AWS Beats Street Estimates Despite JEDI Setback
DelilahDespite some setbacks in the past quarter, primarily due to the loss of the JEDI government cloud contract to compete with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has exceeded Wall…
AWS beats Main Cloud Rivals in 2014 Reliability
According to CloudHarmony Inc. figures, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was last year more reliable that main competitors Microsoft Azure or the Google Cloud Platform. According to the company's CloudSquare Status…
Gartner Magic Quadrant Market Research Report: AWS Beats Azure
Gartner Inc. pointed to Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as the only "leaders" in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) classification of cloud providers in a Magic Quadrant market research…
AWS beats Apple to New-Age Television
Apple's new-age TV moves made headlines yesterday. But Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) managed to slip under the radar last week by acquiring a pioneer in "software defined video solutions…
AWS Batch Processing Now Online
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), yesterday announced that its AWS Batch service was now generally available. The company stated that AWS Batch allows scientists, engineers, and developers to run hundreds…
AWS-Based MongoDB Service gets Live Migrations, More MongoDB Inc. updated its offering with a new live migrating capability and other improvements a month after it announced a free tier of the MongoDB Atlas service hosted in the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL Database, consistently ranks high in popularity reports for this database niche (like here), and all databases (like there). The MongoDB Atlas Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is available on the AWS Marketplace, which states: “MongoDB Atlas provides all of the features of MongoDB, without all of the operational heavy lifting, all through a pay-as-you-go model billed on an hourly basis, enabling you to focus on what you do best.” MongoMirror is a tool that allows you to migrate existing MongoDB databases to the AWS cloud. MongoDB Inc. also announced a free tier last month for Atlas. The company stated that Atlas now has this migration functionality. Sahir Azam, a company spokesman, said that live migration allowed them to automate the import from any MongoDB 3.0+ replication set into MongoDB Atlas. It works by performing an initial sync of a source and target database in Atlas and then tailing your source oplog to keep Atlas in sync. This will allow you to receive live updates from your application. The service also has other improvements:
Accessibility in more AWS regions: "MongoDB Atlas" is now available in all AWS regions. This means that users around the globe can access the database service with minimal geographic latency.…
Communication Skills for Project and Program Managers [Book Review]
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Communication skills for professionals
You have the technical knowledge, you have developed your skills and you have a lot of experience. Every IT professional will eventually realize that technical skills are only a part…
Communication Change: A New Book from Elizabeth
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Collaboration explained
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