Aug 10, 2022Reviewing the BiddingAn axiom in the computer storage world dictates that if you don’t have three copies of mission-critical data, eventually you won’t have any data. Two copies generally are stored on locally redundant disk media, allowing data to be written without interruption when one disk inevitably fails. A third copy can…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Jul 13, 2022Apples to OrangesAs a proud AWS partner it pains me somewhat to have to compete with one of their services. However, this article is less a competitive analysis and more so an attempt to clarify the rather different uses cases our two products address. Our product Thunder for EC2 automates the provisioning…4 min read4 min read
Jun 15, 2022Cloud Eliminates Tech Debt“Technical debt” refers to features in your enterprise software vendor’s solution that were not completely implemented because of the overall complexity and lack of development or testing resources. …Disaster Recovery3 min readDisaster Recovery3 min read
May 25, 2022Laser-focused SoftwareEnterprise-class software can be expensive because there is so much supporting infrastructure that must be put into place to make a complete solution — the time and effort to build and integrate that infrastructure can really add up. Those costs are passed on to you the end-user. …5 min read5 min read
May 12, 2022Software Fountain of YouthHow often have you faced this cumbersome upgrade scenario when deploying enterprise software, whether on-prem or SaaS: Solution is deployed on OS version 16.0 written in software language 8.0 After some period of time your IT staff requests the solution’s OS and software language are upgraded to 18.0 and 11.0…Serverless2 min readServerless2 min read
Apr 20, 2022Easy is Difficult; Difficult is ImpossibleHave you encountered a Reddit discussion along these lines: Question: How do I implement disaster recovery for EC2 instances? Me: Replicate EC2 volume snapshots across regions and test regularly; BTW we have a product that does this. Commenter: No marketing here, I’ll just write a script. Easy. I appreciate the…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Feb 23, 2022Somebody Else’s ProblemThis post is for fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, whether you can recite the entire trilogy by heart or, like me, simply appreciate Douglas Adams’ clever British humor and keen social commentary. Wittingly or not he also offered sage business advice. The last book in the…AWS Lambda3 min readAWS Lambda3 min read
Dec 22, 2021Minimize Vulnerabilities with ServerlessWe don’t customarily post during the holiday season but this is one of the simplest yet most important articles to date. As I’m sure you are aware, critical vulnerabilities were found in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021–44228, CVE-2021–45046, CVE-2021–4104), perhaps the most widely used logging facility for enterprise software. …2 min read2 min read
Sep 28, 2021Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3Testing your disaster recovery protection once a year might be typical for manual disaster recovery processes. But would you buy software…AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Sep 15, 2021A Day in the Life(cycle Manager)We are often asked why our product focuses on disaster recovery across regions and does not also manage traditional local backup. Three words: AWS Lifecycle Manager. For small and medium businesses with modest cloud infrastructure and requirements, straightforward hourly and daily snapshots should suffice to protect mission-critical instances against corruption…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
