure cloud service performance is not working for you in terms of performance and speed we would need to explore solutions that improve the health of your application....
View ArticleDebunking paranoia over Cloud Security- A wakeup call from the future
The year is 2025. Progress in cloud-based technologies has accelerated multifold everywhere except in Cynicalville. This place is populated by enterprises that were, and still are, not too sure about...
View ArticleHow to optimize multiple Azure database performance cost effectively?
Are you looking for a solution that handles unpredictable workloads in the Azure SQL Database? Is your cost going high in managing databases? In this blog, we are going to learn how to estimate your...
View ArticleDevOps redefines organizational culture – The Success Story of Target
DevOps is real and it’s here, you can embrace or evade but you can’t ignore! Industry experts say DevOps is an operational philosophy, or a software development approach, or transformation in IT...
View ArticleRole of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery in transforming DevOps
In the autumn of 1968, the first NATO Software Engineering Conference gathered programmers to tackle the “software crisis”. The period that followed not only harnessed the need for effective software...
View ArticleDesktop as a Service: Deploy and get working!
System admin Richard walks into the office one fine morning to learn that 10 people have joined on the same day. Instead of hurrying to allot them desktops and fretting over arranging them systems,...
View ArticleHow to slash down your cloud infrastructure cost using Azure VM Automation?
This article describes the Azure automation processes such as Runbook that can help manage VMs automatically, and enabling you to schedule and perform VM start and stop operations without human...
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