Ramifications of Microsoft Azure’s Strategic Shift towards Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) Partners

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(2)

Microsoft Azure is giving a tough fight to AWS in the public cloud market. Its no secret that AWS, with its 6 years of headstart in IaaS segment has more market share and more services. The latest announcement by Microsoft about Azure pay-as-you-go model not available in the MPSA licensing model gives us a hint on the strategic initiative by Microsoft Azure to capture more market share.

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Why do we opt for AWS Mumbai Region as an Indian cloud customer?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Are you an Indian AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Customer? Do you want to adopt AWS Mumbai Region for your production?

Then we have an analysis for you which will help you to decide whether to go for AWS Mumbai Region or not. In this blog, we’ll look at aspects like “cost comparison, services availability, S3 object download speed test, latency check, compliance” between near and famous regions.

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2016 IT Skills and Salary Report

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

We recently had Global Knowledge 2016 IT Skills and Salary Report published.

This report proves that with fast moving technology landscape, trainings are becoming more important than ever before. Training remains one of the most important aspect of global workforce, especially when reports like Zinnov’s prediction that 25% of global IT workforce will become redundant in few years.

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Still Wondering, Why to Opt for Docker?

Posted on July 15, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

When I first started learning about Docker few months back, I had just got transferred from my companies AWS team and to be honest I was a little skeptical about technology but thankfully, my manager was an expert in the field and I attended one of his trainings to get an overview of Docker. Soon, we started containerizing our AWS environment with Amazon ECS.

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Postfix Email Server integration with SES

Posted on July 7, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Have you ever  thought of setting up a web or application server with your own mail server? Have you ever tried to do so and stuck at some point? Well, when you host a website or your application it is likely to have your own mail server to handle incoming and outgoing mail to your domain. Before I get into my topic, I assume that you have got basic knowledge on AWS. For any kind of cloud training please visit www.cloudthat.com.

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CloudWatch Custom Metrics for Windows Server

Posted on June 2, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

It’s not rare that users having requirements of sending custom metrics to CloudWatch. These metrics can be application based or server based. There are different ways we can send these metrics to CloudWatch like writing a simple PowerShell script and scheduling it in Task Scheduler to run periodically. Alternate way to accomplish this, which I personally find very easy is by making simple changes in EC2ConfigService in your windows instance.

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