Cloud Architect, Digital Customer Experience
In a recent blog post, Brandon Mahoney asked How Big Can CMS Infrastructure Get? with the short answer being as much as you want to spend. It is true today as it always has been, that you can build any infrastructure to fulfill any set of requirements and requirements such as disaster recovery and performance…
Selecting the right Amazon Web Services (or AWS) region is an important step when deploying you workloads to AWS. In this blog post, I hope to briefly outline what a region is and share five factors which you should look at when selecting a region. What is a region? A Region is a geographically separated…
Occasionally I will share some new features from AWS that sparked my interest and so here in are some new features that I like: Upload AWS Cost & Usage Reports to Redshift and QuickSight (link) – increased flexibility and efficiency in generating reports on billing. You could also load in other datasets to Redshift to…
Yesterday in a knowledge session between Solution Architects, the topic of AWS Elastic File System was raised and after a short discussion it was decided to take a closer look and set something up. To quote Top Gear, how hard could it be? What is EFS? AWS Elastic File System, or EFS, is Amazon Web…
Having recently joined Amazon Web Services (AWS), I need to deep dive all the services in detail to understand the features in as much detail as I can. Simple Storage Service (or S3) has been a recent topic I have had focus on, part because of learning but also due to needing to support my…
In the recent past I have been watching a program on the BBC called “All Change at LongLeat“. Longleat is engrained in Britishness being the home to Lord Bath and his safari park. Lord Bath’s son and his wife have moved in to take over the day to day running of the house and park…
The term Hybrid cloud is becoming more common terminology with customers as they adopt cloud as part of their overall IT strategy. But what really is a hybrid cloud and why is that different to cloud as a strategy? A few years ago the term “cloud strategy” was use to describe the adoption of a…
Now that cloud is on the uptake with almost every organization, it’s likely that during the next upgrade or new implementation of SDL Web you will be asked to move it to a cloud provider like AWS. What you should not do during this move is fall into the trap of just porting some virtual…
SDL recently released the latest version of their web content management and this releases has some interesting changes from an infrastructure perspective that I would like to highlight. Product Name Change Firstly, whilst not an infrastructure change, the product has changed its name from SDL Tridion to SDL Web. The new name, Web, says a…
Recently I had a discussion where the initial question somewhat baffled me. Having thought about it more, I want to write something about it to see if I can come to a nice conclusion. The question was; Is Continuous Delivery a threat to Content Management? The form of the question predicates that the asker thinks…