Overview of DigitalOcean Compared to AWS

DigitalOcean and AWS are both cloud computing providers that offer services such as virtual machines, storage, and databases. DigitalOcean focuses primarily on virtual private servers (VPS) for hosting web applications and is best known for its simple web interface. AWS’ comprehensive and feature-rich platform offers a wider range of services including computing, machine learning, and analytics, and has an ecosystem of partners spanning their global infrastructure.

SMBs are increasingly leveraging data lakes for advanced and real-time analytics

A data lake is a centralized repository that allows businesses to store structured and unstructured data at any scale. It provides a single source of data that can be analyzed and used to support a variety of business needs, such as reporting, analytics, machine learning, and more.

Contrary to popular belief, application modernization is not the daunting task that it once was. Thanks to a variety of newly advanced services and tools available today, modernizing your applications utilizing containers and serverless infrastructure can be quick, easy, and stress-free. And by taking advantage of cloud migration and modernization tools, companies such as DraftKings, FileForce, and Expedia are experiencing lower costs and higher profits.

Credit Unions are facing the era of digital acceleration with unique requirements that can better scale their company and customer experience. AWS is best positioned to offer a tailored solution because of its long-standing experience working with financial services companies and public sector organizations.

Migration Planning: Legacy Systems + Scalability

SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 17, 2021 – Stratus10 announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency status. This designation recognizes that Stratus10 provides migration planning and strategies to achieve business outcomes and to help customers move successfully to AWS through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations. 

The popularity of utilizing cloud technology to host company applications and store company data has been drastically growing. Many enterprises have migrated their on-premise workloads and storage to the cloud, and many new companies decide to start in the cloud. In fact, Cisco has estimated that 94% of workloads in 2021 will be processed on some sort of cloud data center.

AWS offers the best cloud for Windows, and it is the right cloud platform for running Windows-based applications today and in the future.  Windows on Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. The right cloud infrastructure helps you ensure better performance, availability, and security of your Windows-based applications. 

As technical decision makers look for ways to move their Microsoft applications to the cloud, they are faced with several providers to choose from. This eBook explores the benefits of running Microsoft workloads on AWS.

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Stratus10 and AWS understand that every migration is different; however, based on our experience helping organizations of all maturity levels, industries, and geographies migrate to the cloud, we have seen a standardized migration process take shape. This eBook is designed to teach you proven strategies specific to a range of environments  you can employ to accelerate your migration, immediately.

2019 witnessed the release of several state of IT security case studies for 2018 and in terms of IT security and downtime, these reports weren’t flattering. According to a CTI report, 94% of small businesses do not recover from major data losses. Also, IT-related downtime has been responsible for $50,000 to $5 million loses to affected businesses.