ChefConf is just a few short weeks away. This will be my 3rd trip but my first as one of Shadow-Soft’s Practice Managers. Looking back, the talks that interested me the most were the ones that really dug in on…
Ansible is a fantastic automation software tool, but automation is even better when it is running as fast as it can. These tips will help you significantly speed up your Ansible development, testing, and execution, so you can make better use of your time, including getting back to sleep for those always popular overnight pages.
Shadow-Soft’s resident Doctor, Aldrick Ruiz, shares his journey from healthcare to IT. Read on to get an insider’s perspective on how customers can embrace Health Tech Ops.
If you are looking to get out of the datacenter and stop managing hardware, Lift and Shift is your best approach. The Lift and Shift model offers the fastest and the least disruptive method to migrate to the cloud, allowing applications to have higher performance at a low upfront cost.
“Shift to SaaS” is a cloud migration model to consider when you want to free your IT team from maintaining applications that are not customer-facing. Read on to learn why you should move back-office applications to SaaS. Why shift to SaaS? Back-office applications suck a lot…
When you stand back and observe how technology is evolving, you will notice two things: Every corner of our lives is becoming digital and the rate of technology change is exponentially increasing. This begs a question: How is it that this rate of change can be sustained without the wheels falling off the proverbial bus?
Microservices are becoming the de facto approach to how new applications are built today. Although there are many benefits to microservices, the security risks associated with microservices are growing faster than current security practices can handle. To understand why this…
Multi-Cloud is a term used to describe IT infrastructure that uses multiple Public Cloud providers. Given that Cloud offers native redundancy, you may wonder why go that route? In the article below we explore several reasons why a Multi-Cloud provides an…
For the last 12-24 months I’ve been saying that open source has finally entered the mainstream. I’m happy to see that Mary Catherine O’Connor’s article entitled Open source: The new normal in enterprise software validates my claim! At Shadow-Soft we have…
Cloud infrastructure has been around long enough that IT professionals like myself have several stories to tell and a few battle wounds to show. In this article, I share the lessons that fellow customers, colleagues, and I have learned as…