Midsize companies often have very distinctive priorities when it comes to application modernization.  While larger companies tend to focus on the cloud migration of legacy applications and systems, midsize companies may be more interested in containerization or serverless technologies to speed up development and improve scalability. Before making any changes to a company's IT infrastructure and internal processes, CTOs and IT Leaders must first weigh the pros and cons of different approaches.
 

Cloud security is increasingly essential in today’s fast-paced IT environment. As more companies migrate some or all of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, securing cloud-based IT assets remains critical to preventing data breaches and maintaining the trust of customers.

Thanks to rapid advancements creating faster, more reliable computing technologies, many companies are veering away from traditional on-premise databases to cloud-based servers. For those considering migrating their Microsoft SQL Server databases to the cloud, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure remains the go-to hosting service.

While an infrastructure can, in theory, have any number of tiers, by far the most common pattern is the 3-tier infrastructure. 

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The cloud has been embraced for its reliability and scalability, as well as a breadth of security benefits. However, just because the cloud can be more secure, organizations aren't guaranteed protection from data breaches and security threats. This article dives into how companies can protect themselves and mitigate damage from a variety of security threats. 

Staying competitive in today’s fast-changing, digitally fueled world is all about innovation. It's no wonder almost two-thirds of companies have innovation in their top-three management priorities. Getting there successfully is a journey dependent on business critical goals and resources. 

The business potential of artificial intelligence has been on the horizon for decades. But many businesses have found AI hard to implement, or to even start imagining. Thanks to some relatively recent breakthroughs, that potential is being realized now. 

Stratus10 and AWS understand that backing up your data in a cost-effective way is extremely important; based on our experience helping organizations of all maturity levels, industries, and geographies back up and store their data securely on the cloud, we have seen a standardized process take shape. This eBook is designed to teach you proven strategies to back up and restore your data on AWS.

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One of the foundations of a good Devops organization is stable, repeatable environments that can be managed through code. When a DevOps team is developing an Infrastructure as Code management process, they often lean heavily on CloudFormation, as they should. But what should that team do if they need to support a hybrid cloud environment where servers and services are deployed both on premise and in the cloud? Queue AWS OpsWorks.

DevOps teams share one common goal: to increase the frequency and quality of application deployments. AWS CodeStar is described as the AWS service to "Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS”.  DevOps teams can use AWS CodeStar to quickly set up their entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes for more reliable deployments in consistent environments, as well as less risk of error.  

 An AWS CodeStar project creates and integrates AWS services for the project development toolchain, lending DevOps teams advantages such as: